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The Minus 5 is tagged as: alt-country, indie, alternative, indie rock, rock

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 releasin...
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Top 10 The Minus 5 Songs
Cemetery Row
Rifle Called Goodbye
Formerly Hail Centurion
Sputnik 57
Film of the Movie
XIX
The Great Divider (My Ruffled Sleeve)
One More Bottle to Go
Lies of the Living Dead
(I've Got a) Lyrical Stance
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Top 10 The Minus 5 Albums
At the Organ EP
The Minus 5 (The Gun Album)
Down With Wilco
In Rock
The Lonesome Death of Buck McCoy
The Minus 5
Killingsworth
Old Liquidator
At the Organ
My Chartreuse Opinion
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