Legends miss the cut on Seattle grunge compilation
Forthcoming grunge compilation Sleepless In Seattle: The Birth Of Grunge has sidestepped two of the genre's most prominent exponents, Pearl Jam and Nirvana.
The record is due for a release on February 7th, through Livewire Recordings (us neither). It features 20 tracks from the likes of Mudhoney (pictured), Screaming Trees and Babes In Toyland. Colin Cobb, executive producer behind the project, summed up those omissions thus:
“These bands (those on the record) are the unsung heroes. Although they didn't become multi-platinum megastars, they went on to influence and form some of the biggest, chart topping groups in music history. As we approach the 20th anniversary of the birth of grunge music, we are thrilled to bring this significant historical compilation, which includes many bands whose music has not been made available for years, to fans everywhere. This project was a labour of love."
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well, colin cobb
certainly showed us
I would never have classified Pearl Jam as grunge as such
or at least, certainly not in the same bracket as Mudhoney or Nirvana.
haha!
and of course its cheaper if you don't have to pay royalties to courtney love and eddie vedder..
Yeah
That's the first thing i thought! damn armchair cynics
yeh but
really the point of the cd isn't to show the obvious ones that everyone knows. by the way the full tracklisting is:
1. BLACKOUTS... Happy Hunting Ground
2. MR. EPP & THE CALCULATIONS... Mohawk Man
3. U-MEN... Solid Action
4. GREEN RIVER... Come On Down
5. THE MELVINS... Grinding Process
6. MALFUNKSHUN... With Yo' Heart (Not Yo' Hands)
7. SCREAMING TREES... Orange Airplane
8. MUDHONEY... In 'N' Out Of Grace
9. BABES IN TOYLAND... He's My Thing
10. TAD... Giant Killer
11. COFFIN BREAK... Crawl
12. TREEPEOPLE... Guilt Regret Embarrassment
13. SKIN YARD... Hallowed Ground
14. GRUNTRUCK... Tribe
15. THE GITS... Second Skin
16. LOVE BATTERY... Half Past You
17. HAMMERBOX... Trip
18. SEAWEED... Losing Skin
19. 7 YEAR BITCH... The Scratch
20. SUPERSUCKERS... Creepy Jackalope Eye
and it features jeff ament and stone gossard from pearl jam in green river anyway...plus matt cameron in skinyard...
personally i'd have gone for This Town by green river myself, but no matter.
Nirvana/Pearl Jam
They could have put a Bleach-era Nirvana track, surely, and if it was to show the scene's underground influences, Big Black, Husker Du... Always easy to argue about the contents of a compo album, and equally there's almost never one compilation that has ALL the songs that you want to hear in one place.
no nirvana
nevermind :p I think a bloated boxset of every kurt cobain humming-a-tune-while-hoovering-demo is enough to keep us going for a while, I don't think there's anything left is there...?
at least there was no blood circus...
SEAWEED!
Oh man, I just went girly. To be honest this should just be a CD devoted to Seaweed.
so
anyways what happend to Sweet75 ... did they ever release anything ?
Cool to unearth the unknown. I guess.
No Nirvana/AIC/Pearl Jam/Soundgarden.
But I concentrate too much on them anyways. I've started listening to Nirvana again recently after a few years off - probably due to the stoopid amount of times you hear bloody teen spirit - why has no one learnt we've heard that enough!!! grrr
they did one album
and apparently it was utter gash, grunge-lite with a waily folk singer, and enough for Krist to hang up his bass for good so i hear. bless.
Well not really
He was back with Eyes Adrift but a year or so ago.
There's some pretty good stuff on there, although it's a bit of a weird choice. 7 Year Bitch and The Gits were fairly decent, if not exactly extraordinary. Tad and The Melvins obviously gurt and Supersuckers are a good pop band. I dunno, just seems a bit like a personal favourites thing rather than a good overview or introduction.
Seaweed - ah!
I used to have a tape of one of their albums. I think the cover of the original CD had a picture of a crowdsurfer on it... know which one? Bloomin' brilliant it was.
Malfunkshun were utterly awful, though. Thank God Andy Wood left them and formed Mother Love Bone with Stone and Jeff.
"Grunge"
I am all for the underground music but surely the bands who brought the success to the genre deserve a place on the "best of". When i think of Grunge i think of Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Temple of the Dog, soundgarden, mother love bone and Nirvana none of whom feature even if some of the bandnames are represented. If this Cd is going to make money for this no name label then they should have put tracks that people are aware of. Melvins are good though
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