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For|the album of the same name|The Minus 5 (album)refimprove|date=August 2010Infobox musical artist | name = The Minus 5| image = The Minus 5.png| caption = The Minus 5 (left to right: Ramberg, Buck, Rieflin, McCaughey) perform at the Georgia Theatre in Athens, Georgia on April 1, 2006| image_size =| background = group_or_band| alias = The Bison-Flavored Minus 5, The Minus Tad| origin = United States | genre = Alternative Rock | years_active = 1993–present| label = Yep Roc | associated_acts = Mark Eitzel , Robyn Hitchcock , R.E.M. , Tuatara (band)|Tuatara , Wilco , Young Fresh Fellows , The Decemberists | website = http://www.minus5.com/ www.minus5.com| current_members = Peter Buck Scott McCaughey John Ramberg Bill Rieflin | past_members = See List of Minus 5 members The Minus 5 is an United States|American rock music|rock band, headed by musician Scott McCaughey and featuring R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck .
Band history
Formed in 1993, 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. Also in 1996, McCaughey's 1989 solo album My Chartreuse Opinion was reissued by Hollywood as a Minus 5 album.
In 1999, the group accepted an invitation to participate in a tribute album to Moby Grape co-founder Skip Spence , who was terminally ill with cancer, for the purpose of raising funds to assist with medical expenses.See More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence 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 . Yep Roc later issued an EP dominated by Down With Wilco outtakes, At the Organ , and reissued In Rock , a collection of tunes McCaughey recorded in a single day in 2000.
In 2002, the band contributed a track, "Girl I Never Met" to Rami Jaffee, Pete Yorn, and Marc Dauer's Trampoline Records release: Trampoline Records Volume I.
The band's seventh album, self-titled (but known as The Gun Album ), was released early 2006, and features, along the regular line-up, guest appearances by Wilco , Kelly Hogan and The Decemberists ' singer/songwriter Colin Meloy , among others.
Buck and McCaughey went on to play in The Baseball Project together in 2008.
The Minus 5 appeared on John Wesley Harding (singer)|John Wesley Harding 's 2009 release, Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead and released Killingsworth later that year.
In 2012 The Minus 5 recorded a version of the 1976 hit single by the Sutherland Brothers and Quiver " Arms of Mary " for a fund raising cd titled "Super Hits Of The Seventies" for radio station WFMU . http://michaelshelley.net/2012/ Super Hits Of The 70's
The Emperor of the Bathroom (CD) - East Side Digital - 1995
The Lonesome Death of Buck McCoy - Hollywood Records - 1997
My Chartreuse Opinion (CD) - Hollywood Records - 1989/1997
More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album - Birdman Records - 1999 Being a compilation of cover version s of the songs from the solo album by Moby Grape co-founder Skip Spence, Oar (Skip Spence album)|Oar , originally released by Columbia Records in 1969. Minus 5 performs their thirteen minute version of Spence's "Doodle".
Let the War Against Music Begin (CD) - Mammoth Records - 2001
'' I Don't Know Who I Am (Let the War Against Music Begin, Vol. 2) (CD) - Return to Sender - 2003
Down with Wilco (CD) - Yep Roc Records|Yep Roc - 2003
In Rock (The Minus 5 album)|In Rock (CD) - Yep Roc - 2004
At the Organ (CD) - Yep Roc - 2004
The Minus 5 (album)|The Minus 5 (CD) - Yep Roc - 2006
Sad Hasselhoff EP (Vinyl limited 1000 copies) - Yep Roc - 2008
Killingsworth (CD) - Yep Roc - 2009
Butcher Covered (CD) (Limited Edition covers compilation - only available at shows) - Book Records - 2009
References
External links
official| http://www.minus5.com
http://www.universaltrendsetter.org Scott McCaughey Fan site
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