Halloween (Dead Kennedys song)

"Halloween"
Single by Dead Kennedys
from the album Plastic Surgery Disasters
B-side	Saturday Night Holocaust
Released	December 1982
Format	7"
Recorded	June 1982
Genre	Hardcore punk
Length	3:35
Label	Alternative Tentacles
Writer(s)	Dead Kennedys
Producer	East Bay Ray, Thom Wilson
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 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 Über 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).