Favorite SST releases?

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.

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(

Now riddle me this: what does SST stand for?

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.

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".

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.

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?)

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).

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).

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.

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.

Avoid:
Minuteflag
Zoogz Rift
Elliot Sharp

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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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

New Day Rising, with Meat Puppets II close behind.

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.