Our Favorite Things
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Our Favorite Things is a compilation DVD
DVD
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 by the band Negativland
Negativland
Negativland is an experimental music and sound collage band which originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. They took their name from a Neu! song, while their record label is named after another Neu! song...

, released on November 27, 2007. The original release date on October 23 was skipped due to a pressing error in the DVDs and the bonus CD, a collection of Negativland covers done by an a cappella
A cappella
A cappella music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It is the opposite of cantata, which is accompanied singing. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato...

 doo-wop
Doo-wop
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 group. It contains 20 of the band's greatest "hits" animated by 20 different artists from all over the United States
United States
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. The cover parodies the artwork of the film The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music (film)
Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The film is based on the Broadway musical The Sound of Music, with songs written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and with the musical...

as well as title of the film's song "My Favorite Things
My Favorite Things (song)
"My Favorite Things" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music.-The Sound of Music version:The song was first introduced by Mary Martin in the original Broadway production, and sung by Julie Andrews in the 1965 film.In the musical, the lyrics to the song are a...

". The front features a "review" from the character Goofy
Goofy
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 saying, "It's goofy". The people on the cover are dolls.

Track listing

  1. "Learning To Communicate"
  2. "No Business
    No Business
    No Business is a 2005 album by the sound collage band Negativland. While the songs encompass a variety of topics, the overarching theme of the album is copyright issues, especially those pertaining to peer-to-peer file sharing...

    "
  3. "Gimme The Mermaid"
  4. "U2
    U2 (EP)
    U2 is an EP by the experimental music and sound collage band Negativland, released in 1991. The EP and the band gained notoriety when lawyers representing Island Records, the record label of the band U2, sued over misleading artwork and the use of unauthorized sampling.-History:After Helter Stupid,...

    " ('I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For' Special Edit Radio Mix)
  5. "Time Zones"
  6. "Freedom's Waiting"
  7. "The Bottom Line"
  8. "Yellow Black And Rectangular"
  9. "Guns (Then)
    Guns (EP)
    Guns is the name of the 1992 EP by the experimental music and sound collage band Negativland. It was released as a replacement for their deleted/withdrawn EP "U2". The cover art reuses that which appears on "U2". The album is about the appeal of guns and their place in American history...

    "
  10. "Over The Hiccups"
  11. "The Mashin' Of The Christ (Christianity Is Stupid
    Christianity Is Stupid
    "Christianity Is Stupid" is the most well-known song from Negativland's 1987 breakthrough album, Escape from Noise. In the song, Negativland rearranges words and phrases to form a different meaning. They sampled phrases from a 1971 sermon by Rev. Estus Pirkle . Pirkle's narrative included an...

    )"
  12. "Truth In Advertising"
  13. "One World Advertising"
  14. "Why Is This Commercial?"
  15. "The Greatest Taste Around
    The Greatest Taste Around
    The Greatest Taste Around is the second and last single by Negativland from the 1997 popular release Dispepsi. It is a satire on Pepsi's promotion campaigns for Crystal Pepsi and Coca-Cola's failed campaign for New Coke, using such lyrics as "I nailed Jesus to the cross" and "Children dying of...

    "
  16. "Taste In Mind"
  17. "Humanitarian Effort"
  18. "Drink It Up
    Drink It Up
    "Drink It Up" is the first single by Negativland released from the 1997 album Dispepsi. The song is about a man who is gleeful thinking about Pepsi, but gets exaggeratedly depressed with other soft drinks. Its music video was released on the Our Favorite Things DVD.-Structure:"Drink It Up" was sung...

    "
  19. "Aluminum or Glass (The Memo)"
  20. "Favorite Things"

Bonus features

  1. "Visit Howland Island"
  2. "At Home With The Weatherman"
  3. "Anomalies Of The Unconscious" a film by Jon Behrens#"Gimme Miranda"
  4. "The Monster Of Frankenstein"
  5. "Buttcrack"
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