These Guys Are from England and Who Gives a Shit

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These Guys Are from England and Who Gives a Shit
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Studio album by Negativland
Released 2001
Recorded 1989 1991
Genre Sound collage
Label Seelard Records (A parody of Seeland Records)
Producer Negativland
Negativland chronology
The ABCs of Anarchism
(1999)
These Guys Are from England and Who Gives a Shit
(2001)
Deathsentences of the Polished and Structurally Weak
(2002)
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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. [1] 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.

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Contents

Track listings

Tracks 3 and 4 are from the original 1991 EP.

No.TitleLength
1."Over the Edge"7:59
2."Long Distance Dedication #1 (Live)"6:19
3."I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (1991 A Cappella Mix)"7:15
4."I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (Special Edit Radio Mix)"5:47
5."Long Distance Dedication #2 (Live)"5:07
6."Copying is a Criminal Act (Live)"5:07
7."Wake Up America (Live)"4:03
8."The Black Lady of Espionage (Live)"5:00
9."Deliberate Sabotage (Live)"2:59
10."I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (A Cappella Version) (Live)"7:16
11."I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (Edited Special Edit Radio Mix)"5:42

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).

See also

<i>The Letter U and the Numeral 2</i> extended play by Negativland

The Letter U and the Numeral 2 is a 96-page magazine and 25-minute CD by Negativland detailing their conflict with the band U2, over Negativland's EP of the same name. It was released in 1992 as a limited edition of 4000 copies. Two months after its release, SST Records blocked its distribution with a lawsuit claiming, among other things, copyright infringement based on reproductions of press releases sent to the press by SST; "in essence, suing the band for printing (their) threat to sue the band". SST's lawsuit is similar to the "Streisand effect".

<i>Fair Use: The Story of the Letter U and the Numeral 2</i> 1995 studio album by Negativland

Fair Use: The Story of the Letter U and the Numeral 2 is a 270-page book and ten track CD released in 1995 by Negativland detailing their lawsuits with U2's record label Island Records for their EP U2, including many legal documents and correspondences.

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