Negativland Presents Over the Edge, Vol. 6: The Willsaphone Stupid Show

Negativland

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 4, 1994)
• Original Release Date: March 8, 1994
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Seeland Records
• ASIN: B0000038YN
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #457,299 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Meet the Family!, September 25, 2006

By	S. A DUNN (Chehalis, WA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

For those who are as obsessed with Negativland's David Wills as I am, this album is a MUST!

The Weatherman is as obsessed with electronics as I am, (although, unlike the Weatherman, I never attempted to have sex with electronic equipment) then you gotta meet his family in this album! David in his childhood had an obsession with a tape recorder and recorded so many Weatherman Thanksgivings and Weatherman Christmases, and even recorded his cat hiss, the rain, toads croaking and parakeets fighting! All these snippets of Family sounds of years gone by are wonderfully mixed by Negativland to create a surreal picture of the "Average American Home!"

Best of all is his father and mother's and grandmother's voices! One would think that only David could have such a whining slurry voice! But after listening to this compilation you see that all the rest of his family have the same rasping whining voice! The only difference in hearing his mother talk and David talk, is his mother can sing and hold a note, while the Weatherman....his singing is atrocious!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars David Wills--The Weatherman, April 18, 2005

By	Aaron Hermann (Antioch,Illinois) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This was the first negativland cd that i bought and i can say that
it is my favorite. I got lost in a world of confused psychotic
bliss. This issue of the "Over the edge" radio compilations has home recordings from the weatherman and his family sitting around eating turkey and talking about cleansers, coffee, cable tv. cats
as well as the weathermans early childhood of giving the weather report and also battling the monkeys. Not just old tapes, but the usuall receptacle programing[unedited live phone calls] collage
scapes that will spin your head around. I hear something new every time. Over the edge rules and can be accesed thru the
negativland web site and if you dont like it, TOUGH DARTS!!!.

2.0 out of 5 stars none-too-inspired nerdiness, December 24, 2007

By	Mark Twain "Sam" (Iowa USA) - See all my reviews

I'm a Negativland fan, but this album and "Sex Dirt" (a surprisingly boring CD about sex, cleaning products and repetition, repetition, repetition) convinced to not just indiscriminately purchase all the Over The Edge discs.
Listening to these recordings, I felt sorry for the young Weatherman's family, trying to have their holiday while he plays them tapes of themselves, asks them geeky questions ("Would you say it's... Over The Edge?") and makes a general nuisance of himself.
I mean, I did stuff at least this nerdy as a kid... but I can't imagine releasing it.

P.S. I too hate Tom Hanks, though this album never reminded me of him.