Prairie Home Invasion CD

MUSIC

POP

Song Listing

Disc 1

Song Title

1. Buy My Snake Oil ~ Jello Biafra

2. Where Are We Gonna Work (When the Trees Are Gone?) ~ Jello Biafra

3. Convoy in the Sky ~ Jello Biafra

4. Atomic Power ~ Jello Biafra

5. Are You Drinkin' With Me Jesus? ~ Jello Biafra

6. Love Me, I'm a Liberal ~ Jello Biafra

7. Burgers of Wrath ~ Jello Biafra

8. Nostalgia for an Age That Never Existed ~ Jello Biafra

9. Hamlet Chicken Plant Disaster ~ Jello Biafra

10. Mascot Mania ~ Jello Biafra

11. Let's Go Burn Ole Nashville Down ~ Jello Biafra

12. Will the Fetus Be Aborted ~ Jello Biafra

13. Plastic Jesus ~ Jello Biafra

Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
	/Mojo Nixon.
	Personnel: Jello Biafra (vocals); Mojo Nixon (vocals, guitar, banjo, harmonica, tambourine); Danny Barnes (guitar, electric guitar, dobro); Evan Johns (guitar); Don Leady (electric guitar); Louis Jay Meyers (banjo); Champ Hood (fiddle); Ted Roddy (harmonica); Pete Gordon (accordion, piano, organ, background vocals); Mike Middleton (drums, percussion, background vocals); Cindy Yates, Sandra Patyk, Deborah Kelly, Amy Boone (background vocals).
	Audio Mixer: Stuart Sullivan.
	Photographer: Jello Biafra.
	Putting two legends of truly countercultural spirit together simply had to produce something of genius, and though Mojo Nixon's dropped a couple of hints since then that things weren't as cool as they could be, Invasion is nonetheless a fine fusion of Jello's deranged nerviness and Nixon's rootsy attitude. With Nixon's backing band, the Toadliquors, on hand to provide the rest of the cowpunk, honky tonk music, the two come out fighting with "Buy My Snake Oil," Jello's rip into early-'90s alternative culture, and don't let up. Pete "Wet Dawg" Gordon's piano work definitely deserves to be singled out -- check the opening break on "Where Are We Gonna Work" -- and Mike "Wild" Middleton's drumming doesn't let up once. One of the sharper things about Invasion is its sense of protest roots; almost half the songs are from earlier musicians or public domain folk songs, sometimes more picturesque, like "Convoy in the Sky," but other times slotting alongside Jello and Nixon's work perfectly. Phil Ochs' brilliant slam on fuzzy left-leaners, "Love Me, I'm a Liberal," gets a topically updated revamp, while the album's lead single revamps an old standard into "Will the Fetus Be Aborted?." As for the lead performers' own work, ultimately this is more Nixon's show than Biafra's. The latter definitely has the spirit for this effort, taking the majority of the lead vocals, but Nixon has the better voice for the proceedings, while his guitar kicks butt and takes names. The artwork for Invasion deserves special mention, too: besides a hilarious back photo of Jello and Nixon re-enacting Grant Wood's "American Gothic," the veritable explosion of news stories detailing business and government idiocies, random ad images, and snippets of Tom Tomorrow's "This Modern World" comic strip, is enough to make anyone reject mass culture in a second. ~ Ned Raggett
Producer: Tri-State Kill Spree Johnson; Marshall Lawless
Engineer: Stuart Sullivan

Compilation Appearances

	Green Revolution
	Rio Grande Blood (Dig)

Associated Artists and Works

Pansy Division

Technical Info

	Release Date : 03/15/1994
	Original Release Date : 1994
	Catalog ID : VIRUS 137CD
	Label : Alternative Tentacles
	Number of Discs : 1
	Studio/Live : Studio
	Mono/Stereo : Stereo
	SPAR Code : n/a
	UPC : 00721616013726

Professional Reviews

Option (8/94, p.92)
- "...some tasty toadliquor balladeering highlights the existential pathos of Jello's trip through Elvis, Haight-Ashbury, Punk Rock and MTV..."

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