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Lately I've been buying a lot of SST releases, not on purpose, but it's just been happening. And it's making me wonder, what are people's faves?

right now, mine's double nickels on the dime by minutemen.
tomorrow it might be flip your wig by husker du.

now get on it!!!

― Jennie, Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:29 (9 years ago) Permalink

gone - but not too gone
saccharine trust - s/t

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:30 (9 years ago) Permalink

double nickels on the dime
zen arcade
yr living all over me
meat puppets II
evol
MY WAR

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:31 (9 years ago) Permalink

Saint Vitus - Born Too Late

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:32 (9 years ago) Permalink

DOUBLE NICKLES ON THE DIME

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:32 (9 years ago) Permalink

oh, yeah, ya know, and the Flag. up until loose nut.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:33 (9 years ago) Permalink

oh and descendents ALL

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:33 (9 years ago) Permalink

i think my copy of zen arcade is on that german label that came out before the sst? i don't remember the deal with that. so, in any case, New Day Rising. (the last great du record)

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:34 (9 years ago) Permalink

the blasting concept

― mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:34 (9 years ago) Permalink

confusion is sex, sonic youth

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:34 (9 years ago) Permalink

yeah, i know, flip yer wig, but i don't really remember what it sounds like.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:35 (9 years ago) Permalink

Double Nickels, of course..

Also:
Sister LP
Slovenly: Riposte
fIREHOSE: Ragin' Full On
Flip Your Wig

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:35 (9 years ago) Permalink

just don't buy anything by painted willie or lawndale!!!

*the good hex* by dc3, however, is somewhat underrated.

― chuck, Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:35 (9 years ago) Permalink

good call w/descendents. the first bumpersticker i ever put on my car was the album cover from i don't want to grow up.

― Jennie, Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:36 (9 years ago) Permalink

Zoogz Rift and Tom Troccoli's Dog. Heh.

Zoogz Rift, your SST select choice!

― George Smith, Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:37 (9 years ago) Permalink

THE PROCESS OF WEEDING OUT -Black Flag
FIRST FOUR YEARS -Black Flag
IN MY HEAD -Black Flag
HAPPY NIGHTMARE BABY -Opal

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:37 (9 years ago) Permalink

i think my favorite minutemen album was that project mersh album. i wish all their albums sounded like that. and my favorite minutemen song is their van halen cover on that sst comp.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:38 (9 years ago) Permalink

also, the FIRST (and best) meat puppets album, which sounds like hella!

― chuck, Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:38 (9 years ago) Permalink

oh yeah, the meat puppets! everything up until up on the sun.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:39 (9 years ago) Permalink

Everything everyone else said, plus the unmentioned Slovenly records, plus Soundgarden Ultramega OK, plus Screaming Trees Even If and Especially When, Invisible Lantern and Buzz Factory.

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:39 (9 years ago) Permalink

i wonder if i brought any meat puppets records home with me...

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:40 (9 years ago) Permalink

it felt like forever if you had to wait out painted willie and gone just to see black flag.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:40 (9 years ago) Permalink

Negativland : Escape From Noise and U2
Pell Mell : Flow and Rhyming Guitars
Steve Fisk : 448 Deathless Days

and many Minutemen and Meat Puppet releases mentioned above (though latter of which I now have via Ryko reissues anyway)

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:40 (9 years ago) Permalink

saint vitus - saint vitus
black flag - damaged

more i can't think of because i have a sinus headache. mostly saint vitus.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:41 (9 years ago) Permalink

man, sst... when did it all go wrong?

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:41 (9 years ago) Permalink

when greg ginn started letting the weed make the business decisions

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:43 (9 years ago) Permalink

don't forget sonic youth's evol and minutemen's buzz or howl.

i'd buy a slovenly box.

― dan (dan), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:44 (9 years ago) Permalink

man, sst... when did it all go wrong?

"*toke* dude.. like everything is wrong, man. let's sign more instrumental jazz/funk/bands and we'll get around to this royalty thing"

that's when.

(strongo trumped me and is of course otm)

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:44 (9 years ago) Permalink

Oh, and Bad Brains I Against I! I think anyway, I haven't heard it in over a decade.

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:45 (9 years ago) Permalink

Some goodies that haven't been mentioned yet :

Blind Idiot God - first album
Elliott Sharp - Tessellation Row
Grant Hart - Intolerance
Cruel Frederick - The Birth Of The Cruel
Das Damen - Jupiter Eye

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:46 (9 years ago) Permalink

i always forget that sst was easily my favorite record label in high school

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:47 (9 years ago) Permalink

this list is kinda handy:

http://macdaraconroy.com/features/misc/sst_discog.txt

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:49 (9 years ago) Permalink

I just found an old SST catalogue! New Alliance (offshoot label) put out some OK records too - Rudolph Grey / Blue Humans, Coachemn, Sproton Layer, Roger Miller. It seems that Cruz (another offshoot) put out nothing but rubbish though.

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:51 (9 years ago) Permalink

Nobody mentioned *Feast* by WÜRM yet, either.

I was gonna say the first Blind Idiot God too, but somebody beat me to it.

― chuck, Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:51 (9 years ago) Permalink

Was Cruz really an offshoot? The only thing I ever bought on that label was SKIN YARD. Feel the nostalgia.

Sylvia Juncosa deserves props for the song title "Eddie Van Halen, Lick My Pussy"

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:53 (9 years ago) Permalink

eek.. i really don't like that Grant Hart album. I think I sold my copy.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:54 (9 years ago) Permalink

what the hell is Fatso Jetson? I think people should go thru that list and let me know if any of that latter-day stuff is any good. I haven't heard any of it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:54 (9 years ago) Permalink

Papa Ginn's still in operation.
I've been getting mint vinyl direct.
He throws in a few jazz-funk freebees.
whatta pro:
http://www.sstsuperstore.com

― SexyDancer, Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:55 (9 years ago) Permalink

What's Mojack, Hor, & Bias?

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:55 (9 years ago) Permalink

who were the Killer Tweeker Bees?

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:56 (9 years ago) Permalink

HAPPY NIGHTMARE BABY

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:56 (9 years ago) Permalink

and "you're living all over me"

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:57 (9 years ago) Permalink

"yeah, i know, flip yer wig, but i don't really remember what it sounds like"

Like a really loud and good power pop album. I love "Green Eyes" and "Flexible Flyer." A must for Grant Hart fans, though Mould has some good stuff on there, too.
My favorite SST release is Husker's "Eight Miles High" single. A-freakinmazing.

― bren, Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:59 (9 years ago) Permalink

i'm gonna post before jon williams and mention the compilation of covers by SST bands. which contained aforementioned Eight Miles High as well as a bunch of not as good stuff.. "wendy" by the descendents, and i don't remember what else.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 12 March 2004 00:02 (9 years ago) Permalink

Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
Dinosaur Jr - Bug
Opal - Happy Nightmare Baby
Sonic Youth - EVOL
Sonic Youth - Sister
Bad Brains - I Against I

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 12 March 2004 00:03 (9 years ago) Permalink

I'd given up on them by around SST300, but up till then I think I owned at least one record by pretty much every act on the label, 80% of which were terrible. HR, Trotsky Icepick, you name it. I still think they were one of the best indie labels of the 1980's though. They made connections between scenes and genres that no-one else was attempting at the time (from the indie / hardcore scene anyway), but I guess it all disappeared into a haze of marijuana smoke in the end.

Is the rumour that they never paid any of the bands true?

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Friday, 12 March 2004 00:03 (9 years ago) Permalink

>>"yeah, i know, flip yer wig, but i don't really remember what it sounds like"<<

like New Day Rising, but with no memorable songs to go w/ the pretty melodies. (actually, in 1985, I put Flip Your Wig not New Day Rising in my top ten, for some reason, but that's probably just because it was newer at the time. Within a couple years I was calling their new albums *Candy Ass Gray* and stuff like that, though -- In fact, *Flip Your Wig* was their last album that I ever liked at all, I think. And all the stuff they did after they broke up seemed worthless to me.)

Then again, I actually gave Crazy Backwards Alphabet (is that what they were called? the Beefheartesque Henry Kaiser super-trio) a good review in CREEM once, so what the hell do I know?

― chuck, Friday, 12 March 2004 00:07 (9 years ago) Permalink

there's tons of great shit of course, but for under-rated/forgotten stuff I have a soft spot for St Vitus' version of "thirsty & miserable" & that lovedolls soundtrack

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 12 March 2004 00:13 (9 years ago) Permalink

also those blasting concept comps! ain't talkin' bout love!

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 12 March 2004 00:16 (9 years ago) Permalink

Many to choose from, but I'm goin' with Ragin' Full On by fIREHOSE.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 March 2004 00:16 (9 years ago) Permalink

Black Flag - Damaged
Descendents - Two Things at Once
Husker Du - New Day Rising
Bad Brains - I Against I
Sonic Youth - Evol/Sister

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 12 March 2004 00:51 (9 years ago) Permalink

But was Damaged on SST originally?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 March 2004 00:52 (9 years ago) Permalink

It was on a label called Unicorn, but it went under and after the legal crap was resolved it was re-released on SST I believe.

But anyway in place of that one I pick "The First Four Years" by Black Flag.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 12 March 2004 00:54 (9 years ago) Permalink

Fatso jetson are from the same area as Kyuss. Mario Lalli plays on some desert sessions stuff. He was also in Yawningman whom Kyuss did a cover of. They were a big influence on Kyuss. Josh Homme always insisted he'd never heard a full sabbath album and that SST bands like Black Flag were big influences on the desert scene.
Fatso Jetson arent a typical 'stoner rock band' they have many influences ranging from surf to jazzy stuff.
Fatso Jetson Info

― Rock Bastard, Friday, 12 March 2004 00:59 (9 years ago) Permalink

Pell Mell-Flow

― CL, Friday, 12 March 2004 03:42 (9 years ago) Permalink

Sigh...SST. Man, what might have been. Too much Ras Michael, Zoogz Rift, et al...on cassette, vinlyl AND CD.

Black Flag - everything up through Slip It In
Husker Du - Metal Circus, Zen Arcade, New Day Rising, Flip Your Wig
Dinosaur - You're Living, Bug
Slovenly - Thinking of Empire, Riposte, We Shoot for the Moon
Sonic Youth - Evol, Sister
Minutemen - everything up through Three Way Tie
Pell Mell - Rhyming Guitars (reissue), Flow
Meat Puppets - II, Up on the Sun

plus when they took on New Alliance:

Descendents - Milo Goes to College, I Don't Wanna Grow Up

and more, I'm sure.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 12 March 2004 03:55 (9 years ago) Permalink

That one Das Damen EP...Marshmellow Conspiracy?

― dlp9001, Friday, 12 March 2004 03:58 (9 years ago) Permalink

I think I still have some of those old SST catalogs too - I used to like being able to tell when my record was pressed based on how recent the catalog was.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 12 March 2004 04:04 (9 years ago) Permalink

More money-wastin' SST:

Paper Bag
SWA
Tom Troccoli's Dog
Painted Willie
BLAST!
Alter-Natives
Lawndale
Always August
Brian Ritchie

More good SST:

Tar Babies - Fried Milk
Pell Mell - Bumper Crop

And, to be honest, all the stuff they've released since about 1995.....????? Who knows.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 12 March 2004 04:06 (9 years ago) Permalink

Evol
Sister
My war
Damaged
The blasting concept
Bad Brains - I Against I

I forgot they were so awesome. When I was fifteen I wanted to live in the south bay just for this reason

― hector (hector), Friday, 12 March 2004 04:23 (9 years ago) Permalink

the first Dinosaur Jr album.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 12 March 2004 04:39 (9 years ago) Permalink

Meat Puppets - Huevos! (well ok Up On The Sun and II are better but not everything after those is worthless)
Minutemen - Double Nicks and What Makes A Man Start Fires?
Dinosaur - You're Living All Over Me

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 12 March 2004 04:51 (9 years ago) Permalink

SST released an Oxbow record recentlyish (if "recent" = 1995) - _Serenade In Red_? - & if it's anything like their last record, it's a good 'un.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:38 (9 years ago) Permalink

the first dino jr. album was released on homestead.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:25 (9 years ago) Permalink

Husker Du -- Metal Circus, New Day Rising
Dinosaur Jr -- Yr Living all over me
Descendents -- Milo Goes to College/Two Things at Once
Sonic Youth -- Sister
Black Flag -- Damaged

my guitar case still has the big SST sticker on it

― Kingfish Cowboy (Kingfish), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:30 (9 years ago) Permalink

the first dino jr. album was released on homestead.

< totally anal nitpick I know I know >

under the "Dinosaur Jr." name, it wasn't

< /totally anal nitpick I know I know >

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:37 (9 years ago) Permalink

the volcano suns don't get mentioned enough around here. they were not, however, on sst.

― dan (dan), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:58 (9 years ago) Permalink

They were on Homestead and Quarter Stick. And they rocked. Furiously.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:08 (9 years ago) Permalink

'Damaged' (SST in spirit even if Unicorn was first)
'Double Nickels'
MPII

And I always liked Alter Natives, but then, I also went to school with them. Jim Thomson later did a stylistic spin and ended up singing with salsa band Bio Ritmo.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:34 (9 years ago) Permalink

Opal - Happy Nightmare Baby
Painted Willie - Mind Bowling
Universal Congress Of
Black Flag
Saint Vitus
Sister (Is the entire cover black now? That collage seemed to lose a panel every few months)

I picked up the a Tom Trocolli's Dog LP in Baltimore last year, and got a dirty look. Old resentments die hard. Now need Oktoberfaction.

SST wins!

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:05 (9 years ago) Permalink

Volcano Suns put out a coouple albums on SST, I bid on them on the ebay, I've only heard the Homestead ones though.

also, the FIRST (and best) meat puppets album, which sounds like hella!

YES! OTM.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:07 (9 years ago) Permalink

what was the label with like the chick hearn audio bio and stuff?

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:09 (9 years ago) Permalink

Off topic here, but can someone please reissue the first few Volcano Suns albums? I have a All Night Lotus Party and Bumper Crop on tape, but I've never been able to hear the first one.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:20 (9 years ago) Permalink

The first Husker Du album? Landspeedrecord? Has somebody mentioned that already?

That shit is awesome. It's some of the wierdest 'hardcore' I've ever heard, and perhaps could also applicable for the shambolic thread.

― Daniel DiMAGGIO (Daniel DiMAGGIO), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:22 (9 years ago) Permalink

so many great ones to choose from, but the one that burrowed deeper into my heart than any other is "meat puppets 2." the first time i heard it, it sounded so damn strange and yet so strangely familiar. and it's never lost that feeling for me.

the one sst band i loved that kept making great records all the way to the end, after husker du started sucking, after the meat puppets started sucking, was the minutemen. i even love "project: mersh."

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:35 (9 years ago) Permalink

Ho-hum, how predictable & unoriginal my selections: Minutemen (everything, esp. Double Nickels ), Husker Du (again everything, esp. Zen Arcade ), Meat Puppets (everything up to Up On The Sun ), etc...what's that? Choose only one? Fine: Zen Arcade. 1984, man: Whatta year! Can't say enough about the greatest year for rock in my personal post-toddler lifetime.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:48 (9 years ago) Permalink

My real faves are obvious and have all been mentioned; my favorite as-yet-unmentioned SST band were Treacherous Jaywalkers.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 12 March 2004 11:03 (9 years ago) Permalink

Black Flag - Damaged
Black Flag - My War
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime
Descendents - Milo Goes To College
SST Acoustic comp (totally forgotten album with people like The Last, Kirk Kelly and Angst who you might balk at sitting thorugh a whole album of, but get their good stuff represented on here)

The two Volcano Suns on SST, Farced and Thing of Beauty, have their moments but drag after a while. The latter is like 72 minutes long so this is problematic.

I remember hearing Bias and being surprisingly taken with it. With that, Oxbow and Fatso Jetson I think there might be a case for SST's last stand being underrated.

They were releasing an album a week in the late 80s though weren't they? Clearly *productive* potheads, if nothing else.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 12 March 2004 11:09 (9 years ago) Permalink

the first dino jr. album was released on homestead...

under the "Dinosaur Jr." name, it wasn't

Getting even more analaller than you's twos, the first 'jr' record was the fucking crummy 'Show me the way' EP on SST. You're Living All Over Me came out as just plain old Dinosaur to start with, but got changed for later issues.

We were reminiscing about SST on the Zoogz Rift thread the other day. Slovenly fans might be sad to hear that one of the guitarists, Scott Ziegler, died last year :o(

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 12 March 2004 11:17 (9 years ago) Permalink

Oh, and if no-one else is going to mention the Dicks, then I fucking will. (Not sure about Sister Double Happiness though!)

Now riddle me this: what does SST stand for?

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 12 March 2004 11:19 (9 years ago) Permalink

solid state transistors

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Friday, 12 March 2004 11:26 (9 years ago) Permalink

Message boards are the new ham radio!

I was going to interview Greg Ginn recently (obv. anyone can at this point, even me), but it all seemed kind of sad and he has some weird cat obsession now and no one else cared about it, but me.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Friday, 12 March 2004 11:34 (9 years ago) Permalink

Re: what Mencap said about the Volcano Suns Thing of Beauty. Even Peter Prescott has admitted that it was way too long cuz they were trying to accomodate everyone's songs. But hey, it does have some great songs on it.

It's weird how Angst have become erased from people's minds. I still quite like Mystery Spot. Weren't they one of the Pixies influences? I seem to recall that Frank Black's advert for band members supposedly asked for people influenced "by Angst and Husker Du".

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 12 March 2004 11:44 (9 years ago) Permalink

Put me down as another vote for Double Nickels

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 12 March 2004 11:54 (9 years ago) Permalink

Damnit Chaki beat me to it

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Friday, 12 March 2004 11:57 (9 years ago) Permalink

"Husker Du and Peter Paul & Mary" is the oft-quoted ad. I don't recall Angst being mentioned but I could be wrong. Yeah, there is a good single album in Thing of Beauty but I wouldn't overall recommend it to anyone unless you saw it for peanuts and are interested in anything with Bob Weston on. Like I am.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 12 March 2004 11:58 (9 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, I've seen Peter, Paul & Mary being quoted, but I'm honest-to-God sure that it was Angst that they mentioned in a Melody Maker interview in '88, cos I remember thinking 'wow, they like Angst!'. And they didn't get mentioned often in the UK press... Hmmm, this is exactly a case of that Angst-erasure I'm telling you about! ;o)

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 12 March 2004 12:08 (9 years ago) Permalink

That "No Age" instrumental compilation was about 50% good, esp. the Fred Frith track from "The Technology Of Tears". Some of the spoken word releases on New Alliance were ok too, the compilations mostly.

Angst actually played in the UK with Dinosaur Jr in 1987 (I know cos I was there), around the same time the Pixies were starting to become the New Thing. As I recall it they were way better then Dino Jr, who were always terrible live.

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Friday, 12 March 2004 13:41 (9 years ago) Permalink

Didn't everyone hate Angst for awhile because one of the guys ran Systematic, which went bankrupt?

― mike a, Friday, 12 March 2004 14:27 (9 years ago) Permalink

― ddb, Friday, 12 March 2004 14:46 (9 years ago) Permalink

Mike, yeah, I think that was Joe Pope.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 12 March 2004 15:40 (9 years ago) Permalink

Strongo, what do you mean by the S/T Sacch Trust alb - the Pagan Icons 12" or Surviving You, Always? But yeah, they're both essential, anyway.

Doctor Wu by the Minutemen was the first time I ever heard someone sing that stupid song, so that's a fave of mine...

Has there been a Homestead C or D? Ahhh sweet 80s hardcore nostalgia... (are all types of music called Hardcore great, btw?)

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Friday, 12 March 2004 19:35 (9 years ago) Permalink

ddb ON THE MONEY
chuck off the money

chuck you need to hear lawndale's sasquatch rock again, especially with your genre-bending hearing aids in. there's this crazy "whole lotta love"/"take five" medley (90s us indie band paid tribute to with equally screwy "take five" - fab four's "he's so heavy" = unity cover).

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 12 March 2004 19:39 (9 years ago) Permalink

my favorite as-yet-unmentioned SST band were Treacherous Jaywalkers.

The only band from my home town, Pacific Palisades CA, to actually "make it". Colin, you seriously could stand their version of "La Isla Bonita"?

The more underrated Pacific Palisades band with SST influences but with proto-Polvo/psych rock sounds was MUSTARD. I'd be happy to digitize their (I think one and only) self-titled 7" from 1990 with "Burn The Green" and "Song For D." on it for interested folks. (you can obviously guess who "D." refers to).

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 12 March 2004 20:01 (9 years ago) Permalink

They played "La Isla Bonita" about twelve times one night when Hated played with them in Bozeman, Montana. I thought they were great -- really good songwriting, and they could barely play, but in "trying way too hard" way rather than a "don't give a fuck" way. Lovely, lovely people, too. Needless to say, I was disappointed by Spain.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Saturday, 13 March 2004 08:50 (9 years ago) Permalink

proto-polvo? that is awesome

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Saturday, 13 March 2004 10:02 (9 years ago) Permalink

Wow...amazed to see mention of Angst. Next thing you know we'll be talking about Slovenly.

Opal's "Happy Nightmare," Minutemen, first three Meat Puppets, Volcano Suns OTM.

The Divine Horsemen's "Middle of The Night" was on SST, wasn't it? I loved that record.

― M. Specktor, Saturday, 13 March 2004 10:42 (9 years ago) Permalink

Another fine gem is the PaperBag album Ticket To Trauma.

― Cosgrove Pennybaker, Saturday, 13 March 2004 14:35 (9 years ago) Permalink

Search/Destroy - SST & Homestead

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 13 March 2004 14:41 (9 years ago) Permalink

Hüsker Dü ... is the only reason i know sst....

― strapped-on records, Saturday, 13 March 2004 16:43 (9 years ago) Permalink

proto-polvo? that is awesome

to be fair, Polvo were already active at the time, but the more bent aspects of the band's guitar playing (mainly Ash's playing) wouldn't be accented until a little later.. and I didn't mean to imply the band were an influence on them of anything, but I hear a little bit of that in one of the songs.. minor comment, really.

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 13 March 2004 18:04 (9 years ago) Permalink

MINUTEMEN
Double Nickles on the Dime
What Makes a Man Start Fires
WURM
s/t
HUSKER DU
Zen Arcade
New Day Rising
MEAT PUPPETS
1
2
Up on the Sun
Out In the Gardener 7"
SACCARINE TRUST
Surviving You, Always
BLACK FLAG
My War
Loose Nut
SCREAMING TREES
Invisible Lantern
Even If, and Especially When

Avoid:
Minuteflag
Zoogz Rift
Elliot Sharp

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Sunday, 14 March 2004 02:32 (9 years ago) Permalink

All that's left now (photo taken today)

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 15 March 2004 05:08 (9 years ago) Permalink

wow!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 15 March 2004 05:12 (9 years ago) Permalink

THE DREAM IS DEAD

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 March 2004 05:25 (9 years ago) Permalink

Poignant

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 15 March 2004 11:07 (9 years ago) Permalink

Kinda beautiful. Thanks Chris!

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Monday, 15 March 2004 11:29 (9 years ago) Permalink

wow. Nicely done, Chris....

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 15 March 2004 12:48 (9 years ago) Permalink

I feel like there should be a "COMING SOON - STARBUCKS!" sign up.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 15 March 2004 12:48 (9 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

SST top 10.

Bl'ast-the power of expression. (It pains me that even most of you guys don't know this band and this album).

Husker Du-zen arcade.

Black Flag-slip it in.

Husker Du-metal circus.ep.

Black Flag-my war.

Dinosaur Jr-you're living all over me.

Minutemen-double nickels on the dime.

Black Flag-damaged.

Black Flag-the first four years.

Meat Puppets-2.

― Ellis From Die Hard, Monday, 6 June 2005 16:53 (7 years ago) Permalink

Saccharine Trust - Pagan Icons
Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime
Oxbow - Serenade In Red
Sonic Youth - Sister
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
Black Flag - The First Four Years

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Monday, 6 June 2005 18:15 (7 years ago) Permalink

Hell, I would have mentioned the other Negativland releases like Helter Stupid and Guns, too.. but almost all of them are now Seeland reissues.. except for Guns, which is, for some reason, remaining on SST. *shrug*

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 6 June 2005 18:49 (7 years ago) Permalink

Tar Babies's Fried Milk is a great unsung SST album...

― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 6 June 2005 19:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

like many of them... meat puppets, sacc trust, painted willy and:
the first roger manning - superb!

― jacques bush, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 13:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

Heh, I never knew Scott linked to my SST discography thingy. The old link is dead but it's still online:

http://macdaraconroy.com/experiments/misc/sst_discog.txt

I haven't added the new stuff yet, and I never got around to writing up discogs for New Alliance, Cruz and Issues.

― MacDara, Saturday, 2 August 2008 22:12 (4 years ago) Permalink

thanks, I just tried to look at the old one!

― sleeve, Saturday, 2 August 2008 23:56 (4 years ago) Permalink

SST Acoustic comp (totally forgotten album with people like The Last, Kirk Kelly and Angst who you might balk at sitting thorugh a whole album of, but get their good stuff represented on here)

-- DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, March 12, 2004 11:09 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

^^^still this - I like basically every song on this comp

― DJ Mencap, Sunday, 3 August 2008 14:44 (4 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

http://www.emusic.com/lists/showlist.html?lid=32829478
http://blogs.citypages.com/pscholtes/2008/10/sarah_palins_fa.php

― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 3 October 2008 06:24 (4 years ago) Permalink

Tar Babies's Fried Milk is a great unsung SST album

After getting a digital copy of this recently, agreed. But really there are so many great unsung SST albums.

Bl'ast-the power of expression. (It pains me that even most of you guys don't know this band and this album).

I'm sorry but It's In My Blood! is a far better album (and Take the Manic Ride would be good too without the shitty production). Alas, they had a sound too far ahead of their time.

― MacDara, Friday, 3 October 2008 11:09 (4 years ago) Permalink

But... isn't Bl'ast's sound basically a mix of Damaged & My War? I mean that's great and everything but it's not exactly ahead of it's time.

― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Friday, 3 October 2008 11:13 (4 years ago) Permalink

All the classic Meat Pups, Husker, Minutemen, fIREHOSE etc: but I also realy like the first s/t Buffalo Tom album

― MaresNest, Friday, 3 October 2008 13:00 (4 years ago) Permalink

Oh, that first Buffalo Tom album was basically the soundtrack to me skiving off lectures all day and generally fucking up at university. Every time I see it now I feel like a loser all over again. That and the first Anastasia Screamed record, the one with the pink cover.

― NickB, Friday, 3 October 2008 13:10 (4 years ago) Permalink

But... isn't Bl'ast's sound basically a mix of Damaged & My War? I mean that's great and everything but it's not exactly ahead of it's time.

Ah that's what everyone always says, but have you ever actually listened to them? The time changes and other intricacies place them as far away from Black Flag as, say, the Minutemen and Sac Trust are.

― MacDara, Friday, 3 October 2008 15:22 (4 years ago) Permalink

Sure, I dig Power Of Expression and I agree completely about Take The Manic Ride being good if it weren't for the (really) shitty production, I'm not sure about It's In my Blood being better but I like that too. I guess I didn't think anything in particular about their sound hadn't been done previously by Black Flag/Greg Ginn's guitar playing in particular. Not that that makes it any less great to listen to.

― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Friday, 3 October 2008 15:30 (4 years ago) Permalink

New Day Rising, with Meat Puppets II close behind.

― Jazzbo, Friday, 3 October 2008 15:33 (4 years ago) Permalink

The SST albums by Meat Puppets, Dinosaur Jr. and Buffalo Tom have been remastered. What's next? I think Sister in a double deluxe pkg is due sometime soon. Hard to tell if a remaster would do much for Husker Du or Minutemen.

― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 3 October 2008 15:34 (4 years ago) Permalink

Tom Watson has said that one day he'd like to get the Slovenly stuff reissued (dunno about remastering). Could definitely do with getting Thinking of Empire on CD.

― NickB, Friday, 3 October 2008 15:46 (4 years ago) Permalink

I read that somewhere too, I really hope it happens some day soon. Surely there's someone here who runs a label which'd be perfect for this. I mean, if Slovenly were British it probably would have happened already (with the likes of LTM and so on).

― MacDara, Friday, 3 October 2008 16:02 (4 years ago) Permalink

Absolutely, they've been totally overlooked by that whole crowd who would totally be into them I think.

― NickB, Friday, 3 October 2008 16:07 (4 years ago) Permalink

back to the original question:
double nickles are living all over my sister

― Zeno, Friday, 3 October 2008 16:25 (4 years ago) Permalink

Slovenly were great. I'm always a little surprised to learn that SST are still around.

― leavethecapital, Saturday, 4 October 2008 22:42 (4 years ago) Permalink

I think Husker and Minutemen would benefit from remastering if the musicians agreed to NOT REMIX THEM. I know members of both bands wanted to, and Mike Watt's early CD remix of Double Nickels is notorious. All of their stuff sounds better to me on vinyl, and that's reason enough for remastering, plus Double Nickels deserves to have the tracks that were deleted for the CD version restored, the album spread out over two CDs if necessary--it never feels complete without "Mr. Robot's Holy Orders." I don't know of an album that good whose CD and digital release was so botched.

― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 6 October 2008 14:56 (4 years ago) Permalink

Just found an SST fan blog:

http://heretoblast.blogspot.com/

― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 6 October 2008 15:18 (4 years ago) Permalink

pete,

do you know anything as to the details of why katzman had to cancel that double CD of huskers unreleased stuff from 79? i know it was internal husker politics but i hope they can get their act together...

― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 6 October 2008 15:28 (4 years ago) Permalink

im surprised so few people have shouted out kill from the heart!

― 69, Monday, 6 October 2008 15:43 (4 years ago) Permalink

You might know something I don't, Matt; I corresponded with Katzman a month ago and the release was still forthcoming...

― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 6 October 2008 20:02 (4 years ago) Permalink

Los Angeles ILXORs take note: a Pettibon exhibit of '70s and '80s works is running through October 18:

http://blogs.citypages.com/pscholtes/2008/10/pettibon_juncti.php

― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 21:13 (4 years ago) Permalink

10 months pass...

PO Box 1 gone! Black Flag founder Greg Ginn and SST Records start fresh in Taylor, Texas

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 3 September 2009 01:29 (3 years ago) Permalink

"Peacefully confident and content, Ginn has progressed to a new phase of life defined equally by jam-band culture and fatherhood."

christ, someone beat him up until he surrenders the rights to the saint vitus albums.

― HURL CROCKERY AT THE MOSQUE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 3 September 2009 07:38 (3 years ago) Permalink

And the Dicks! WTF.

― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 3 September 2009 08:25 (3 years ago) Permalink

Sounds like the Dirty Projectors show was 'interesting'.

― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Thursday, 3 September 2009 08:29 (3 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

No love for The Leaving Trains? 'Fuck' and 'Kill Tunes' are incredible.

― answering_machine, Sunday, 23 October 2011 00:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yes! 'KIll Tunes' is one of my favourites. I don't think they were as hooky again till the end of the '90s/early '00s but that's just me. Are they still going? I used to enjoy Falling James' website updates.

― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Sunday, 23 October 2011 09:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

done to death and tired of hearing it'ers i give you...

METAL CIRCUS

i love the ep so much it's the one band t-shirt i have that actually features it's masthead

― kelpolaris, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 23:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

huskers! otm

― answering_machine, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 23:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

SST stuff now on Spotify.

― timellison, Sunday, 22 April 2012 06:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

not all of it, Surviving You Always is MIA but the other Saccharine Trust recs are there.

― Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Sunday, 22 April 2012 13:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

do they have the dicks' sst album up on there?

― I accidentally sonned your dome (stevie), Sunday, 22 April 2012 15:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

Wishing they'd remaster a lot of the material. Could do with upgrades on the Black Flag cds & Saccharine Trust, Minutemen, Husker du (surprised this hasn't happened on another label if it hasn't) and a few others.

Main Black Flag I listen to these days is the Marquee '84 set which a friend recorded. Only time i got to see the band live. But I think '84 was a special year in their sound and i don't think 85 or 86 match it. Line-up considerably changed somewhen then anyway.

― Stevolende, Sunday, 22 April 2012 16:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

no Dicks, no B'last, no Stains xp

― Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Sunday, 22 April 2012 16:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

No Slovenly (but there is one Overpass album up now)

― Friends of Mr Caeiro (NickB), Sunday, 22 April 2012 17:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

BTW I might have posted this here already, but folks that like Ubu-ish art-rock that don't know about Slovenly need to see this:

― Friends of Mr Caeiro (NickB), Sunday, 22 April 2012 17:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

that Stains album is easily in my top 5 "albums SST should let someone else release because they're too awesome to effectively have just dropped off the face of the earth"

― I accidentally sonned your dome (stevie), Sunday, 22 April 2012 17:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

was just listening to meat puppets II yesterday, pretty amazing record.

― tylerw, Sunday, 22 April 2012 17:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

& would love to hear that Marquee 84 Black Flag tape hint hint

― tylerw, Sunday, 22 April 2012 17:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

II is a staggering work of genius, no folling.

http://punknotprofit.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/stains-lp.html

― I accidentally sonned your dome (stevie), Sunday, 22 April 2012 18:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

*fooling

― I accidentally sonned your dome (stevie), Sunday, 22 April 2012 18:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

Surviving You Always is MIA

That's because it was never digitised; it was never released on CD, either.

do they have the dicks' sst album up on there?

I've heard it's getting reissued on Alternative Tentacles in a few weeks - from a clean vinyl copy, since the master tapes are gone - so you might be in luck then.

That Stains album, too, will probably never see the light of day. From what I've read it was deleted months after its release in 1983. Anyone here read Razorcake? They had a feature on the Stains spread over two issues recently; I don't have them myself so I can't vouch for it.

― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Sunday, 22 April 2012 18:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

I've heard it's getting reissued on Alternative Tentacles in a few weeks

ooh really? AWESOME. that's a great album...

― I accidentally sonned your dome (stevie), Sunday, 22 April 2012 18:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

I got all excited, but no Zoogz Rift. (No Mofungo either.) Damn.

― dlp9001, Sunday, 22 April 2012 23:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

was just listening to meat puppets II yesterday, pretty amazing record.

^^ best album ever.

― rusty_allen, Sunday, 22 April 2012 23:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

^ sometimes, yeah

― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Sunday, 22 April 2012 23:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

do they have the dicks' sst album up on there?

― I accidentally sonned your dome (stevie), Sunday, April 22, 2012 11:13 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

which black flag album do you mean?

― some dude, Monday, 23 April 2012 01:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

Oh boy, now everyone can hear Minuteflag!

― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Monday, 23 April 2012 01:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

YES: black flag, minutemen/firehose, descendants, husker du, saint vitus, saccharine trust, bad brains, screaming trees

NO: p much anything else

― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Monday, 23 April 2012 02:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

pity the indie label that only has 8 good bands on its roster

― some glock (some dude), Monday, 23 April 2012 02:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh n/m i thought you were talking about quality and not spotify availability haha

― some glock (some dude), Monday, 23 April 2012 02:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

ha me too, was about to write something snotty about how any label would be lucky to have that many great bands over the course of a decade.

― tylerw, Monday, 23 April 2012 02:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol, sorry, they're all great! but so are the leaving trains, meat pups, opal, etc. figure they're probably going in stages, according to demand.

― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Monday, 23 April 2012 02:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

and the sst sonic youth stuff is up, probably through DGC/Universal

― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Monday, 23 April 2012 02:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

~~ants~~

ENTS

― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Monday, 23 April 2012 02:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

lovelovelove screaming trees' sst stuff

― I accidentally sonned your dome (stevie), Monday, 23 April 2012 06:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

which Saccharine Trust album should I listen to first?

― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Monday, 23 April 2012 10:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

They're a band of two halves - the first two (PaganIcons, Surviving You Always) are arty hardcore, the latter with a different and jazzier rhythm section. It's my favourite. The later ones (Worldbroken, We Became Snakes) are more jazz fusion style, the former being an improv live album. Still good (and a precursor to Universal Congress Of) but a different beast.

― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Monday, 23 April 2012 10:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

Am giving We Became Snakes a go, it's pretty unlike most other SST stuff I've heard, with the possible exception of the jazzier end of the Minutemen.

― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Monday, 23 April 2012 10:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

Not surprising, since Mike Watt produced that one!

― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Monday, 23 April 2012 11:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

A Human Certainty from Paganicons is the obvious 'hit', i reckon. great guitar sounds.

― bulge renaissance (+ +), Monday, 23 April 2012 11:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

Saccharine Trust's "Surviving You Always" is the great lost SST record, lost becuz as noted above it never was issued on cd and the label let it go out of print. The smartest decision I ever made was when I bought the whole ST collection sight-unheard in one fell swoope from my local record store. If you can find it, listen to this one first.

They are probably my favorite SST band and that's saying something. I love all four (and the live reocrd) for different reasons. Still at too, the album from 2001, "The Great One is Dead" is awesome and equally the level of their other records.

― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 23 April 2012 14:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

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