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{{Infobox musical artist 
| name = The Minus 5
| image = The Minus 5.png
| caption = The Minus 5 (left to right: Ramberg, Buck, Rieflin, McCaughey) perform at the Georgia Theatre in [[Athens, Georgia]] on April 1, 2006
| image_size =
| background = group_or_band
| alias = The Bison-Flavored Minus 5, The Minus Tad
| origin = [[United States]]
| genre = [[Pop rock]]
| years_active = 1993–present
| label = [[Yep Roc]]
| associated_acts = [[Mark Eitzel]], [[Robyn Hitchcock]], [[R.E.M.]], [[Tuatara (band)|Tuatara]], [[Wilco]], [[Young Fresh Fellows]], [[The Decemberists]]
| website = [http://www.minus5.com/ www.minus5.com]
| current_members = See [[List of Minus 5 members]]
}}
'''The Minus 5''' is an [[United States|American]] [[pop rock]] band, headed by musician [[Scott McCaughey]] and most frequently featuring [[R.E.M.]] guitarist [[Peter Buck]].

==Band history==
Formed in 1993, 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 [[Hello CD of the Month Club]], run by [[John Flansburgh]] of [[They Might Be Giants]], 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. Also in 1996, McCaughey's 1989 solo album ''My Chartreuse Opinion'' was reissued by Hollywood as a Minus 5 album.

In 1999, the group accepted an invitation to participate in a [[tribute album]] to [[Moby Grape]] co-founder [[Skip Spence]], who was terminally ill with cancer, for the purpose of raising funds to assist with medical expenses.<ref>See ''[[More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album]]''.</ref>

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 releasing a collection of outtakes from ''Let the War Against Music Begin'' called ''I Don't Know Who I Am'' before McCaughey signed the band to the [[Yep Roc]] label for his collaboration with [[Wilco]], ''Down With Wilco''. Yep Roc later issued an EP dominated by ''Down With Wilco'' outtakes, ''At the Organ'', and reissued ''In Rock'', a collection of tunes McCaughey recorded in a single day in 2000.

In 2002, the band contributed a track, "Girl I Never Met" to Rami Jaffee, Pete Yorn, and Marc Dauer's Trampoline Records release: Trampoline Records Volume I.

The band's seventh album, self-titled (but known as ''The Gun Album''), was released early 2006, and features, along the regular line-up, guest appearances by [[Wilco]], [[Kelly Hogan]] and [[The Decemberists]]' singer/songwriter [[Colin Meloy]], among others.

Buck and McCaughey went on to play in [[The Baseball Project]] together in 2008.

The Minus 5 appeared on [[John Wesley Harding (singer)|John Wesley Harding]]'s 2009 release, ''[[Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead]]'' and released ''[[Killingsworth]]'' later that year.

In 2012 The Minus 5 recorded a version of the 1976 hit single by the [[Sutherland Brothers]] and Quiver "[[Arms of Mary]]" for a fund raising cd titled "Super Hits Of The Seventies" for radio station [[WFMU]]. The band played at [[SXSW]] in 2013.

==Discography==

===Singles & EPs===
*''The Minus Five - A Hello selection Dec.'93 - Jan.'94.'' (CD - [[Hello CD of the Month Club]] - 1993)
*''[[The Emperor of the Bathroom]]'' (CD - East Side Digital - 1995)
*''[[At the Organ]]'' (Yep Roc - 2004)
*''[[Sad Hasselhoff]]'' (Vinyl limited 1000 copies - Yep Roc - 2008)

===LPS===
*''[[Old Liquidator]]'' ([[East Side Digital]] - 1995)
*''[[The Lonesome Death of Buck McCoy]]'' ([[Hollywood Records]] - 1997)
*''[[In Rock (The Minus 5 album)|In Rock]]'' (Book Records - 2000
*''[[Let the War Against Music Begin]]'' ([[Mammoth Records]] - 2001 - with [[Young Fresh Fellows]])
*''[[Down with Wilco]]'' ([[Yep Roc Records]] - 2003)
*''[[I Don't Know Who I Am (Let the War Against Music Begin, Vol. 2)]] (Return to Sender - 2003)
*''[[The Minus 5 (album)|The Minus 5]]'' ([[Yep Roc Records]] - 2006)
*''[[Killingsworth]]'' ([[Yep Roc Records]] - 2009)
*''[[Scott the Hoople in the Dungeon of Terror|Scott the Hoople in the Dungeon of <u>Ho</u>rror]]'' (Vinyl limited 750 copies - [[Yep Roc Records]] - 2014)
*''[[Dungeon Golds]]'' ([[Yep Roc Records]] - 2015)
*''Of Monkees and Men'' ([[Yep Roc Records]] - 2016)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.yeproc.com/the-minus-5-to-release-of-monkees-and-men-august-19-on-yep-roc-records/|title=The Minus 5 To Release 'Of Monkees And Men' August 19 On Yep Roc Records - Yep Roc Records|date=2016-06-09|website=Yep Roc Records|language=en-US|access-date=2016-06-21}}</ref>

===Compilations===
*''[[Butcher Covered]]'' (CD) (Limited Edition covers compilation - only available at shows) - Book Records - 2009
*''[[More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album]]'' -[[Birdman Records]] - 1999 <ref>Being a compilation of [[cover version]]s of the songs from the solo album by Moby Grape co-founder Skip Spence, ''[[Oar (Skip Spence album)|Oar]]'', originally released by [[Columbia Records]] in 1969. Minus 5 performs their thirteen-minute version of Spence's "Doodle".</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{official website|http://www.minus5.com}}
*{{DMOZ|Arts/Music/Bands_and_Artists/M/Minus_5,_The/}}
*{{AllMusic|http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-minus-5-mn0000898161}}
*[http://www.universaltrendsetter.org Scott McCaughey Fan site]

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