Favourite SST Release of... 1990-1996

One word: Snuggles.

Have only heard three of these:

Slovenly Highway To Hanno's
Flesh Eaters Dragstrip Riot
Trotsky Icepick Ultraviolet Catastrophe

Easily the Slovenly album out of those. Not their best, but there are a couple of really great tracks on it ('Blood Revealed', 'Comes Alive').

Had no idea that there was another Cruel Frederick album.

we know who will win this judging by previous polls

Remind me what this is: Dinosaur Jr Fossils

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Agreed on the Slovenly. But aside from the obvious there are loads of good ones from this era. Just a sample:

Pell Mell Rhyming Guitars (a reissue from the mid '80s I believe, but a great one)
Descendents Somery (excellent comp)
Screaming Trees Anthology (ditto, a great introduction and chronologically sequenced, too)
The Leaving Trains The Big Jinx (their best after Kill Tunes, production lacks a bit but the songs are there)

Fossils is an EP-length comp with songs from the Little Fury Things, Freak Scene and Just Like Heaven singles.

Anyone have any idea who The Muddle were? Google is drawing a blank.

I think I need to hear some Pell Mell.

Start with Rhyming Guitars if you can get it, or even the live album It Was A Live Cassette that came out on Starlight Furniture Co years ago (it was a limited pressing but last I checked a few months ago it was still available).

one of those leaving trains albums/singles

rhyming guitars is great though, so's the saint vitus comp

Anyone else heard Transition? My Google-fu is again failing me, but I did find an SST press ad for them in a Billboard from 1994. Were they a gamble for a breakthrough that didn't pan out?

Never even heard of them. Does exist though, there's a customer review on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Spine-Transition/dp/B000000M7F

Hear them on Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/transitionmuze/playlists/featured-songs-46577

Hmm, not really my thing...

"These guys are from England, and who gives a shit?"

SST Acoustic

1. Sicilian Train Blues - Roger Manning
2. No Reisitin' a Christian - Brian Ritchie
3. Awakening - The Last
4. Stories - Minutemen
5. Main - Grant Hart
6. Orcanese Farethewell - Tom Troccoli's Dog
7. Yard Trip #7 - Screaming Trees
8. In Memory of Elizabeth Cotton - fIREHOSE
9. Nesbitt's Lime Soda Song - Negativland
10. Belonging to October - Saccharine Trust
11. Go Man Go - Kirk Kelly
12. Colors - Angst
13. Never Talking to You Again - Hüsker Dü
14. Poledo - Dinosaur Jr.

^I like literally every song on this, no fronting - NB this does not translate into the albums from which they are taken being good also (hi dere Angst, Tom Troccoli's Dog)

Don't think I have any of the other things here

Thanks for the Transition link - the music ain't bad, but the vocals are a bit of a dealbreaker; it's like he should be singing for a different band.

Leaving Trains #288 FTW! This is among SST's finest hours iMHO. Da Trains were one big ball of 'up your's' to whatever was expected of them, following their most peculiar muse to the letter. In other words, ideal for SST. I saw them several times during this era, with a particularly memorable show @ the Masquerade in Atlanta. The bass player had an affinity for playing onstage nekkid, which made an interesting contrast with Falling James' tendency to wear wedding gowns. ANyhow, as the bassist reclined on the edge of the stage, a female member of the audience thought it would be fun to play with his john thomas. And I'm sure it was good fun for both of them. Sadly, the lady's boyfriend didn't see the humor in it. Hijinx ensued.

10. Belonging to October - Saccharine Trust

<3 this song

Negativland fans - please chime in!

We all know the U2 EP is gonna win this thing, but why the specific Negativland love? I mean for me this one is essentially a comedy record; I play it when I want a chuckle, not for any kind of musical quality. And when it comes to the rest of the Negativland discography I'm basically nonplussed. I guess I understand the underlying concept, but that's all it is to me: a concept.

So what's the deal? What makes them so good?

I guess what I'm really asking is: why Negativland and not Paper Bag or one of the other arty-type groups that SST signed?

maybe noones heard the other albums?

Negativland for me because:

- it's put together really well, editing wise, meaning it holds together both as a track AND a song
- it shows a sense of humour which there was precious little of in the alt music scene at that point (or so it seemed)
- it razzed U2 when U2 were badly in need of razzing
- Snuggles

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

voted negativland, but voted for "guns" which i actually vastly prefer to U2 (other than you know the sort of historic importance of the U2 single)

Bazooka Blowhole

These guys were a pretty groovy sax, bass and drums trio. I saw them open for fIREHOSE and they were pretty good live. Bazooka joined in with fIREHOSE at the end of the gig and the sax player joined in on a few other tunes in FH set.

Vince Meghrouni from Bazooka played drums with Watt quite often in the last decade, if I recall correctly. I've never heard any of that band, however - might have to change that.

They closed the show I saw with both trios playing "The Red and the Black" at the same time. It pretty much rockithed.

The couple of CDs by Bazooka are not bad either.

wow

didnt expect vitus to win

18 doom fans from the metal thread!

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

Didn't expect that many votes at all!

The final poll will come tomorrow. Stay tuned...