Hot Glue Gun - The Life And Death Of Hot Glue Gun

Artist: Hot Glue Gun Title: The Life And Death Of Hot Glue Gun Catalog#: Mud-CD-004 Price: $10.00	Tracks on this CD:
	Disc One (Life)		Disc Two (Death)
	Tilt-a-Whirl of Love		Backwards
	So Mean		My Own Gun
	I'll Kill You		Cement
	Shock		Patron Saint of Unrest
	Can U Feel It		Rush Fan
	So Happy		Super Kill Daddy-O
	Robert Redford		Mad About You
	Funky Do		Every Little Spaceship
	Every Little Spaceship		Torpedo/Give the Kids Some
	Houseboat		Surf's Up
	She Calms Down		Toggle
	Torpedo		Bad Breath
	Super Kill Daddy-O		Pompous Hippie
	Dive		Punk Funk
	80 Something		We Go
	Surf's Up
	Girl U Want
	Rush Fan

Did you catch that catalog number?! Mud-CD-004. That's right, it fits in the Mud/Parasol catalog between the self-titled Uptighty album, and Honcho Overload's Pour Another Drink, which was released in 1994. We've been holding this space for Hot Glue Gun for six years. Where've you been guys?

Two incarnations of Hot Glue Gun existed during its 1986-1991 lifespan. Mike Clayton and Randy Seals (Tommy Flake) formed the band with the idea to play music that was high energy and danceable, Clayton describing them as "funky rockin' smart alecks with tongues firmly planted in our cheeks." The fertile Champaign-Urbana music scene, which included Hum and Poster Kids, helped fuel their success and Hot Glue Gun took off as an opening act for such national headliners as Throwing Muses, Primus, Royal Crescent Mob, and Smashing Pumpkins. After a move from Champaign-Urbana to Madison, Wisconsin, Hot Glue Gun V 1.0 broke up and Mike Clayton moved to San Francisco. He returned to Champaign-Urbana several months later, where he put together the best known lineup with Nick Macri (C-Clamp, Euphone, Blue Man Group, Sunny Day Real Estate) and Matt Payne (Cath Carrol). With the encouragement of Poster Kids' Rose Marshack, Hot Glue Gun began recording and touring the Midwest delivering a heavier sound, still dependent on the big bad groove. They became more popular than ever, consistently selling out their local shows. But, in 1991, the band broke up for good, each member moving to different parts of the country to pursue other interests.

The Life and Death of Hot Glue Gun chronicles the complete recorded history of the band. It is a two CD set that contains their entire studio-recorded output, plus a bonus disc of unreleased live tracks. The studio CD contains five songs recorded anew in 1999 with Hum's Matt Talbott producing. Most of the live tracks are culled from a Bloomington, Illinois show that epitomized the atmosphere of Hot Glue Gun live set; smart loud pop, frenetic funk, caustic punk and everything in-between to keep the pogo-happy crowds pogo-ing and happy. Your Champaign-Urbana music scene collection will not be complete without this double dose chronicle (at a single CD price!) of one of the area's most incendiary combos. Contains genius pop-obscurities like "I'll Kill You", "Dive", "She Calms Down", and a Devo cover, of course…