Lassie House/Jumble Massive

A joint CD on Cacioavallo – CAD9) – 2000

This was originally released as two separate EPs: “Lassie House” being a 10″ limited to 250 copies through Staalplaat in 1995; and “Jumble Massive” being an LP limited to 296 copies through Soleilmoon in 1996. Now, though, they are together and released, unlimited, through Caciocavallo. The material seems to fit together on one release nicely, with no major difference in sound between the two EPs. “Lassie House,” to some degree, has a more slapstick humor feel to it, though both conjure rememberence of 50’s UK gameshows and sitcoms, as well as children’s programs and circus tunes. Vicki Bennett is very clever with how she collages her clips and samples together, but I feel perhaps that this work lefts less on being “humourous,” per sae, and more and merely being nonsensical. The tracks are, as one EP’s title suggests, a massive jumble of cut up, repeated, morphed, and fucked sound clips from god-knows-where. A favourite hightlight is the last track, which acts as a mock self-help tape, helping “people like us” to cope with such things as sewing machines and anticipating bowel movements: you need only chant, “Come on, poo! Come on, poo! Poooo, coming! Poooo, coming!” These EPs were nicely worked for their time, but, to be honest, Vicki has since outdone herself with releases such as the Hate People Like Us remix album and her brilliant new (but not newest!) release, Thermos Explorer. Written by Daniel McKernan, November 2000, Brainwashed.com

01. T424PLU part 1
02. T424PLU part 2
03. 24T4PLU+ME part 1
04. 24T4PLU+ME part 2

01. A Crossed Line
02. Sound Escape part 1
03. Sound Escape part 2
04. Sound Escape part 3
05. Acoustic Mud
06. Bran Mash & Crushed Beans

There is an air of both humor and impending doom within the works of People Like Us. From her first release in 1991 People Like Us has created or contributed to more than 25 CDs and records as well as several collaborative releases and numerous compilation tracks. Lassie House/Jumble Massive is a mid-price reissue of two limited edition releases from Staalplaat and Soleilmoon. The name Jumble Massive describes the music perfectly. This album contains a hodge-podge mish-mash of spoken word snippets and accidental vocalization that have been skillfully edited together to make something inconceivably peculiar and wonder. There are some tracks which are more musical, but again, collage is the preferred method of creation. People Like Us have defined a new musical territory with an atmosphere primarily composed of nitrous oxide and adrenaline. Take a deep breath, but be ready to die laughing. “Lassie House” was released in the following year by Staalplaat as a 10″ picture disc, with a Bichon Frise dog printed on it in pink and blue. It featured two long hilarious spoken word pieces.
The tracks on this CD are available on this page but you can also buy the CD at our shop – all prices include postage and packaging.
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June 21, 2000May 23, 2017

A Fistful of Knuckles

CD on Caciocavallo – CAD10 – 2000

“People Like Us is simply too good. Why it presents us again and again CD, like a circus. One must win something distance from this music, thus her one not flatly with the endless heavily meaning basic sounds and memories. Here to the world between American white diapers, Pferdchen those the world mean, Kleinkinderklukluxklansofties and other one like Country, donkeys, sakeless Schubidus and cold kriegern in a leckeren soup. People Like US is like cinema, like which old humans at MTV finds so exciting always, these many cuts, only the cuts are not cuts, but, deeply inside into this world from sound the world of the television offers precise interventions to surgical quality, without it would refer to expressly drauf that that really like that it is but supplies actually only for People Like Us material, which so unconsciously passed through quasi by us that one can cannibalize it ever further and further. Carefully naturally and with a Manie CUT copy paste of the Artworkings, which one, once belonged never again loose will. ” A Fistful Of Knuckles” is the terminator point of a long long search to the praised country, which ran from the east coast in long Treks to the west coast, made a stopover with John Wayne over in People Like Us to end.” – translation from de-bug magazine

01. Hi There
02. She’ll Be
03. Morning, Pedro
04. Lullablip With Handjob
05. My Son Jim
06. Ursula Fährt Horse Riding
07. Doo Dah Tango
08. Just A Minute
09. Music Alone
10. Oh No
11. Arkinsaw Explorer
12. Grandma Song
13. Fun
14. A Place Like This
15. Oompah Pumpah
16. Oh! Susannah
17. Clippa Cloppa
18. Old Cow Whoopee
19. Weiner Schnitzels
20. Thank You
21. Bitter Dregs
Caciocavallo through Soleilmoon website
Reviews
in NME and Bizarre Magazine 2001

We still have a few CDs left in our shop. All prices include postage and packaging.

Mirrored here:

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April 27, 2000May 23, 2017

SwingLargo / Going Out Of My Town

7″ Single on Klanggalerie – 2000
01. SwingLargo
02. Going Out Of My Town

Mirrored here:

April 11, 2000May 23, 2017

Love Is This

Part of a CD compilation by Xper. Xr. – 2000
01. What’s Love?

March 2, 2000May 23, 2017

PLU, The Jet Black Hair People & Wobbly on KZSU

Campfire Special on KZSU – parts of this went on to form the album A Fistful of Knuckles.

01. Track 1
02. Track 2
03. Track 3
04. Track 4
05. Track 5
06. Track 6
07. Track 7
08. Track 8
09. Track 9
10. Track 10

Thanks to Mike Howes at KZSU

January 13, 2000October 25, 2017

Over The Edge Archive: 2000 Announcements

Over The Edge – 2000 Announcements
13 January 2000

Edited version (by Vicki) here:

2000 Announcements on Over The Edge on KPFA

We join together to mix 2000 announcements. These range from several announcements from General Injectables concerning all their current mergers, to fractured and re-edited public service announcements of all kinds. Dr. Harold Camping and Dave Emory take some calls, Michael Jackson protests his innocence, Bob and Ray awards to past programming, celebrity tooth decay for kids, know your W.W.II planes, Jack In The Box is now safe and wholesome, the need for pep pills, and about 1995 more announcements, along with ever constant cut-ups of the musical variety. Hot stuff. Run time 2h:57m:44s

In constant memory of Don Joyce. https://archive.org/details/ote

January 9, 2000May 23, 2017

2000 Announcements on Over The Edge on KPFA

People Like Us, The Jet Black Hair People, Wobbly and Don Joyce
2000 Announcements on Over The Edge on KPFA – 2000

01. Woman As Sexual Criminal
02. Bright Giant Love Balls
03. Steel Pole
04. Nice Music
05. Finale
06. Credits

An edit from a 3 hour show.

In constant memory of Don Joyce. https://archive.org/details/ote

December 23, 1999October 25, 2017

Over The Edge Archive: Another UFO – Disclosure

Over The Edge – Another UFO – Disclosure
23 December 1999

Examples from the way the press USED to report this stuff, and numerous very convincing eyewitness reports, most by commercial airline pilots, which don’t leave much doubt that there sure is SOMETHING out there in the air lanes that doesn’t conform to anything that officialdom traditionally invokes to explain them. I like the pilot reports most of all because they are usually once or twice in a lifetime sightings and these people generally down to earth and know what they are looking at up there. The physical proximity of some of these air to air encounters is truly disconcerting and although we are assured this has happened a lot, few pilots ever come forward before retirement because their employers make it clear that their jobs are at stake if they do. Added to these are some of the approaches to government and the courts by various researchers who want to sue states and the federal government for not protecting us from invasion as promised by the Constitution, immunity for military witnesses and government employees in congressional hearings, establishing public petitions and legal affidavits from eyewitnesses among the public, as well as some interesting experiences and insights from an employee of the Ministry of Defense in the U.K. whose job it was to investigate UFO activity over England. At least they openly acknowledge the possibility…. Of course all this attempted seriousness is constantly choked off in the public sector by that darling of modern media, ridicule.
Run time 3h:7m:38s

In constant memory of Don Joyce. https://archive.org/details/ote

November 25, 1999October 25, 2017

Over The Edge Archive – Thanksgiving Leftovers

Over The Edge – Thanksgiving Leftovers
25 November 1999

With various leftover tapes that never finished playing out on recent OTEs and two other Neglanders on board, this is a show with no plan at all. But it’s very good anyway with the Weatherman walking around the streets of Berkeley in the wee hours transmiting to us on his new Cherokee FR460 Family Radio, a coincidental appearance by “family radio” religious celebrity, Harold Camping, who does a lengthy stint taking calls concerning Bible misconceptions, People Like Us from a Thanksgivingless England on one of our Receptacle lines for most of the night, lots of bees, some Weatherman holiday family tapes from 1983, the latest club soda break, and anglo american group singing to end it all. Lots of leftover fun.
Run time 3h:0m:32s

In constant memory of Don Joyce. https://archive.org/details/ote

October 11, 1999May 23, 2017