They signed a lot of unknowns. I think the focus on the northwest was something they helped develop, not something they responded to.

Well, it still can be. At least for me it's one of the many different things I consider epitomes of music cool.

Well, that could be a part of it too. I don't have a monopoly on information.
Pretty funny.

Plus the fact that they tour relentlessly and know how to deliver the goods live on a fairly consistent basis.

Sebadoh rules all!!!

they are notorious for being an uneven live band, because they do NOT FAKE IT, and if they feel like shit or if the audience is acting like fucking dipshits they will not pretend.
they are a fucking amazing band and everything they touch is gold. great songs, great riffs, great music.
My faves are bubble and scrape and smash yr head


and Lou is a nice fucking guy to boot.

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also, part of the deal when nirvana signed with geffen was that sub pop would get a small cut of the sales, whih helped subpop develop into a bigger label and expand their catalogue.

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Nirvana or Mudhoney. Can't really choose between the two right now.

I'd say Sebadoh now but either Nirvana, Mudhoney or Soundgarden would have been my choice when I was a little grungehead all those years ago.

Soundgarden was not really a SubPop band. They were SST, mostly.

You can say that about alot of the bands though

lol... huh!? No, you can't. Whatever do you mean, oh silly one?

soundgarden released two albums and an ep on subpop I thought

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Yr right gmku, most everything soundgarden did was sst oR a&m

I didn't mean they went on to SST, I meant they didn't release alot of records on subpop. jesus everybody here is so desperate to be right and make other people look stupid, it's fucking boring.

the COMBUSTIBLE EDISON!

kinski sub pop albums are good too... both of them

what to say about wolf eyes and comets on fire latest albums... good stuff.

let's wait and see what happens to sub pop.

Well, then, say what you mean, young man! And then you won't look so stupid. ;)

Shame on SY Gossip board! Six pages in and no mention of the A Frames yet?

Best records on Sub Pop ever...

A Frames "Black Forest"
Beat Happening "Jamboree"
Beat Happening "Black Candy"
Beat Happening "You Turn Me On"
Dead Moon "Dirty Noise" 7"
Les Thugs "Stay Hungry"
Lubricated Goat "Play Dead" 7"
Night Kings "Increasing Our High"
Pissed Jeans "Don't Need Smoke to Make Myself Disappear" 7"
Poison 13 "Love Me" 7"
the Scientists "Swampland"
Tad "God's Balls"
Tad "Salt Lick"
Thee Headcoats "Heaven's To Murgatroyd, It's Thee Headcoats Already"
Unrest "A Factory Record" 7"
Unsane "Vandal-X" b/w "Street Sweeper" 7"
Wolf Eyes "Burned Mind"

and...
Dead Moon retrospective
Radio Birdman retrospective
Michael Yonkers retrospective

Unsane "Vandal-X" b/w "Street Sweeper" 7"

the single greatest 7 inch to come from sub pop in my opinion

I almost forgot... THE FLUID!

great band from Denver during the 'bleach' era...

when SY played in denver this past summer Thurston name-checked the fluid, that was dope.

My choice would be Green River, which is even moreso the case. Of course Green River never quite put on any of their records the intensity of what they were like live with Mark's Stooge rawk screamfest fighting with the obvious future pop sensibilities of Ament and Gossard. Mind, I hated Mother Love Bone and Pearl Jam make me projectile vomit, but Green River at their best were even better than Mudhoney at their best. Steve will hate me for saying it, but it's true. Mudhoney did better on record - at least you've got Super Fuzz Bigmuff and all the original singles, and maybe 5 songs from the first album... But Mark's stagedives into the crowd while still screaming with Green River back in the day before such things were cliche, paved the way for everything else Sub Pop ever stood for that was cool.

Incorrect.

They had 7 (If you can't 13 Songs) incredible albums in a row.

All-time worst Sub Pop records (they shoulda let C/Z release 'em)...

Coffin Break "Lies" 7"
Best Kissers in the World "s/t"
Green Magnet School 7"
Big Damn Crazy Weight 7"
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion "xmas" 7"
anything by Reverend Horton Heat
anything by Supersuckers
anything by Combustible Edison
"Hype!" soundtrack (even the great bands can't save the bad moments!)
Nightcaps 7"
glam-era Makers
Pleasure Forever
Migala

Greatest disappointment ever on the label...

Hellacopters "Grande Rock" (where did the guitars go in that mix???)

Before the Hives broke through and just after Turbonegro mysteriously broke up, it was the Hellacopters' job to take over rock 'n' roll. They made some pretty good records up through 1997-98, but then THIS??? There went their chances. They went from collector scum darlings to having bins busting with used CDs within one year of this turd of an album!

anything by Reverend Horton Heat on Sub Pop was good... no, really, it was still "fresh."

anything by Combustible Edison is good, the soundtrack to a drink in your hand and a lovely lady at your side, the night never ending...

YOUR ANUS RUNS

Either that, or you're just wrong and other people are trying to point out the bad information.

Soundgarden put out one album on SST, while at Sub Pop, they put out one of the label's very first singles "Hunted Down", very firt e.p.s "Screaming Life" (which was later used as the title of Charles Peterson's book about the Sub Pop days!), and as already mentioned, wrote a song called "Sub Pop Rock City" that was on the Sub Pop 200 comp. They were on Sub Pop and associated with the people there for a number of years, going back to when they played the Ditto tavern in Seattle with Skin Yard on weeknights. While at SST they put out one record right as they got signed to the majors, and were "involved" with the label for less than a year.

Ultramega OK is just o.k. , while all of Soundgarden's best work was on Sub Pop, by the time they moved to the majors, they were Spinal Tap, and knew it to the point of playing "Big Bottom" live.

mudhoney would be mine i think.

Me too, 'cause they 're still faithfull to the label, working for it, and they have a good sound.

Possibly Nirvana for me:

1. The first album was very good
2. They were great when I saw them live at the time
3. At the time, we used to have stupid arguments in the pub about who was better, them or Tad (good times for me).

shouldnt you call this thread favourite 'grunge' artist of all time?

still not all sub pop is 'grunge'


my vote goes to mudhoney.

I was quite touched by a young lithuanian musician recently.As we were chatting about Nirvana,i told him that i've seen them 3 times while they were still around and the expression on his face was like,wow!.

Same happens when I mentioned it to my niece and nephew who are big fans, but weren't born when I first saw Nirvana.

Aren't we just the coolest?

Yes!

You 're the luckiest persons 'cause you 're born at the good era for rock addicts.

I know it's all about diff'rent strokes for me and you, but I just couldn't identify with the swanky feelin's of songs like "It's Martini Time!" I like extreme ridiculousness, but it's gotta be my kinda ridiculous. And I couldn't really see too much separation between RHH and C.E. and stuff like the Cherry Poppin' Daddies and the Crazy 8's. And maybe this all got kick-started by Buster Poindexter, or going back even further...TACO!

One more really sucky record on Sub Pop was that album by Sprinkler.

The first time I saw Nirvana it was at Squid Row, this tiny club in Seattle, and there were honestly like three people in the audience. I had gone to see Skin Yard, who they were opening for. The set was all Bleach stuff of course, and quite a bit more metal stylisitcally than even a few years later when they would still be doing that stuff (they kept doing mostly material off of Bleach for a really long time before they started the stuff that wound up on Nevermind.) I was totally floored by their set, and walked out in a total daze, deciding I didn't need to stay to watch the headlining band because this was too fucking good. I said to myself outloud, as I walked out of the club, "That's the best band in the world, and noone will ever know..."

It seemed that way at the time anyhow...

Fave Sub Pop artists: Sleater Kinney or Wolf Eyes.

sunny day real estate.

MUDHONEY! (aka KINGS OF ROCK)
btw their last album was the best thing that I listened to this year