Last Scream of the Missing Neighbors is a 1989 punk rock album born out of a collaboration between two punk stalwarts, Jello Biafra

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 and Vancouver, Canada band D.O.A.

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. The album is notable for a 14-minute, furious, political rant called "Full Metal Jackoff." Based on the events of the time, the song references such topics as Willie Horton

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, the Iran-Contra Affair

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, Oliver North

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, the Crack epidemic

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 and many others.

"That's Progress" was included on the Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1

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compilation on Fat Wreck Chords

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.

Track listing

1. "That's Progress" - 3:13
2. "Attack of the Peacekeepers" - 2:44
3. "Wish I Was in El Salvador" - 2:53
4. "Power Is Boring" - 2:49
5. "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" - 4:50
6. "Full Metal Jackoff" - 13:57

Personnel

• Jello Biafra - lead vocals
• Joe Keithley
  Joe Keithley
  Joey "Shithead" Keithley is a punk musician with the band D.O.A.. He was raised in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, and attended Burnaby North Secondary. At age 11, he began playing drums. He would later take up the guitar and vocals. He owns and operates his own record company, Sudden Death...
  
   - guitar, vocals
• Chris Prohom - guitar
• Brian Goble
  Brian Roy Goble
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  - bass