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