- 1 Then 8:05
- 2 Now 8:36
Running order of the main release. Pressings may split it differently.
Two tracks edited from a 1989 New American Radio commissioned work originally 26:19 in length, credited to Don Joyce and Negativland, described as "A dense, pulsing 'action song,' whose verses deal with America's intimate relationship with firearms: 'The gun and the Bible carved this nation out of the wilderness,' a man exclaims. A tradition unfolds that links the voices of the past as we know them through television cowboy movies and gangster films, to the modern Annie-Get-Your-Gun, the business woman of the 80s with her handy sub-machine gun. An evolving patchwork of movie excerpts and TV ads, statements and information about guns, and of certain phrases repeated like bullets." Several dialogue ("Hey Pa, look!"; "Bam-ba-ba-bam-bam!") and music samples (the haunting harmonica theme) are taken from the Sergio Leone 1968 film "Once Upon A Time In The West."
Digr Archive · guns-butomp
Guns
- First released
- 1991
- Original label
- SST Records · SST CD 291
- Country
- US
- Formats
- CD
- Style
- Experimental, Radioplay
- Tracks
- 2 · 16:41
- Latest reissue
- —
- Versions
- 1 in the Archive
1 version · 1 copy for sale
- Copies
- 1
- From
- £69.36CD
- Original LP from
- £69.36
- Median
- £69.36