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[1] Youtube: Negativland - "No Business" |
I'm really happy to announce that, we have an advance copy of Negativland's Our Favorite Things in house for review (we previously mentioned them here before). According to Amazon, the release date is October 23, 2007, you can get a discount if pre-order the DVD/CD on their website.
What's cool about this DVD release is that it also comes with a CD by the 180 Gs, which I'm not sure who they're trying to fool, but I think it's just the Negativland people. Their obviously fake biography on the 180 Gs is that they're a five-brothers Gospel R&B Doo-Wop acapella group. They were discovered in Detroit by Reverend Al "Sugar" Sweet in 2001.
I don't know who the real singers were, but the 180 d'Gs to the Future CD is quite interesting. It's basically acapella versions of Negativland's songs.
I'm going to include their version of "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" to compare that to what I posted earlier.
The DVD has over 80 minutes of Negativland's videos of all their "hits". If you're a die-hard Negativland fan, this DVD has more extras than the program running time (over 90 mins)! The pricing is also just right, since if you consider that the average cost of a normal (new) DVD is $20, you're only paying a little more - but you get the 180 Gs CD.
Most of the videos were pieced together by Negativland, but there were a lot of other filmmakers and animators involved as well. Just an example, the video of "No Business" was made by James Gladman and Negativland, using public domain footage.[1]
The video to "Favorite Things" was put together by Negativland and Aaron Kruse, using clips from The Sound of Music move, manipulating it so that she sings something very different than the original song. My favorite line from the song is:
Lashes that sting on colored girls tied up with blue sati sashes
Since the DVD cover is a parody of The Sound of Music, it made me think of Takashi Miike's The Happiness of the Katakuris.
Enjoy the video to "Favorite Things":
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