Beyond the Valley of the Gift Police

Beyond the Valley of the Gift Police Artist: Jello Biafra
Label: Alternative Tentacle
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 3


UPC: 721616015027
EAN: 0721616015027
ASIN: B000000F9X


Release Date: 1994-09-09

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Tracks:

  1. Message To Our Sponsor
  2. Experts
  3. Ban Everything
  4. I Have A Dream

Tracks:

  1. Talk On Censorship: President McMuffin Tightens The Screws/What We Are Not Being Told

Tracks:

  1. Talk On Censorship: The Virtuecrats' Unreality/In The Belly Of The Wrong Beast
  2. Eric Meets The Moose Diarrhea Salesman

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Lacking a bit of the ol' Biafra steam........2001-02-07

This album was very good. However, it seemed to lack the passion and energy that so many of Jello's albums have displayed so very well. Sure, Jello wrote and researched well, but there were few moments when you could really feel that glorious liberating feeling that comes out of so many other speeches from Jello's glory days. However, this album does happen to contain my favorite of his SW pieces: "Eric Meets the Moose Diarrhea Salesman". Being a fan, it's so entertaining to hear about how he got to where he is. And, if you're not a fan I think you'll like it too. Give it a try....

2 out of 5 stars Trite-platitudes and treacleous drivel.......1999-04-12

The truth is far stranger than this

4 out of 5 stars The high priest of harmful matter continues to blow minds........1998-07-02

Jello Biafra, former lead singer of the Dead Kennedys, continues to perform punk rock without the music on "Beyond the Valley of the Gift Police." He also has the quality that most good speakers possess -- even when you disagree with him, you still enjoy his ranting and raving. This is the fourth in a series of spoken word efforts, all of which, I would argue, are of the same general level of substance and quality. Maybe it is because the substance is essentially the same and always poignant -- the police state is coming/here. Like an evangelist who warns us of the final days of earth, Biafra warns us about the final days of freedom. Big Brother, big government is the antichrist, and no one delivers this message so well. Part of this stems from his own experience, which he recounts in one way or another throughout his spoken word recordings, as an artist persecuted by the establishment. For those of you who are unaware, Biafra was arrested and charged with distributing harmful matter to minors and tried in Los Angeles in the latter 1980's (there was a hung jury and the case was dismissed). Biafra's food for thought is seasoned heavily with contempt for the religious right and absolute paranoia with respect to government control -- you get the feeling he is expecting a death squad to be waiting for him outside of the lecture hall at some points. Even so, you, the listener, wind up asking yourself, "What if even 10% of this is true?" It is alarming, to be sure. Unlike many others who peddle inflammatory rhetoric on one subject or another, however, Biafra frequently throws out the sources of his information for his audience. Ultimately, his message really is, "Don't take my word for it, check it out yourself." To use the Bill Maher line from "Politically Incorrect," somebody's got to say it. If somebody's got to say it, you can't do any better than Biafra.

5 out of 5 stars This cd ROCKS!!!.......1998-06-12

Jello has has agreat series of Spoken Word Albums and this is by far the best one!

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