sub- grunge crap S&D

but 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

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.

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.

I love the story of the dude who sold his Thrones CD because JP was an 'old, partially balding' man

See this thread for excellent discussion of UK sub-grunge crap:

How do the various members of Terrorvision spend their time these days?

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 metal
but 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

lol

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

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 titles
bundle of hiss: same deal, comp tracks lost to time
the 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"

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)

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

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

Read Aunts?

*Red Aunts whoops