Released 2001 Artist Negativland Producer Negativland | Recorded 1989 – 1991 Release date 2001 Genre Sound collage | |
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Label Seelard Records (A parody of Seeland Records) These Guys Are from England and Who Gives a Shit
(2001) Deathsentences of the Polished and Structurally Weak
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These Guys Are from England and Who Gives a Shit is the 2001 re-release of the U2 EP by Negativland. It contains both tracks from the original EP, plus some tracks from the 1989 Over the Edge broadcasts on which the original EP was based, as well as live tracks recorded at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. The album was called a "bootleg" and released under "Seelard Records" as a joke, but in fact it was a real release by the band. Several of the live tracks on the album contain the same samples of a profane Casey Kasem as had appeared on the U2 EP set to a different musical arrangement, which includes a spoken portion which in part borrows from the lyrics of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction". Other live tracks made reference to the band's battle with SST Records and to the 1960 U-2 incident.
Contents
Track listings
Tracks 3 and 4 are from the original 1991 EP.
Note: 11 is actually 14:55 long, consisting of the track, 8:56 of silence, and 17 seconds of Casey Kasem's voice chopped up (with emphasis on profanity).
Songs
1Over the Edge 12/31/89 (excerpts)7:59
2Long Distance Dedication #1 (live)6:21
3I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (1991 a cappella mix)7:18