The Jello Biafra Spoken Word Collection

THE JELLO BIAFRA SPOKEN WORD COLLECTION

Name : Jello Biafra
Real Name : Eric Reed Boucher
Born : June 17, 1958, Boulder, Colorado
Bio : Punk rock vocalist, spoken word artist, anti-censorship campaigner and author. Original singer for the punk group Dead Kennedys and owner of Alternative Tentacles Records.

Jello Biafra was the first musician ever to be put on trial because of the content of a record album. The Frankenchrist album he released with his old group the Dead Kennedys contained in its original release a reproduction of a painting by Swiss artist H.R. Giger (known best for winning the Academy Award for the 1979 film Alien). It was because of this painting that the L.A. City Attorney filed a charge of "Distribution of Harmful Matter" against Biafra and several others. During the trial however, the DA spent a great deal of time analyzing the career and lyrics of Biafra in an attempt to incriminate him on subjects other than the painting in attempts to set legal precedence. Fortunately the jury was deadlocked 7:5 in favor of acquittal and the judge dismissed the case in lieu of granting a re-trial. The fact remains, however, that this trial took over a year out of Biafra's life and ended up costing over $100K in legal bills despite the fact that the penalty was a $2000 fine and no more than a year served. The full story of this trial and the tactics used by the legal forces behind it may be heard on Biafra's High Priest of harmful Matter album.

In order to avoid corporate censorship of Dead Kennedys' music, he started the Alternative Tentacles record label. Every single Dead Kennedys album and 45 was released on this label, as well as all of his spoken word albums. Other groups released on this label include the Butthole Surfers, Lard (A. Jourgenson and P. Barker from Ministry plus J. Biafra,) D.O.A., Neurosis, and Alice Donut. They, along with SST and Dischord, represent some of the earliest and longest running indie labels in the US that have stayed true to their ideals and origins.

Biafra has always been one to speak his mind and take risks. What started out as a practical joke became a very serious campaign for the position of Mayor of San Francisco in 1979. While he did not win, he became a magnet for the vote of those dissatisfied with the leading candidates and came in fourth with 3% of the total vote. He never lost his sense of humor during the campaign with a platform that consisted of requirements for all downtown businessmen to wear clown suits between the hours of 9 am and 5 pm, legalized panhandling at a 50% commission for all state workers laid off due to deficit caused staff reductions, and legalized squatting of the homeless in all buildings left vacant for tax write-off purposes. During his campaign, he wore T-shirts from an opponent's (Quentin Cop) previous campaign and vacuumed leaves off of another's (now US Senator from CA, Diane Feinstein) front lawn. His effect on the campaign upset the election so much that they later passed a resolution stating that no one would be able to run for office under anything but their christian name. Unfortunately Jello isn't his real name... it's Eric.

THE SPOKEN WORD COLLECTION :

01 - No More Cocoons
02 - High Priest of Harmful Matter
03 - I Blow Minds For a Living
04 - Beyond the Valley of Gift Police
05 - If Evolution Is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Evolve
06 - Become the Media
06.5 - The Big Ka-Boom, Part 1
07 - Machine Gun In the Clown's Hand
08 - In the Grip of Official Treason

EXTRAS :

* Dead Kennedys Sued My Ass
* George W. Bush
* Napster
* Oprah Interview

Jello Biafra - No More Cocoons
Label : Alternative Tentacles
Catalog# : VIRUS 59CD
Released : 1992
Tracklist :

1.01 Message From Our Sponsor 2:58
1.02 Soundbite - Jaw One / The Prosecutor Speaks 0:21
1.03 Mild Kingdom 4:39
1.04 Soundbite - Jaw Two 1:20
1.05 Vietnam Never Happened 2:12
1.06 What Reagan Didn't Know 12:40
1.07 May All Your Dreams Be Wonderful 10:39
1.08 Soundbite - Jaw Three 2:04
1.09 Urinalysis Is Freedom 11:16
1.10 Names For Bands (New Improved Version) 14:35

2.01 Talk On Censorship / Letter To Tipper Gore 26:04
2.02 Why I'm Glad The Space Shuttle Blew Up 2:51
2.03 Fuck Facts! 6:57
2.04 Stars & Stripes Of Corruption 11:00

Jello Biafra - High Priest Of Harmful Matter
Label : Alternative Tentacles
Catalog# : VIRUS 66CD
Released : 1989
Tracklist :

1.01 Intro: Love American Death Squad Style 11:46
1.02 Talk On Censorship 44:06

2.01 Tales From The Trial 43:24

Jello Biafra - I Blow Minds For A Living
Label : Alternative Tentacles
Catalog# : VIRUS 94CD
Released : 1991
Tracklist :

1.01 Pledge Of Allegiance 4:00
1.02 Talk On Censorship: Let Us Prey 17:01
1.03 Die For Oil Sucker (Higher Octane Version) 9:29
1.04 I Was A Teenage Pacifist 1:24
1.05 If Voting Changed Anything... 8:11
1.06 Running For Mayor 21:01

2.01 Grow More Pot 13:25
2.02 Lost Orgasm 4:44
2:03 Talk On Censorship: Better Living Through New World Orders 12:33
2:04 Talk On Censorship: Fear Of A Free Planet 27:46

Jello Biafra - Beyond The Valley Of The Gift Police
Label : Alternative Tentacles
Catalog# : VIRUS 150CD
Released : 1994
Tracklist :

1.01 Message From Our Sponsor 7:36
1.02 Experts 29:25
1.03 Ban Everything 14:30
1.04 I Have A Dream 11:24

2.01 Talk On Censorship: President McMuffin Tightens The Screws/What We Are Not Being Told 67:05

3.01 Talk On Censorship (Continued)-The Virtucrats Unreality - In The Belly Of The Wrong Beast 36:37
3.02 Eric Meets The Moose Diarrhea Salesman 20:18

Jello Biafra - If Evolution Is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Evolve
Label : Alternative Tentacles
Catalog# : VIRUS 201CD
Released : 1998
Tracklist :

1.01 Depends On The Drug
1.02 Talk On The Death Penalty - When Psychopaths Guard The Henhouse
1.03 The Murder Of Mumia Abu-Jamal
1.04 Clinton Comes To Long Beach
1.05 The Hex-Files Space Shuttle Sequel
1.06 Half Time
1.07 The New Soviet Union

2.01 Talk On Censorship - It Takes A Pillage To Raze A Child
2.02 Talk On Censorship - The Contract On America

3.01 Talk On Censorship - Bridge To The New Dark Ages
3.02 Talk On Censorship - Which Way To The Zoo?
3.03 Wake Up And Smell The Noise

Jello Biafra - Become The Media
Label : Alternative Tentacles
Catalog# : VIRUS 260CD
Released : 2000
Tracklist :

1.01 Intro - Gary Dugger
1.02 The Green Wedge 12:10
1.03 K.O The W.T.O 35:13
1.04 Hellburbia 27:07

2.01 Hack The Planet 55:19
2.02 World Bunk & International Monetary Fraud 19:16

3.01 Frankenfood Landscape: Where Are We Going? 3:00
3.02 Philidelphia Stories 30:40
3.03 If You Like Tipper, You'll Love... 20:45
3.04 Become The Media

Jello Biafra - The Big Ka-Boom, Part One
Label : Alternative Tentacles
Catalog# : VIRUS 276CD
Released : 2002
Tracklist :

1.01 The Big Kaboom, Part One 33:59
(Recorded Live On The Spitfire Tour - November 14, 2001 at The University Of Wisconsin, Madison, WI)

Jello Biafra - Machine Gun In The Clown's Hand
Label : Alternative Tentacles
Catalog# : VIRUS 290CD
Released : 2002
Tracklist :

1.01 Miscue 911 4:35
1.02 United We Scam 7:03
1.03 Flogging The Infidels 11:34
1.04 Honey, I Blew Up The World 13:19
1.05 The Big Ka-Boom 3:41
1.06 The Pied Piper And The Damage Done 14:33
1.07 Truth Is Stranger Than Hype 7:21
1.08 The Terror Of Tinytown 11:13

2.01 Machine Gun In The Clown's Hand 7:06
2.02 The Great Betrayal 8:49
2.03 The Martyr That Would Not Die 6:23
2.04 Propane And Propane Accessories 4:38
2.05 Faith-Based Initiatives 13:12
2.06 Fight Terror - Resist Corporations 4:27
2.07 Be Patriotic - Fight The Government 9:46
2.08 Beat Around The Burning Bush 5:10
2.09 Fight Crime - Make Mischief 11:12

3.01 Cowboy Cornholio And The Sunshine State 9:30
3.02 ...And Gore Makes Us Want To Ralph 7:20
3.03 The Rolling Blackout Revue 7:08
3.04 12 Steps To Corporate-Free Sobriety 17:01
3.05 Joey Ramone 5:44

Disc 1 Titled "The Big Ka-Boom, Parts 2-69
Disc 2 Titled "The Big Ka-Boom, Parts 70-666

Jello Biafra - In The Grip Of Official Treason
Label : Alternative Tentacles
Catalog# : VIRUS 370-2
Released : Dec 2006
Tracklist :

1.01 Fat Mike Speaks 2:15
1.02 Punk Voter Battle Cry 24:15
1.03 Die For Oil, Sucker (T.W.O.T. Addition) 7:40
1.04 Ass Clowns In Toyland 5:57
In The Grip Of Official Treason - Psalm I
1.05 Junk Mail From Hell 2:15
1.06 Der Gropenfuhrer Putsch 9:40
1.07 And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Cash 4:41
1.08 Brown Lipstick Voodoo Ritual 6:02
1.09 Forgotten Recent History Lessons 11:52
1.10 Votes Disappear Like Magic 4:25
In The Grip Of Official Treason - Psalm II

2.01 Big Jim, The Cyber Crow 3:19
2.02 Your Child Left Behind 9:42
2.03 The Faux FEMA Follies 8:55
2.04 Witness For The Persecution 4:31
2.05 Holiday In Guantanamo 11:20
2.06 Weapons Of Mass Distraction 15:20
2.07 Mr. Hat's Mr. Hat 11:28
2.08 Go Down On Me, Moses 13:54
In The Grip Of Official Treason - Psalm Final

3.01 The Lord Is My Sheep 2:12
3.02 The Last Big Gulp 8:42
The Bigger Ka-Boom, Parts 667 ? Doomsday
3.03 The Terror Of Tinytown's Big Adventure 3:02
3.04 Iraqnophobia 13:15
3.05 The Curse Of The Wolfman 7:11
3.06 Bloodbath And Beyond 3:29
3.07 Pirates Of The Reconstruction 9:49
3.08 The Flute And The Cobra 5:36
3.09 And All I Got Were These Lousy Freedom Fries 13:49
3.10 The Simplest Way Out Is Out 3:28
Deleted Scenes
3.11 Red State / Blue State Statik Attak 2:45
3.12 American Idle 5:33

(note: album pics and bio info extracted from http://www.discogs.com/artist/Jello+Biafra and http://www.ipass.net/jthrush/biafra.htm)