History Music / GeoffBerner

* AuthorTract: Every now and then (with parodic intent), but most obviously "[[LongTitle Rabbi Berner Finally Reveals His True Religious Agenda]]", in which he [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin reveals his true religious agenda]] and his interpretation of the purpose of Literature/TheBible:

->''Seems like everywhere I go, everybody wants to know: how'd someone like me "...get so lucky, you little jerk?" Well, the questions of these idiots are really quite inconvenient, especially when I'm trying to forget that luck had anything to do with it. [[BlatantLies It was all hard work. And clean living]]. '''NOW GET ME A DRINK'''!''

* UpToEleven: "The Way That Girl Drinks Beer".
-->''They say that loose lips are liable to sink ships / I bet she sinks a supertanker twice a year''

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: ''Victory Party'' features some instances of this.

* BaldOfAwesome: Who are you to deny it?

* {{Dystopia}} / RealLifeWritesThePlot: "The Victory Party", about the end of WorldWarTwo depicts an anything but cheerful search for some sort of victory party in a German town.

* HeAlsoDid: Was a screenwriter for ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''. No joke.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Good luck finding a copy of ''Live in Oslo''.

He has served as a support act for KaizersOrchestra on several occasions, and was in fact one of the first people to ever witness a live performance by them, as he had been deported to Norway for a short time in 2000. Has written an instructional booklet on how to be an accordion player.

'''Geoff Berner''' (born 26 November 1971) is a Jewish-Canadian SingerSongwriter on the accordion. The self-styled "[[RedBaron Avenging Angel of Klezmer]]", he has made it his life's mission to bring traditional Jewish klezmer music "kicking and screaming" back into the bars of the world. With whiskey in one hand and [[ICallItVera Estella]] in the other, his travels has taken him all over the world, having gained a international cult following due to his insightful humor and politically and ideologically inflammatory lyrics.

** Has recorded one for a majority of his albums (the exception being ''Whiskey Rabbi''), by artists such as LeonardCohen and Slutarded. In concert, he covered American singer-songwriter Carmaig de Forest constantly for several years (even recording his song "In the Year 2020" for his first album), but his focus has since shifted to Kris Demeanor (whose song "One Shoe" he recorded for ''Klezmer Mongrels'').

* {{Lullaby}}: "That's What Keeps the Rent Down, Baby": an impoverished parental figure explains to their child that they should be grateful for all the terrible things (murder, prostitutes, thievery, etc.) that goes in in their neighborhood, as that's what keeps the rent down. Baby.

* {{Sampling}}: "Public Relations", specifically the Terror of Tiny Town version, incorporates snippets of RichardEGrant's dialogue from ''How to Get Ahead in Advertising'', a British black comedy film. The film deals with the same subject as the song; namely, the apparently amoral and deceptive advertising industry.

** Also made remarks about Volkswagen and their ties to NaziGermany at an event which they sponsored.

* HeAlsoDid: Was a screenwriter for EdEddNEddy. No joke.

A Jewish-Canadian singer-songwriter on the accordion and part of the klezmer revivalist movement, Berner has gained a cult following by way of his politically charged and inflammatory lyrics, as well as his satirical sense of thought-provoking humor.

Not long after, Berner shifted his attention to klezmer and was determined to aid in restoring the dying music style to its former glory, if not further. He studied under the Romanian masters of the craft (where he nearly died from alcohol poisoning, as chronicled in "Song Written in a Romanian Hospital") and released his first klezmer album, ''Whiskey Rabbi'', in 2005. This album would be the first in a trilogy of klezmer albums.

* AuthorTract: Every now and then (with parodic intent), but most obviously "[[LongTitle Rabbi Berner Finally Reveals His True Religious Agenda]]", in which he [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin reveals his true religious agenda]] and his interpretation of the purpose of the Bible.

-->''This next verse is just / a list of bars that I have drunken / some are dead and some are living / [[TheBeatles in my life]] I've loved them all''

* BeyondTheImpossible: "The Way That Girl Drinks Beer".
-->''They say that loose lips are liable to sink ships / I bet she sinks a supertanker twice a year''

-->"This next verse is just a list of bars that I have drunken, some are dead and some are living, [[TheBeatles in my life]] I've loved them all."

* NoHitWonder: Nothing even close to one.

* TakeThat: "Phoney Drawl", in which Berner implies that fellow Canadian artist Fred Eaglesmith's rural accent is not genuine, remarking on how it "disappears like magic when Revenue Canada is on the line."

->''Seems like everywhere I go, everybody wants to know: how'd someone like me "...get so lucky, you little jerk?" Well, the questions of these idiots are really quite inconvenient, especially when I'm trying to forget that luck had anything to do with it. It was all hard work. And clean living. '''NOW GET ME A DRINK'''!''
-->'''Good Luck Now'''

Albums Geoff Berner has released:

!!The music of Geoff Berner provides examples of

* CarefulWithThatAxe / {{Scatting}}: A whole lot, particularly live. And his voice lends itself more to this purpose as the years go by, and the whiskey bottles are emptied. A particularly nasty shock for those who went from ''We Shall Not Flag or Fail...'' to ''Whiskey Rabbi''. For a specific song example, there's "Queen Victoria".

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Whiskey Rabbi''. Although his lyrics were darkly humorous from the very beginning of his career, this was the first time the instruments sounded the part.

* DoubleEntendre: "Fukher". He even explains in the song that it means "hand fan", but as the song progresses, the increasingly suggestive contexts in which he uses it has us all wondering...

* EpicRiff: "Song Written in a Romanian Hospital", "And Promises to Break Before I Sleep", "Wealthy Poet", the list goes on. Though keep in mind these are all violin riffs.

* LongList / ListingCities: "Shut In".
-->'''Geoff Berner''': This next verse is just a list of bars that I have drunken, some are dead and some are living, in my life I've loved them all.

* LyricalDissonance: A favorite of Berner's. "Laughing Jackie the Pimp", being a children's song about an abusive pimp, and his chipper delivery of the "Official Theme for the 2010 Vancouver / Whistler Olympic Games" (described below).

* {{Music/Instrumentals}}: "A Blimp Made of Human Skin" from his ''Light Enough to Travel'' EP. Also, the instrumental version of "Weep, Bride, Weep".

!!Tropes Associated With Geoff Berner:

* CoverVersion: Has recorded one for a majority of his albums (the exception being ''Whiskey Rabbi''), by artists such as LeonardCohen and Slutarded. In concert, he covered American singer-songwriter Carmaig de Forest constantly for several years (even recording his song "In the Year 2020" for his first album), but his focus has since shifted to Kris Demeanor (whose song "One Shoe" he recorded for ''Klezmer Mongrels'').

* TheTropeSong: "Unlistenable Song", "Song to Reconcile".