subpop Archives - Vinyl From The Vault https://vinylfromthevault.com/tag/subpop/ Tue, 23 Nov 2021 22:12:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 198238920 SubPop Singles Club “Smells Like Smoked Sausages” https://vinylfromthevault.com/subpop-singles-club-smells-like-smoked-sausages/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=subpop-singles-club-smells-like-smoked-sausages Tue, 12 Apr 2016 21:45:48 +0000 http://box2101.temp.domains/~vinylfro/?p=3497 SubPop Singles Club “Smells Like Smoked Sausages” 1992, double 7″ on pink vinyl: Tar “Deep Throw,” Cows “My Girl,” Helmet “Oven,” Surgery “Our Demise,” Boss Hog “Fire of Love,” God Bullies “Bullet,” Vertigo “Dynamite Cigar” and Helios Creed “Hideous Greed.” All the bands were “on loan” from Amphetamine Reptile Records. Noisy, garagey early 90′s post-punk and hopelessly mislabelled, on the back cover and on the [...]

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]]> SubPop Singles Club “Smells Like Smoked Sausages” 1992, double 7″ on pink vinyl: Tar “Deep Throw,” Cows “My Girl,” Helmet “Oven,” Surgery “Our Demise,” Boss Hog “Fire of Love,” God Bullies “Bullet,” Vertigo “Dynamite Cigar” and Helios Creed “Hideous Greed.” All the bands were “on loan” from Amphetamine Reptile Records.

Noisy, garagey early 90′s post-punk and hopelessly mislabelled, on the back cover and on the record label too. You really need to know the songs/bands or cross-reference to figure out what track is actually being played. Three of my favorites: the Cows “My Girl” is a heavy cover of the traditional folk lament “In the Pines” aka “Where Did You Sleep Last Night” (first made commercially popular by Bill Monroe, then Lead Belly and even more so by Nirvana with their performance in ‘94 on MTV Unplugged). As I love all things Jon Spencer, I especially enjoy Boss Hog’s “Fire of Love,” a cover of Jody Reynolds’ 1958 spooky rockabilly single that peaked at #66 (and was also later covered by MC5 and the Gun Club). Pulling away from the dirge-beat of those two tracks is Surgery’s almost danceable, hip-shaking mosh-pit ready song (with standard 90′s grunge guitar solos) “Our Demise.”

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]]> 3497 Tad “God’s Balls” https://vinylfromthevault.com/tad-gods-balls-1989-sub-pop-records-blue/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tad-gods-balls-1989-sub-pop-records-blue Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:55:20 +0000 http://box2101.temp.domains/~vinylfro/?p=3893 Tad “God’s Balls” 1989. Sub Pop Records. Blue vinyl. Tad’s debut album - heavy heavy grungey Seattle hard rock that Allmusic’s Greg Pato describes as “punk rock slowed down to a powerful Sabbath-like pace.” Tad opened for Nirvana on their “Bleach” tour but never achieved crossover status into mainstream rock the way that Nirvana did. Perhaps song titles [...]

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]]> Tad “God’s Balls” 1989. Sub Pop Records. Blue vinyl. Tad’s debut album – heavy heavy grungey Seattle hard rock that Allmusic’s Greg Pato describes as “punk rock slowed down to a powerful Sabbath-like pace.” Tad opened for Nirvana on their “Bleach” tour but never achieved crossover status into mainstream rock the way that Nirvana did. Perhaps song titles like “Cyanide Bath,” “Satan’s Chainsaw” and “Nipple Belt” scared off the masses. Whatever. Their loss. This album is an assault of over-the-top, in-your-face anger and swagger wrapped up in 300 pound flannel.

Runoff groove etchings: Side A (the “Judas” side) – “Judass kicks ass” and Side B (the “Jesus” side) – “Free Dick Johnson” The back cover of the album states “This record is lovingly dedicated to convicted felon Dick Johnson”

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]]> 3893 L7 “Smell the Magic” https://vinylfromthevault.com/l7-smell-the-magic-1990-sub-pop-records-l7s/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=l7-smell-the-magic-1990-sub-pop-records-l7s Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:31:37 +0000 http://box2101.temp.domains/~vinylfro/?p=4044 L7 “Smell the Magic” 1990. Sub Pop Records. L7′s second release, this is the 12″ 6-song EP original release; it was re-released in ‘91 on CD adding three more tracks. Why haven’t I listened to this lately??!! I was heavy into L7 in the 90′s, its riot-grrll awesomeness, but didn’t get a chance to see them live [...]

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]]> L7 “Smell the Magic” 1990. Sub Pop Records. L7′s second release, this is the 12″ 6-song EP original release; it was re-released in ‘91 on CD adding three more tracks. Why haven’t I listened to this lately??!! I was heavy into L7 in the 90′s, its riot-grrll awesomeness, but didn’t get a chance to see them live until 1999 at the Globe in Milwaukee when they toured to promote “Slap Happy.” I reviewed that show for the Shepherd Express, remarking at the snarl and venom-fueled attack of their performance, the audience responding by morphing into a sea of thrashing bodies filled with sweaty adoration.

This EP is brilliant, angry but angry in a way that makes the listener feel gloriously alive. “Shove” is majestically, anthemically amazing and rips everyone and everything in its way to shreds. (“Get out of my way or I might shove. Get out of my way or I’m gonna shove”). “Fast and Frightening” is female power at its dirtiest, nastiness, finest:

Her glance hits me like lightning
I heard that girl is fast and frightening
Dirty hair and a laugh that’s mean
Her neighbors call her an evil machine
She’s fast, she’s lean
She’s frightening
She’s fast, she’s lean
She’s frightening
Popping wheelies on her motorbike
Straight girls wish they were dykes
She’ll do anything on a dare
Mom and Daddy’s worst nightmare
Down at the creek smoking pot
She eats the roach so she don’t get caught
Throws her mini off in the halls
Got so much c*** she don’t need no balls

Run-off groove etchings: Side A – “Rock show tonight – big butts live on stage” Side B – “Smell It Sniff It Smell It” and “Swappin’ fluids across the nation”

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