― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 15 December 2005 14:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 15 December 2005 14:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 15 December 2005 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― O RLY? (eman), Thursday, 15 December 2005 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link
In order: Fairly average gothy indie rock types who are now on Yep Roc I think; no idea; 'arty' pisstake sideproject of Tesco Vee who did one virtually impossible to find 7"
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 15 December 2005 15:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 15 December 2005 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 15 December 2005 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 15 December 2005 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link
Die Kreuzen - October File is good, that's inbetween the s/t and Gone Away. The Gone Away CD is worth getting though cos it has Cows & Beer on it.
I just bought New Year - Newness Ends, that's quite good, although obv not much like most of the other bands on this thread since they're a post-Bedhead band.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 15 December 2005 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 15 December 2005 16:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 15 December 2005 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 15 December 2005 16:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 15 December 2005 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 15 December 2005 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Thursday, 15 December 2005 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 15 December 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 15 December 2005 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 15 December 2005 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link
all these bands are good.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 15 December 2005 16:54 (eighteen years ago) link
Enon is okay.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 15 December 2005 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link
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
Yes, jay,as was clearly said upthread, there would be NO FALLOUT from this. Way to fucking twist words,dude. You're the human form of Godwin's law.
― System Jr. (Mackro Mackro), Saturday, 21 February 2009 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link
System - Not referring to you, obv.
― jaybabcock, Saturday, 21 February 2009 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link
(System: I was talking about what the likely fallout would be and why... not whether or not there would be any fallout at all. Sorry for any confusion.)
― jaybabcock, Saturday, 21 February 2009 20:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Jay did you read the article you linked? It's rather less doom 'n' gloom than your tone on this thread.
― J0hn D., Saturday, 21 February 2009 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah it really is
― Mr. Que, Saturday, 21 February 2009 21:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Here's a new report from Billboard/Reuters
― jaybabcock, Saturday, 21 February 2009 22:28 (fifteen years ago) link
what's a "catalog-only imprint"?
― candy corn for lunch and dinner (sarahel), Saturday, 21 February 2009 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
a label that only keeps their back catalog in print, and doesn't release any new albums
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Saturday, 21 February 2009 23:22 (fifteen years ago) link
According to T&G's own website, everything they've released (excepting licensed stuff and the, ahem, Butthole Surfers catalogue) is still in print, which is pretty remarkable. So while it's certainly sad that they're downscaling, at least they're not going the way of SST and disappearing into a crack in the ground.
― MacDara, Saturday, 21 February 2009 23:39 (fifteen years ago) link
bought the reissue of the 1st die kreuzen lp today (with dl, thanks). we do our part
― welcome little swetty (contenderizer), Sunday, 22 February 2009 03:13 (fifteen years ago) link
^ C: S
― welcome little swetty (contenderizer), Sunday, 22 February 2009 03:14 (fifteen years ago) link
According to T&G's own website, everything they've released (excepting licensed stuff and the, ahem, Butthole Surfers catalogue) is still in print, which is pretty remarkable.Would be if it were true! I expect most of it is, but not everything. The most obvious being the Necros, but there's at least a couple of old EPs not in print - Flesh Columns, Angry Red Planet etc.
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Sunday, 22 February 2009 13:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh well, most of it is. Can't find where I read that about the whole catalogue now, d'oh is me.
In any case, it's still a damn sight better than SST, or even Sub Pop.
― MacDara, Sunday, 22 February 2009 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link
anyone picked this up yet??
http://www.bazillionpoints.com/touch-and-go-magazine-the-complete-years-by-tesco-vee-dave-stimson-and-steve-miller/
― (+) (+ +), Sunday, 3 October 2010 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
it is AWESOME
― sir you cannot be serious (stevie), Sunday, 3 October 2010 23:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I've been on a big Laughing Hyena's kick for a few months for the first time since the 90s, mostly getting ready to see Easy Action open for Dino Jr. earlier this year. John Brannon is definitely one of the more intense vocalists in that group of bands.
A joke a buddy of mine made the next day after seeing the Laughing Hyena's back in the 90s in Bloomington always comes to me when I listen to them trying to imaging John Brannon trying to order breakfast at Dennys.
I WANT BACON!!!TWO EGGS! OVER EASY!WITH A SIDE OF TOASTAND A CUP OF COFFEE!!!!
Brannon's vocal style is pretty much 110% all the time. Don't know what he is like off stage, but he's pretty intense dude with a microphone in his hand (even today). When I saw Dino Jr. earlier this year Brannon did the vocals on their old tune "Don't".
― earlnash, Saturday, 9 September 2017 04:08 (six years ago) link
So his vocal style has been like that for decades then I guess! Remember him from way back when.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 10 September 2017 03:32 (six years ago) link
Yeah, Brannon still has the hard man stage persona. Easy Action was pretty cool at that show I saw earlier this year. Saw Laughing Hyenas a couple of times back in the early 90s and they were great live.
― earlnash, Sunday, 10 September 2017 04:10 (six years ago) link
I probably saw that same Bloomington show, I know they played at 39 Steps (short lived all ages club) and maybe at Second Story once?
so fucking good
― sleeve, Sunday, 10 September 2017 05:23 (six years ago) link
oh wait, no, those were 80s shows
I saw them here in Oregon in like '91 once more before they broke up, Larissa was so smacked out
― sleeve, Sunday, 10 September 2017 05:24 (six years ago) link
He's on twitter now and he starts every single tweet with the phrase "check it out"
― JRN, Sunday, 10 September 2017 06:13 (six 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 (six 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