Favorite SST releases?

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.

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).

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

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

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

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.

Just found an SST fan blog:

http://heretoblast.blogspot.com/

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...

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

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

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

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

"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.

And the Dicks! WTF.

Sounds like the Dirty Projectors show was 'interesting'.

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

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.

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

huskers! otm

SST stuff now on Spotify.

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

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

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.

no Dicks, no B'last, no Stains xp

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

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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvZ50kX_5t8

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"

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

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

II is a staggering work of genius, no folling.

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

*fooling

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.

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

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

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

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

^^ best album ever.

^ sometimes, yeah

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

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which black flag album do you mean?

Oh boy, now everyone can hear Minuteflag!

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

NO: p much anything else

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

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

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.

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.

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

ants

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lovelovelove screaming trees' sst stuff

which Saccharine Trust album should I listen to first?

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.

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.

Not surprising, since Mike Watt produced that one!