Come Down to the Merry Go Round

Come Down to the Merry Go Round
EP by Laughing Hyenas
Released	November 1987
Recorded	September 1987 at Smart Studios, Madison, Wisconsin
Genre	Post-hardcore hardcore[1]
Length	26:21
Label	Touch and Go Records
Producer	Butch Vig Laughing Hyenas
Laughing Hyenas chronology
Come Down to the Merry Go Round (1987) You Can't Pray a Lie (1989)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
Piero Scaruffi	[3]

Come Down to the Merry Go Round is the first recording by the American hardcore punk band Laughing Hyenas, released in 1987 through Touch and Go Records. It was reissued in 1995 accompanied with 5 bonus tracks.

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Stain"	4:16
2.	"Hell's Kitchen"	3:19
3.	"That Girl"	5:17

Side two
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Gabriel"	4:09
2.	"Playground"	4:32
3.	"What Tomorrow Brings"	4:48

Personnel

Laughing Hyenas John Brannon – vocals, trumpet Jim Kimball – drums Kevin Strickland – bass guitar Larissa Strickland – guitar

Additional musicians and production Laughing Hyenas – production Butch Vig – production, engineering, recording P.W. Long – backing vocals

References

1. ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/merry-go-round-r11417
2. ^ Beldin, Fred. "allmusic ((( Merry Go Round > Review )))". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r11417. Retrieved February 6, 2010. 
3. ^ Scaruffi, Piero. "Laughing Hyenas". pieroscaruffi.com (Italian). Retrieved on February 6, 2010.