Editing Plastic Surgery Disasters

{{Infobox album
| name       = Plastic Surgery Disasters
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Dead Kennedys]]
| cover      = Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters cover.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = November 1982
| recorded   = June 1982 
| studio = Hyde St. Studios and Möbius Music in [[San Francisco]]
| venue      =
| genre      = {{hlist|[[Hardcore punk]]<ref name="austin"/>}}
| length     = 42:56
| label      = *[[Alternative Tentacles]]
*[[Faulty Products]]
| producer   = *[[Dead Kennedys]]
*[[Thom Wilson]]
| prev_title = [[In God We Trust, Inc.]]
| prev_year  = 1981
| next_title = [[Frankenchrist]]
| next_year  = 1985
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[About.com]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.deadkennedys.com/articles.html|title = Welcome to the Official Website for Dead Kennedys}}</ref>
| rev2 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev2score = {{Rating|4.5|5}} <ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000652753|pure_url=yes}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[The Austin Chronicle]]''
| rev3score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="austin">{{Cite web|url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2001-08-31/82841/|title=Dead Kennedys}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Drowned in Sound]]''
| rev4score = 8/10<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://drownedinsound.com/releases/3569/reviews/8923-|title=Album Review: Dead Kennedys - Reissues|date=6 February 2004|access-date=8 February 2021|archive-date=17 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210617200318/https://drownedinsound.com/releases/3569/reviews/8923-|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev5score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NNmFiUnSmUC&q=Stations+of+the+Crass+crass+larkin&pg=PA392|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|first=Colin|last=Larkin|date=May 27, 2011|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=9780857125958|via=Google Books}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Kerrang!]]''
| rev6score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref>''[[Kerrang!]]'' 24 March 2001 issue</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[:it:Claudio Fabretti|OndaRock]]''
| rev7score = 7/10<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ondarock.it/rockedintorni/deadkennedys.htm|title = Dead Kennedys - biografia, recensioni, streaming, discografia, foto}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev8Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Dead Kennedys |last=Catucci |first=Nick |title=[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]] |year=2004 |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |edition=4th |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |isbn=0-7432-0169-8}}</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[Spin Alternative Record Guide]]''
| rev9score = 4/10<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Dead Kennedys|first=Gina|last=Arnold|title=Spin Alternative Record Guide|title-link=Spin Alternative Record Guide|editor1-first=Eric|editor1-last=Weisbard|editor2-first=Craig|editor2-last=Marks|publisher=[[Vintage Books]]|year=1995|isbn=0-679-75574-8|pages=106–107}}</ref>
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'''''Plastic Surgery Disasters''''' is the second full-length album released by [[punk rock]] band [[Dead Kennedys]]. Recorded in San Francisco during June 1982, it was produced by the band and  punk record producer [[Thom Wilson]], with [[Geza X]] getting a "special thanks" underneath the DK's/Wilson credit for additional production. (DK's guitarist [[East Bay Ray]] redundantly added his own name to the production credits on Manifesto reissues of the album.) The album is darker and more [[Hardcore punk|hardcore]]-influenced than their debut album ''[[Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables]]'' as a result of the band trying to expand on the sound and mood they had achieved with their 1980 single "[[Holiday in Cambodia]]".<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/jello_biafra/|title=Jello Biafra - Songfacts Interview|access-date=2018-07-31}}</ref> It was the first full-length album to feature drummer [[D.H. Peligro]], and is frontman [[Jello Biafra]]'s favorite Dead Kennedys album.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.punknews.org/article/65349/interviews-jello-biafra-walks-us-through-his-entire-discography|title=Jello Biafra Walks Us Through his Entire Discography|access-date=2018-07-31}}</ref>

According to Jello Biafra, the main musical influences for the album were [[Bauhaus (band)|Bauhaus]], [[Les Baxter]] and [[the Groundhogs]].<ref>{{cite web|author1=Ray Flores|title=Jello Biafra|url=http://juicemagazine.com/home/jello-biafra/|publisher=Juice Magazine|page=52|date=1 July 2000|quote=Interviewer: "Who else influenced you?" Jello Biafra: "...When I wrote Plastic Surgery Disasters, the main stuff I was listening to was Bauhaus, Les Baxter and The Groundhogs."|access-date=31 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141010090117/http://juicemagazine.com/home/jello-biafra/|archive-date=10 October 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Artwork==

The album's cover features the band's name superimposed over the black-and-white photograph "Hands" by photojournalist Michael Wells. Wells's photo depicts the emaciated forearm and hand of a malnourished [[Uganda]]n child in the palm of a European missionary to highlight the horrors of [[famine]] in parts of the African continent during the 1970s and 80s. The same image was used by another San Francisco-based punk band called Society Dog for their 1981 EP ''.....Off of the Leash.''.

Most pressings of the album include a booklet containing lyrics and pieces of [[collage]] artwork by Biafra and [[Winston Smith (artist)|Winston Smith]] that thematically tie in to the lyrics of each song on the album.

==Track listings==

On the album's original vinyl and cassette releases, the A-side comprises tracks 1–8, ending with “Winnebago Warrior”, and the B-side tracks 9–13, kicking off with “Riot”. Some reissues parse out Melissa Webber's spoken intro to the album from the opening song, "Government Flu", and list it as a separate track entitled "Advice from Christmas Past". Similarly, Webber's spoken outro after "Moon Over Marin" revisits "Advice from Christmas Past" and is listed as such on some editions of the album.

{{track listing
| all_writing   =  Jello Biafra, except when specified
| headline     = Side one
| title1   = Advice from Christmas Past
 | length1  = 0:55
| title2   = Government Flu
| length2  = 2:04
| title3   = Terminal Preppie
 | length3  = 1:30
| title4   = Trust Your Mechanic
| length4  = 2:55
| title5   = Well Paid Scientist
 | length5  = 2:21
| title6   = Buzzbomb
| writer6    = Biafra, [[East Bay Ray]]
| length6  = 2:21
| title7   = Forest Fire
| length7  = 2:22
| title8   = [[Halloween (Dead Kennedys song)|Halloween]]
| writer8    = Biafra, Ray
| length8  = 3:35
| title9   = Winnebago Warrior
 | length9  = 2:09
}}

{{track listing
| headline     = Side two
| total_length = 42:56
| title10   = Riot
| writer10  = Dead Kennedys
| length10  = 5:57
| title11  = [[Bleed for Me (Dead Kennedys song)|Bleed for Me]]
| writer11   = Dead Kennedys
| length11 = 3:24
| title12  = I Am the Owl
| writer12 = Dead Kennedys
| length12 = 4:51
| title13  = Dead End
| writer13 = Ray
| length13 = 3:56
| title14  = Moon Over Marin
| writer14   = Biafra, Ray
| length14 = 4:29
}}

The compact disc of the album has been reissued to include the EP ''[[In God We Trust, Inc.]]'' as eight tracks added onto its end and also appear on streaming versions of ''Plastic Surgery Disasters''.

==Personnel==
;Dead Kennedys
* [[Jello Biafra]]&nbsp;– lead vocals
* [[East Bay Ray]]&nbsp;– guitars
* [[Klaus Flouride]]&nbsp;– bass, backing vocals, clarinet on "Terminal Preppie"
* [[D. H. Peligro]]&nbsp;– drums, backing vocals
;Additional performers
* Dave Barrett&nbsp;– saxophone on "Terminal Preppie"
* Bruce Askley&nbsp;– saxophone on "Terminal Preppie"
* Melissa Webber&nbsp;– backing vocals (credited as "The Voice of Christmas Past")
* Ninotchka (Therese Soder)&nbsp;– backing vocals on "Forest Fire" and "Winnebago Warrior"
;Production
* Thom Wilson&nbsp;– production
* East Bay Ray&nbsp;– production
* Oliver Dicicco&nbsp;– engineering
* John Cuniberti&nbsp;– engineering, mixing
* [[Winston Smith (artist)|Winston Smith]]&nbsp;– artwork
* Jello Biafra&nbsp;– artwork

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
! scope="col" | Chart (1982)
! scope="col" | Peak<br />position
|-
{{Album chart|New Zealand|40|artist=Dead Kennedys|album=Plastic Surgery Disasters|rowheader=true|accessdate=August 30, 2024}}
|-
!scope=row|[[UK Indie Chart|UK Independent Albums]] ([[Official Charts Company|OCC]])<ref>{{cite book |first=Barry |last=Lazell |url=http://www.cherryred.co.uk/books/indiehits/d.htm |title=Indie Hits 1980-1989 |publisher=Cherry Red Books |date=1997 |accessdate=September 5, 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605132747/http://www.cherryred.co.uk/books/indiehits/d.htm |archivedate=June 5, 2011 }}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|2
|}

==Certifications==
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==References==
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