• Artist: Jello Biafra
• Flags: Box set
• Type: Box Set
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• Style: American Underground
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Review

As a social critic, former Dead Kennedys' singer Jello Biafra has distinguished himself as an outraged citizen and humanitarian by creatively sticking it to the Man with his wealth of underreported facts and his dark, biting humor. On his fifth spoken word CD, If Evolution Is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Evolve, he discusses how the greedy wage war on the have-nots by forcing workers to compete for lower and lower wages and by gutting the welfare system, while Fortune 500 fat cats go about robbing the world blind. He talks about how the media presents the political arena as left vs. right when it is more often top vs. bottom. He criticizes the prison industrial complex, where in California a guard makes almost twice as much as a teacher, and rails on former president Clinton, whose drug war budget was triple that of Reagan's. Also, he attacks Congress, who is content to privatize everything and let Wall Street run the country. He goes on to give numerous examples of effective civil disobedience from protestors chaining themselves to equipment meant to build a dam in Tasmania until they gave up building it, to the Zapatistas and the groundswell of rebellion they've aroused in Mexico. Biafra's words are inspiring and he covers a lot of ground on this three-CD set. He spends a lot of time on his number one topic, censorship, but the information here is well-rounded and often crucial. ~ Adam Bregman, All Music Guide

Tracks

CD 1

Track Title	iTunes	Composers	Performers	Time
Depends on the Drug			Jello Biafra	(1:14)
Talk on the Death Penalty: When Psychopaths Guard the Henhouse	...		Jello Biafra	(3:24)
The Murder of Mumia Abu-Jamal			Jello Biafra	(6:50)
Clinton Comes to Long Beach			Jello Biafra	(2:52)
The Hex-Files: Space Shuttle Sequel	...		Jello Biafra	(9:16)
Half-Time			Jello Biafra	(4:18)
The New Soviet Union			Jello Biafra	(26:02)

CD 2

Track Title	iTunes	Composers	Performers	Time
Talk on Censorship: It Takes a Pillage to Raze a Child	...		Jello Biafra	(71:05)
Talk on Censorship: The Contract on America	...		Jello Biafra

CD 3

Track Title	iTunes	Composers	Performers	Time
Talk on Censorship: Bridge to the New Dark Ages	...		Jello Biafra
Talk on Censorship: Which Way to the Zoo?	...		Jello Biafra
Wake up and Smell the Noise			Jello Biafra

Credits

Jello Biafra (Producer), Jello Biafra (Main Performer), Jello Biafra (Concept), Steve Ellis (Engineer), Winston Smith (Artwork)

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