who ARE these guys?

1. I Could Win Your Heart

2. I Apologize

3. Close To Me

4. I Think You Should Know

5. Sorry, Wrong Number

6. Do The Things You Do

7. I Tried To Call You (Yesterday)

8. For Only You

9. One Of Your Guys

10. Right By The Heart

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
'63-'64 Beatle style, with minor chords, passing chords, chimy D-chords, and 3-part harmonies.

who ARE these guys?,Vykris

These Guys Are from England and Who Gives a Shit

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Bad hair day for Casey Kasem!
Too many bad words.
The continuing legend of the letter 2 and the numeral U
Flying beyond the industry's radar
These Guys Are From Negativland..."

These Guys Are from England and Who Gives a Shit
Negativland
Manufacturer: Seeland Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Negativland Presents Over the Edge, Vol. 6: The Willsaphone Stupid Show

ASIN: B00005O557
Release Date: 2001-10-02

Tracks:

Over The Edge 12/31/89 (Excerpts)
Long Distance Dedication #1 (Live)
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (1991 A Cappella Mix)
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (Special Edit Radio Mix)
Long Distance Dedication #2 (Live)
Copying Is A Criminal Act (Live)
Wake Up America (Live)
The Black Lady Of Espionage (Live)
Deliberate Sabotage (Live)
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (A Cappella Version) (Live)
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (Edited Special Edit Radio Mix)

Customer Reviews:

Bad hair day for Casey Kasem!.......2007-02-21

I'm glad this is available again. This stuff has been legendary since Island records forced them to take it off the market in the early 90's. As you already know from reading other reviews, this is the infamous Negativland collage of the U2 song "Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" with a tape of radio celebrity Casey Kasem letting out a littany of four-letter words during the taping of "American Top 40". This CD contains various versions of the basic theme, including a "radio friendly" version which has the expletives bleeped out by sound effects like car horns, etc., which is still quite funny.

Even listening to it all these years later it's still very effective. One reason is that the subjects open themselves to ridicule as much as they do. To quote a reviewer on another website (don't remember who, sorry!), making fun of U2 never goes out of style. Casey Kasem's voice is so instantly recognizable, and his style so candyassed, that it's totally hysterical to listen to his profanity-ridden tirades. Kasem's comments actually help mock U2's preposterousness. Introducing their song he rattles off their names, and when he gets to "The Edge" he breaks off and says "this is B.S.! Nobody cares!", and then states the title of this CD. I think that echoes a lot of people's reaction to the guitarist's stupid monicker.

This is being promoted as "semi-legitimate" or "bootleg", with Negativland's label's name modified to "Sealard". I'm not buying it. Keep in mind these are the same guys who circulated the fake news story about a kid killing himself after listening to "Christianity is Stupid". These guys are savvy media pranksters. Nevertheless, given the previous hullabaloo over this recording, you'll want to pick this up before it ends up on someone else's Bonfire of the Vanities.

Too many bad words........2006-12-21

Negativland's version of I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (I.S.H.F.W.I.L.F.) is a fine composition. It has nice textures, nice transitions, it is a nice sound collage, it has a nice overall feel to it. But it has too much foul language. I bought the album under review because cut #4 is entitled "Special Edit Radio Mix." However, cut #4 is filled with bad words. Cut #11 is also entitled "Edited Special Edit Radio Mix." However, Cut #11 is not at all I.S.H.F.W.I.L.F. Cut #11 is a totally different tune. Although Cut #11 is a fun tune, with its honks, dog barks, and whistles, it is NOT I.S.H.F.W.I.L.F.

Regarding my quest to find a version Negativland I.S.H.F.W.I.L.F. that is substantially free from expletives, I still haven't found what I'm looking for.

No review of Negativland is complete without mention of "Freedom's Waiting," a clever anthem-like song, found on Negativland's Free album. The song has a topic, a lesson, which deals generally with the field of semantics. The song "Freedom's Waiting" deserves FIVE STARS. What a fine composition it is, the tune called, "Freedom's Waiting." Negativland's version of I.S.H.F.W.I.L.F. could have been as good as "Freedon's Waiting," but they ruined it.

The continuing legend of the letter 2 and the numeral U.......2004-05-08

The ultimate underdogs of this plastic culture have done it again! Negativland naturally draws out lawyers like s--- draws flies, so if you are a fan, you better get this album before it once again rains lawsuits! Not only do they re-release the two legendary "banned" tracks that started the whole sordid legal hassle, they also include many "live" versions, complete with all the "Weatherman's" wheezings, obscure phraises about his cat, formula 409, doorbell transformers, and his very nasal lampooning of the band U2's juvenile lyrics!

Warning: Do not listen to on headphones and fall asleep while doing so, you will be rudely awaken after the end song. Nine minutes after that "sanitized" song "ends," the silence is broken by a collage of Casey Kasem's potty mouth spewing a plethora of foul words!

Flying beyond the industry's radar.......2002-02-17

What started as a 1989 radio collage of U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" and obscenity-laced outtakes from Casey Kasem's "American Top-40," took on greater proportions with its 1991 commercial release. The cover art, featuring a prominent "U2" graphic at a time when the Irish band's new LP was due in stores, prompted a lawsuit from Island Records, and drew additional fire from both Casey Kasem and Negativland's own label, SST. The resulting conflagration quickly became Negativland's raison d'être, providing grist for the subsequent CD/book "The Letter U and the Numeral 2," and its expanded reissue "Fair Use."

Over the last decade, the original pair of tracks, yanked from distribution shortly after their release, have been available only through the collector's market and underground trading. This maybe-it's-a-bootleg-maybe-it's-not release augments the original studio work with four live versions, including two 1993 post-lawsuit editions taped at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall. Four additional tracks from the band's post-apocalypse "Music For Lawyers Tour" examine the original controversy with a blenderization of the original participants. The disc wraps with a sound-effect bleeped-for-radio-play edit of the original, unairably profane, "Special Edit Radio Mix."

Available in surprisingly wide distribution, collectors who missed out on the original are advised to grab a copy while it's still beyond the industry's radar.

These Guys Are From Negativland...".......2001-12-08

I've been a fan of this 'stupid' band since 1990, after taping "Helter Stupid" off some 'stupid' college radio station. Since then I have collected everything these guys have put out. "These Guys Are From England..." is their best release to date! Everything imaginable is on this album. Besides being funny, this is also one of their more clever audio manipulations (aside from the classic Escape From Noise, and Helter Stupid albums).

I have owned a top-quality CD bootleg of the original "U2" single since 1995, cover artwork included. For me, the 'uniqueness' factor for this banned record just went down a few notches... I no longer have anything to brag about, but at least Negativland fans everywhere can enjoy it now. My only wish is that the group continues to put out albums similar to this one. Say goodnight, Casey... "Good Golly, Miss Molly!"

who ARE these guys?
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Whoever these guys are, they are great!

Whoever these guys are....they are great!!!

New Beatle-ish Oldies

VYKRIS "Refreshing"

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ASIN: B00005249V
Release Date: 2000-11-11

Tracks:

I Could Win Your Heart
I Apologize
Close To Me
I Think You Should Know
Sorry, Wrong Number
Do The Things You Do
I Tried To Call You (Yesterday)
For Only You
One Of Your Guys
Right By The Heart

Album Description

'63-'64 Beatle style, with minor chords, passing chords, chimy D-chords, and 3-part harmonies.

Customer Reviews:

Whoever these guys are, they are great!.......2004-04-13

I loved the British Invasion of the 60s and these guys....whoever they are....have captured that sound extremely well. I can just sit back and close my eyes and see the Beatles singing these songs. Nice, fun lyrics and smooth melodies make these songs very refreshing and easy to listen to.

Whoever these guys are....they are great!!!.......2004-04-13

I find their music and lyrics to be very refreshing. I loved the British Invasion sound of the 60s and they have captured it amazingly well. I can just close my eyes and envision that I am listening to the Beatles. Nice clean lyrics and smooth melodies are a welcome change from today's music. Very easy listening to relax to.

New Beatle-ish Oldies.......2001-02-18

These songs would have had all my would-be junior high school girl friends swooning in the aisles in the early 60's (Beatles)! And I still don't quite get it! They're like early "oldies" you somehow missed, with some catchy lyrics. Easy listening, kinda fun!

VYKRIS "Refreshing".......2001-01-10

"Refreshing" was the best word I could think of to describe the feeling I got listening to VYKRIS "who ARE these guys?". These are songs that wonderful memories are built around.