Egon Bondy's Happy Hearts Club Banned is an album by Czech underground band the Plastic People of the Universe.

[2] The album could not be officially released and distributed under the former Communist regime in Czechoslovakia; instead fans duplicated tapes with one another, often resulting in poor technical quality.

After the band members' arrest and trial in 1976 Ivan Hartl, a Czech living in London, attempted to get the album released in the west.

[3] It was released in 1978 in France by SCOPA Invisible Production and in England by Boží Mlýn, a label founded by the former Plastic People member Paul Wilson.

[9] The Globe and Mail wrote: "They clearly define a heavy bass-drums bottom over which the soloists duel wonderfully with these incredibly sinister riffs.