History Music / JelloBiafra

* ADateWithRosiePalms: In one particularly memorable turn of phrase, Jello compares shooting a gun to masturbation.
-->I wish I was down in El Salvador
-->Where I could jerk off with my gun and KillThePoor

* GenreAdultery: ''Prairie Home Invasion'' is a cowpunk album, which is roughly what you get when you cross PunkRock with CountryMusic. ''Walk on Jindal's Splinters'' is New Orleans soul and garage rock. The two Melvins collaborations are a borderline case as they tend a bit more towards HeavyMetal than most of Jello's other records, though are still largely based in HardcorePunk. (These are actually more GenreAdultery for the Melvins, whose material tends not to have this much hardcore influence).

* TitleOnlyChorus: "Attack of the Peackeepers", "Power Is Boring", "Yuppie Cadillac", etc.

* UncommonTime: The verses of "Enchanted Thoughtfist" are in 7/4. "Dawn of the Locusts" has a riff in 13/8.

** With Mojo Nixon he covered Darryl Cherney's "Where Are We Gonna Work (When the Trees Are Gone?)", Fred Kirby's "Atomic Power", Music/PhilOchs' "Love Me, I'm a Liberal" (with some new lyrics to make it more current to TheNineties), the Goldcoast Singers' novelty hit "Plastic Jesus", the traditional songs "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" (with new lyrics as "[[CrossesTheLineTwice Will the Fetus Be Aborted]]?") and "Old Joe Clark" (with new lyrics as "Let's Go Burn Ole Nashville Down"). There was also a "cover" of Billy Ray Cyrus' "Achey Breaky Heart" entitled "Achey Rakey Heart", which as one might expect is more of a {{Parody}} and TakeThat.

While undoubtedly best known as the frontman of HardcorePunk legends Music/DeadKennedys, '''Jello Biafra''' (real name Eric Boucher) has had quite a career since leaving the band as well. He has amassed quite a large number of spoken-word albums about political activism as well as a large body of recorded music that mostly serves as {{Spiritual Successor}}s to the Kennedys' output. His music recordings, both as collaborations with other artists (D.O.A., Nomeansno, Mojo Nixon, Music/{{Melvins}}, most of Music/{{Ministry}} as Lard, members of Steel Pole Bath Tub and Grong Grong as Tumor Circus) and with his own band the Guantanamo School of Medicine, have made him a respected elder statesman in the world of punk (a condition he even comments on in the song "Enchanted Thoughtfist"). While his former bandmates from the Kennedys have evolved into the living incarnation of MoneyDearBoy, half-heartedly "playing only songs from the good old days about how bad the good old days were", Biafra continues to evolve and to produce some [[AwesomeMusic awesome new tunes]].

* RockstarSong: "Enchanted Thoughtfist" is an unusually introspective example, as it features Jello reflecting on his legacy and advising listeners, "Don't just question everything/Don't forget to question me".

* TheWarOnTerror: Probably half the Melvins collaborations were commentaries on this.

* ComicBook/ChickTracts: Referenced by name in "Plague of the Locusts".

* AlbumTitleDrop: Most of the albums avert it. ''The Sky Is Falling and I Want My Mommy'' ''almost'' plays it straight (the lyrics say "The sky is ''melting'' and I want my mommy" instead). ''Last Scream of the Missing Neighbors'' is more subtle about it; "Full Metal Jackoff" gives the quote listed below under CleanupCrew, then asks:

-->So how about Martha Stewart in Music/DeadKennedys?[[note]]The printed lyrics have "Kenny Boy Lay" (referring to the disgraced founder of Enron) written instead of Marthat Stewart[[/note]]

-->So how about Kenny Boy Lay in Music/DeadKennedys?

* LoudnessWar: Averted with his older work. His newer work starting around his Melvins collaborations dips into this somewhat, but is still nowhere near as bad as the worst examples of the trope.

** "Mascot Mania" suggests renaming sports teams with {{Take That}}s towards their hometowns (partially as a TakeThat towards the real-life Washington Redskins, whose name has been a sore point with real-life American Indians for decades):

* TakeThat: As with his Music/DeadKennedys material, plentiful, including a few against his former bandmates in "Those Dumb Punk Kids (Will Buy Anything)" and "Voted Off the Island". He's taken a few at UsefulNotes/BarackObama from a left-wing perspective as well ("Barackstar O'Bummer" and the album title ''The Audacity of Hype'' being the most obvious).

* GenreAdultery: ''Prairie Home Invasion'' is a cowpunk album, which is roughly what you get when you cross PunkRock with CountryMusic. ''Walk on Jindal's Splinters'' is New Orleans soul and garage rock. The two Melvins collaborations are a borderline case as they tend a bit more towards HeavyMetal than most of Jello's other records, though are still largely based in HardcorePunk.

* DreadfulMusician: ZigZagged. Jello doesn't play any instruments on his recordings because, well, he's not very good at it. He started out trying to teach the other band members the parts he wrote by playing them on guitar and it wound up being easier for him to just scat-sing the parts. (This would cost him when his former band mates in the Music/DeadKennedys sued him). However, he's a very skilled ''composer''. Nearly 90% of the Dead Kennedys songs were solely written by him, and he's responsible for quite a lot of the songwriting on his collaborations as well. He's also managed to be one of the most iconic front men in punk.

* DreadfulMusician: ZigZagged. Jello doesn't play any instruments on his recordings because, well, he's not very good at it. He started out trying to teach the other band members the parts he wrote by playing them on guitar and it wound up being easier for him to just scat-sing the parts. (This would cost him when his former band mates in the Music/DeadKennedys sued him). However, he's a very skilled ''composer''. Nearly 90% of the Dead Kennedys songs were solely written by him, and he's responsible for quite a lot of the songwriting on his collaborations as well.

* LastNoteNightmare: ''The Audacity of Hype'' ends with an eight-minute HiddenTrack featuring all the songs from the album played at once. The remix of "Caped Crusader" is also an example.