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Negative country
General information
origin Concord , United States
Genre (s) skirt
founding 1979
Website www.negativland.com
Founding members
Mark Hosler
Richard Lyons († 2016)
Current occupation
Mark Hosler
David Wills
Peter Conheim
Jon Leidecker
former members
Don Joyce († 2015)
Ian Allen († 2015)

Negativland is a Californian rock band that uses collage and sampling techniques . The band was formed in the late 1970s and named itself after a song by the German Krautrock band Neu!

The main members are Mark Hosler , Richard Lyons , Don Joyce and David Wills . For a time, also played Chris Grigg for negative country. Peter Conheim and Jonathan Land joined in 1997. Her most famous albums are Escape From Noise (1987) and the single U2 (1991).

history

In 1987 the album Escape From Noise was released . including the song Christianity is stupid with samples from the Christian propaganda film If footmen tire you - What will horses do? . After the album was released, Negativland itself launched the rumor that the police were looking for it because Christianity is stupid had incited a fifteen-year-old to murder his parents. This fictitious story, which was originally intended as the band's excuse not to have to go on an (expensive) concert tour, quickly became a sure-fire success and haunted the print and TV news for weeks. Negativland processed this semi-voluntary media coup in their subsequent album, Helter Stupid .

In 1991 the single U2 was released , which brought the band a lawsuit by the label Island Records on behalf of the Irish rock band U2 for infringement of copyright and trademark law. The cover of the single shows a picture of the spy plane U2 , in large letters "U2" and (in lower case) "Negativland". Island Records was of the opinion that this cover was suitable to entice fans of the band U2 to buy the single by mistake. The two pieces of music on the single ( I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - 1991 A Cappella Mix and I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - Special Edit Radio Mix ) used extensive samples from the U2 of the same name -Song and recordings from the US Top 40 radio show with Casey Kasem . Negativland declared the use of the samples as fair use , but still had to recall and destroy the entire edition. The legal costs also brought the band to the verge of financial ruin.

In the 1990s, Negativland u. a. with the British band Chumbawamba . Craig Baldwin's film Sonic Outlaws (1995) deals extensively with the history of Negativland.

In September 2005, Negativland celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary with an exhibition called Negativlandland at the Gigantic Artspace gallery in Manhattan.

First founding member Ian Allen died in January 2015 as a result of a heart valve operation, and Donald Joyce died six months later of heart failure. Founding member Richard Lyons died in April 2016 of complications from a recurrence of skin cancer .

Discography

Albums

  • Negative Land (1980)
  • Points (1981)
  • A Big 10-8 Place (1983)
  • Escape From Noise (1987)
  • Helter Stupid (1989)
  • Free (1993)
  • Fair Use: The Story of the Letter U and the Numeral 2 (1995)
  • Dispepsi (1997)
  • These Guys Are From England and Who Gives a Shit (2001)
  • Deathsentences of the Polished and Structurally Weak (2002)
  • No Business (2005)
  • Thigmotactic (2008)

"Over The Edge" radio series

(CDs with excerpts from Negativland's weekly radio broadcast)

  • Over the Edge Vol. 1: JAMCON '84 (1985)
  • Over the Edge Vol. 1½: The Starting Line with Dick Goodbody (1995, partially re-released)
  • Over the Edge Vol. 2: Pastor Dick: Muriel's Purse Fund (1990)
  • Over the Edge Vol. 3: The Weatherman's Dumb Stupid Come-Out Line (1990)
  • Over the Edge Vol. 4: Dick Vaughn (1990)
  • Over the Edge Vol. 4: Dick Vaughn's Moribund Music of the '70s (2001, re-released)
  • Over the Edge Vol. 5: Crosley Bendix: The Radio Reviews (1993)
  • Over the Edge Vol. 6: The Willsaphone Stupid Show (1994)
  • Over the Edge Vol. 7: Time Zones Exchange Project (1994)
  • Over the Edge Vol. 8: Sex Dirt (1995)
  • It's All in Your Head FM: Over the Edge Live on Stage (2006)

Singles and EPs

  • U2 (1991) - withdrawn
  • Guns (1992)
  • The Letter U and the Numeral 2 (1992)
  • Truth In Advertising (1997)
  • Happy Heroes (1998)
  • The ABCs of Anarchism (1999) (with Chumbawamba )

Bootlegs

  • Negative Concertland (1993)
  • Negative (e) land: Live On Tour (1997)
  • These Guys Are From England and Who Gives a Shit (2001)

Web links

Commons : Negativland  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kory Grow: Richard Lyons, Negativland Founder, Dead at 57. Rollingstone.com, April 21, 2016, accessed April 22, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Kory Grow: Don Joyce, Negativland Sound Collagist and Radio DJ, Dead at 71. Rollingstone.com, July 23, 2015, accessed April 22, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b Kory Grow: Ian Allen, Former Negativland Member, Dead at 56. Rollingstone.com, January 22, 2015, accessed April 22, 2016 .