Rank the Big 3 Sub Pop Grunge debuts
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Rank the Big 3 Sub Pop Grunge debuts
I rank them:
1. Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff
2. Soundgarden - Screaming Life
3. Nirvana - Bleach
1. Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff
2. Soundgarden - Screaming Life
3. Nirvana - Bleach
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Re: Rank the Big 3 Sub Pop Grunge debuts
1. MUDHONEY
2. Nirvana
3. Soundgarden
2. Nirvana
3. Soundgarden
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Still Baron wrote:1. MUDHONEY
2. Nirvana
3. Soundgarden
This
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Still Baron wrote:1. MUDHONEY
2. Nirvana
3. Soundgarden
Ditto.
At the time of their debuts, Mudhoney were the best of these three. I like Bleach and Nirvana came out swinging. Soundgarden, probably the most experienced of these bands needed time to find their sound. They didn't really solidify until Cameron and Shepherd nailed down the rhythm section.
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Re: Rank the Big 3 Sub Pop Grunge debuts
Soundgarden were just pretty good until Badmotorfinger, really.
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I never skip an opportunity to plug them, and besides, it's the only decent thing this wretched label ever released anyway:
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Matt Wilson wrote:Soundgarden were just pretty good until Badmotorfinger, really.
Well, Ultraomega OK got a Grammy nomination so someone considered that better than "just pretty good." SST hired the producer for Ultra and Soundgarden thought that was a mistake - it sounds like a Black Flag album. But they were recognized early by the industry, if not masses.
They finally got big label resources when they signed to A&M and did Louder than Love. To metalheads, that was the breakout and Badmoterfinger was the culmination that led to MTV and the masses.
My perspective.
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I dunno John, I've got 'em all and only play Badmotorfinger and Superunknown any more.
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Matt Wilson wrote:Still Baron wrote:1. MUDHONEY
2. Nirvana
3. Soundgarden
This
I think so too. Soundgarden are one of the few bands to come off SST OR Sub Pop who improved greatly on a major label. But Nirvana was one of the others. Mudhoney's debut EP really is their best moment although their post-2000 albums have been quite rewarding IMO - better than most of their major label records in the 90s.
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I always considered Superfuzz Bigmuff as being all I never needed to hear from the grunge scene. I didn't even like half of that, but it was better than the rest, and the rest didn't do an awful lot more with the sound.
Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.
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Matt Wilson wrote:I dunno John, I've got 'em all and only play Badmotorfinger and Superunknown any more.
I don't like Superunknown at all. The only songs I really liked off that were My Wave and Spoonman.
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Screaming life!
"Little Joe" rocks! They wanted to be Zeppelin more than they could play their instruments. Force of will, man. It's in the grooves.
"Little Joe" rocks! They wanted to be Zeppelin more than they could play their instruments. Force of will, man. It's in the grooves.
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I saw the Superfuzz Bigmuff/Daydream Nation tour and, even as they were blasting through Hate the Police, you could tell this was as good as Mudhoney would get.
At the same venue a year or so later Nirvana bored the tits off me with the result that I didn't bother buying the White vinyl version of Bleach (currently going for about a grand). Damn.
I've not heard the Soundgarden (is Flower after this?) but they put out some fine singles after.
At the same venue a year or so later Nirvana bored the tits off me with the result that I didn't bother buying the White vinyl version of Bleach (currently going for about a grand). Damn.
I've not heard the Soundgarden (is Flower after this?) but they put out some fine singles after.
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sneelock wrote:Screaming life!
"Little Joe" rocks! They wanted to be Zeppelin more than they could play they're instruments. Force of will, man. It's in the grooves.
Maybe I'll give it another shot. Seemed a comedown after Badmotorfinger.
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sloopjohnc wrote:Matt Wilson wrote:I dunno John, I've got 'em all and only play Badmotorfinger and Superunknown any more.
I don't like Superunknown at all. The only songs I really liked off that were My Wave and Spoonman.
That's really surprising. As I said on FB, my heart always tells me Badmotorfinger, but I put it on in the car yesterday and it sounded like shit. I put in Superunknown today and was (sorta) blown away. It's a quantum leap in sound and chops. Which makes me sad, because I want to stand up for burly, B.O. Soundgarden.
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sloopjohnc wrote:I don't like Superunknown at all. The only songs I really liked off that were My Wave and Spoonman.
I find this very hard to understand too, Sloop. Superunknown is the sound of a very promising rock band achieving full lift-off in every way - a big clutch of excellent songs, played well, beautifully produced for the time, with added touches of pop and psychedelia in the hard rock mix. For me it's a high-water mark of the period. Before that all their records are inconsistent in various ways.
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