We have teamed up with Kickstarter.com to bring you the last and greatest record from YOU KNOW WHO…
Starting today June 23rd, our fans will be able to pledge money to fund the pressing of the “Tranny Island” 5 song 7″.
Don’t dress us in earth tones and call us PBS quite yet, it basically is a Pre-Order. There are tiered options, just like with a normal pre-order, except we’ve added some cool extras and some beefier packages.
You can find it here…running for about a month!
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Friends countrymen, animaLs, vegetables and minerals. The wonderful and sexually charged split 7 inch we did a few months ago will soon be availible in stores.
We waited patiently for the bands to sell copies to friends and at shows. Now the chickens have come home to roost.
Copies will be available at the usual places. We might even try to mend some fences from the b9 incident.
Keep checking back for news on places to buy this wonderful slab.
It is painfully odvious when we have no time to update this blog….Hmmm lets try to figure it out. Starts sometime around September and ends sometime in June….
We have been chosen as a Pick Of The Month in the November issue of Decibel magazine. Does that mean we have street cred with the longhairs?
Some kids in a strange and farway country liked our song “Tough Gays” so much that they used it in a skate video.
Ok, its not the greatest skate video..infact its pretty bad.. and we’re 90% sure these guys are terrorists…
If you speak this language…jump onto a knife because you are also a terrorist…we’re just kidding?
You can see it at YOUTUBE…HERE
We re-uploaded the video…and it looks GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREAT!
I was going to post something here about how in some states homosexual acts are illegal and punishable my the law…not to mention by god.
HAHAHAHAHAH Just kidding there’s no god.
I was going to equate the illegal downloading of our records as being illegal and that gay sex is illegal and so on and so forth….lost of connections..lots of pithy insights..
But fuck that…here’s some website that has our first record for download illigally.
….and hey…we dont know this site..sooo download at your own risk.
We’ve put some of our extras shirts up for sale….wow at a smashinly donglishous $8!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some new designs and some old designs…..
If you have ever silk screened anyting, you probably understand the simple excitement when you are rinsing your screen and the image you so delicately spent three days designing is washed away and your negative appears before you…wow.
The past week I’ve been designing, burning and setting screens. I spent five hours the other day screening the covers of the new records. Which came out looking like this:
Youth of Togay Split Pre-ORder COver (fns Records)
They are far from perfect. But I look at silk screening like I have always looked at tattoos and people. There is never such a thing as “perfect”. Infact like my tattoos, silk screeneing and people…I prefer inperfect things. They have more character.
Anyway originally we had enlisted DEF STAR to do these covers for us, Steve was awesome and VERY helpful. Unfortunately financially it was not in our budget. Steve offered us a great deal, but based on our pre-order demand, we had to keep costs low.
I mean…we have alwasy done our own silk screening. Since our four record we have been silk screening limited covers. Its a blast. We’ve done some great ones. Including these:
"Dongs" pre-order sleeve...Black
For The Worse Pre-Order Sleeve
SSK Record Release Sleeve
The LIMP PICNIC sleeve was drawn and designed by ME ME ME. I think its interesting and fun…but probably not. Sometimes I feel like Jonah Hill in Superbad…being unable to draw anything that doesn’t have a cock in it. Which is relevant in this case.
So I spent hourse preping…the emulsion I had purchased was terrible, There was a stencil in the screen that I ahdnmt washed out months ago…so I had to ride my bike down to the car wash to power spray out the screen…that was fun. I wore my short shorts.
Anywho…if you ordered the pre-order record its on the way to you. Here are some action photos for you to enjoy…
Transparencies
...floor
..my tub looks gross
...table.
Contact sheet...with registrations...
There are still a couple left. check out THE YOUTH OF TOGAY STORE…and if you really really want one..email us: band[at]youthoftogay.com
We got 5 out of 6 in this Sonic Dice Review…..
ORIGINAL LINK: http://www.sonicdice.com/2009/01/14/album-review-youth-of-togay
[Album: Tossed Salad Days]
[Label: Rejected Records]
No, that is no misprint, you read it correctly: Youth Of Togay and ‘Tossed Salad Days’. Allow yourself a moment to giggle like a schoolboy/girl. Ready now? Great. Like gay edge pioneers Gayrilla Biscuits before them, Youth of Togay have hi-jacked the (perceived) hetero-sexist macho-orientated youth crew sound to celebrate male homosexuality with the power of the mosh and crew vocals. While most people in hardcore are up for a bit of a laugh, some people don’t seem to share their view and have surprisingly had objections to their craft. Youth Of Togay’s last record ‘The Dongs We Carry’ caused Bridge-9 and Have Heart to get a C&D order on them, which is kind of sad lame retarded if you ask me. The only good thing that came out of that ordeal is that more people got to hear of this band.
On this record they have covered Champion, Righteous Jams, Mental, Bad Brains and Project X, among others; the highlight of which though has to be their ‘parody’ of Have Heart’s ‘The Machinist’, (appropriately retitled ‘The Gaychinist’). Just like the majority of songs they cover, they are spot on with the music and the lyrical performance is as scathing and hard-hitting as the originals are. Unlike Gayrilla Biscuits who are content with covering songs and changing lyrics to describe their sexual escapades, Youth Of Togay also write their own material, which quite frankly is up to par with the covers. Songs like ‘Dude Of Your Dreams’ or ‘Adam And Steve’ are far from limp-wristed (mind the horrible pun); in fact they pack more of a punch than a load of closet-gay and hetero bands out there. You could easily see a load of edge kids pumping their fists in the air, until one of them goes “Dude, did that singalong really go ‘No Cunts’ or something?” Priceless, if only for the confused looks.
Beyond the music, which is a bitching collection of old and new hardcore sounds, as you would imagine, the lyrics are one of this band’s highest selling points. Most of the songs are about dudes screwing other dudes be they straight, bi-curious or gay (ass is ass, after all). Most of the times they are quite explicit about it, to the point of being a bit like a gay pornographic version of Project X that will make even the most liberal of dudes blush; like the seminal all-star cult edge band you are meant to digest their militant message with a sense of sarcasm, although there are some harsh truths that inform their lyrics. Their reworking of the Bad Brains classic in the form of ‘Banned In Tennessee’ for example moves away from the tales of wanton man-sex to address homophobia in Middle and Bible-belt America. Suddenly the jokes aren’t jokes any more, but the type of social criticism that made hardcore the scary beast it was in the 1980s. Is this band really any less of a band than say the Big Boys, Husker Du or MDC were back then? Not at all.
So is this another cheap shot at straight edge’s macho male-orientated superficiality? Partly yes, thanks to the covers, but the inclusion of original material that engages with a more serious set of issues by using straight edge hardcore as a musical vehicle makes this record a landmark in gay-themed music. With bands like this there is always a risk that they will be perceived as joke bands without any real agenda beyond being crass, but Youth of Togay have effectively legitimised their scene with the inclusion of thought-provoking originals. Regardless of your sexuality (and how comfortable you are with it) there are some pretty interesting ideas and messages about equality and solidarity here, that coupled with a great selection of humourous covers make for a totally sweet record. So unless you’re the militant homophobic Krishnacore straight edge type that can’t take a joke, there’s some pretty righteous stuff going on over here that will make people happy.
For Fans Of: Gayrilla Biscuits, Black Fag, Los Crudos
