Halloween (Dead Kennedys song)

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"Halloween"
"Halloween" cover
Single by Dead Kennedys
from the album ''Plastic Surgery Disasters''
B-side Saturday Night Holocaust
Released December 1982
Format Vinyl single
Genre Punk
Length 3:35
Label Alternative Tentacles
Dead Kennedys singles chronology
Bleed for Me
(1982)		 Halloween
(1982)

"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 band's second album, Plastic Surgery Disasters.

"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).

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Current members
East Bay Ray | Klaus Flouride | D.H. Peligro | Jeff Penalty
Former members
Jello Biafra | 6025 | Brandon Cruz | Ted
Discography
Albums and EPs: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables | In God We Trust, Inc. | Plastic Surgery Disasters | Frankenchrist | Bedtime for Democracy | Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death | Milking the Sacred Cow
Live albums: A Skateboard Party | Mutiny on the Bay | Live at the Deaf Club
Singles: "California Über Alles" | "Holiday in Cambodia" | "Kill the Poor" | "Too Drunk to Fuck" | "Nazi Punks Fuck Off!" | "Bleed for Me" | "Halloween"
Related articles
Hardcore punk | Manifesto Records | Alternative Tentacles | Penis Landscape
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