Touch & Go record label S&D

Enon is okay.

Ebay - cost me about £2.50 inc shipping!

That Killdozer cover's lp is a godlike party album. They do the best version of Take the Money and Run ever put to wax.

which mekons and ex records were on touch & go again?

* - except for his work with living things, cordelia's dad, red swan, gogol bordello, neurosis, etc

and right, i'd forgotten about *cows and beer* when i mentioned die kreuzen. but honestly, october file might be the most beautiful pigfuck album in human history.

Mekons:
The Edge of the World
Devils, Rats & Piggies -- A Special Message from Godzilla
I Have Been to Heaven and Back: Hen's Teeth and Other Lost Fragments of Un-Popular Culture Vol. 1
Where Were You?: Hen's Teeth and Other Lost Fragments of Un-Popular Culture Vol.2
Fear and Whiskey
Punk Rock

Angry Red Planet
Gawker's Paradise

Urge Overkill
The Urge Overkill Story...Stay Tuned 1988-1991 (touch & go promo EP, not in catalogue, ignores their pre-t&g debut EP which I kinda miss)

Virgin Prunes
The Moon Looked Down and Laughed

Various
Process of Elimination EP

if you like Silkworm but stopped paying attention after Firewater I'd definitely check out Lifestyles and esp. Italian Platinum

Urge Overkill's Supersonic Storybook, Polvo's Cor-Crane Secret

I liked Rodan's Rusty back in the day but now probably appropriate for only the most dedicated post-rockin' Slint fans

You Can't Pray A Lie is by far my favorite Laughing Hyenas record.

Necros, Die Kreuzen, Mekons, Big Black, hell yeah. And I like those !!! records.

Not familiar with 90% of the new catalog. I heard Don Cab the other day and it was great tho.

Oh, yeah - I was wondering why nobody had mentioned the Buttholes yet! Thought it was like a conspiracy.

Not really a T&G band, but that Chrome Alien Soundtracks/Half Machine Lip Moves twofer is an essential item.

Didn't T&G have to destroy all the Surfers back catalog records they had? seem to recall some article about them being run over with a bulldozer but maybe I'm just wishing that was what happened.

I have that Hose EP, it totally sucks. It's pretty funny though. The imprint is actually Def Jam, if I recall! That and God's Fave Dog the only two appearances I know of.

Me too.

I am shocked by the lack of love for Pegboy on this thread.

Maybe I am mistaken, but I thought Pegboy were on Quarterstick.

For this thread, are we talking just T&G the label or T&G the distributor, too, because some releases mentioned here were not technically released on T&G but were released by labels who were distributed (exclusively?) through T&G like Quarterstick.

It's interesting to see how T&G has changed over the years. They definitely have "softened" their aesthetic a bit. I know some of the newer releases are decent. But, when I think of T&G, I think of the hardcore stuff to the midwest, grunge, noise, thing (Big Black, Jesus Lizard, and Hyenas), which kind of died out shortly before the rise of post-rock (Something I never really got into.) I mean, the fact that T&G put out something like the Delta 72 record is a sure sign of some kind of decline. Hell, I'll take a rather boring Tar record over sub, sub, sub Jon Spencer fashion dorks. The only newer T&G releases I have ever purchased were the Monorchid/Skull Control stuff. As for the past three to four years, isn't just indie rock and pop. Maybe I'm wrong!

not unless corey changed his name to ed roche.

Might listen to that now.

The short version, though, is that they also released a single (Def Jam #1) that includes a pretty great Flipper-esque track called Mobo, later covered (very nicely) by the Dustdevils on their first Matador album.

i love love love jesus lizard, but even now i would seriously consider getting a die kreuzen or necros tattoo. close to my heart.

I gave the slight nod to Italian Platinum b/c I'm partial to Bourbon Beard and the "story" type songs (LR72) but it's pretty much a toss-up vs. Lifestyle, both are great

So very sad if this is true - the demise of Touch and Go -

http://www3.timeoutny.com/chicago/blog/out-and-about/2009/02/rip-touch-go-records/

My fave ever label ...

That is depressing to hear. The label hasn't thrilled me much in recent years, but back in the mid-90s when I was first delving into lolindie and discovering bands like Seam, Slint, and Jesus Lizard, I thought the label could do no wrong. I loved flipping through someone's record collection, flipping over an unfamiliar title, and seeing this...

http://www.southern.com/southern/label/TCH/pics/logo2.jpg

Yeah it was a similar seal of approval for me - digging through 2nd hand CDs if an unfamiliar band had that logo on it I'd consider buying.

Too bad but I guess they haven't released much lately that's been all that interesting? Perhaps someone might like to update this thread with post-2000 T&G essentials?

The last two Shellac albums and the last Ted Leo album, off the top of my head

Considering this is one of my favourite labels ever I'm curiously unbothered by this TBH

He's on twitter now and he starts every single tweet with the phrase "check it out"

he starts every single tweet with the phrase "check it out"

this is so wonderful

THIRD MAN RECORDS' REISSUES OF LAUGHING HYENAS'
MERRY-GO-ROUND AND YOU CAN'T PRAY A LIE
NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER

http://thirdmanstore.com/pub/media/catalog/product/cache/small_image/320x320/cd7fcf27be6a733566b266f46cb4e67d/t/m/tmr509_hyenas_cover.jpg
https://thirdmanstore.com/pub/media/catalog/product/cache/small_image/320x320/cd7fcf27be6a733566b266f46cb4e67d/t/m/tmr471_lhyenas_youcan_tprayalie_final.jpg

In partnership with Touch And Go Records, Third Man Records is re-issuing the full discography of punishing Michigan hardcore punk blues band Laughing Hyenas for the first time in over 25 years. The first two of these reissues, Merry-Go-Round and You Can't Pray A Lie, are available for pre-order on black vinyl now. Both reissues will be released on February 14. View both reissues HERE.

The Merry-Go-Round 2xLP reissue will include the 5 bonus tracks that were originally included on the 1995 Touch and Go CD release. The reissue of You Can't Pray A Lie will be a straight reissue of the 1989 release.

Formed in the mid-80s wreckage of American punk and hardcore, Laughing Hyenas were comprised of staples of the Detroit punk scene, including John Brannon (Negative Approach) and Larissa Strickland (L Seven) along with the locked-in rhythm section of Kevin Strickland and Jim Kimball. Groundbreaking, game-changing and some of the scariest records to come out of Detroit... or anywhere, and lovingly re-mastered for vinyl and cut by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering.

nice, those are great records

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/31171453_10215607905448959_3412478781121976672_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=8b079d3bcdd86ce4322314799aea7610&oe=5B6FDC5B

Tigers/Dodgers World Series hero Kirk Gibson introduced Negative Approach last night as they opened for Jack White in Detroit.

https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/an-oral-history-of-the-laughing-hyenas-one-of-the-great-unsung-detroit-rock-bands/Content?oid=18664679

awesome, thanks.

Wow to Kirk Gibson introducing Negative Approach! That Laughing Hyenas piece was good too. RIP Larissa

John Brannon: Larissa had never picked up guitar, she just kind of learned her own way. She wasn't affected by learning Eric Clapton or Led Zeppelin, she did it by feeling.

Hey, they're on Bandcamp:

https://touchandgo.bandcamp.com/

Most excellent.

Kinda disappointed the early Shellac singles aren't up there, though.

I have a feeling those are coming "soon", which is Shellac terms means anytime between now and 5 yrs from now

Good to see they went with this pic of Killdozer

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/0019944862_36.jpg

Always loved that photo. It's like they out-Urge Overkilled Urge Overkill.

the shirts alone are incredible, yes

Thanks! That's good to see.

I wish they'd put their old yearly sampler compilations up, although I concede that maybe there isn't so much point in comps in the new online/bandcamp era. But a couple of those really changed the shape of my record-hunting in the late 90s, and now I can't even find them listed on the T&G website.

Guess I can look up the tracklistings on discogs and just listen to the individual tracks & buy whatever artist's albums take my fancy, which I suppose might be what a sampler was supposed to inspire, rather than being listened to on loop as an album in its own right by broke students who excitedly picked them up because they were cheap and had a lot of tracks on.

(Some of them were coproductions with their sublabel Quarterstick Records, who have their own bandcamp: https://quarterstick.bandcamp.com/ )