how long until we start seeing "grebo" influenced bands on sub pop, matador, and merge?

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i can't wait@!

― corey c (shock of daylight), Friday, 3 February 2006 23:50 (twenty years ago)

Grebo is lacking one important thing here: Nobody buys grebo albums anymore. The trend is all but forgotten and as long as there's no Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine in any of those "Best albums of all time" surveys doesn't make it likely that grebo will ever be recycled again.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 16 February 2006 12:52 (twenty years ago)

Well, Crazyhead were pretty similar and certainly no better or worse than a few of the early Sub Pop bands, that's for sure.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 16 February 2006 13:07 (twenty years ago)

xpost yeah but the same could have been said about Black Sabbath, back in the eighties. Then look what happened.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 16 February 2006 13:09 (twenty years ago)

I thought that the current Bloc Party dance-y alt-pop was all supposed to be PWEI/Mondays redux. I know they claim all sorts of post-punk/new wave pedigree, but I don't believe 'em.

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 16 February 2006 13:28 (twenty years ago)

No one in America knows what "grebo" is.

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 16 February 2006 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Grebo died because it was taken over by the media whores and music industry nazis.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Thursday, 16 February 2006 14:27 (twenty years ago)

What, like this man?

http://www.altamontrecords.com/paintings/zodiacmindwarpposter1.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 16 February 2006 14:34 (twenty years ago)

http://www.mtv.com/shared/media/images/amg_covers/200/drd900/d911/d91196ne7dy.jpg

Pigeonhed was on Sub Pop!

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Thursday, 16 February 2006 15:13 (twenty years ago)

Are the Mega City Four "grebo"? They're covered in the chapter on grebo in "Manic Pop Thrill." If so, they were the only grebo band worth anything.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Thursday, 16 February 2006 15:30 (twenty years ago)

aren't they more transit van?

― cw (cww), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Transit van's a kind of music?

― warm leatherette, Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:16 (twenty years ago)

People, people: Matador released Moonshake's Eva Luna in 1993.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.utc.edu/Faculty/Sharon-Brueggeman/autographs/greedo.jpg

― hot ewok action, Friday, 17 February 2006 00:16 (twenty years ago)

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/mikafun/images/GREEDO%2520FUN.JPG

― oh greedo (I think I love you), Friday, 17 February 2006 00:17 (twenty years ago)

how is moonshake grebo?

― keyth (keyth), Friday, 17 February 2006 01:02 (twenty years ago)

grebo shoots first

― latebloomer: yes...that's a human ear, all right (latebloomer), Friday, 17 February 2006 01:05 (twenty years ago)

"Going somewhere, Solo?"

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Friday, 17 February 2006 03:22 (twenty years ago)

sixteen years pass...

there doesn't seem to be any enmity between matador and merge, but

first there was spoon going matador/agony of majors/merge and acclaim/some one-off major/matador

now there's the new pornographers going to merge (where, tbf bejar has been forever)

any particular reason why?

― mookieproof, Friday, 13 January 2023 05:10 (three years ago)

Teenage Fanclub has done both, too. Though they left Matador less than amicably, as I recall.

I would guess it's more about the fact that there are only so many "big" indies and also just timing more than any particular reason.

Someone will ask Newman at some point in the next few months how the band ended up with Merge.

― alpine static, Friday, 13 January 2023 06:06 (three years ago)

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