Mammoth Records
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Founded by Jay Faires in 1989 in Carrboro, North Carolina, Mammoth Records was one of the premiere independent record labels of the 1990s. Its roster featured such diverse talent as Antenna, Blake Babies, Chainsaw Kittens, Dash Rip Rock, Dillon Fence, Far Too Jones, Frente, Fun-Da-Mental, Fu Manchu, Jason & The Scorchers, Joe Henry, Juliana Hatfield, Kill Creek, Machines of Loving Grace, The Melvins, My Friend Steve, Squirrel Nut Zippers, The Sidewinders, Vanilla Trainwreck, Velo-Deluxe, and Victoria Williams. The label released British rockers A's US releases under license from Warner Bros. Records' UK division.
The label went from a stand-alone company to being a part of a joint venture with Atlantic Records in 1993. The label hit the open market again in 1997.
Faires sold Mammoth Records to The Walt Disney Company in 1998 for over 40 times the label's initial investment.
[edit] Discography
1988
Downsiders - All My Friends Are Fish
A Picture Made EP
1989
Blake Babies - Earwig
Sidewinders - Witchdoctor
Dash Rip Rock
Dash Rip Rock – Ace of Clubs
Blackgirls - Procedure
Dillon Fence - self titled EP
The Bats - The Law of Things
Joe Henry - Murder of Crows
1990
Blake Babies - Sunburn
Dash Rip Rock - Not of this World
Joe Henry - Shuffletown
The Bats - Compiletely Bats (Mammoth/Flying Nun)
Frequency - North Carolina Compilation
Chainsaw Kittens- Violent Religion
1991
Blake Babies - Rosy Jack World EP
Blackgirls - Happy
Antenna- Sway
Vanilla Trainwreck - Sofa Livin' Dreamazine
Juliana Hatfield - I See You EP
Machines of Loving Grace
The Bats - Fear of God
1992
Juliana Hatfield - Hey Babe
Juliana Hatfield - Forever Baby
Joe Henry - Short Man's Roon
Dash Rip Rock-Boiled Alive
Dillon Fence - Rosemary
Vanilla Trainwreck- Sounding To Try Like You
Chainsaw Kittens - Flipped Out in Singapore
Machines of Loving Grace - Burn Like Brilliant Trash EP (Remix by Trent Reznor NIN)
Big Wheel - Holiday Manor
1993
Juliana Hatfield – Become What You Are
Machines of Loving Grace - Concentration
Joe Henry - Kindness of the World
The Bats – Silverbeet (Mammoth/Flying Nun)
Transmissions from the Planet Dog (Mammoth/Planet Dog)
Antenna- For Now EP
Antenna- Hideout
Blake Babies- Innocence & Experience (Best Of)
Chainsaw Kittens- Angel On The Range
Machines of Loving Grace- Concentration (Mammoth/Atlantic)
Big Wheel- Slowtown
Frente - Labour of Love (EP)
1994
Frente - Marvin , The Album (Mammoth/Atlantic)
Blake Babies – Nicely, Nicely - re release
Victoria Williams – Loose
Victoria Williams – Swing the Statue! - re release
Dillon Fence – Living Room Scene
Kill Creek – St. Valentine’s Garage
Rare on Air, Vol 1 (featuring Natalie Merchant, Leonard Cohen, John Cale)
Jabberjaw – Good to the Last Drop - featuring Girls Against Boys, Beck, Jawbox, Hole, Teenage Fanclub
The Bats – Spill the Beans ep (featuring Mac from Merge)
Joe Henry – Fireman’s Wedding ep (featuring the Jayhawks and Billy Bragg)
Laundry – Blacktongue (Mammoth/Prawn Song)
Porch (Mammoth/Prawn Song)
Jacobites – Robespierre’s Velvet Basement
Vanilla Trainwreck- Mordecai
Chainsaw Kittens- Pop Heiress Dies (Mammoth/Atlantic)
Kevn Kinney- Down Out Law
1995
Seven Mary Three – American Standard
Juliana Hatfield – Only Everything
Squirrel Nut Zippers – The Inevitable
Machines of Loving Grace – Gilt
Rare on Air, Vol 2
Dillon Fence – Living Room Scene
Fun^Da^Mental – Seize the Time (Mammoth/Beggars Banquet)
Bandit Queen – Hormone Hotel
Victoria Williams – Live in Toronto
The Bats – Couchmaster
Velo-Deluxe – Superelastic
Jason & the Scorchers – A Blazing Grace
Eatstatic – Epsylon (Mammoth/Planet Dog)
Eatstatic – Implant (Mammoth/Planet Dog)
Eatstatic – Abduction (Mammoth/Planet Dog)
Feed Your Head – Vol 1 (Mammoth/Planet Dog)
Banco de Gaia – Last Train to Lhasa (Mammoth/Planet Dog)
Banco de Gaia – Maya (Mammoth/Planet Dog)
Children of the Bong – Sirius Sounds (Mammoth/Planet Dog)
Quadruped – Vol 1 (Mammoth/Planet Dog)
Up and Down Club Sessions Vol 1 (Mammoth/Prawn Song)
Up and Down Vol 2 (Mammoth/Prawn Song) - featuring Don Cherry
Alphabet Soup – Layin Low in the Cut (Mammoth/Prawn Song)
Eskimo – The Further Adventures of Der Shrimpkin (Mammoth/Prawn Song)
Machines of Loving Grace- Gilt (Mammoth/Atlantic)
Vowel Movement- Vowel Movement (Mammoth/Atlantic)
1996
Squirrel Nut Zippers – Hot
Joe Henry – Trampoline (Mammoth/Atlantic)
Melvins - Stag (Mammoth/Atlantic)
Frente – Shape (Mammoth/Atlantic)
Fu Manchu – In Search Of...
Pure – Generation Six-Pack
Kill Creek – Proving Winter Cruel
Jason & the Scorchers – Clear impetuous Morning
Jason & the Scorchers – Reckless Country Soul (Mammoth/Praxis) (re release)
MTV Buzz Bin - (Mammoth/MTV) - featuring Dave matthews, The Cranberries, US3
Clarissa – Silver
Jabberjaw – Pure Sweet Hell (featuring Everclear, Mary Lou Lord, Jawbreaker)
Future Loop Foundation – Time and Bass (Mammoth/Planet Dog)
Planet Dub – Planet Dub (Mammoth/Planet Dog)
Jack Drag (Mammoth/Hep-Cat)
The Raymond Brake Never Work Ever (Mammoth/Hep-Cat)
Dirty Dozen Brass Band- Ears To The Wall
1997
Fu Manchu – The Action Is Go
Huricane Streets Soundtrack - broke Marcy Playground, “Sex and Candy” off it, features Xzibit, De La Soul)
MTV Buzz Bin – Vol 2 (Mammoth/MTV) - featuring D’Angelo, The Flaming Lips, The Chemical Brothers
The Backsliders – Throwin’ Rocks at the Moon
Jas. Mathus & His Knockdown Society – Songs for Rosetta
Strangefolk – Weightless in Water
Clarissa – Blood and Commons
Two Dollar Pistols - On Down the Track (Mammoth/Hep-Cat)
Jack Drag –Unisex Headwave (Mammoth/Hep-Cat)
Elevate – Interior (Mammoth/Hep-Cat)
Fabric – Woolly Mammoth (Mammoth/Hep-Cat)
Squirrel Nut Zippers- Sold Out (EP)
1998
Squirrel Nut Zippers- Perennial Favorites
Seven Mary Three – Orange Ave.
Rare on Air – Vol 4 (featuring Radiohead, Tom Waits, and Sarah Mclachlan)
Creeper Lagoon – I Become Small and Go (Mammoth/Ideal)
Hope Blister – Smile’s OK (Mammoth/4AD) - Ivo’s follow up to This Mortal Coil
Jocelyn Montgomery with David Lynch - Lux Vivens
Pure - Feverish
Jason & the Scorchers – Midnight Roads and Stages Seen
Natural Calamity – Peach Head (Mammoth/Ideal)
April March – Lessons of April March (Mammoth/ideal)
Orgazmo Soundtrack - (Mammoth/ideal) featuring Wu-Tang Clan, Dust Bros., Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Smashmouth)
Far Too Jones – Picture Postcard Walls
My Friend Steve – Hope and Wait
Squirrel Nut Zippers-Christmas Caravan
1999
The Wiseguys – The Anecdote (Mammoth/Wall of Sound)
Freestylers – We Rock Hard (Mammoth/Frescanova)
Joe Henry – Fuse
Morning Becomes Eclectic (standout tracs by Cake, Air, Lyle Lovett, PJ Harvey and Pink Martini)
Fu Manchu – King of the Road
Mark Lizotte – Soul Lost Companion
Backsliders – Southern Lines
Dirty Dozen Brass Band – Buck Jump
Strangefolk – A Great Long While
Katharine Whalen – Jazz Squad
Styles of Beyond – 2000 Fold (Mammoth/Ideal)
10 cents - (Mammoth/Ideal)
Splendid
2000
Jesus Son – Soundtrack (featuring Wilco,
Frankie Machine
Squirrel Nut Zippers- Bedlam Ballroom
Soundtracks
Reality Bites - Juliana Hatfield “Spin the Bottle”
The Crow - Machines of Loving Grace
The Crow 2 – Seven Mary Three
[edit] Works Cited
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1116676444.html?categoryid=16&cs=1&query=mammoth+records
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http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117775630.html?categoryid=16&cs=1&query=jay+faires
