hi godfrey and others --

here's the scoop:

U.S. RELEASE DATE: Septemebr 18, 2001
although it's available for purchase now via the merge website -- we have the
2CD version:
http://www.mergerecords.com/bands/lambchop/merchandise.html

also available from P-Vine Records in JAPAN and Spunk in AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND

TRACK LISTING:

CD 1:
1. Nine
2. Whitey
3. Cigaretiquette
4. Miss Prissy
5. The Petrified Florist
6. Each With A Bag Of Fires
7. All Over The World
8. Flowers Of Memory
9. Scared Out Of My Shoes
10. Style Monkeys
11. The Militant (Mark Robinson remix)
12. Up With People (Zero 7 Reprise remix)
13. Give Me Your Love (Doppelganger remix)
14. Love TKO
15. Or Thousands Of Prizes
16. Moody Fucker

CD 2 (included in the first 3,000 copies):
1. A Moist Towelette
2. An Open Fresca [recorded in fall 1992 by Cole and Grey Carter at the
U-Store-It Rental Space - split release with Crop Circle Hoax on Thump Audio]
3. Masters Of None
4. Little Servant (Chill Pill) [recorded in 1990 by Robb Earls at Sound Vortex
(unreleased)]
5. Alumni Lawn [recorded in summer 1992 in Kurt Wagner's living room
(unreleased)]
6. A Moist Towelette (acoustic version) [recorded in early 1992 in Kurt
Wagner's living room, released on a Spunk fanzine compilation cassette in
Australia]

here's something Jonatahn Marx whipped up to describe "Tools In The Dryer":

We weren’t even called Lambchop at first. We were called Posterchild, started
in 1986 or ‘87, with three people making noise in a bedroom. Band members came,
band members went. (They’re still coming and going, though mostly coming) In
fall 1992, we decided to put out a single in tandem with our friends in Crop
Circle Hoax. Not long after, an entertainment lawyer named George Regis called
us up and said his clients in the band Poster Children thought maybe we oughta
change our name. So we came up with lots of alternatives (REN, Pinnacles of
Cream, Turd Goes Back) but finally settled on Lambchop. We sent some crappy
recordings to Merge, but before Mac and Laura could get back to us, we sent them
some more recordings and, much to our amazement, they offered to put out a
single, which became the first Lambchop release proper. It gets kinda blurry
after that. But that’s why we put all these songs on here—to tell the story.

I guess if you programmed the CD and put the songs in chronological order, you’d
get the sense of some kind of progression (or maybe regression), but that’s not
the point. Some of my favorite stuff on here is the oldest stuff, stuff I didn’
t even play on, because better than anything, it represents the spontaneity that
’s always been a part of what we’ve done, even if sometimes that immediacy has
succumbed to an unavoidable yearning for perfection. People waste a lot of time
trying to say what it is that bands (ours, other folks’) do. Hell, I’m as
guilty as anyone, even as I bitch and moan about some music writer once again
tagging us as an alt-country band. Hopefully, after listening through this mess
of songs, you might come away with the idea that talking about our band in
musical terms is the least useful thing you can do. Yeah, sure, we’re making
music, but I’d like to think that those sounds have much less to do with some
particular style or genre and much more to do with what happens when a group of
people get together to have fun and see what emerges. That’s how the group
started out, and even though I supposed lots has changed, like the fact that we
somehow went from having 3 members to having 14, I hope we never lose sight of
it.
-Jonathan Marx, Nashville, 2001


Lambchop is and has been:
Tony Crow; William Tyler; Matt Swanson; Dennis Cronin; Mark Nevers; Paul Burch;
Hank Tilbury; Alex McManus; John Delworth; Deanna Varagona; Paul Niehaus; Allen
Lowery; Jonathan Marx; Steve Goodhue; Bill Killebrew; Scott Chase; Mike Doster;
Jim Watkins; Marc Trovillion and Kurt Wagner.

hope that helps,
spott - merge records

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>Hi,
>
>Excuse my ignorance, but can anyone fill me in with some details of "Tools
>in the Dryer"? Is there a website to look at?