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Walt Disney -- astronaut -- a man barely alive ... I've listened to this disc well into repeats in the past two days and I swear that there ARE actually three different albums in here. The NEGATIVELAND Weatherman, his pata-millitary crew of tape splicers and horn blowers and just a handfull of others this side of the pond are probably the only 'mericans worthy of doG-like praise in their use of new technology ... but ... if ya ain't heard tape splice musics before/before, if you haven't been obsessively searching out the weirdest of Local 31, chapter 12, dismemberment for the whole family type weirdo up your you-know-whatso music and musicians for the most of your life already ... ... it might just be the straw that breaks the camels back.

And your the camel. But HEY, I wouldn't call these guys straw. Infact FREE, NEGATIVELAND's latest album, sounds a pinch like PTV's first album Hand of Chance, but that is only if they, PTV, redid the first disc with young little Caresse P. Oridge singing and playing it ... and then only if they recorded the second disc right over top of it at the same time...

"Rather than using make-money speed sampling FREE uses mixxed media medlies and Moral Majority plunderphones to pontificate its Mama DADA diatribes and polylogues -- while, of course, subverting the notion of family entertainmemt ... if not the whole bloody marketplace."
... If ya don't understand that then I'm afraid this album, what with it's Sinatra-esque acid-rap and it's industrail country rave ballads, will probably end your current life ... or at least your taste in clothing. ... Yea! I can see it now. "I'll take the cellophane B-B-Q apron and chefs hat set with the polyester knee highs and that fuzzy old robe over there please. I'm goin' to a concert tonight. I'm a Dunk Rocker now!!".

Just smile at all the cameras cause you know there watchin' ya. At the office. In the park. Even in that secret place you bring your best friend behind the school yard. Just smile and wave. Smile and wave.

"!!Tonight ... The Weatherchannel brings to you the woman they called Cha-Cha. Watch her as she burns out her sharp flat when no-one's around just to finish her dog in the car!!"
"The perfect cut of this top would have to be either 'Guns and the Bible' or 'I Am God'. Both have that ten minutes to Waco/ Trade Center type urgency that I think most people nowadays are clueless about.

Guns and the Bible though still retains some of that Earthday-like "Earth First, last and always" enviroconcious outwardness that nowadays has become so sublimated that pollution is now endorsing products. (When this review was written back in 93 there were quite a number of T.V. commercials that seemed to be praising the obsellesence of their products and even more that used pointless flora and fawna shots to sell plastics. ed.) Most of the other tape pieces featured on this album are quite funny and relaxed.

Imagine the 'Firesign Theater' album 'Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Plyers' played on a slower speed (think vinyl. ed.) with Ween doing the music. If ya like the band you'll like the album.

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