Merge Records: 25 Years in 24 Minutes 

thank you for supporting Polvo.

Jon Wurster still owes me $5 from 1993. Jon, if you're reading this, don't pretend you have forgotten.

Superchunk - best band in the world!

I love this label. The people that run it, the attitude, the albums released on it, and the bands that belong to it. Spoon, Neutral Milk Hotel, Arcade Fire, Mike Krol, Destroyer, The Mountain Goats, the list goes on. Great job, Merge. You've done well. Here's to the next 25!

Cool label, cool people; so many excellent bands and love Superchunk to pieces.

This is easily one of the best labels around

Love these guys

Thanks for polvo. If that was it, it would have been the best.

Whenever merge released anything, I knew it would be good and I would buy it. Merge was the soundtrack of my life

Happy first 25

definitely one of the best labels of all time. So many good albums!

An inspiration to No Drums Records here in Sydney!!

Thank you for releasing the mighty BREADWINNER, which was one of the greatest bands to ever exist.

as a visual artist, I am so inspired by your work! thank you so much, Merge Records

Core crane secret is my all time favorite as well!!

You guys released the soundtrack to my life. If in that movie the main character was to spend all his time listening to the soundtrack, that is... But you get my point.

While big bloated commercial D.A.P. (Disposable audio products) suck more and more, Merge continues to produce actual music.

Great mini doc

So great to find this. I miss the superchunk shows at cat's cradle.

I didn't realize how many of my favorite bands were on this label :)

Love ya Merge!!!

I remember running to Record Exchange picking up those weekly mags just to keep up the news back then. It was a huge part of music culture back then. Chapel Hill bands were my favorite back then and still in rotation today on my play lists.

It's really cool that Merge has survived and stayed true to their indie roots. A lot of the indie labels are defunct now with the emergence of Itunes. Mac and Laura are kind of the ultimate gen-x 90's artist entrepreneurs that lived out a dream to make a living making music and helping other make music. I know some people from the Athens scene that did it for many years and just couldn't sustain that lifestyle. Lot of gen-xer's ended up going to work for big corporations. It would be interesting to know much profit they made from Arcade Fire - suburbs.

Wow, never knew how deep NC DIY went

Mr. Mould said it best. The business model of music at least in my mind seemed so elementary during the Eighties and Nineties as Oppose to now. It may seem easier now with i-tunes spotify sound cloud. Perhaps putting some raw version of your best music may be easy to put and have listened to on these platforms its a whole different beast to generate a fan base and have a pressing distributed or an Engineered Recording distributed. All of which as of then requires lots of mammon (money). So I'm guessing it just feels that way. Man I miss analogue and that warmth. Its just super fast nowadaze and if your not. Just give it back to the Gods/Goddess' of Music. I'm trying to say something I think, but got lost in thought. Going on 30 now right? Regardless thats awesome Merge. Who knew?😚👂👌👏👍🏽🙌🤘✌

The Stephin Merritt interviews alone are worth the price of admission. So cynical!

16:00 I love how stream lined it is 21:30 they care

saw itaots. life complete.

please write another superchunk record

one of the actual American owned labels around..I have a few favorites from the label..not sure how they can survive with all this corporate trash that sells hundreds of thousands..stay true..blessings

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*"The indie record label that does not sell drugs" is the best mission statement a company can have.* (Yes, be nice to people is good too.)

Does anyone know the song at 6:52? Thanks!!

What's the second song in this video? After the instrumental King of Carrot Flowers in the beginning...

JULIAN MY BABY

You would think that ...this would be the norm. Rather than ruining bands actually supporting them. I mean...it's the labels money, right?

What's the song that plays in the background at 15:40?

Is that Slaw Dawg presenting???

Uhhhh, Daniel Handler, Stephin Merritt, AND Neutral Milk Hotel in one video. All my interests are colliding.

Click where now to get the free stuff?!

Polvo

Hello Hawk come pick me up..........

click where?! click where!? Oh please don't go broke merge..

time to grow up, people.

Some proper Alpha Males being interviewed here

Actions are always better than words. That's why it's so important to Pray. All the praises and prayers you send up let's God know you are serious. you don't have to talk it all the time just pray it. God bless you. Jacqueline Rhett and family. When you talk to Him, let Him know you are series, now let's get busy, on our knees, OK. Jaçkie. Rhett. I love you all. Thank S.

Remember that episode of South Park where all the people liked to smell their own farts? That came to my mind immediately after listening to all the people in this documentary.

wish laura never got her tinnitius.

Oighhhh, that DEWWWWWSH w the stupid ‘nutty hat’ (lemme narrow that-the BLUE one) 😖😖😖 “Aww, pshaw! Don’t mind ME; I’m just a wacky, ageless, free, unaffected artistic spirit ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ...” Yyyyyeugch!!

you're getting old Merge