Founded: 1993
Headquarters: Seattle, WA
Website Link(s): Universal Trendsetter
Label(s)
- Hello
- East Side Digital
- Hollywood Records
- Mammoth
- Houston Party
- Yep Roc
- Book
- Return To Sender
- Cooking Vinyl
Genre(s)
- Pop Rock
- Experimental Pop
RIYL
Band Members
- Scott McCaughey
- Peter Buck
- Ken Stringfellow
- Jon Auer
- John Ramberg
- Bill Rieflin
- Chris Ballew
- Wilco (one album)
- Kurt Bloch
- Robyn Hitchcock
Includes Members of
- The Young Fresh Fellows
- R.E.M.
- The Posies
- The Model Rockets
- The Presidents Of The United States Of America
- Wilco
- The Fastbacks
- Sgt. Major
- The Soft Boys
Band Biography
The Minus 5 is a side project of Young Fresh Fellows frontman (and R.E.M. side guitarist) Scott McCaughey and R.E.M. bassist Peter Buck. They've been going since 1993, and have recorded a bunch of records for various labels.
Discography
Albums
- Old Liquidator
- The Lonesome Death of Buck McCoy
- My Chartreuse Opinion (Scott McCaughey solo album, reissued as "The Minus Five of Scott McCaughey")
- In Rock
- Let the War Against Music Begin
- Down With Wilco (A Tragedy In Three Halfs)
- I Don't Know Who I Am (Let the War Against Music Begin vol 2)EP
EPs
- Minus 5:Hello EP
- Emperor of the Bathroom
- Limited Edition CD Sampler (split w/ The Young Fresh fellows)
- At The Organ
Singles
- A Thousand Years Away
- You Don't Mean It
- Retreival Of You (Single)
Appears On
- Past The Barber and Gymnasium
- Jeff Bridges... I Don't Need No Jeff Bridges To Put Music To My Poem!