Ecstatic Peace + Universal= what?

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Thurston has inked a deal to have certain EP releases be distributed by the 'indie' wing of Universal's distribution. (The article specifically says that Magik Markers, Sunburned Hand of the Man, NNCK and other more noisy releases will not be distributed in this fashion). What does everyone think about this? Important deal or soemthing that'll fizzle out quick?

― trees (treesessplode), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

It'll probably go over as well as Thurston's attempt at A&R in the early nineties. Cell, anyone?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

i wonder if theyll re-release that destroy all monsters 1974-76 box set. that thing used to go for like $300!

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

emblematic of the downsizing of the music biz. i wasn't knocked out by St Johnny either but this may work. it's a new day dawning.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

i wonder if theyll re-release that destroy all monsters 1974-76 box set. that thing used to go for like $300!

*jaw drops* Good lord, I bought it used years ago for about $20.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

it's a new day dawning.

You misspelled 'rising.' (All music started in 1984 on SST and everything else is a sham and a lie. Uh, that is right, isn't it?)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

;-)

― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: (ex machina), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

Damaged by Black Flag (02/11/1981 - UK date format - according to my still intact Virgin Megastore sticker on the cover) to thread...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Which Ecstatic Peace releases, then?

― mcd (mcd), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

i came across an old interview with tm a little while ago while doing some research for something else where he talks about EP and another label he was hoping to coordinate with a major (geffen, i think)for distribution. this latest info from TM voices the same issues with EP he voiced then. It seems thatuniversal musthave come to the table in a way that whoever it was before could not.

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Damaged by Black Flag (02/11/1981 - UK date format - according to my still intact Virgin Megastore sticker on the cover) to thread...

Clearly it fell through a vortex in time!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

It'll probably go over as well as Thurston's attempt at A&R in the early nineties. Cell, anyone?
-- Ned Raggett (ne...), March 6th, 2006 10:16 AM. (later)

dude I'm sure helping to bring Nirvana to DGC balanced out a lot of bombs.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Mouthus better start writing some pop songs.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

dude I'm sure helping to bring Nirvana to DGC balanced out a lot of bombs.

Yer confusing two things, sir (thus my Cell and M.'s St. Johnny comments -- a state of affairs which probably specifically grew out of that Nirvana recommendation and which the Geffen bods doubtless rapidly realized was a one-off).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

anybody else have to check to make sure today isn't april 1 when they saw the pitchfork headline for the story about this?

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

A lot of these artists really wanted to be associated with Ecstatic Peace, and I was like, well, I pretty much do this out of my bedroom, and most of the stock sits in my basement."---------now they can sit in universals basement...no seriuosly i predict big numbers for black helicopters..400k at least..when even estabbed indys cant sell more than 20k at a clip what geenus decided to take on a project tht sells in micro amts?

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

A tax loss expert?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

I can only imagine it will be a distribution deal. Hardly selling the label to the devil. Just getting stuff out to more shops. Universal distribute lots of indies in the States as I understand.

I don't think it makes the label a subsid of a major

― sonicred (sonicred), Monday, 6 March 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

4 words: Be Your Own Pet

take that for what it's worth (about nothing, but apparently someone thinks otherwise)

― hector savage, Monday, 6 March 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

Interesting. That actually makes a little sense.

― mcd (mcd), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

what duzz t's toodleage of the 'pet have to do w getting Tam into mom and pops?

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

who are you, walter winchell?

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

i don't really think it'll work out, but i also am not necessarily against it. i mean, if Thurston Moore wants to be able to find Ecstatic Peace releases every time he walks into a Tower or Borders, that's fine with me. god knows that most of it will stay on the shelves for years in such places.

― trees (treesessplode), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

hahahaha, cell!

i think that estatic peace is gonna be putting out some bloc party type bands i bet.

― corey c (shock of daylight), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

That's what I took the Be Your Own Pet thing as (not sure if that's clear from my post). Not that they're a Bloc Party type band but they are really fun and punky and catchy and young and they maybe could appeal to a wide audience?

― mcd (mcd), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

Be great to see a singles comp. Venom, Red Transistor...

― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 04:47 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mikekelley.com/compound.html

COMING SOON!!! Finally! The reissue you've all been waiting for: Destroy All Monsters: 1974/1976. The 3 CD set that introduced the world to the pre-punk DAM. Out of the gloomy basements of Ann Arbor Michigan flowed the horrid strains of a music never before heard. Experience it in all of its musty glory. Yes, Destroy All Monsters rises again.

― o -- (eman), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 04:54 (nineteen years ago)

Mike Kelley's had that announcement up on his site for a few years now.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 05:00 (nineteen years ago)

i want to get to say Cell too.

Cell.

― Zwan (miccio), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 05:02 (nineteen years ago)

As opposed to sell with an 's' I guess.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

Surely the other benefit is advertising rates for joint advertising alongside other indies releases in stores like Tower, Virgin or HMV or for CWNN group ads

― sonicred (sonicred), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

Alright, this is a totally random and really obscure question, but! Does anyone remember a video that was on the Ecstatic Peace website by a band called, I think, Duck, where this dude was just singing "The sun machine is coming down and we're gonna have a party, oh ho ho!" again and again, and strumming what I think was a distorted guitar? Saw this in, like, 2005. Does anyone know what I'm talking about or where I could find the video? Thanking you in advance.

― ksh, Saturday, 29 May 2010 20:03 (fifteen years ago)

It was a shitty live video.

― ksh, Saturday, 29 May 2010 20:04 (fifteen years ago)

was in a record shop a couple months back (easy street's queen anne location, for seattle folks) and watched a few songs of an in-store set by the very young and tragically named violent soho. sponsored by "the funky monkey", a big local (clear channel) rock/alt/metal radio station. band basically sounded like nirvana, which is weird to hear in 2010. not really my thing, but they had some tunes and pulled it off okay, i guess. on my way out i noticed that the promo 45 they were giving away came out on ecstatic fucking peace. wtf, world?

― the other is a black gay gentleman from Los Angeles (contenderizer), Saturday, 29 May 2010 21:27 (fifteen years ago)

dude do you seriously not know "Memory Of A Free Festival"? Go listen to David Bowie's Space Oddity album ASAP, find the Ryko 7" single version bonus tracks for extra credit.

― bug holocaust (sleeve), Saturday, 29 May 2010 22:03 (fifteen years ago)

sleeve, dude! I've only owned Heroes! i had NO IDEA that those were Bowie lines or whatever -- i just thought it was something that Duck dude came up with. amazing!

so now there's a ksh recording of "Sun Machine" w/ me playing some bs feedbacky stuff on guitar and shouting "The sun machine is coming down and we're gonna have a party, oh ho ho!" from 2005, and I had absolutely no idea the thing had anything to do with Bowie. A++

― ksh, Saturday, 29 May 2010 22:30 (fifteen years ago)

thanking you x100 for that revelation -- need to check out Bowie's original obv

― ksh, Saturday, 29 May 2010 22:31 (fifteen years ago)

haha no prob, and seriously the 7" version is way better imo

― bug holocaust (sleeve), Saturday, 29 May 2010 23:04 (fifteen years ago)

also, you need Low and Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust.

OK, back to Ecstatic Peace... seems like nothing much came of this deal with Universal, I got a free CD sampler once from a store but that was the extent of the marketing push from my POV.

― bug holocaust (sleeve), Saturday, 29 May 2010 23:13 (fifteen years ago)

thanking you!

― ksh, Monday, 31 May 2010 18:08 (fifteen years ago)

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