Last month’s news that Touch and Go Records planned to stop releasing new music made us pause and chew on the following facts:
1) Touch and Go began as a fanzine during the Carter Administration.
2) Big Black’s Songs About Fucking came out when our genitals were used only for waste management purposes.
3) When Slint, Jesus Lizard and the Butthole Surfers recorded and released their iconic albums we were still stuck in grade school, eating paste and flicking boogers.
The only thing us youngins can do to remember Touch and Go (other than whine about missing Gibby Haynes lighting stuff on fire) is pay homage to their legendary back catalog and live in awe of Steve Albini walking around on stilts talking about harmonic percolators ... which is not so bad indeed.
UTD 4: Touch and Go Playlist
Necros---Sex Drive---Sex Drive EP 1981
Big Black---Bad Penny ---- Songs About Fucking 1987
Blonde Redhead----Melody Of Certain Three---Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons 2000
L-Seven----Insanity-----Insanity E.P. 7" 1982
Calexico----The Ride (Pt. II) ---- The Black Light 1998
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists----A Bottle of Buckie---Living With the Living 2007
Brainiac----Nothing Ever Changes----Hissing Prigs in Static Couture 1996
The Ex----Two Struck by the Moon----Starters Alternators 1998
Scratch Acid----She Said----The Greatest Gift 1991
CocoRosie---Werewolf----The Adventures Of Ghosthorse And Stillborn 2007
Shellac----Copper-----Terraform 1996
Man Or Astro-man?----Structo
Killdozer---Parade----Intellectuals Are The Shoeshine Boys Of The Ruling Elite 1984
Butthole Surfers---Human Cannonball---Locust Abortion Technician 1987
Angry Red Planet---Sun Goes Down---Gawkers paradise EP, 1985
Dirty Three---Red---Horse Stories 1996
Slint----Nosferatu Man---Spiderland 1991
BACKGROUND MUSIC (who are also all Touch and Go bands):
Pinback---Prog---Blue Screen Life 1998
Don Caballero---Ones All Over the Place---American Don 2000
Chrome---SS Cygni---Alien Soundtracks 1978
Polvo---Fast Canoe---Exploded Drawing 1996
!!!---Me and Giuliani Down by the Schoolyard (A True Story)---Me and Giuliani Down by the Schoolyard 2003
Monday, March 9, 2009
UTD 4: Touch and Go
Posted by Thomas at 11:15 AM
Labels: butthole surfers, podcast, show 4, steve albini, touch and go
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3 comments:
thanks for making me look like a teenage Wiccan. GUESS WHAT YOU ONLY HAVE ONE LISTENER NOW.
Josh, you were the one who was listening to CocoRosie when i merely suggested you play that particular song. and you didn't even say anything about how awesome werewolves are. i'm gonna fucking kill you guys.
Glad you put the Man Or Astroman? in there. One of my all time faves. Also, Why does Sarah like CocoRosie so much?
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