Jello Biafra With D.O.A - Last Srceam Of The Missing Neighbors 1989

 
Last Scream of the Missing Neighbors is a punk album by Jello Biafra of Dead Kennedys and Canadian band D.O.A., released in 1990. It is notable for "Full Metal Jackoff," a furious 14-minute song that touches on then-relevant topics such as Willie Horton, the Iran-Contra Affair, Oliver North, the crack epidemic, and many others.
                                                             

                                                                               
"That's Progress" was included on the Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1 compilation on Fat Wreck Chords.
Trouser Press praised the album, calling it "a roaring rock record that puts [Biafra's] trademark whiny vocals and songs to D.O.A.'s meat-and-cojones guitar power. Through a half-dozen numbers like "Wish I Was in El Salvador," "Attack of the Peacekeepers" and the epic "Full Metal Jackoff," Last Scream proudly re-hoists the DK flag in all but name."
                                                  

                                                                              
[Last Scream of the Missing Neighbors, the 1989 Jello Biafra and DOA team-up album, ended with the entire crew chanting “Vote for Ollie! He’ll get things done! Vote for Ollie! He’ll get things done!” The

culmination of the album’s massive Side B, the 15 minute epic “Full Metal Jackoff,” the slogan, while at the time was a bit of (at least semi) absurdist commentary, some 27 years later, it became all too real- the current commander in Chief was elected on a platform of… he’ll do something. But, what that something was and is, is still as clear as mud, unless you count that something as overt racism, incompetence, and perhaps, even treason.
                                                           

                                                                               
Released during the Bush 1 era, Last Scream found Biafra targeting on concerns that were developing in the post-70s era and lighting them up for exposure. “That’s Progress” (which would be resurrected

by Biafra several times throughout his career) lashed out at gentrification. “Attack of the peacekeepers” made the argument that the armed forces were really unit designed to protect private interests than to protect anyone or anything. All of that could have come off as rote lecturing, except that Biafra was sure to keep his trademark ghoulish humor in the forefront as much as his more serious statements. “Peacekeepers” featured Biafra and DOA’s Joe Keithley running through a distorted version of a Three Stooges sketch.
                                                            

                                                                            
Meanwhile, Biafra also took a unique angle at making it to the top. “Power is Boring” found Biafra making the claim that being up at the tippy top is actually miserable because it’s such a precarious position. He then doubled down on the proclamation and suggested that his realization held for power in all its forms, including a military coup, politics, and even punk rock.
                                                    

                                                                              
The entire release was backed by DOA in their 80s incarnation that blended three chord punk storming with some thrash metal propulsion. With Biafra turning in some of his fieriest vocal takes, the high energy attack gave the whole release a mega-bombast style, and was perhaps Biafra’s nosiest release to date.
                                                  

                                                                                 
That being said, the release wasn’t pure furor attack. Side A concluded with an unexpected cover of Biafra long time favorite The Animals with “We Gotta Get out of this Place.” Both Biafra and DOA recognized the deeper commentary in the tune and bring that to the forefront through focusing on the song’s base melody and lyrical turns. Instead of blowing the whole thing up, they played it about as straight as they could, resulting in one of the album’s most moving moments.
                                                        

                                                                                
Massive closer “Full metal Jackoff” also found DOA venturing into new ground. A hard stomping 80s metal epic, the track was rooted in pure riffage and feedback, with a lot of ripping solos turned in. Meanwhile, Biafra argued that the 80s drug epidemic was the calculated result of industrial prison complex engineering. All of that might have seemed a little too conspiracy-minded for 1989, but now,

considering how many billions both prisons and drug companies dump into elections alone(and that’s the stuff we know about!) it looks like the guy ranting in the corner was right all along. At the time of release, Last Scream may have seemed to be pushing real issues into the absurd and maybe it seemed like it was jumping at shadows. But, now it has become clear that these tales were all too real. In a certain light, it’s comforting to know that Biafra was right, as a way to validate many of the thoughts and feelings we all have about the current state of the world. But, still, it would have been nicer if he was wrong…
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Reviewer: John Gentile November 27th 2017]
                                                         

                                                                                  
[By Greg Prato
The Vancouver-based punk band D.O.A. has been riffing and raging since the late Seventies, and they’re still going strong: their 14th studio album, We Come in Peace, will be issued on Sudden Death Records on July 22nd. A single, “We Occupy”/”Who the Hell Do You Think You Are,” has just been released, the reggae-ish A-side of which sees D.O.A reunite with their old pal, ex-Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra.
                                                        

                                                                             
“I first met Jello when we did our first trip [to San Francisco]. It had to be summer 1978, I think,” says D.O.A. singer-guitarist Joey Keithley. “We had the ‘Disco Sucks’ single just out, so I sent that down to the Mabuhay Gardens, and they got us to come down for two shows. A Friday and Saturday – we opened up for the Avengers one night, and on the third night, the Sunday night, the Dead Kennedys were there. A decent crowd showed up at the Mab, and I met Jello briefly.
                                                         

                                                                          
“I went and caused a bunch of trouble with the bouncers after having a few too many beers. So the bouncers picked me up and threw me out. Jello got on the P.A. – he saw what happened – and he said, ‘We’re not playing until Joey gets back in!’ Biafra’s plea got me back in.”
                                                   

                                                                               
Later, D.O.A. played shows with the Dead Kennedys and issued albums through Biafra’s label (Alternative Tentacles). D.O.A. and Biafra even did an album together, 1989’s Last Scream of the Missing Neighbors. Now their paths have crossed once again, with Biafra lending vocals to the politically charged “We Occupy.”
                                                 

                                                                         
“When you think about Occupy Wall Street and the consequential Occupy movement, it’s one of the

most brilliant strategies – maybe not the most organized, but one of the most brilliant strategies I’ve heard in years,” explains Keithley. “Because what you do is you take the most obvious fact, that one percent of the people in the world have most of the money and they make most of the decisions. Big decisions – they affect everybody’s lives all throughout the world, every day. So the strategy is great to try and bring some financial equities in light of what’s been happening since time immemorial, and most recently the ’08 recession.
                                                      

                                                                                  
“I think it’s great that you’ve got a movement that set forward the idea that you want to make things fair,” he continues. “What’s an easier thing to get behind than trying to make things fair and trying to make things right? Uh . . . nothing! That’s why I’m attracted to it.
                                                       

                                                                            
“A lot of people don’t understand it. The straight press writes it off as being ‘misguided youth that would leave in an instant if somebody gave them a job offer.’ How many times have you heard that on Fox News or CNN? But those people involved in those camps, they’re idealists. They’re fighting for something that makes sense. And I think it’s going to reorganize pretty strongly this spring.”
                                                   

                                                                           
“We Occupy” will not be the only political tune on the forthcoming album. D.O.A. has recorded an unlikely cover: the Beatles‘ “Revolution.” “Perfect timing, right?” says Keithley. “And people would never think that D.O.A. would do a Beatles song. But I guess if there was one that was perfect for D.O.A., it would be ‘Revolution.'”
                                          

                                                                           
Keithley describes We Come in Peace as having “a different flavor to it. We’ve got ballbreakers, breakneck-speed type things that you’d expect from D.O.A., and there’s some cool ska-reggae stuff,” including a ska version of “War Hero” by Toxic Reasons. D.O.A. will be launching European tours in May and August before hitting the U.S. in the fall.

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TRAXS

All songs by Jello Biafra except where indicated.

01. That's Progress - 3:13
02. Attack of the Peacekeeper - 2:44
03. Wish I Was in El Salvador" - 2:53
04. Power Is Boring (Jello Biafra, Joe Keithley) - 2:49
05. We Gotta Get Out of This Place (Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil - originally performed by The Animals) - 4:50
06. Full Metal Jackoff - 13:57

Personnel

Jello Biafra - lead vocals
Joe Keithley - guitar, vocals
Chris Prohom - guitar, vocals
Brian Goble - bass
Jon Card - drums

FULL METAL JACKOFF  LYRICS (JELLO BIAFRA)

Around our nation's capital
There's a freeway 8 lanes wide
White concrete ringed around the city
For those who want inside
Get on get off
Ignore everything to the sides
In your midst I drive
While homeboys in the back of the van make drugs

Wanna hide something like a crack lab
Just put it in plain sight
Only stop to refuel and unload
More poison to tear more lives apart
Gang wars like never before
Better lock your doors, buy some guns
And pray (prey?) for martial law

On the Washington D.C. Beltway
Around and around I go
In the black van with no windows
And a chimney puffing smoke
Bloody headlines in the news each day
Drug "crisis" everywhere
So much comes in so easy
It's as though someone wants it there

It would be a little obvious
To fence off all the slums
Hand out machine guns
To the poor in the projects
And watch 'em kill each other off
A more subtle genocide is when
The only hope for the young
Is to join the Army and slowly die
Wall Street or Crack Dealer Avenue
The last roads left to the American Dream

Wall Street or Crack Dealer Avenue
Wall Street or Crack Dealer Avenue
Only on road leads to this neighborhood
Little kids wanna sell drugs when they grow up

The folks might get just a little upset
If they knew where that dope comes from
From Columbia to the Contras
To our Air Force bases, where we trade it for guns
The moral equivalent of a serial killer
And his CIA friends
Call the shots from the White House
But now that we own the media too
Those stories just aren't run

On the Washington D.C. Beltway, 'round and 'round I go
In a black van with no windows, and a chimney puffing smoke
Some gang that ran smack in Viet Nam
Ain't got no reason to fear
Just get a Vice President so dumb
The crook at the top never gets impeached

That sure was easy wasn't it?
That sure was easy wasn't it?
More crack-more panic-moe cops-more jails

You see emergency-total war
You see emergency-total war
You see a black face-you see a crackhead
You see a black face-you see a crackhead
You see a black face-you see Willie Horton with a knife

You see Willie Horton with a knife
You see one Willie Horton you've seen them all
They're everywhere, I know
You asked for it, you've got it
Drug suspects have no rights at all
Property seized and sold before trial
Labor camps-on American soil?!?
Neo-Nazi bootboys
That the cops never seem to arrest
Prowl neighborhoods with baseball bats
Why now? Why do they get so much press...?

Mein Kampf-the mini series
Ollie North-"patriotic" hero
The leader for tomorrow is yours today
Finally gotcha psyched for a police state

On the Washington D.C. Beltway
Around and around I go
In a black van with no windows
And a chimney puffing smoke
My van's a mobile oven now
That burns the bodies you never see
Just like in Chile or Guatemala
People just seem to disappear

Just like Rome
We fell asleep when we got spoiled
Ignore human rights in the rest of the world
Ya might just lose your own

As the noose of narco-militarism
Tightens 'round your necks
We worry about burning flags
And pee in jars at work
To keep our jobs

But if someone came for you one night
And dragged you away
Do you really think your neighbors
Would even care...
Do you really think your neighbors
Would even care...

Ollie for president, he'll get things done
(Embrace the red, white and blue Reich)
Ollie for president, he'll get things done
(Embrace the red, white and blue Reich)
Ollie for president, he'll get things done
(Embrace the red, white and blue Reich)

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