Favorite SST releases?

i'd buy a slovenly box.

"*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)

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

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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.

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.

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

my guitar case still has the big SST sticker on it

< totally anal nitpick I know I know >

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

< /totally anal nitpick I know I know >

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.

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!

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

YES! OTM.

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

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."

My copy of the Incredible String Band movie "Be Glad for the Song has no Ending" is a Wienerworld DVD.

It's just an awful name. The denizens of Wienerworld have very good taste, but they have to tell people they work at Wienerworld.

I just went to their website and
1) lol nice logo
2) what is this?

http://www.wienerworld.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/315x/48f6cca306dcd6327e7dec315b5a0738/w/w/wwmm265.jpg

one of SST's later signings no doubt

bassist from Painted Willie

I was pretty fond of the Kira/Mike Watt bass duo album Dos (criminally unmentioned this thread).

http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-948177-1223211537.jpeg

A less muso Hugo Largo, more or less.

Welcome to Wienerworld!

http://chicago.grubstreet.com/superdawg_fuzzygerdes.jpg

Should have been a Zoogz Rift album cover.

^not looser than clams

Nutritionally Sound of course!

Listening to fIREHOSE for the first time in a million years. I got a bit fed up with their albums somewhere along the way, but Ragin' Full On is so good. Obviously they were always going to be underpowered in comparison to D Boon's stun guitar attack, but there's so many moments where everything meshes so beautifully that, in the context of this record at least, I couldn't really give a hoot.

You Don't Know Mojack - Two Canadian punkers leisurely dissecting every SST release chronologically with the occasional interview along the way, good fun.

https://soundcloud.com/mojackpod

yes it is very charming!

old friend of mine has started work on an oral history of south bay punk — follow along over here! https://www.instagram.com/i_want_to_be_stereotyped_book/
important news from that account — we can buy the Ginn family house in Hermosa Beach for a cool $1.4 million
https://www.openlistings.com/p/1326-owosso-ave-hermosa-beach-ca-90254

https://s3st3.openlistings.com/images/properties/v2/5b4fa0d071a60957c5dd80d0/1536/950/5b4fa12180d4b1044af5c337.jpg

Amazing, it's not how I pictured it at all, I wonder if that structure at the back is where Rollins lived.

Just got email saying that Wienerworld are rereleasing a bunch of prime SST stuff (Husker Du, Flag, Brains) on vinyl. Weird. Pretty sure that the bands involved won't see any money from this...

...from what I hear, certain SST bands had the same issue even when Ginn was releasing the records! (/snark)

My favorite SST releases were by Das Damen, btw

tylerw plz keep us posted on that, sounds cool

I've been just totally obsessed with USHC lately

I mean, even more so that usual

Wienerworld?!

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

― answering_machine, Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:04 PM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

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, October 23, 2011 5:05 AM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Just want to express my admiration for Kill Tunes!

Leaving Trains are one of those bands on the SST roster that I was on the fence about trying out (back when the only way you could try out SST bands was to mail away your money and hope). They first grabbed my attention when they released Loser Illusion Pt. 0, the title of which was pure candy to my 13-year-old comedy punk-loving self. But I grew cautious when I read an article about the guitarist playing nude on stage. The only other nude on stage antics I was aware of at the time were RHCP and G.G. Allin. While I was mostly fine (although a little squicked out) with the Chi-Peps doing it, I was worried that this might have been more of a G.G. thing. It's probably for the best that I didn't check out Loser Illusion back then, because I think it would have been lost on me. Listening today, not a bad E.P.!

But Kill Tunes really won me over. They'd align really well with a band like X, but with a slight college rock twist added to the punk.

was playing the OG SST pressing of You're Living All Over Me I scored as a 16yo in 1992, trying to figure out the lay of the pre-Nevermind land, and for that 40 mins yesterday it was def my favourite SST release.

who were the Killer Tweeker Bees?
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, March 11, 2004 6:56 PM bookmarkflaglink

This is so bad

Yeesh. I couldn’t make through a minute of “The Tweeker Blues.”