Negativland
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Track Listings

1	Announcement
2	Quiet Please
3	Michael Jackson
4	Escape From Noise
5	The Playboy Channel
6	Stress In Marriage
7	Nesbitt's Lime Soda Song
8	Over The Hiccups
9	Sycamore
10	Car Bomb
11	Yellow Black And Rectangular
12	Backstage Pass
13	Christianity Is Stupid
14	Time Zones
15	You Don't Even Live Here
16	The Way Of It
17	Endscape
18	Endscape

Editorial Reviews

The tape splicing skills honed on "A Big 10-8 Place" go into ever more musical directions in Negativland's fourth studio record, with some of the group's most beloved tape collages (such as "Time Zones") butting heads with tunes such as "Christianity Is Stupid". a big college radio hit when first released in 1987.

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.58 x 0.37 x 4.95 inches; 3.36 Ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Seeland Records
Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 1999
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ January 3, 2007
Label ‏ : ‎ Seeland Records
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00003L9DS
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Loki378

Strangely entertaining

Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2012

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I came across this group by accident, but was swept away by the song Christianity is Stupid. The album has a few hits and a few misses. I will re-evaluate if I ever find the proper drugs to use.

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2019

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RealEyesRealizeRealLies

this is a good start. Fun to listen to time and time

Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2016

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If you've never heard a Negativland album, this is a good start. Fun to listen to time and time again

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Classic Negativland

Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2008

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If you buy only one CD by Negativland, this is the one. I bought "Escape from Noise" years ago on vinyl and wore it out. It's good to hear it again. A related EP, " Helter Stupid ,: is also recommended.

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Paul Micheal

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2016

Seat be sate!

escape from this noise

Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2001

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I did not like this album. It certainly isn't Negativland's finest. The only tracks I have any liking for are Car Bomb, Christianity is Stupid, Somewhere Over the Hiccups, and You Don't Even Live Here. Sure Negativland is inventive in how they piece together the tracks, but some of the sounds are used excessively. It gets annoying really quickly. A lot of the sounds are really uninteresting too. The ABC's of Anarchism and Dispepsi are much much better albums. This is one of only a few albums that I actually regret buying.

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voodoochild

My first Negativland album

Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2007

Feeling tired of the mainstream crapiness, I first heard about these guys through a long forgetten-about and never listened to CD compilation, of the "greatest dance songs off all time', which was just sitting in the basement. The only way it could have gotten there, is that my mom acquired years before as a freebe, when she worked at Borders.

Well anyway, the song that seemed the most different than he others was a group called "Negativland", and a song called "Christianity is Stupid." Well, that felt dangerous, so I popped it in, and heard hilarious satire. And for no real reason, I felt like checking them out, seeing maybe they're the next big thing for me. On the website, they had the banned "U2 Radio mix' as well as the longer version with the phone convrsatiion, and the whole "I have the evelope here" stuff. Both tracks I found hilarious beyond belief, especially hearing Casey Casem curse uproariously, to the backing track of u2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For." And since U2 is one of the first bands I ever remmembering hearing along with the Beatles and George Therogood, thoe two songs have a special meaning to me, as alternatives to the first rock music I ever heard.

Well anyway, before getting this album, I saw a fe videos on Youtube such as the insane "Gimmie the Mermaid" that smaples Black Flag at the end. I hope I enjoy this on a different level than someone else my age would, such as knowing who Casey Casem is, the time-period this ws made, what these songs mean overall...

For this album, I found some of it random, and some brilliant. "Christianity Is Stupid", "Time Zones", and the opening narraration are my favorites. And the more I think about it, the more and more Negativland reminds me of another completely different and oscure group of guys - The Firesign Theatre. I mean, the opening narraration screams "Austin/Bergman/Ossman/Proctor."

For those who don't know, the Firesigns are a comedy team from the late 60's, and their latest album was 2003. They go hand in hand with Negativland, with they're very original parody of pop culture, the future, aliens, and definatley TV, as Negativland focuses on radio. Firesign were at the surface, completely insane, but in relaity, very clever and have some message in what they do, as does Negativland.

This is not appealing to fan of "My Chemical Romance", "Fergie" and whatever other trash is on the radio these days. But I don't think Negativland would prefer to be popular, but rather be found out by people who wanna hear something that's truly different, and requires some brains. People like me, and you if you are reading this.

This is the only complete album I've heard from Negativland, besides the U2 EP, but I'm definatley checking out Dispepsi, and whatever other classics they have. Communism is good.

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Evan A Genest

Pranksters!

Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2002

You may or may not laugh at a man with a bullhorn, advising you that ¡§Communism Is Good! Communism is good!¡¨. I laughed pretty hard.
The jokes here are subtle and sort of accidental, relying on surprising edits and strange juxtapositionings. Negativland takes found sound and splices it together. The result is not exactly pure bliss. I would say this album is, by turns, tedious, surprising, amusing, confusing, senseless, coherent, and clever.
A child sings Somewhere Over The Rainbow but with the hiccups. A punk folksinger plays a song with a one word, charmless chorus ¡§CARBOMB!¡¨ screamed at the top of his lungs. A cold-war era segment of a call in radio show gets paranoid about Russia, pointing out that it has 13 time zones. A very slick voice over introduces a song which has been perfectly engineered to be a hit, pre-formulated for instant success across a wide range of demographics (and what a song it is!). There's a commercial for a beautiful suburb you can move to that's full of sycamores and...handguns.
I wish I could know where the sounds come from. They record random broadcasts from CB, AM and short wave for starters but there are also home recordings from what seem to be strangers. Do they buy these at garage sales? Who knows, maybe someone you know is on this album!
Their cut and paste effect reminds me of a friend who sometimes takes letters I send her and composes a reply entirely from the phrases of my own letter. Back comes my own letter, recognizable in parts, but totally put through a blender. Why do this? Why create a work of art that's just a mangling of someone elses words? Because the result is a surprising and strange poem, occasionally clever and beautiful, but often even better, meaningless and beautiful.
This is not a music album, though it does contain some music. It is a sound collage that bears repeated listening. Recommended if you like the Firesign Theater radio drama LPs.

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Warren Z.

The original release came with a booklet and a sticker.

Reviewed in Canada on December 7, 2020

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As an album it gets a 5 out of 5. Very creative stuff.
However the original release of this album also came with a booklet and "Car Bomb" sticker.
It's unfortunate that they didn't include these on this release. Probably wasn't cost effective.

Boone

Good anarchy

Reviewed in Japan on April 2, 2014

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Pure anarchy. But not the dull, self-indulgent artiness you usually expect from other bands. Negativland is always entertaining and funny and this is one of their most insightful.

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