your favorite run of SST releases by one band

3-way tie for first: flag, m-men, sonics

voting sonic

Husker Du, but everyone knows Minutemen win ilm polls

No Zoogz Rift = no credibility. And "other" doesn't cut it.

Where the hell are DC3?

Just kidding (I think) (I liked them a lot, actually). Here, I'd consider Husker Du, Meat Puppets (though I only ever really cared about their first three), Minutemen, and Sonic Youth. Boringly enough, I'll vote for SY.

I should probably listen to more St. Vitus and Sacharine Trust someday, though.

ah fuck off. x-post

this is beautiful. the meat puppets are winning me.

i love the smell of sst in the morning

Did Bad Moon get an SST reissue? Or was it just on Homestead in the US and Blast First (or whatever) in the UK?

Voting SY btw despite love for the Minutemen and Husker Du.

as far as i can tell Bad Moon was never released on SST in any form

Doin' the Dü.

If I go for SY here it will be kind of feeble being that I live somewhere that has ensured I have never seen an SST-issued SY record, to the best of my recollection

it's tempting to vote for SY or Dinosaur off just the strength of their respective 2 albums for the label, but really I gotta go with Minutemen, with Meat Puppets not far behind.

Minutemen

Meat Puppets. Minutemen are great of course but Meat Puppets from II through Huevos is just unbelievable.

true

Just got Wino's solo album! (forthcoming)

And a library discard of Warehouse Songs And Stories, for a quarter! But it's on cassette, yall remember SST cassettes--well, we'll see.

MEAT PUPPETS (but would have voted for SLOVENLY out of sheer blind love were they present - Thinking of Empire > Riposte > We Shoot For the Moon all fantastic records)

If I go for SY here it will be kind of feeble being that I live somewhere that has ensured I have never seen an SST-issued SY record, to the best of my recollection

My 80's UK vinyl copies of s/t and Confusion is Sex are on SST - Blast First didn't pick these up initially.

Much as I love them, all the Sonic Youth votes kinda bug me. They only recorded two (GREAT) records for SST. They're a Homestead band or a Geffen band as much as an SST band. Of the bands who had long, influential, career-defining runs on SST, I'll take the Minutemen.

Yeah but the question isn't who is the best SST band, it's who had the best run of SST releases.

I was trying to figure out the other day how many SST bands I managed to catch live at some point in their career. Think I only saw a measly 10 in total: Meat Puppets, Sonic Youth (obv. post-SST), Das Damen, Tar Babies (so awesome and underrated), Bad Brains, Dinosaur Jr, Grant Hart, Sylvia Juncosa, Buffalo Tom, Run Westy Run

Think I would have killed to see either the Huskers or the Minutemen.

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Yeah, that's true. But it's hard for me to think of two albums as a "run of releases". That's more like a couple of releases. Especially compared the complete (or near-complete) bodies of work done for the label by Meat Puppets, Minutemen, Black Flag, Husker Du, Descendents, etc.

Not that it matters, I guess...

Impossible to choose.

― eman and the masters of the universe (some dude), Friday, December 26, 2008 3:38 PM

congrats ur now the true heir of lord custos' throne

I went with Minutemen because several of their releases became part of my life. Meat Puppets I really only cared about II and Up on the Sun, and Husker Du - Zen Arcade, New Day Rising, Flip Your Wig.

I against I and Sister/Evol are so good, but I don't think of them as SST bands. I didn't hear Leaving Trains until years after the fact on different labels.

Screaming Trees did their best work on the major label.

In conclusion, Meat Puppets and Husker Du releases meant more to me at the time, but Minutemen had a more sustained stretch.

ps, I saw 8 bands on that list, plus Painted Willie.

Minutemen so easy since their massive output included great albums, great EPs and great singles and they never dropped the ball once over their entire career.

I really like the Screaming Trees SST stuff so I hope they do get a vote or 2. Same with Dinosaur Jr.

congrats ur now the true heir of lord custos' throne

― eman, Friday, December 26, 2008 5:15 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

u mad doggie? been flying the cheesy parody username flag for weeks without anyone invoking custos

judging by this thread so far, black flag ain't even in the running! there's something wrong about that. though i would probably vote for sy or meat puppets too. if land speed record had been on sst i might make a case for huskers.

though it's hard to vote against a band that put something like this out once upon a time:

http://home.fnal.gov/~apana/images/jealous.again.jpeg

"3-way tie for first: flag, m-men, sonics"

^^^This

black flag is toast as soon as rollins joins and you know it, anybody who says he can listen to rollins-era flag without wincing almost constantly is a LIAR. LIAR. LIAR. LIAR. LIAR etc

I have a Trotsky Icepick album on cassette and I have no memory of what it sounds like; should I play it?

I still have most of a complete run of SST releases but in the end I with the counter-intuitive vote for Saccharine Trust. There's a lot of individual releases that I like (Meat Puppets II, EVOL, Well Down Down Blue Highway), but I'd listen equally to either Paganicons, Surviving You Always or Worldbroken. They played some tremendous live shows back in the day.

I have a Trotsky Icepick album on cassette and I have no memory of what it sounds like; should I play it?

Hell yes - that's a post-100 Flowers band, and they were one of the best bands around then.

if land speed record had been on sst i might make a case for huskers.

The only copies of that record I've ever seen are on SST! But I've never seen any original copies, only the reish, and I don't own 6546984656 vinyl albums like Scott does. Stilll mighta voted for the Huskers anyways since they were 4-for-4 from "Metal Circus" thru "Wig" - but minutemen loyalty wins out in the end.

black flag, because they're the most important to my musical "devolopment"

No prob with Rollins singing Ginn's songs (Martin & Lewis in reverse).No prob with any earlier Flag I've heard either.

Flag lost the direction after "My War." The Minutemen have NEVER released a bad record (save their odds and sods collection with all the assy demos)

Will anyone vote for SWA ?

This is hard. I want to vote for the Minutemen but doing so would give too much weight to 3-Way Tie for Last, which isn't all that great. I want to vote for Saccharine Trust but I only really listen to the first two. So I'm voting Meat Puppets for the same reason J0hn D. gave.

"black flag is toast as soon as rollins joins and you know it"

i do know this. he was a horrible hardcore singer. or just vocalist in general. and, yet, i kinda wish i still had a copy of loose nut!

I have Loose Nut, and you can have it.

Husker Du pisses all over Sonic Youth. I vote HD.

Hardcore singers should be horrible, hardcore's not about tunes and lovely tone--but yeah, Rollins was useless without Ginn's songs, on his own, except sometimes he had some effective players, if you could listen around him. But getting back to the point, I prefer Meat Puppets.

there are/were tons of great amazing hardcore singers. some could sing. some couldn't. rollins was just bad every which way. great look though!

My War is brutal, but Rollins is the worst part.

I voted the Sonic Youth. They were so fucking beautiful. Also like:

The Minutemen
Hüsker Dü
Dinosaur Jr.
Black Flag

hard for me to ever vote against dinosaur jr.

Dino.
cause SY is a boring answer (but true)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

voted The Descendents not to get all challopsy but if it was just early Black Flag that would be the pretty obvious winner to me (although ILX is pretty indie so SY may win)...

Listened to HALLRAKER LIVE the other day in my car and I can't think that anyone ever touched the Descendents in terms of weird pop punk/metal. They were just such a WEIRD band musically... very strange references. Bill was an amazing drummer too (as he was when he was in Black Flag) but still ultrarobotic blast beats in caffeinated pop songs are a beautiful thing.

CAN WE PLEASE TALK ABOUT THE WEIRDER DESCENDENTS SONGS PLEASE?

And a library discard of Warehouse Songs And Stories, for a quarter! But it's on cassette, yall remember SST cassettes--well, we'll see.

― dow, Friday, 26 December 2008 20:51 (5 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

You should remember that this was released by the brothers Warner.

Still, Huskers winning over Minutemen. Better band, better run.

I think The Screaming Trees best record was Buzz Factory. I had that one on tape and pretty much wore it out while delivering pizzas one year. It has some killer wah wah through out the whole record.

I also think fIREHOSE is probably a bit underrated being in the shadow of The Minutemen. I love all of their records too.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

http://www.punkrockcds.com/images/HuskerDu-NewDayRising.jpg

interesting

Surprised by the Screaming Trees love. Not an act I ever cared about.

The SST years are really underrated. All the bands that got votes deserved them really. I like albums by all the bands that got votes and a few of them are fave bands ever.

(screaming trees sst era i am talking about)

i voted Minutemen, but the Meat Puppets should've gotten more. probably the only option here that includes 3 of my favorite albums of the '80s.