Bongwater - Too Much Sleep

It's hard to choose a Bongwater album, I really like them all but I don't listen to any of them very much anymore. Paul showed me Bongwater after I started getting into Negativland and I guess looking back it kinda makes sense even though they are really not related to each other in any way. Ann Magnuson and Kramer make some unforgettable music on this disk.  I think Ann is actually brilliant, I wish I could come up with crap like that. 

1. The Living End
2. The Drum
3. Mr. and Mrs. Hell
4. Too Much Sleep
5. Talent Is a Vampire
6. The Bad Review
7. Ill Fated Lovers Go Time Tripping
8. Psychedelic Sewing Room
9. Splash 1
10. He Loved the Weather
11. Teena Stays the Same
12. One Hand on the Road
13. Then the Babies Return
14. Why Are We Sleeping?
15. Khomeini Died Tonight
16. One So Black
17. No Trespassing

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Over The Edge Radio (Don Joyce of Negativland) - Arabian Night

This was probably the show that grabbed my attention the most out of any. It covers Iran, Israel, Palestinians, Egypt etc... Of course the then recent attacks on the World Trade Center is brought up in the broadcast as well as fundamentalist Islam and its effect on the Middle East and the rest of the world. I remember that night Siouxsie was playing in San Francisco and I didn't go and was regretting it when I heard the samples of her song Israel.
As always the radio show has call-ins, "When your phone stops ringing, you’re on the air and in the mix, don't say hello", there are plenty of callers ringing in with their stupid comments that only KPFA listeners could say.
I think that it was Negativland's Crosley Bendix and his reviews that made me cynical towards critics and blogs reviewing film and music, because who really gives a squant what you (or myself) think about a piece of culture anyway. Besides the fact that I doubt anyone is reading this or cares what is jotted down here, I try not to make reviews of the music and instead just wallow in my nostalgia of where I was when I heard the music or what it means to me.
Negativland is one that brings up loads of nostalgia, but every time I listen to something of theirs I also hear new things, or notice new things.
Here Joyce cuts up the audio from film, interviews, and music to paint a picture of a complex situation that only an artist can articulate so clearly and unbiasedly, though his anti-religious stance comes across as it does in many of his shows.
Gore Vidal, Bill Maher and all sorts of political commentators have their words cut up and pasted together to present Don Joyce's perspective which is much more palatable to me than most of the analysts he samples. I wish I could do that in my life, just take bits and pieces that please me from each personal conversation I have, and leave the rest in the recycle bin on a hard drive.

There are years and years of shows available from the Negativland website .
There is only 1 track, it is 3 hours long.

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The Residents - Wormwood: Curious Stories from the Bible

I had seen The Residents a year before they released this album when they played at the Fillmore in San Francisco on Halloween. I went with my dearly departed friend and lover Jay (They had booked 4 shows in a row). We went in full costume and so did everyone else. The environment at the Fillmore was electric, in spite of their being 4 shows booked it was so crowded you could barely standup (I'm sure it was sold out and probably the other 3 shows were as well). People were anxious and excited and you could feel it in the air, seriously. Needless to say it was a great show so when I got a chance to see them again the next year I took my then Christian boyfriend who was trying really hard (but unsuccessfully) to get "into" the counter-culture of San Francisco. The entire performance was The Residents playing out the stories from the bible. I didn't realize that he would be offended by their renditions of the bible stories, but I guess he was because it seemed like the shock lasted for several weeks. The show the year before is one of the best shows I ever attended, the show for this albums was pretty amazing as well. The Christian never loosened up and a year later he left me for a girl who worked at a record label whom "his friends liked better".

The Residents are performance artists in a way that you cannot even come close to imagining the entire conceptual art by listening to their albums alone, but the albums are still pretty good.

This is the track listing from wikipedia

1. "In the Beginning" - (2:57) is about the creation of the Earth and is entirely instrumental.
2. "Fire Fall" - (3:34) is about Lot escaping from Sodom and watching his wife turn to salt.
3. "They Are The Meat" - (2:40) is about Ezekiel's visions whilst he is forced to eat only bread and sleep on his side.
4. "Melancholy Clumps" - (1:48) is about Noah building the Ark.
5. "How To Get A Head" - (4:05) tells us the tale of Salome requesting the head of John the Baptist.
6. "Cain And Abel" - (3:34) tells us the story of the jealous Cain killing his brother.
7. "Mr. Misery" - (2:19) is about Jeremiah and his suffering.
8. "Tent Peg In the Temple" - (2:54) is about the killing of Sisera.
9. "G-d's Magic Finger" - (2:41) is about the story of King Belshazzar.
10. "Spilling The Seed" - (2:44) is about the story of Onan.
11. "Dinah and the Unclean Skin" - (2:52) is about the story of Dinah.
12. "Bathsheba Bathes" - (2:52) is about King David and Bathsheba.
13. "Bridegroom of Blood" - (4:57) is about Moses being attacked by G-d and the wife of Moses intervening by performing circumcision on their baby.
14. "Hanging by His Hair" - (2:33) tells us the story of Absalom and his death.
15. "The Seven Ugly Cows" - (2:34) is about Joseph and his visions.
16. "Burn Baby Burn" - (2:59) tells us the story of Jephthah sacrificing his daughter.
17. "KILL HIM!" - (2:39) is the story of G-d telling Abraham to sacrifice his son and gives us an insight into his possible thoughts.
18. "I Hate Heaven" - (2:50) is based on the Song of Solomon.
19. "Judas Saves" - (3:55) is told from the point of view of Judas Iscariot. This song proposes that Judas's betrayal of Jesus was necessary so that people could have their sins forgiven. It also proposes that Judas had been told by G-d to do so. (Compare the theories put forth by the protagonist of Jorge Luis Borges' short story "Three Versions of Judas".)
20. "Revelation" - (5:38) is an instrumental inspired by the Book of Revelation, chapters 4-22.

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