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Repressed for the first time in many many years this classic LP now comes with digital download code. Putting two legends of truly countercultural spirit together simply had to produce something of genius.
Invasion is a fine fusion of Jellos deranged nerviness and Nixons rootsy attitude. With Nixons backing band, the Toadliquors, on hand to provide the rest of the cowpunk, honky tonk music, the two come out fighting with Buy My Snake Oil, Jellos rip into early-90s alternative culture, and dont let up. Pete Wet Dawg Gordons piano work definitely deserves to be singled out check the opening break on Where Are We Gonna Work and Mike Wild Middletons drumming doesnt let up once.
One of the sharper things about Invasion is its sense of protest roots; almost half the songs are from earlier musicians or public domain folk songs, sometimes more picturesque, like Convoy in the Sky, but other times slotting alongside Jello and Nixons work perfectly. Phil Ochs brilliant slam on fuzzy left-leaners, Love Me, Im a Liberal, gets a topically updated revamp, while the albums lead single revamps an old standard into Will the Fetus Be Aborted?. As for the lead performers own work, ultimately this is more Nixons show than Biafras.
The latter definitely has the spirit for this effort, taking the majority of the lead vocals, but Nixon has the better voice for the proceedings, while his guitar kicks butt and takes names.
The artwork for Invasion deserves special mention, too: besides a hilarious back photo of Jello and Nixon re-enacting Grant Woods American Gothic, the veritable explosion of news stories detailing business and government idiocies, random ad images, and snippets of Tom Tomorrows This Modern World comic strip, is enough to make anyone reject mass culture in a second.
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