Album
Guns
1992 · Electronic, Non-Music
Rare pressing on Gatefold
Guns is an Electronic album by Negativland, originally released in 1992. On Gatefold: 6 pressings tracked.
About
Guns is a EP by the experimental music and sound collage band Negativland, released in 1992 as a replacement for the withdrawn EP called U2. The cover art reuses that which appears on U2. The EP is about the appeal of guns and their place in American history. It consists of two tracks; "Then" includes samples from Western movies and radio shows from the 1940s and 50s, mixed with audio from the movie Son of the Morning Star. "Now" samples 1980s and 90s commercials which marketed guns to women, mixed with original news reports about the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy. The back cover of the EP has a "tongue-in-cheek" letter to U2 regarding the infamous U2 incident: "This recording is dedicated to the members of our favorite Irish rock band, their record label and their attorneys. The music is two U.".
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Tracklist
- 1Then8:08
- 2Now8:37
Sound DNA
- Electronic
- Industrial
- abrasive
- sarcastic
- political
Two tracks edited from a 1989 New American Radio commissioned work originally 26:19 in length, credited to Don Joyce and Negativland, described as "A dense, pulsing 'action song,' whose verses deal with America's intimate relationship with firearms: 'The gun and the Bible carved this nation out of the wilderness,' a man exclaims. A tradition unfolds that links the voices of the past as we know them through television cowboy movies and gangster films, to the modern Annie-Get-Your-Gun, the business woman of the 80s with her handy sub-machine gun. An evolving patchwork of movie excerpts and TV ads, statements and information about guns, and of certain phrases repeated like bullets."
Several dialogue ("Hey Pa, look!"; "Bam-ba-ba-bam-bam!") and music samples (the haunting harmonica theme) are taken from the Sergio Leone 1968 film Once Upon A Time In The West (opens in a new tab).
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 6 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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