Frontier Records S&D

got email spam about their 30th anniversary. so, what's your fave stuff. adolescents s/t is one of my fave albums on earth. like, top 100 or something. so that's my fave. but, you know, group sex and dance with me are great of course. only theatre of pain. suicidal tendencies. born innocent. they started strong! then i might have a missed 40 or 50 releases.

so?

http://rateyourmusic.com/label/frontier_records/1

Thin White Rope for sure!

Flop!

Frontier love in.

Adolescents st

Thin White Rope

AMC

Circle Jerks

Christian death

Suicidal!

All great

As varied as that other CA label. Y'know - Lookout records.

You know which one I really mean

Thin White Rope thirded, AMC seconded. I'd listen to anything produced by Tom Mallon.

TSOL, Circle Jerks, Adolescents, Redd Kross, Suicidal Tendencies, Christian Death - all great.

Not really into the later stuff they put out. I like a couple of Long Ryders songs. My wife loves Three O'Clock.

label started by Lisa Fancher. how many punk labels started by women? or labels in general for that matter...

that Befour Three O'Clock record is nice - garage punky proto-paisley

how many punk labels started by women? or labels in general for that matter...

Thrill Jockey is the only other one that comes to mind, though it's not a 'punk' label.

that Befour Three O'Clock record is nice - garage punky proto-paisley

I believe that one was originally released on the Minutemen's label New Alliance when the band was still called Salvation Army.

Oops, my mistake, the album indeed came out on Frontier. Their first SINGLE was on New Alliance.

100% Classic!

Those Heatmiser albums are quite good too

Interviewed Lisa back in 1995 for a story on punk that never ran but she was great, all sorts of anecdotes. I think I started off by asking after her liner notes for the We Aren't the World tape by the Dickies and we were off and running.

don't forget both of the Weirdos anthologies! so good.

Thin White Rope and AMC.

there was sylvia robinson at sugar hill, & fiona bloom co-founded the indie hip hop label sub verse

also Ruth Schwartz & Mordam Records/distro

& Simple Machines but that may be stretching it in terms of "punk".

TWR FTW. Moonhead is still right up there as one of my favourite albums ever.

An email very politely reminding pertinent writers, websites and magazines that this is Frontier's 30th from my buds Josh Mills and Tracy B at IT'S ALIVE is not spam! "Started out strong"? Watch it, kid, or I'll give you something to cry about...

Your friend,
Lisa

lisa also launched elliott smith's career.

hmmm, what else? thin white rope were seminal (didn't they make the cover of melody maker?), flop were awesome as were the young fresh fellows and dharma bums. those damned re-issues were pretty amazing.

http://www.rockofages.uk.com/stock/10455.jpg

^ I well remember this issue

Looking at the discogs page they've some great reissues too:

Dangerhouse comps
Damned Damned Damned
Eddie & the Subtitles
Middle Class

etc

was just coming back to mention the Dangerhouse comps, a true public service.

Listened to Exploring The Axis and the Poster Children split on the way home, love that band so much.

i had a thing for the pontiac brothers.

I like how we're all just skating over the fact that Lisa F. just posted here! (Hi there!)

posted here and threatened scott with bodily harm!

FAO LISA F

Right.I am going for this one now.ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ everybody (that includes Lisa) I apologize

Going back around 25/30years (fkn shocking yes!) an old acquaintance of mine reckoned he used to get letters from you, He didn't , it will have been the formative Frontier catalogue surely?

He was from Anlaby, Hull, ENGLAND

Weirdest thing was, he wasn't a 'punk' - he was what you 'mericans call a 'jock'. I learnt that in the same conversation he informed me his dad got killed by a bolt of lightning whilst smoking a cigarette in his garden.

Fuck the stereotypes

As Frontier have consistently done

Thanks Lisa

"Watch it, kid, or I'll give you something to cry about..."

you rule. and you put out records that changed my life/kept me alive when i was 16. all the respect in the world! i stopped paying attention cuz i got old and boring.

..and he 'taped' me the Legal Weapon LP, which I later bought and still have but not sure if they were on Frontier?

I only know Legal Weapon from Hell Comes To Your House and American Youth Report but I liked that stuff, what's the LP like?

it's 'lofted up ' Poo, but I remember it being pretty wholesome when I last played it 15 yearr ago. Although hated by the scenesters. I don't fucking know as I was nowhere near and never will be ;-)

Spot 1019 were a weird fun band at the time. I saw them open for Camper Van Beethoven and they had a frat-boy/psychotic vibe happening. The albums worked too. It's been many years since I listened though.

Hey Scott! I was just giving you the biz, no bodily harm implied or intended. I've been hearing the started out strong line for a long time, loooong time. FYI I almost put out some Legal Weapon comps but then Kat went with another label... I can remember that meeting clearly because Operation Desert Storm was playing out on CNN the whole time we were trying to (unsuccessfully) focus on the reissues. Didn't happen but oh well... I have more amazing punk comps in the pipeline now, just need people to start f'in buying records so I can fund them. Cheers anyone and everyone here with something nice (or even not nice) to say! Greg Shaw taught me well, even before I had the label and just wrote or published fanzines I always answered all mail-- there might have been a correspondence with a guy from Hull somewhere. Who knows!? When in doubt refer to MOTO: "You Don't Have to Be a Dick About It".

Rabid Cat! another great label started by a woman. i knew i was forgetting something.

Didn't know the Out of Vogue 7" had been reissued. I'll have to upgrade from mp3 to a more hand/eye/ear friendly format pronto.

got another email today. dug the subject line:

More spam about Lisa Fancher

It makes me sad no one ever remembers Dharma Bums. The first two albums (Haywire and Bliss) were addictive when I first got them in the early '90s, and the third one had some nice moments.

the classic three early AMC albums on Frontier are of course my favorites. Tom Mallon has been allegedly remastering these (including United Kingdom) for self-release, I think relationships with Lisa F. are very bad but it would have been cool to get them re-released on Frontier.

Thin White Rope are like the best American band ever - at least in my heart.