Kenn and I started working backward from the albums that we could find. David Bowie’s Tonight existed, but nothing after. (Later we noted that Never Let Me Down was the first one missing.) Kenn and I had The Top, by the Cure, but that was all.
“OK, Kenn,” I said. “Here’s an album by the Dead Kennedys, but wasn’t there more? Something with some controversy about the cover art? I just can’t remember the name.”
“Yeah, that’s right,” Kenn mused while tapping a pencil on a pad of paper. “Something about photographic rights, or maybe obscenity. Frankly. Frank and Ernest.”
“Frankenstein?” I asked hopefully.
“Nice,” Kenn said, starting studiously to make notes. “Frankenchrist. Banned art by H. R. Giger, leading to litigation that killed the band and led to the alienation of Jello Biafra from h
