Ebay - cost me about £2.50 inc shipping!
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 15 December 2005 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 15 December 2005 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― earlnash, Thursday, 15 December 2005 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 15 December 2005 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 15 December 2005 17:44 (eighteen years ago) link
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
― xhuxk, Thursday, 15 December 2005 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― xhuxk, Thursday, 15 December 2005 18:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Thursday, 15 December 2005 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 15 December 2005 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 15 December 2005 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link
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 WhiskeyPunk Rock
Angry Red Planet Gawker's Paradise
Urge OverkillThe 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 PrunesThe Moon Looked Down and Laughed
VariousProcess of Elimination EP
― xhuxk, Thursday, 15 December 2005 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 15 December 2005 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link
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
― Renard, Thursday, 15 December 2005 19:12 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 15 December 2005 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 15 December 2005 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 15 December 2005 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― TRG (TRG), Thursday, 15 December 2005 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― ZR (teenagequiet), Thursday, 15 December 2005 19:58 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 15 December 2005 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 15 December 2005 20:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 15 December 2005 20:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Renard, Thursday, 15 December 2005 20:22 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― dar1a g (daria g), Friday, 16 December 2005 00:01 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 16 December 2005 04:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 16 December 2005 10:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― andrew s (andrew s), Friday, 16 December 2005 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 16 December 2005 23:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 16 December 2005 23:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Halloween Spooky Party Hints! (Bimble...), Saturday, 17 December 2005 04:02 (eighteen years ago) link
Me too.
I am shocked by the lack of love for Pegboy on this thread.
― Ben Dot (1977), Saturday, 17 December 2005 12:49 (eighteen years ago) link
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!
― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Saturday, 17 December 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― TRG (TRG), Saturday, 17 December 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Saturday, 17 December 2005 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link
not unless corey changed his name to ed roche.
― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 17 December 2005 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: Deutsch Bag (latebloomer), Saturday, 17 December 2005 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Saturday, 17 December 2005 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Saturday, 17 December 2005 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link
Might listen to that now.
― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Saturday, 17 December 2005 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― moxie, Saturday, 17 December 2005 22:49 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― dlp9001, Saturday, 17 December 2005 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link
i love love love jesus lizard, but even now i would seriously consider getting a die kreuzen or necros tattoo. close to my heart.
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 17 December 2005 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link
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
― Renard, Sunday, 18 December 2005 00:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― dlp9001, Sunday, 18 December 2005 00:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― fret bored, Sunday, 18 December 2005 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Binjominia (Brilhante), Sunday, 18 December 2005 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link
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 ...
― BlackIronPrison, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 17:23 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 17:39 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 17:48 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― big fatass Paul Ross (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link
This will be as polarizing at !!!, but Pinback's Summer In Abaddon from 2004.
― System Jr. (Mackro Mackro), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link
he starts every single tweet with the phrase "check it out"
this is so wonderful
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 10 September 2017 06:22 (six years ago) link
THIRD MAN RECORDS' REISSUES OF LAUGHING HYENAS'MERRY-GO-ROUND AND YOU CAN'T PRAY A LIENOW 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.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
nice, those are great records
― sleeve, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:32 (six years ago) link
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.
― earlnash, Monday, 23 April 2018 00:31 (five years ago) link
https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/an-oral-history-of-the-laughing-hyenas-one-of-the-great-unsung-detroit-rock-bands/Content?oid=18664679
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 23 December 2018 23:26 (five years ago) link
awesome, thanks.
― sleeve, Sunday, 23 December 2018 23:36 (five years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
Hey, they're on Bandcamp:
https://touchandgo.bandcamp.com/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 October 2020 14:48 (three years ago) link
Most excellent.
― Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 2 October 2020 15:40 (three years ago) link
Kinda disappointed the early Shellac singles aren't up there, though.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 2 October 2020 16:19 (three years ago) link
I have a feeling those are coming "soon", which is Shellac terms means anytime between now and 5 yrs from now
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 2 October 2020 17:11 (three years ago) link
Good to see they went with this pic of Killdozer
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/0019944862_36.jpg
― your response will be deleted unread (Matt #2), Friday, 2 October 2020 18:03 (three years ago) link
Always loved that photo. It's like they out-Urge Overkilled Urge Overkill.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 October 2020 18:23 (three years ago) link
the shirts alone are incredible, yes
― sleeve, Friday, 2 October 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
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/ )
― scampus unrest (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 2 October 2020 19:45 (three years ago) link