POX: Essential pre-1991 grunge.

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Just got through watching the HYPE documentary from several years back, and now... of course, I'm in a nostalgia spiral that will only end in a liquoured up Sunday night binge of Screaming Trees and Nag Champa.

Could those in the know set me up with an essential ten list of pre-1991 grunge tracks that I might not have heard of, but nonetheless, rawk?

Luv, Maria.

P.S. For those who haven't got them yet, the recent Gits reissues are a fucking revelation.

― maria b (maria b), Sunday, 3 October 2004 20:08 (twenty years ago)

I don't know if I'd call Blood Circus 'essential' or not...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 3 October 2004 20:11 (twenty years ago)

Haha - Blood Circus! Here we go in the same sort of vein (but maybe not exactly essential - there's a very good reason why people actually remember Mudhoney!)(and no I'm not being sarcy - honest!)

Swallow - Trapped
Skin Yard - Open Fist
Cosmic Psychos - Can't Come In
Big Tube Squeezer - Sweet Jane
Feedtime - Fun Fun Fun
The Fluid - Hooked
Rein Sanction - Creel
Thee Hypnotics - Justice In Freedom
Eric's Trip - Need
Sister Ray - Release

― NickB (NickB), Sunday, 3 October 2004 20:32 (twenty years ago)

Cant believe I mentioned half of those losers and totally forgot 'Shove' by L7.

― NickB (NickB), Sunday, 3 October 2004 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Um, Superfuzz Bigmuff?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 3 October 2004 22:09 (twenty years ago)

Oh, TRAX you haven't heard...

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 3 October 2004 22:10 (twenty years ago)

i gotta pay more attention

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 3 October 2004 22:10 (twenty years ago)

not quite grunge...
bitch magnet
bastro

― simon 803 (simon 803), Sunday, 3 October 2004 22:12 (twenty years ago)

Melvins - Gluey Porch Treatments

― joseph pot (STINKOR™), Monday, 4 October 2004 03:04 (twenty years ago)

scientists "swampland"
cosmic psychos "lost cause"

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Monday, 4 October 2004 03:28 (twenty years ago)

that swallow track is great.

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Monday, 4 October 2004 03:28 (twenty years ago)

Louder Than Love (1989)

― p.j. (Henry), Monday, 4 October 2004 03:54 (twenty years ago)

tad "loser" and "daisy"

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Monday, 4 October 2004 04:00 (twenty years ago)

love battery "between the eyes" (awesome!)

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Monday, 4 October 2004 04:02 (twenty years ago)

poster children "thinner-stronger"

(yes, i've got the sub pop discography open as we speak)

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Monday, 4 October 2004 04:03 (twenty years ago)

Louder Than Love vociferously seconded.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 4 October 2004 11:47 (twenty years ago)

No takers for Cat Butt? The Lonely Moans?

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:01 (twenty years ago)

Bastro - 'Nothing Special'

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:57 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Sydney's Box of Fish described their sound as grunge, and had a satisfyingly grungey sound, back in 1984. Not sure what kind of direct influence they had on Nirvana et al, but they did influence the Black Eye bands, including Lubricated Goat,which in turn may have influenced the Seattle bunch.

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― moley, Thursday, 10 May 2007 04:42 (eighteen years ago)

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