A Big 10-8 Place

Negativland

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 25, 2007)
• Original Release Date: September 25, 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Seeland
• ASIN: B000UZ4CF4
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #68,823 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Theme from A Big 10-8 Place

2. Big 10-8 Place, Pt. 1

3. Clouds and Ballerinas

4. Introduction

5. Four Fingers

6. Big 10-8 Place, Pt. 2 (180-G)

Disc: 2

1. [Bonus Material] [DVD]

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Long awaited re-issue of Negativland's legendary 1983 difficult listening conceptual suburban epic. Over three years in the making, and with ten-thousand-million-billion analog tape splices, this insanely cut-up and uniquely weird release remains the hands down favorite of many fans of Negativland's work. This re-issue comes with a 60-minute bonus DVD of Negativland's "NO OTHER POSSIBILITY" video, which was made in the mid-80s.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great example of early Negativland, September 27, 2007

By	Barry Gilbert (Boulder, CO United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This was their third release and the first one I ever heard. I remember playing this many times on my late-night radio show. The original LP came with a "Car Bomb" bumper sticker, which spent many years on the back of my 1978 Mercury station wagon.

There are two actual songs on this release: Four Fingers, a cute little folk tune that counts fingers, and the car bomb track, which was very timely in the early 80's. The centerpiece of the album is the two-part title tracks, a wonderful travelogue through Contra Costa County, CA, narrated by The Weatherman and filled with inside jokes. This is a perfect extension of the work Negativland did on their "Over the Edge" show on KPFA in Berkeley; lots of samples (not called samples back then, of course), lots of stream of consciousness, and a giddy sort of experimentation with radio and recorded music/comedy. They picked up where Firesign Theater left off.

This and their next one, Escape From Noise, were their best.