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(1993 – present)
Formed in 1993, Scott McCaughey designed The Minus 5 as a pop collective, with each record the group put out featuring a new lineup. Throughout these releases, he worked the most frequently with R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, who was featured on the group’s eponymous debut EP, which was only released through They Might Be Giants’ mail-order record club, Hello CD of the Month Club in 1994.
Their full-length debut album Old Liquidator was released in 1995, and the Minus 5’s lineup consisted of McCaughey, Buck, and Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow of The Posies. After releasing Old Liquidator on East Side Digital, the group reconvened in late 1996 to record their Hollywood Records debut, The Lonesome Death of Buck McCoy, released the following spring. The same year, McCaughey’s 1989 solo album My Chartreuse Opinion was reissued by Hollywood as a Minus 5 album.
In 2001, the Minus Five and the Young Fresh Fellows, another McCaughey project, released a split double album, Let the War Against Music Begin/Because We Hate You; the “Let the War Against Music Begin” half was the Minus 5 submission.
After a change of guard at Hollywood Records, the Minus 5 found themselves releasing music via independent channels, with the Return To Sender label releasing a collection of outtakes from Let The War Against Music Begin called I Don’t Know Who I Am before McCaughey signed the band to the Yep Roc label for his collaboration with Wilco, Down With Wilco.
Their full-length debut album Old Liquidator was released in 1995, and the Minus 5’s lineup consisted of McCaughey, Buck, and Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow of The Posies. After releasing Old Liquidator on East Side Digital, the group reconvened in late 1996 to record their Hollywood Records debut, The Lonesome Death of Buck McCoy, released the following spring. The same year, McCaughey’s 1989 solo album My Chartreuse Opinion was reissued by Hollywood as a Minus 5 album.
In 2001, the Minus Five and the Young Fresh Fellows, another McCaughey project, released a split double album, Let the War Against Music Begin/Because We Hate You; the “Let the War Against Music Begin” half was the Minus 5 submission.
After a change of guard at Hollywood Records, the Minus 5 found themselves releasing music via independent channels, with the Return To Sender label releasing a collection of outtakes from Let The War Against Music Begin called I Don’t Know Who I Am before McCaughey signed the band to the Yep Roc label for his collaboration with Wilco, Down With Wilco.
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The Minus 5 (The Gun Album)
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Down With Wilco
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Cracktot wrote:
surprised no one has commented recently. great group, the minus 5. keep the tunes flowing gents!
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CodeBlue08 wrote:
I have down with wilco and it sounds great so far.
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brendantoast wrote:
I thought Cemetery Row as a Decemberists b-side?
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Monte_Davis wrote:
I only have Down With Wilco and I love it. Great pop music.
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lurex82 wrote:
Amazing... I can't stop listening to the gun album. It's like a Shot of enthusiastic good music. Scott for president! :)
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MAG-music wrote:
the song of cyndi lauper & the minus 5 called midnight radio is fantastic!
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killogwil wrote:
Daddybear Scott!! :D
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MornenWood wrote:
Hotel Senator Rocks My SOCKS!
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loveofnature wrote:
I love The Gun ALbum!!
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Heinekren wrote:
Kinda Wilco is almost as good as actual Wilco.
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qadnoun3 wrote:
simply amazing
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