Rarely Heard: Negativland - Christianity Is Stupid

I came across Negativland in 1987 with their Escape From Noise which is still considered to be their masterpiece, and I agree. Negativland were founded in Califormia in 1979 and relased their first album a year later. At the time I learnt about the band, they were calling their music 'fun punk', but it's better described as experimental using cut-up techniques and integrating lots of ojet trouve sound bits which pretty much intrigued me (I guess nowadays it's called sampling). and their stance was always political and provocative - alone the title of this song can still get some people all fired up even today. And they even strived for controversy and notoriety. the "band issued a disinformation campaign linking their song “Christianity Is Stupid” as the impetus behind the mass murders committed by Minnesota teen David Brom. The band continued to be dogged by controversy with its 1991 EP release, U2, a satiric send-up of the Irish-rockers peppered with profane rants from disc jockey Casey Kasem. The release embroiled them in a convoluted legal battle with U2’s label, Island Records, who sued the group for copyright violation. Negativland’s defense was largely argued around the “fair use” clause of U.S. copyright law, a theme which -- along with their various legal troubles -- figured prominently on later albums. Into the new millennium, various members of the band continued to press for alternate means of publishing as advocates of the intellectual property license Creative Commons." (Allmusic.com)