Prairie Home Invasion

Prairie Home Invasion
Studio album by Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon
Released March 24, 1994
Recorded 1994
Genre Cowpunk
Length 62:00
Label Alternative Tentacles
Producer Marshall Lawless
Jello Biafra chronology

Tumor Circus
(1991)		 Prairie Home Invasion
(1994)		 Beyond the Valley of the Gift Police
(1994)
Mojo Nixon chronology
Horny Holidays!
(1992)		 Prairie Home Invasion
(1994)		 Live in Las Vegas (Pleasure Barons)
(1994)
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Prairie Home Invasion is a first album released by Jello Biafra with Mojo Nixon in 1994. The title is play on the popular public radio program A Prairie Home Companion. There was also a single released for "Will The Fetus Be Aborted?" which included an outtake from this album entitled "The Lost World" and a parody of Billy Ray Cyrus's "Achy Breaky Heart" entitled "Achy Rakey Heart" as B-Sides.

Track listing

  1. "Buy My Snake Oil" - 9:07
  2. "Where Are We Gonna Work (When the Trees Are Gone?)" - 3:12 (Darryl Cherney cover)
  3. "Convoy in the Sky" - 3:33
  4. "Atomic Power" - 3:06 (Fred Kirby cover)
  5. "Are You Drinking With Me Jesus?" - 3:10 (Lou and Peter Berryman cover)
  6. "Love Me, I'm a Liberal" - 4:01 (Phil Ochs cover)
  7. "Burgers of Wrath" - 3:51
  8. "Nostalgia for an Age That Never Existed" - 4:56
  9. "Hamlet Chicken Plant Disaster" - 3:48
  10. "Mascot Mania" - 4:50
  11. "Let's Go Burn Ole Nashville Down" - 2:38 (to the tune of Old Joe Clark)
  12. "Will the Fetus Be Aborted?" - 3:42 (to the tune of Will the Circle Be Unbroken?)
  13. "Plastic Jesus" - 4:31 (Ed Rush and George Cromarty cover)

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Hamlet Chicken Plant Disaster

This particular song deals with a disaster at a chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina. The plant caught fire, killing 25 workers and injuring 40 after they were trapped behind locked fire doors.

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