Favourite SST Releases of... 1996-Present

'Adieu'? D'oh! Of course I meant 'ado'.

Anyway, I'm sure pfunkboy will be voting for Fatso Jetson. But there are quite a few gems even in this late stage - it's not just Greg Ginn under a bunch of different names.

The Roger Miller solo stuff is interesting (I have a cut-out tape of Elemental Guitar knocking around somewhere); the Oxbow album is one of the best records they put out in the '90s (even if it was a licence from another label); and I still play the Guns, Books & Tools debut.

Have not heard ONE of these (and had no knowledge til now of that Minutemen compilation.) Just realizing I was far off the SST bus by '96.

Jambang ftw.

I have heard none of these btw.

yeah guys vote fatso jetson or a sort of quartet! give them a vote!

If you haven't heard any, now's your chance to give 'em a shot! I dunno how many are on Spotify or eMusic or whatever but I'm sure many of them can be found.

I voted for the Leaving Trains, but the Last was pretty good too. I haven't heard a lot of these though...

I'm with Dan and Nick - haven't heard a single one of these, and I have a feeling that it was more to do with the big imbroglio around the Negs and the "U2" single than any perceived quality issue I had with the albums. Oh well.

stoner rockers who like kyuss/qotsa should check out Fatso Jetson and A Sort Of Quartet. More desert rock though, not heavy like Kyuss.

OXBOW!

Fatso Jetson just released their new album last week.

Oxbow is the only one of these I've actually heard, I too was well of the SST bus by the mid 90s. Are Jambang as bad as they sound, isn't it one of Ginn's projects?

Via the thread on Damaged that got revived earlier, here's an interview from 2008 with Greg Ginn by William DuVall of Alice In Chains (who was also briefly a member of BL'AST! back in the day before they signed to - ta da! - SST):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkNUZNbJ9Ek

Did these records ever see the light of day?:

Hor How Much?
Mojack Rub A Dub
Fastgato Feral
Confront James We Are Humored

They were announced when SST signed its distribution deal with Koch back in 2003, but I don't believe they were ever actually released. They're not available from the SST Superstore.

The only one that I'm sure actually exists is the Fastgato, as I found a leak of it online somewhere a few months ago. Maybe it's just a bad copy, but the production is AWFUL - I'm normally a fan of anything Scott Reynolds sings on, but I couldn't get through more than two songs.

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lol lowest turn out yet. Good show though stoner rockers of ILM!

is it safe to assume noone gave a shit about SST by 1996?

Yes.

I think the only one of these I've heard is Guns, Books & Tools and that's only because my wife used to know someone in the band and we bumped into him at a gig a few years ago and he gave her the CD. The Oxbow is probably good but I haven't heard that one.

Greg is very inspiring isn't he?

I can see where one of the angriest albums ever (Damaged) came from

Fooking spooky

I like Jambang a lot, and am sorry I missed Ginn's most recent tour. It's definitely an atmosphere/live thing, but a very cool one.

Via the thread on Damaged that got revived earlier, here's an interview from 2008 with Greg Ginn by William DuVall of Alice In Chains (who was also briefly a member of BL'AST! back in the day before they signed to - ta da! - SST):

― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Friday, May 21, 2010 5:40 PM (eight years ago)

My favorite piece of trivia about William DuVall is that he cowrote Dionne Farris' "I Know" which spent 29 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Top 40 in 1995.