Toiling Midgets-Golden Frog b/w Mr. Foster's Shoes (1991)
Artist: Toiling Midgets
Title: Golden Frog b/w Mr. Foster's Shoes
Sell Date: 4/21/26
Condition: VG+/VG
Discogs Last Sold: 12/14/25 NM/NM $3.98
Low: $1.94
Median: $3.24
Average: $3.59
High: $6.00
Current low price: $2.72
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 14
Have/Want: 165/40
Where Sold: DeKalb, IL
Time It Took To Sell: 11 years
Where and When Bought: Allston In Your Ear 1991 $3.99
Gwiz-gau Grade: B
Sad To See It Go: No
"Where's Mark Eitzel?" asked Skeleton Boy at some show Mark Eitzel was playing at Brownies so guessing late 90's. "Aw, he's cryin' in the corner!" said a sodden Reverse Collector. This Q and A because a comedic recap for years to come. I don't even remember what band Skeleton Boy was there for but I think it is something other than Eitzel. Mark Eitzel was introduced to me by Billy Ruane who gave me of the 1988 album California insisting I had to hear it because it sounded like "acoustic Joy Division." I always liked the song "Lonely" from that tape.
I never really connected the San Francisco supergroup aspect of the Toiling Midgets all the way to my deified Flipper via it's spawn Negative Trend and their member Craig Gray. Toiling Midgets were the other offshoot of Negative Trend and also featured Sleepers drummer Tim Mooney. This record also had K. Goldring who in another life was Joe Goldring of the Swans. Paul Hood from the Meyce and The Enemy is also on guitar on this one. I'm going to assume the lineup was more or less the same on the 1992 full length Son that Matador put out since the B-side is on there.
In 1991 when I bought this, I just thought of it as a Mark Eitzel related thing, completely ignoring the bands 10 year history and pre-history of things I cared about even more. It just seemed like a random single to buy. I wasn't particularly a Matador completist at the time, but their records carried weight in their early years before they became MATADOR. I think my fairly recent appreciation at the time of American Music Club overrode label branding in the purchase of this particular record.
So what of this specific record? Well, I didn't remember either song, so it probably wasn't played beyond it's purchase and maybe a time or two on the radio. Both sides are a melodic mid-tempo lumber with a little extra atmospheric roar.
Nothing really nothing to turn off.
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