I Have Never Heard These Bands Who Have Recorded For Sub Pop

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Polar Goldie Cats were great. angular instrumental goodness. like Polvo with a Beefheart jones. when were they on Sub Pop?

sukpatch was on slabco, which was distributed by sub pop i believe. catchy cut-n-paste electro, sort of like land of the loops and kitty craft.

i love flop -- they were on flydaddy (RIP). really fun power-poppy stuff. the lead singer drummed for the fastbacks on 'zucker' and was in pure joy. they got signed to a major and totally mishandled, then they broke up.

The only Kicking Giant album you need is (non-Sub Pop) Halo...good luck finding it. Pre-White Stripes Guitar/Drum duo that was about 1/2 Beat Happening and 1/2 artsy guitar drone (maybe along the lines of Poem Rocket). The album on Sub Pop isn't very good. One member is somewhat responsible for inflicting Liz Phair on the world.

was she in a band with them? i have a really bad cd with liz phair singing on it before her solo stuff came out. maybe. (she might have put out some tapes by then)

these the british st. etienne-y types? they're nice.

> Brunettes

from new zealand. sort of a cross between mates of states and the avalanches. also very nice.

> Concretes

from sweden. their singer is on that peter, bjorn & john song, but left a couple a months ago. cardigans meets camera obscura. without any smiles at all. still very nice.

> The Elected

that's the guy from rilo kiley. not as good as rilo kiley.

> Frausdots

think I have their latest album. can't remember what it sounds like.

> Patent Pending

my brother's band is called that. I think I would've known if he signed to subpop.

> Pond

they had a really good grunge-song called jessie.

> Soul Junk

isn't that the ex-trumans water guy who went on to do christian lo-fi rap?

> Sportsguitar

the swiss (or italian?) pavement.

> The Thermals

they're very good. undertones meets guided by voices.

The Elected's first album was basically some Conor Oberst-wannabe shit the Lindsey Buckingham of Rilo Kiley made. I hear the second was better.

Jale are some girls who were friends of Sloan. Their first album is good jangle-harmonies-whyisn'tthisonK stuff.

Monkeywrench is a Mudhoney sideproject. Electric Children is like the more Easybeatish Mudhoney songs, and I dig it.

Rogue Wave is on some If You Need More Shins shit.

The Thermals are an exuberant, lil' power trio that sound like they came from Planet Ted Leo (where the Clash is still a plausible source of inspiration) and their new album is awesome.

Wolf Parade is strictly for folks who've run out of Modest Mouse b-sides.

What I've heard from the other bands I can barely remember.

The Audience changed their name to Vue, at the behest (I thought) of SEB's outfit. So, er, I don't know.

The Yo-Yos were the first band I ever wrote about for a national publication. They weren't very good though. I have a Cat Butt album from 88 or 89. It's dull. The Album Leaf came out of Tristeza and have a new album out, which is also dull. The Hardship Post did one *brilliant* song called 'New Wave' and nothing else of interest. Red Stars Theory had a nice album on Touch And Go about seven years back. The Thermals' new albums has had its own thread on here in the last week or so.

They were on subpop??

Chixdiggit

Canadian punk band from Alberta I believe. Not half bad.

Amazing Crowns

Is that the same crappy ass wish they were Rev Horton Heat band from RI? How the hell did that one happen.

Elevator
Elevator Through
Elevator To Hell

These were the same band. Elevator To Hell was Rick White's side project during Eric's Trip days. There was also a erlease or two under the name Elevator Through Hell. Parts 1-3 is a great lowfi album, others are usually quite good. Was dropped from Subpop and continues to release albums (usually also packing a cdr with them) as he sees fit.

The Hardship Post

Halifax Pop Explosion band, but they were from Saint John's, Newfieland. It's a shame they aren't more well known. Jale's bassist left to take over the role in this band.

The Helio Sequence

They were on Subpop? I thought they were on the same label that was doing King Black Acid for a while, Cavity Search. From Portland, a two piece band. Sort of psychedlic if I remember. I remember liking the album ComPlex I

The Inbreds

Kim to thread!
Another two piece band, much loved in Canada at the time. Much like most of your threads of this nature you could look them up on AMG. I have a habit of getting them mixed up with The Odds.

Jale

Jale were Halifax Pop Explosion female Sloan. G Turns To D was written about one of the singers. Dreamcake is worth buying if you want some more grunge in your life, So Wound is even better. Later returned to the world as The Vees releasing an ep before disappearing. They were good, but they were also a product of their time. 'Ali' is still a great single.

Juno

Industrial band of which I know little.

Moonsocket

Chris from Eric's Trip had this as his sideproject. He's been playing here and there which is a good thing. Album is extremely lowfi if I recall. Pink Floyd comes to mind for some reason when I think of the album. I think it has to do with the album title.

Purple Knight

Mark the drummer for Eric's Trip has kept this side project going since the 80s at least. I like it, but I did spend several years living in the Moncton area.

Rick White

Rick occassionaly releases stuff under his own name as opposed to Elevator. One such thing was a split single he did with someone where he covered The Purpose Song.

Tae Won Yu (KG's guitar player) was one of the two people who started distributing the Girly Sound tapes. He wrote one of the first articles on her (in Chemical Imbalance). I think there's a song of her singing into his answering machine on some early CD comp. which might be what you're talking about.

Kicking Giant - the aforementioned album Halo is a compilation of 3 early cassette-only releases, I think. I have 2 of the tapes at home, pretty good K Records style indiepop.

Mr Epp & the Calculations - Mark Arm pre-Mudhoney, pretty sloppy and dumb but quite funny at times, inspired by Flipper.

Industrial band of which I know little.

Not sure who yr thinking of, I think these guys were in the middle ground between poppy emo and post-rock, being a bit better than that sounds. They were on Some Records or something like that?

Holopaw
Swore it was another Isaac Brock side project (due to lead singer's voice)...opened for Iron and Wine a few years back. Folksy, low key, accesible...i liked em.

the only others that i have listened to have been commented on.

Now that you mention it I've got some split cd singlewith Juno and Dismemberment Plan that I never listen to. But the Juno I was thinking of was from some video MM used to play.

Les Thugs - Meat n potatoes hard rock. They are from France, and since the French can rock like the English can cook, they might be the best Gaul rock band since Trust.

Mad Daddies - Sub-Cramps pseudo-psychobilly. They never really did much for me.

Catt Butt - Since I have the sense of humor of an 8 year old boy, their album title Journey To The Center Of Cat Butt amused me greatly. Unfortunately the needle hit the vinyl and the amusement ceased.

Danielle Howle - I don't think I've heard an entire album by her but I've liked what I've heard. Edgy folk.

Elevator To Hell - If I recall correctly this was not-bad bleep n blorp ambient stuff, I might be wrong, though.

Hater - Post-Monster Magnet John McBain side project with a couple of Soundgarden guys. Garage rock stuff, not at all like Monster Magnet or Soundgarden.

Hazel - Jody from Team Dresch's other band. They're great, might be too indie/emo for you?

Kicking Giant - I really liked these guys. Two piece w/ Rachel from The Need on drums. Alien ID is great though it kind of peters out towards the end. It's hard to describe what they do, it's poppy, noisy, a little lo-fi, but it skedaddles like a greased goose. "The Town Idiot" is a personal fave, with freakish vocals by Sue P Fox. They had the new-wave-spazz revival thing going on 10 years ago.

Mocket - I never heard an album by them, but for a while I was obsessed with their song "Spot-For-Best-Vision" that sounded like some 60s yé-yé classic performed by robots armed with echoplexs. I liked it so much I was afraid the rest of their material wouldn't live up to the challenge so I never bought their CD. My mind works in weird ways.

Terry Lee Hale - The only thing I ever heard from him was "Dead is Dead" on the Sub Pop 200 comp, but it was quite good. Acoustic but not in a singer-songwriter way, more like nihilist cowboy, dark stuff.

Holopaw I like a good bit. IIRC, they backed up Isaac Brock on that Ugly Cassanova record.

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Jimmy went on to do DNTEL/The Postal Service.
Chris and Aaron joined further, then The Beachwood Sparks and Lilys.

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Three piece band, including wee lil' Tara on bass. Pretty much the opposite of ambient. Rick also twiddle witht he stereo knob enough to get people dizzy if they're wearing headphones.
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The Flashing Lights wrote the song Elevature about them.

They had one really good LP, which I might even still have. The track "Turtles" was the jam from that record.

Carissas Wierd get lots of love from yetimike, I haven't heard 'em.

search Hazel, yes.

Mr. Epp = Mark Arm's pre-Mudhoney band.

Oswald 5-0 - great Eugene band, definitely just a distro deal, drummer tragically died in car crash a few years back.

Lord High Fixers, Fireballs Of Freedom - post-JSBX rawk stylings.

Hazel>>>
Sold to me as Nirvana light, three piece plus an official dancer ala' Bez, earlyt singles and first album are fantastic. peppy peppy pop-punk. crossing point between grunge and indie-rock ie-superchunk.

Love is LAughter>>
was the guy from Lynk, the best band ever on K Records. Highly disappointing given previous work.

Hater>>
Bit of a supergroup. Rhythm section from Soundgarden, an early memeber of Monster MAgnet and the brother of the singer from Mother Love Bone. Also recall this being a let down but it's been over a decade.

Mike Johnson
bass player in DInosaur Jr after Lou Barlow left. Also played guitar on Mark Lanegans early solo stuff. The WInding Sheet is incredible.

Truly>>
More outcast of famous bands. Hiro Yamamoto (original soundgarden bassist) and Mark Pickerel (OG Screaming Trees drummer). First EP was nice.

Central-California indie-somethings. I saw them opening for Hovercraft at No Life Records in the mid-90s (good grief, what a sentence). Reminded me of what Giant Sand would sound like if they were an Elephant Six band.

Frausdots

Beachwood Sparks guy doing a Serge/Jane pop-art thing with varying success.

Eugene Mirman is a comedian who just put out a comedy album on Sub Pop, but I haven't heard it.

The Peechees were fronted by Chris Applegren, who went on to be the head of Lookout Records and sang for The Pattern. Above average screechy pop-punk.

Hush Harbor have been discussed at length recently on the 764-HERO thread.

Tiffany Anders is filmmaker Alison Anders' daughter who I believe made an album with J Mascis and which must have been on one of the labels SP distributed. Singer-songwriter-y stuff.

I LOVED Satisfact, too - at least their "Unwanted Sounds Of" album... talk about being too early for a trend; they were doing 'dance punk' ten years ago in an excellent way. A kind of Joy Division / Dischord hybrid that was much better than that sounds.

xxpost: Tiki OTM.

Chad Van Gaalen is good in a Mark Kozelek + Soft Modest Mouse sort of way.

The Peechees (eh.)
Lync (A++++ WOULD BUY THIS ALBUM ON MULTIPLE FORMATS)
Mk Ultra (TENTATIVE -- i assume they don't mean the hardcore band)
The Thermals (second album probably their peak and it is excellent bees-trapped-in-tin-can pop-punk)

kind of surprised that's all i've heard, really.

Night Kings were kind of fantastic, though the album on Super Electro maybe gets a little samey or something over the course of its programme. Anyway, they were up there with Gories and Cheater Slicks as one of the best bands of the early '90s garage boom, definitely, and Rob Vasquez deserves more props.

the creep ep with "no pain" as the a-side is really good, esp the b-side.

rogue wave like to rip off the shins and flaming lips a lot but i like their songs

the sick & wrong 45 is amazing!

gary lee connor is one of the husky dudes from screaming trees. single ain't bad

hardship post had one good single, the rest not so much

pond! so underrated! i have to crack out their debut album again one of these days. young splendour = psych grunge heaven

the regurgitator 45 on sub pop is called 'i sucked a lot of cock to get where i am' and is a great song despite the "shock" title

rosie thomas is dreadfully boring folky MOR

i like the moon & antarctica!(or maybe you mean even earlier. that's as early as i get) i am not always hating on teh indie! just most of the time. i am enjoying reading about these bands i've never heard.

Pete Kinne died a couple weeks ago. The Frausdots are supposedly working on a new album, though they're moving to Florida. There's a new Tyde album due out in a couple weeks and the other unaccounted for guys have a band called Mystic Chords of Memory - they've got an album out.

Rick (guitar, singing) and Mark (drums, smoke) were Eric's Trip, Tara was from Tara S'Appart.

their drummer is claudia from the magnetic fields.

The Wolverton Bros I saw with Gaunt, both were from Cinci and the Bros had a bit more rawkabilly in their particular brand of punk rock than Gaunt.

The 68 Comeback show that I saw in Bloomington a long time ago was a genius billing with a death metal band called Legion. It was a great crowd mix of metal and garage rock people. Fans of both bands dug the other one and mucho alchohol was consumed.

I've got two of the Eric's Trip records. I could not tell you a single song name, but their records sounded real cool and fuzzy and definitely benefit from how they were recorded.

I remember hearing a Hazel Cd, which if I remember right the band kind of had an X thing going with shared male and female vocals.

Taking one last look at the list, I have seen The Hookers live as they are from around here. They are kind of like Nashville Pussy and I think they may have had similar ties back to Nine Pound Hammer.

Notes re: js (rockPLEASENOSPAM@sgipub.com)'s post:

"Arlo" - Sucks. Boring semi-acoustic indie.

Arlo have exactly one song on either of their albums with an acoustic guitar on it.

"Rogue Wave" - See Helio Sequence, only a little darker and more instrumentals.

Rogue Wave have no instrumentals on either of their albums.

Anyhow, MySpace page here, but the tunes on offer maybe don't do them justice.

It's hard to describe a record that's always been with me, for almost 15 years now, cassette in the car, tracks on mix tapes. It never occurred to me to question the fact that this was just one of THOSE records. Essential and totally totally amazing. This is first and foremost a guitar record. Easily one of the best guitar sounds EVER. Simultaneously sun baked and rain soaked, thick and rich, swirling and slithering, like Hendrix and Crazy Horse and J. Mascis and the Meat Puppets and Husker Du, all dumped into a pot and brought to a boil.

Gardener was a collab between members of Screaming Trees and Seaweed.

Fallouts was a Steve Turner (Mudhoney) side project. The self-titled album was great! But mostly because of Steve's sloppy garage guitar.

The Fuckers was Seaweed in disguise, playing nasty hardcore.

Jennifer Gentle is great! A duo from Italy that plays fractured psych pop, somewhere between Syd-era Pink Floyd and early T Rex.

Polar Goldie Cats are really cool instrumental rock. Nels Cline is a big booster. I've got one of their albums on Up! It's quite enjoyable.

Rein Sanction was probably the most underrated of that early wave of bands Sub Pop was pushing in the early 90s. Super dense weird guitar squall. Sort of modern psych. Saw them live and they were great.

Kelly Stoltz is a modern psych troubador, heavily endebted to the Kinks, early 70s Beach Boys, Pretty Things, etc. Talented dude. Saw him live at SXSW and his band was great.

AHEM.

I can speak for the SP releases "As Happy As Possible", "Strike" and "Nineteen Something". All solid.

Cool I'll check those out!

I heard about it via a brief mention on the BJM list. I don't have any more info...

the elevator bands are post-eric's trip. kinda ok i guess.

i won't bother with the ones i've heard and don't care for.

"THROB"
perhaps the greatest song ever released on subpop.
also search their split 2x7" with 6 Finger Satellite.

Singer songwriter country guy who played in the Starkweathers from Columbia MO before going solo.

Sideshow were a punkish band from Lincoln Nebraska. The bass player runs Caulfield records. They weren't on Subpop per se, but had a one off record on Flydaddy (maybe it was distroed by Subpop??) called Lip Read Confusion, then broke up. Their first record is called Eggplants and Sunspots. Both records are worth checking out if you like, I don't know, fast mid 90's punk rock?

Baptist Generals. New album soon? Excited.

yes!