Tu-Plang

Tu-Plang
Studio album by
Regurgitator
Released6 May 1996
RecordedSunshine Studio & Red Zeds, Brisbane, February 1996;
Center Stage Studios, Bangkok, Thailand, March 1996[1]
Genre
Length40:58
LabelEast West/WEA Australia
0630-14895
Reprise/Warner Bros. (US)
46509
ProducerMagoo
Regurgitator chronology
New
(1995) 		Tu-Plang
(1996) 		Unit
(1997)
Singles from Tu-Plang
  1. "F.S.O."
    Released: February 1996
  2. "Kong Foo Sing"
    Released: April 1996
  3. "Miffy's Simplicity"
    Released: September 1996
  4. "I Sucked a Lot of Cock to Get Where I Am"
    Released: November 1996 (international release)

Tu-Plang (ตู้เพลง Thai for Jukebox) is the first album released by Australian rock band Regurgitator. After making two EPs, the band chose to record the album in Bangkok, Thailand, to the quandary of its label, Warner Music, which was uncertain as to what terms A&R executive Michael Parisi had contracted.[2] Ely later said, "We didn't want to do it in just any old place, so we had a tour in Europe and Japan booked and our drummer Martin said, 'let's stop in Thailand on the way and check out some studios,' so we did and we found this place."[3]

Producer Magoo later said the studio, "was [owned by] this guy [who was in the band] Carabao. He was described to us as the local, Thai, Bruce Springsteen. He had this compound in outer Bangkok. We'd drive there and it's in the middle of all these slums. There were wild chickens running around everywhere. There were open sewers and stuff like that."[4]

At the ARIA Music Awards of 1996, the album won two awards; Best Alternative Album and Breakthrough Artist - Album.

In 2012, Regurgitator performed the entire album along with Unit on the Australian RetroTech tour.

  1. ^ https://www.facebook.com/regurgitators/posts/319710349514818 [user-generated source]
  2. ^ "Pig City: From the Saints to Savage Garden" by Andrew Stafford, Published by University of Queensland Press, 2004, p.280
  3. ^ Jade Lazrevic (8 September 2012). "The way we were". Newcastle Herald. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  4. ^ "How toothpicks helped make Tu Plang, Regurgitator's debut". Double J. 7 May 2015. Retrieved 10 August 2015.