Negativland - Escape From Noise (1987/1999)
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Negativland - Escape From Noise
Label: Ambiances LP/CD/CASSETTE (SST 133/RecRec 17/Penguin 30041/Seeland CD)
Original Release Date: 1987/1987/1987/1999
[CENSORED]ue #: Seeland 006 - This recording.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativland
http://www.negativland.com/
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LP edition originally issued with a 20-page booklet featuring article reprints, reviews and photographs from 1979-1987 (the printing negatives for the book are now lost) and a Car Bomb bumper sticker. Originally issued on black vinyl although unauthorized colored vinyl pressings exist. The Penguin version was issued on vinyl only in Greece (now out of print) and was distributed by CBS!!!
In 1999 Seeland reissued ESCAPE FROM NOISE in a reworked package designed for the CD format. Negativland always intended the original EFN artwork to be for the LP format only, and were never happy with Don Joyce's original painted cover image reduced to such small size on the first CD issue. The new version features that artwork full size as the front cover, with the remainder of the artwork reformatted throughout the package by ace designer Dan Lynch. The new version of EFN is NOT remastered or remixed in any way, save for the addition of some CD mastering tomfoolery, nor is there ANY extra material added.
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Tracklist;
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. Methods of Torture
12. Yellow Black and Rectangular
13. Backstage Pass
14. Christianity Is Stupid
15. Time Zones
16. You Don't Even Live Here
17. The Way Of It
18. Endscape
Musicians/Performers:
Mark Hosler: Singing, synthesizers, guitars, voice tapes, percussions, rhythm loops, bomb parts, David manipulation, tiny metal banjo, recorder, lots of other noises, mix
Don Joyce: Yelling, talking tapes, electric tympani, synthesizer, lyrics, singing, Booper bee, bomb parts and assembly, noises everywhere, mix
Chris Grigg: Drums, synthesizer, singing, computer & software, field recordings, mix
David Wills: Talking, shortwave, family tape, bomb parts, regular Booper
Richard Lyons: Singing, lyrics, voice
With contributions from:
Ian Allen: Helicopter (on "Sycamore"), Rhythm Loop (on "Car B0mb")), Bell (on "Time Zones")
Jello Biafra c/o Dead Kennedys: Toilet Flushing (on "The Playb0y Channel")
Das c/o Big City Orchestra: Voice Tapes (on "Quiet Please")
Dina Emerson: Wordless Vocals (on "You Don't Even Live Here")
Steve Fisk: Optigan and Voice Tapes (on "Michael Jackson")
Tera Freedman: Voice Tape (on "Backstage Pass")
Phil Freihofner: Bomb Parts (on "Car B0mb")
Ed Markmann: Paid Voice
Fred Frith: Urban Drum and Halfspeed Violin (on "Michael Jackson")
Jerry Garcia c/o Grateful Dead: Mouth Sounds and Chimes (on "Backstage Pass")
Alexander Hacke c/o Einstürzende Neubauten: Metal Noises (on "Christianity Is Stupid")
Mickey Hart c/o Grateful Dead: Percussion and Processed Animals (on "Backstage Pass")
Tom Herman c/o Tripod Jimmie: Torture Guitars (on "Methods of Torture")
Henry Kaiser: Doublespeed Disco Guitars (on "Quiet Please")
Louisa Michaels c/o Step One Nursery School: Singing (on "Over the Hiccups")
Mark Mothersbaugh c/o Devo: Jazz Bass, Jimi Hendrix, E-cussion, Saxophone and Noises (on "The Playb0y Channel")
The Residents Hoots and Clanging (on "You Don't Even Live Here")
Rev. Ivan Stang c/o The Church of the SubGenius: Larynx (on "Christianity Is Stupid")
Rand Weatherwax c/o CBS: Orchestra Hits and E-cussion (on "Quiet Please")
Rob Wortman c/o Kingshouse: Leaf blower (on "You Don't Even Live Here")
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Reviews/Info...
From ---->>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_Noise
Escape from Noise is a 1987 album by Negativland. It marked the band's first break on a "name-brand" independent record label, SST Records. On this album, they continued to develop their experimental, surrealist style, this time throwing some pop sensibilities into the mix (with shorter tracks and more conventional melodies). "Christianity Is Stupid", a track featuring samples from the propaganda movie If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?, layered over a buzzing and droning hard rock groove, would prove to be an enduring signature song.
Even though the songs "Nesbitt's Lime Soda Song" and "Backstage Pass" use profanity heavily, the album, due to it being released and reissued on indie labels, does not have the Parental Advisory sticker.
In 1999, due to Greg Ginn's decision to remove "Methods of Torture" from the SST pressing, Seeland Records reissued the album in an "un-remixed" edition, adding no bonus tracks and blowing up the photo on the LP cover to the front cover and the original LP cover's words from Crosley Bendix into the booklet. A sticker was placed on the album, saying:
An old album from Negativland: Digitally exacto-remastered 33 1/3 RPM compact disc re-issue of Negativland's classic 1987 LP with no added bonus tracks of any kind! Don't let the new cover design fool you - your audiophile friends might think that such classics as "Car B0mb" and "Christianity Is Stupid" sound crisper and cleaner on this newly un-remixed edition, but they're dead wrong! And even though there are no longer eleven time zones in the Soviet Union (and no Soviet Union, either) this re-release sounds exactly the same as the original. The only thing different is the sticker you are reading right now.
The original LP is still in print on SST Records, even though the band re-released the record in 1999 on Seeland.
In February of 1988, a 16-year-old from Rochester, Minnesota named David Brom murdered his entire immediate family (both parents, a brother, and a sister) with an axe. When Negativland was forced to cancel a planned tour in support of their album Escape from Noise for financial reasons, the band issued a press release claiming that they had been "advised by Federal Official Dick Jordan not to leave town pending an investigation into the Brom murders." The press release implied that Brom had listened to Negativland's song "Christianity Is Stupid" before the fatal quarrel with his religious parents.
In reality, there was no official named "Dick Jordan", and Brom did not own any of Negativland's music (though it was later revealed that he was on SST's mailing lists). Nevertheless, careless pundits and journalists took the press release at face value, and the hoax received widespread media coverage. Negativland encouraged the spread of the story by steadfastly refusing further comment, supposedly on the advice of their attorney "Hal Stakke", another fictional person invented by the band. Much of this media coverage was negative, and band member Richard Lyon's home in Oakland, California was pelted with rocks by an unknown vandal. Negativland subsequently used samples from the media frenzy in their 1989 album Helter Stupid.
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From ---->>>> http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:7jd5vwnva9lk
Review by Sean Carruthers
While the sound collage of Negativland's first three studio albums pointed in the band's ultimate direction, they were really rough sketches compared to Escape From Noise. Escape is a full-on audio assault, more musical than ever, but with tight and well-constructed sound sections thrown in. Instead of simply a collection of sounds and snippets, however, each cut on Escape From Noise picks a target and takes aim. "Quiet Please" takes on market research in the world of radio. "Michael Jackson" is a laundry list of pop stars being charged with creating commercial pop. "Sycamore" turns happy, shiny, new pre-planned communities into something far more sinister. Although some other tracks ("Yellow, Black and Rectangular," "Car Bomb") don't really take on particular targets, they're fun nonetheless. Probably the most accomplished piece is the strangely creepy "Time Zones," which talks about how many time zones there are in the Soviet Union (there are 11, by the way, and it's not even funny). Although it wasn't apparent at the time, the centerpiece of the album would be "Christianity Is Stupid," a prime example of how sound bites can be rearranged to say whatever you want them to say. (The full sound bites appear on the album Helter Stupid, the first half of which was inspired by a media frenzy after the band suggested that a murder may be attributable to "Christianity Is Stupid," as an excuse to get out of having to tour in the wake of this album, which turned out to be a much bigger success than anyone expected.) Scattered throughout the album are unexpected guest appearances from some of the biggest names in underground music, including Jello Biafra on "toilet flushing," the Residents on "hoots and clanging," and the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia and Mickey Hart on mouth sounds and "processed animals." In addition to better-constructed material, the production quality on Escape From Noise is also top-notch, making it a joy to listen to. Although future works would prove more controversial, this is probably Negativland's masterwork.
>> http://www.negativland.com/reviews/reviews_escape.html
