Halloween Dead Kennedys Song Article Index for
Halloween
Shopping
Kennedys
Website Links For
Halloween
 

Information About

Halloween Dead Kennedys Song




  Cover Dk halloweenjpg
  Artist ''' Dead Kennedys '''
  From Album ''''' Plastic Surgery Disasters '''''
  B-side ''Saturday Night Holocaust''
  Released December 1982
  Format Vinyl single
  Genre Punk
  Length 3:35
  Label Alternative Tentacles


"Halloween" (B-side "Saturday Night Holocaust") is the seventh and final single by the Dead Kennedys . It was released in December of 1982 on Alternative Tentacles . The lyrics use the metaphor of a Halloween party to address the theme of human responses to Nonconformity .The song is from the album Plastic Surgery Disasters the Dead Kennedys second album.

"Saturday Night Holocaust" is a song comparing drug-filled disco culture in the 70's and early 80's to Cabaret culture in Nazi Germany, namely in the case of the apathy towards the governments actions. It ends with a modern version of the Nazi's persecution of the cabaret, and can in some ways be seen as a sort of companion to '' California Uber Alles '' ("a Hitler youth in a jogging suit smiling face branded round his arm" can be seen as a re-appearance of the hippie-nazis of the aforementioned song).