Helter Stupid: Negativland
You knew this was coming up next, didn't you? The Perfect Cut was taken from a series of jingles.
"The first half of the album is composed of the tracks "Prologue" and "Helter Stupid". The two together form an extended piece lasting over 22 minutes. The concept, and much of the material, came from a San Francisco television news program that was taken in by a media hoax perpetrated by Negativland while promoting its previous album, Escape from Noise. Other samples used included those from Rev. Estus Pirkle (further samples from the same sermon used in the band's signature song, "Christianity Is Stupid"), an interview with Charles Manson, and what was the band's most brazenly unauthorized sample to date: "Helter Skelter" by The Beatles." -- Wikipedia
Prologue
Helter StupidThe Perfect Cut (Canned Music)
The Perfect Cut (Rooty Poops)
The Perfect Cut (Good As Gold)
The Perfect Cut (Piece of Meat)
The Perfect Cut (White Rabbit And A Dog Named Gidget)
The Perfect Cut (11 Minutes)
The Perfect Cut (48 Hours)
Newscast
3 comments :
i didn't know that this was coming next, but it's nice to see those two posted one after another! it's probably silly to use the words negativland and most accessible in one sentence, but these 2 works for me are their 'classix' - but of course it's bollocks, since negativland isn't much a band but a project playing with media, and records being just one medium they use for their art.
what am i babbling... thanks for your dedicated work, and for sharing such goodies as this! ;)
lucky
These belong together in my mind. Can't have just one, ya' know. Next up will be U2.
I just posted a link to your fantastic shares with the Residents. Good write up too.
oh yes, u2 certainly will round up this thing
http://detritus.net/archive/U2/
and the rez certainly are not too far away - at least if you take something like the residents play the beatles, this fantastic early plunderphonics piece. ;)
saludos
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