I would assume that, if they sent a demo to Touch and Go, it was listened to. Whoever listened to it decided to take a pass.

The Touch and Go you're talking about is the one that didn't take a pass on this. A label where the selection criteria was different In other words, a different label.

The records Touch and Go were putting out in 1991 were of an immediately different ilk than Nevermind, no matter who recorded it. As in - "one of these things is not like the others" different.

= Justin

Justin from Queens wrote:I would assume that, if they sent a demo to Touch and Go, it was listened to. Whoever listened to it decided to take a pass.

I can almost guarantee it wasn't

Marsupialized wrote:

Justin from Queens wrote:I would assume that, if they sent a demo to Touch and Go, it was listened to. Whoever listened to it decided to take a pass.

I can almost guarantee it wasn't

I don't think they listen to demos. They send a thanks-but-no-thanks postcard if they get around to it.

STF wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:

Justin from Queens wrote:I would assume that, if they sent a demo to Touch and Go, it was listened to. Whoever listened to it decided to take a pass.

I can almost guarantee it wasn't

I don't think they listen to demos. They send a thanks-but-no-thanks postcard if they get around to it.

Yeah, I interned there back when I was a stoned young college lad...you wouldn't believe the amount of CD's, records and tapes that come in every day from people wanting to get signed.
There's no way anyone could go through it all, they have a bustling business to run....they'd just let us take whatever we wanted home out of the pile on the basis we send one of the 'thanks but no thanks' postcards to the band.
I got the entire Jackie O Motherfucker discography at the time on vinyl that way. Still have em.
A lot just got thrown away, there was just way too much and they don't sign bands that way anyway.

They would have made a good album, and sold about as much as Mudhoney. Maybe even less.

Then Green Day and Rancid would have come along and saved the world with real punk rock for real punk rock kids. Not that heavy metal hippie shit for college radio nerds.

We would have been spared Smashing Pumpkins, hopefuly.

Eugene Kelly would have won the Eurovision Song Contest for "Omm a Lamma Lamma" and then moved to Ibiza.

The Stone Roses would have ditched Ian Brown and hooked up with Liam Gallagher and would have been "massive". In Japan.

PJ Harvey would have ripped off Seam instead of Slint.
Albini would still have produced and the drums would still sound the same old same old. (Not vibrant and alive and modern, like Wallace work. Lombardo kicks Grohl ass all day.)

Calvin Johnson would still be a mediocre talent.

Kurdt still would have killed himself.

Marsupialized wrote:has a band ever left touch and go, signed to a major and sold huge amounts of records?

Alternate Universe Brainiac.

honeyisfunny wrote:

that damned fly wrote:the world wouldn't have changed much for me.

there are lots of mediocre bands on TG that i don't listen to.

Edited after a brief lapse in maturity on my part.

so now you think you're better than me, huh?

Marsupialized wrote:

STF wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:

Justin from Queens wrote:I would assume that, if they sent a demo to Touch and Go, it was listened to. Whoever listened to it decided to take a pass.

I can almost guarantee it wasn't

I don't think they listen to demos. They send a thanks-but-no-thanks postcard if they get around to it.

Yeah, I interned there back when I was a stoned young college lad...you wouldn't believe the amount of CD's, records and tapes that come in every day from people wanting to get signed.
There's no way anyone could go through it all, they have a bustling business to run....they'd just let us take whatever we wanted home out of the pile on the basis we send one of the 'thanks but no thanks' postcards to the band.
I got the entire Jackie O Motherfucker discography at the time on vinyl that way. Still have em.
A lot just got thrown away, there was just way too much and they don't sign bands that way anyway.

How did your beloved CocoRosie get signed then?

Christopher J. McGarvey wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:

STF wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:

Justin from Queens wrote:I would assume that, if they sent a demo to Touch and Go, it was listened to. Whoever listened to it decided to take a pass.

I can almost guarantee it wasn't

I don't think they listen to demos. They send a thanks-but-no-thanks postcard if they get around to it.

Yeah, I interned there back when I was a stoned young college lad...you wouldn't believe the amount of CD's, records and tapes that come in every day from people wanting to get signed.
There's no way anyone could go through it all, they have a bustling business to run....they'd just let us take whatever we wanted home out of the pile on the basis we send one of the 'thanks but no thanks' postcards to the band.
I got the entire Jackie O Motherfucker discography at the time on vinyl that way. Still have em.
A lot just got thrown away, there was just way too much and they don't sign bands that way anyway.

How did your beloved CocoRosie get signed then?

From what I understand they didn't send Corey or anyone else anything, he just happened to hear it somewhere and dug it. I guess they only gave maybe 20 of those away to friends and whatnot. Their first record is that same home recorded thing that got passed around, they didn't change anything on it.