Halloween (Dead Kennedys song) explained

Halloween
Cover:Dead Kennedys - Halloween cover.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Dead Kennedys
Album:Plastic Surgery Disasters
B-Side:"Saturday Night Holocaust"[1]
Released:October 30, 1982
Genre:Punk rock
Length:3:35
Label:Alternative Tentacles[2]
Producer:East Bay Ray, Thom Wilson
Prev Title:Bleed for Me
Prev Year:1982

"Halloween" is the seventh and final single by the American punk rock band Dead Kennedys, released on October 30, 1982. It appeared on the band's second album, Plastic Surgery Disasters, the following month. The song uses the practice of dressing up in Halloween costumes on Halloween as its subject matter in order to present themes of rejecting conformity.[3]

In popular culture

The song was used in the 2022 slasher film Halloween Ends.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Gimarc, George. George Gimarc. 1997. Post Punk Diary: 1980–1982. St. Martin's Griffin. 328. 978-0312169688.
  2. Book: Thompson, Dave. 2000. Alternative Rock: Third Ear - The Essential Listening Companion. Backbeat Books. 742. 978-0879306076.
  3. Book: Foley, Michael Stewart. 2015. Dead Kennedys' Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables. 33 1/3. Bloomsbury Academic. 978-1623567309.
  4. Web site: Halloween Ends soundtrack: all the songs in the new slasher. Cremona. Patrick. October 19, 2022. RadioTimes.com. en. October 27, 2022.
  5. Book: Lazell, Barry . Indie Hits 1980–1989 . Cherry Red Books . 1997 . September 5, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110605132747/http://www.cherryred.co.uk/books/indiehits/d.htm . June 5, 2011 .