Oh yeah, for a second there I forgot that the 3 Songs were originally a single. I think I even remember seeing the Sub Pop copy on ebay.

That is because there was only one true grunge band, Mudhoney. Melvins were sludgey metal. Nirvana was aggressive punk. Soundgarden was more stadium rock in the zeppelin tradition. pearl jam was a classic rock band.

Screaming Trees were also on K originally. However both Screaming Trees and Beat Happening not only put out singles on Sub Pop, but also were on the Sub Pop 200 compilation which essentially defined the label and the NW sound at the time. Beat Happening also had several albums released on Sub Pop at various times, many of which were later rereleased on K (and some vice versa) and they can be found on Sub Pop's site listed as a Sub Pop band. What's more, Bruce Pavitt and Calvin Johnson were both Evergreen students and KAOS djs together and completely supported each other's underground music forays from the get go and were completely in cahoots despite each owning their own label. Steve Fisk, who produced all of the early Screaming Trees was also part of that TESC circle.

My list:

Green River (who really kind of started it all, even before they were on the label as Pavitt's Sub Pop columns in the Rocket in Seattle always made clear)
Mudhoney
Thrown-ups
Beat Happening
Steve Fisk
Soundgarden (yeah they later sucked, but the Nothing To Say ep killed)
Dead Moon
Wipers
Wolf Eyes
Earth
Walkabouts
Fallouts
Fastbacks
Nirvana
Vaselines
Les Thugs
Cat Butt (who the label would rather forget, but who were a real kick at the time)
Screaming Trees
L7
Girl Trouble
Godheadsilo
The Spinanes
Thee Headcoats
Low
Steven Jesse Bernstein
The Album Leaf

TAD!!!!

well if you want to get technical about it, it was an ep actually.

I love L7.

Nirvana
Mudhoney
The Walkabouts
The Vaselines
L7
Melvins
Afghan Whigs
The Gutter Twins
Screaming Trees
Sebadoh
The Wipers
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Soundgarden
Sonic Youth
Mark Motherfuckin Lanegan
Dinosaur Jr
Sleater-Kinney

tad are a band to laugh at because they were a bunch of ugly obese dudes wearing sweatpants and lumberjack gear. they sucked though, but were a good time.

All their songs were about meth, jerking off, and Satan. Really weird.

Were Thee Hypnotics not on Situation 2? Unless they were on Sub Pop in the USA, I didn't know that.

HA! Excellence.

Yeah, they were on Sub Pop over here. Toured with Sub Pop bands too. They'd almost make my list as they're right on that line between good Spacemen 3ish stonerism and a bit boring. I saw them live in Seattle and they were awesome, but part of the reason was they only got to play for twenty minutes as the club had legally closed and so they really tore it up.

Probably just narrow it down to:

Earth
Wolf Eyes
Dead Moon
Vaselines

Thanks, I didn't know that.

NIrvana (duh)
Mudhoney
Green River
Soundgarden
Shins
Dead Moon
Band of Horses
Wolf Eyes
Iron and Wine
Reverend Horton Heat
Sonic youth (techincality!!!)
Dinosaur Jr. (technicality again >))

I actually managed to get the really rare cd copy of Salt lick which also has God's Balls on it for six bucks at Half Price Books.
Its a really rare find, and a good listen.

im surprised no one has mentioned pissed jeans, or no age. defintiely two of their better new signings.

T&B did.

yeah no age are great. i put them on my muxtape.

yeah i really like their noise meets pop punk thing. they sound sorta like the ramones meets my bloody valentine at times.

no age? will check them out.

yeah, they are worth checking out.

whats this supposed to mean? the point is, ill make a thread about this in a secondl; i do not like grunge. basically i just like signed up as king_buzzo when i was a little 14 yearold grunge kid but i dont like grunge now. get that straight allready.



it was from screamingskulls list so i just left it there, but they might have released like a single or so on subpop.

I just like pretend were dead, its an okay song.

[quote=king_buzzo]whats this supposed to mean? the point is, ill make a thread about this in a secondl; i do not like grunge. basically i just like signed up as king_buzzo when i was a little 14 yearold grunge kid but i dont like grunge now. get that straight allready.
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Yeah, sorry buzzo, one year is a big step forward when you're a 15 year old.

best SP artists (not counting one-offs like SotM club records)


mudhoney
afghan whigs
sebadoh
cosmic psychos
kinski
walkabouts
billy childish
comets on fire
earth
love battery
grifters
go team
scud mountain boys
wooden shjips

i still say sub pop has always been extremly overrated.

pavitt and poneman, i really can't stand them.

i have rediscovered bleach and nirvana for that matter though. they realy were amazing and i dont care what people say. they seamlessy mixed together 70s rock and hardcore with beatles pop melodies and therefore made some of the best pop songs of all times. nirvana is a great first band to get into because kurt so often would put greater emphasis on the music he loved more than his own music. because i loved nirvana when i was younger, i then was able to discover black flag, the wipers, the melvins, the vaselines, sonic youth, big black, scratch acid, half japanese, flipper, daniel johnston, and a buncha others im sure. no matter how experimental and left field my tastes have gotten, i still have not shaken my divine love of nirvana.

i only metioned Pissed Jeans, I don't like No Age

[quote=sarramkrop][quote=king_buzzo]whats this supposed to mean? the point is, ill make a thread about this in a secondl; i do not like grunge. basically i just like signed up as king_buzzo when i was a little 14 yearold grunge kid but i dont like grunge now. get that straight allready.

16. foo.

I agree ( since 92 , that is ).