History Music / Frankenchrist

* {{Feelies}}: The Creator/HRGiger poster.

* WhamLine: All over the album.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

--> ''Trying to start another Vietnam''

--> ''I'm working at my job, I'm so happy!!''

--> ''There's something I don't like about a band who always smiles''

[[caption-width-right:350: The more amusing replacement cover.]]
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''Frankenchrist'' is the third album by Music/DeadKennedys, released in 1985, and widely considered to be their best along with their debut ''Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables''. It's infamous for causing an obscenity trial over the original album cover [[note]] A design called "Penis Landscape" by Creator/HRGiger [[/note]] that the band eventually won, but nearly caused their bankruptcy.

* ContemptibleCover: Not the cover itself, but the poster that came with it, featuring a Creator/HRGiger painting with the self-sodomosing penises and vulvae [[http://leblogdeshige.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/DK-1.jpg]].

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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/frankenchrist_giger_5541.jpg]][[caption-width-right:350:The original cover.]][[/labelnote]]

[[labelnote:Click for the original version (NSFW)]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The album came with a poster by Creator/HRGiger featuring self-sodomizing penises and vulvae, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Penis Landscape"]], as the inner sleeve. Music/JelloBiafra was brought to trial for distributing harmful matter to minors and almost drove his label Creator/AlternativeTentacles to bankruptcy. Although he wasn't convicted in the end and saved by financial support of fans that had to go from later editions.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The album came with a poster by Creator/HRGiger featuring self-sodomizing penises and vulvae, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Penis Landscape"]], as the inner sleeve. Music/JelloBiafra was brought to trial for distributing harmful matter to minors and almost drove his label Alternative Tentacles to bankruptcy. Although he wasn't convicted in the end and saved by financial support of fans that had to go from later editions.

** Deliberately invoked with Music/JelloBiafra's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyKzdvZU3pg cameo]] in ''Film/{{Tapeheads}}''. He plays an FBI agent arresting the main characters on obscenity charges, an ironic CastingGag given a famous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Kennedys#Frankenchrist_and_obscenity_trial_.281985.E2.80.931986.29 obscenity trial]] involving the artwork to the Dead Kennedys' ''Music/{{Frankenchrist}}''. ...And then he gets the line [[CelebrityParadox/{{Film}} "Remember what we did to Jello Biafra?"]].

--> ''Will [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvis]] take the place of {{Jesus}} in a thousand years?''

'''Frankenchrist''' is the third album by Music/DeadKennedys, released in 1985, and widely considered to be their best along with their debut ''Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables''. It's infamous for causing an obscenity trial over the original album cover [[note]] A design called "Penis Landscape" by Creator/HRGiger [[/note]] that the band eventually won, but nearly caused their bankruptcy.

'''Frankenchrist''' is the third album by Music/DeadKennedys, released in 1985, and widely considered to be their MagnumOpus along with their debut ''Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables''. It's infamous for causing an obscenity trial over the original album cover [[note]] A design called "Penis Landscape" by Creator/HRGiger [[/note]] that the band eventually won, but nearly caused their bankruptcy.

** "Goons Of Hazzard" is a PunBasedTitle, referencing ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard''.

[[labelnote:Click for the original version]]

* CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: During the recordings Jello Biafra was defending artistic freedom during the PMRC hearings, alongside Music/FrankZappa, Dee Snider (Music/TwistedSister) and Music/JohnDenver against censorship of songs, albums and music videos with questionable subversive content.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The album came with a poster by Creator/HRGiger featuring self-sodomizing penises and vulvae, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Penis Landscape"]], as the inner sleeve. Jello Biafra was brought to trial for distributing harmful matter to minors and almost drove his label Alternative Tentacles to bankruptcy. Although he wasn't convicted in the end and saved by financial support of fans that had to go from later editions.

** Deliberately invoked with Jello Biafra's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyKzdvZU3pg cameo]] in ''Film/{{Tapeheads}}''. He plays an FBI agent arresting the main characters on obscenity charges, an ironic CastingGag given a famous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Kennedys#Frankenchrist_and_obscenity_trial_.281985.E2.80.931986.29 obscenity trial]] involving the artwork to the Dead Kennedys' ''Music/{{Frankenchrist}}''. ...And then he gets the line [[CelebrityParadox/{{Film}} "Remember what we did to Jello Biafra?"]].

'''Frankenchrist''' is the third album by Music/DeadKennedys, released in 1985, and widely considered to be their MagnumOpus. It's infamous for causing an obscenity trial over the original album cover [[note]] A design called "Penis Landscape" by Creator/HRGiger [[/note]] that the band eventually won, but nearly caused their bankruptcy.