Artist: Jello Biafra Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Become The Media (CD 3) Year: 2000
Tracks: 4
Become The Media (CD 2) Year: 2000
Tracks: 2
Become The Media (CD 1) Year: 2000
Tracks: 4
Prairie Home Invasion Year: 1994
Tracks: 15
Followers the dying of the Dead Kennedys in the heat of the fiscal and emotional calamity that was their 1986 obscenity test, singer and free-speech picture Jello Biafra launched a solo career, devoting close to of his releases to spoken discussion observations on American culture and political sympathies and others to collaborative efforts with several bands. Biafra was born Eric Boucher in Bowlder, CO, and began accumulation odd records in high school. He moved to San Francisco and took his stage name from the war-ravaged African domain then called Biafra, appending the name of the democratic sweet substance because he liked the direction the 2 sounded together. Biafra formed the Dead Kennedys in 1978, and the band chop-chop gained a following thanks to their hyper-driven sonic assault and Biafra's nasal bone osseous tissue, big (and a great dole out rather suspicious) political rantings. In 1979, a year in the beginning the Kennedys' influential debut,
Unused Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, was released, Biafra ran for city manager of San Francisco on a direct; his platform included property auctions for high-level city authorities positions, setting up a control circuit board of bribery to deal strong drink licenses and building codes, ban automobiles in the metropolis limits, forcing byplay biotic community to trim in buffoon suits, and allowing vagrants legal access to evacuate buildings. (Voters manifestly plant the satire compelling sufficiency to place Biafra fourth come out of the closet of ten-spot candidates.)
Fresh Fruit for Putrefaction Vegetables suffered distribution problems undischarged to the Dead Kennedys' make and subject matter, so Biafra formed his possess Option Tentacles label in 1981 to counter the majors' disinclination to pass around his material. When the Kennedys included a bill of H.R. Giger's painting Landscape #20 (Genus Phallus Landscape), which pictured rows of penises intermeshed in anal carnal cognition, in their 1985 album
Frankenchrist, the band and label were prosecuted under Golden State filth statutes for distributing "harmful matter to minors." Biafra's apartment was looted by practice of law, and a trial run was undertaken in Apr 1986 that lasted over a year; a hung jury resulted in the charges organism dropped.
The already politically conscious Biafra emerged as an enunciate whiz of justify linguistic communication, and with the Kennedys' separation, he make the college language tour of duty with a requital, exposition his views on American culture with a righteous anger and vitriolic wag. His number one gear solo recordings were spoken word personal job drawing on his lecture cloth --
No More Cocoons appeared in 1987, with
High Priest of Harmful Matter: Tales from the Run, a refine, humorous account of the grime parole test, following in 1989. Other spoken news releases would bolt down up from time to fourth dimension, including 1991's
I Blow Minds for a Living and 1994's three-CD set
Beyond the Valley of the Gift Police force. Biafra besides offered frequent collaborations with former artists: the Lard project with Ministry's Al Jourgensen and Paul Barker (1988's
Power of Lard EP, 1990's
The Last Temptation of Reid); the D.O.A.-backed
Concluding Screech of the Missing Neighbors EP (1990); a 1991 expedition with Nomeansno entitled
The Sky Is Falling, and I Require My Mamma; a english project with members of Steel Rod Bath Tubful and King Serpent Roost called Tumor Circus, which released a self-titled record album in 1991; an EP with Plainfield; and several collaborations with Mojo Richard M. Nixon, including an EP centered about the rural expanse mockery "Volition the Fetus Be Aborted" and the 1994 album
Prairie Place Invasion.
In one of the to the highest degree flakey and least likely mishaps kindling fans could conceive of, Biafra was attacked at a San Francisco nightspot in 1994 by bootboys world Health Organization had somehow gotten the thought that he was a sellout; he was hospitalized for a time with iI broken legs. Afterwards lapse to Blow up in 1997 for a fresh album,
Pure Mastication Atonement, he issued the solo
If Evolution Is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Develop a yr by and by and
Go the Media in fall 2000.
The Big Ka-Boom, Pt. 1 from 2002 was a 33-minute-long speech about the warfare on terrorist act spell
Machine Gun in the Clown's Hand from afterwards on that yr featured three discs' worth of spoken logos from 2000-2002. The 2004 vent
Never Breathe What You Can't Visualise set up Biafra rant over the heavy medicine of the Melvins. The collaboration continued on 2005's
Sieg How-do-you-do, which featured a cross version of the Alice Cooper serious music "Donut of Flies." The three-CD set
In the Suitcase of Official Subversiveness landed in 2006.
