― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 10 October 2002 04:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mike (ro)bott, Thursday, 10 October 2002 04:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Thursday, 10 October 2002 13:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
I guess this is as close to a Fake Grunge or Bubble-Grunge thread as there is...I hated all that Nickelback-type stuff circa 2000 as much as anyone--really, it was one of my most hated moments of ubiquity ever. But I liked lots of Nirvana imitators through the '90s. This is something I downloaded a while ago but just got around to burning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2nnL_k7z3A
From Ohio, Guided by Voices connections. I even like the title of that one.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 00:06 (ten years ago) link
Greta, I think they were called. Lead (male) singer wore a dress all the time.
11 years after the fact I was going to suggest that this was actually Hazel, Portland band with a dress-wearing male dancer, not singer. Turns out the original poster was correct. I never heard of Greta.
I know I've repped for my favorites from that era (Hammerbox, Dirt Fishermen) on other threads.
― Low down bad refrigerator (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 19:08 (ten years ago) link
I love the story of the dude who sold his Thrones CD because JP was an 'old, partially balding' man
― Walter Galt, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 11:55 (ten years ago) link
See this thread for excellent discussion of UK sub-grunge crap:
How do the various members of Terrorvision spend their time these days?
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 23 October 2013 13:42 (ten years ago) link
not sure if it's grunge (he is from portland or something and used to play w/the melvins or earth or something? i'm no good today) but the Thrones was kinda fun for a second. drum machines, vocoders and heavy fuggin metalbut then i saw him live. he was an old partially balding (but still w/the remains of his long hair) and told really bad jokes.i sold the cd the next day― JasonD, Thursday, October 10, 2002 12:06 AM (11 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i sold the cd the next day
― JasonD, Thursday, October 10, 2002 12:06 AM (11 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol
― how's life, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 14:44 (ten years ago) link
fell in love w thrones when i saw preston play bumbershoot in late 1990-something. just bass & drum machine (of course, maybe some samples?), filthy parka & jeans, scraggly hair and giant beard full of leaves & twigs like he'd slept under a bush, howling and droning at ridiculous volume for the smallish room, driving kids away in droves. or so i seem to recall...
<3<3<3
― pervilege as a meme (contenderizer), Wednesday, 23 October 2013 14:56 (ten years ago) link
low profile grunge (and grungy noise rock/punk) i dug (or kinda dug) way back when, mid-80s thru early 90s:
skin yard: "gelatin babies", "throb"bench: "backseat lover"action swingers: "kicked in the head", "no heart and soul", "don't wanna be this way"pain teens: "it will" (love & napalm comp. version)cherubs: "carjack fairy"64 spiders: "potty swat"cat butt: "zombie"st 37: "retz"bastards: "shit for brains", "groovy spaceman pills"venom p. stinger: "walking about", "the day will come"boys from nowhere: "rocket to nowhere" (mike rep cover)unholy swill: "tapeworm in my head"bullets for pussy: "pointed stick"reverb motherfuckers: "peaceman"motocaster: "uranus", "broken eyes"helltrout: "dead eye shot"dangermouse: box ep w/ the moon on the cover, can't remember song titlesbundle of hiss: same deal, comp tracks lost to timethe u-men: tons of stuff, "green trumpet", "gila", "dig it a hole", "freezebomb", etc.chemistry set: "underground"surgery: "feedback"/"fried" single, "brazier", "drive-in fever", "queen to queens level 3"original sins: "just 14", "nowhere to go (from here but down)"the mike gunn: "scary black man"terminal cheesecake: "unhealing wound"yeast: "too much of one thing"helios creed: "go blind"dickless: "saddle tramp"
― pervilege as a meme (contenderizer), Wednesday, 23 October 2013 15:49 (ten years ago) link
amrep addendum...
lubricated goat: "bad times", "meat my head"chokebore: "throats to hit"the powers that be: "crude sound"vertigo: "master of the universe" (hawkwind cover)
― pervilege as a meme (contenderizer), Saturday, 26 October 2013 02:03 (ten years ago) link
friends of mine from danbury. they opened up for nirvana in new haven, like, the day before nirvana became fabulously wealthy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buGtOToNKGE
― scott seward, Saturday, 26 October 2013 11:26 (ten years ago) link
more friends of mine from danbury who actually sound better to me now than they did then. but i was just in a different place back then. they were more shoegaze/smashing pumpkins than "grunge" grunge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEEVBPif68M
― scott seward, Saturday, 26 October 2013 11:35 (ten years ago) link
Read Aunts?
― Has talent, needs to figure out how to improve (staggerlee), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 15:10 (ten years ago) link
*Red Aunts whoops
― Has talent, needs to figure out how to improve (staggerlee), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link