― Dr.C, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Keiko, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― keith, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― duane zarakov, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Omar, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Must say - and I could be totally wrong - the success of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" pretty much killed the "Sub Pop sound" era of the label. The Stooges-type bands (as likely Bad Company and Aerosmith influenced) ceased to be the label's interest at that point (eg. no more Green River Jnrs like 89's Blood Circus or Swallow) and they diversified far afield (or full circle: back to new versions of the oddballs on SUB POP 100). Part of the appeal of an underground scene is its "undergroundness", and the sense of momentum that carries when growing. After Nirvana hit, the "old" Sub Pop's work was done. Maybe?
Something more recent (97?): I did like "Baby Talk" on that Cheap Trick single they did w/ Albini. Good bass sound...
― AP, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― james edmund L, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Mark, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
sub pop were the ultimate label that made me think that, in 1992-94, things could maybe change, that music could get less horrible and bad. more so than kill rock stars, more so than k, mainly because i guess they seemed less cliquey and olympia-insidery i'm sure that's due to the heavy percentage of bands with guys in them and the way my psyche works, but looking at a chunk of the catalog now is really making my mouth drop open.
also the voice of mark arm = classic and since sub pop put out most of his stuff they are sprinkled with the dust.
search: 'afternoon delight'; the afghan whigs 'congregation' and 'uptown avondale'; velocity girl 'what you left behind,' 'audrey's eyes,' 'warm/crawl'; soundgarden 'hunted down'; the spinanes 'spitfire'; mudhoney ... oh, hell, just mudhoney; green river 'queen bitch'; nirvana 'floyd the barber'; the fastbacks 'on the wall' and 'gone to the moon'; sebadoh 'bakesale'; elastica 'stutter'; l7 'packin' a rod' and 'shove'; seaweed 'squint'; the reverend horton heat '400 bucks'; every version of 'swallow my pride' (green river x 2, soundgarden, fastbacks, pearl jam + mark arm) because it is THE BEST SONG EVER EVER.
destroy: i never really got earth. and chixdiggit were really sort of, well no REALLY, dumb.
― maura, Saturday, 21 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Sterling Clover, Saturday, 21 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Gerhard, Saturday, 29 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Dud: The whole grunge fiasco.
― Mr Noodles, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Richie, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― bob snoom, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Thursday, 15 May 2003 00:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 15 May 2003 00:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
Their current roster is probably the best it's been since the mid 90s we're-not-just-grunge-y'know heyday of Velocity Girl and the Spinanes and suchlike..
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 15 May 2003 00:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
It seems like so many of Sub Pop's bands sound like great ideas until you actually hear them. They sure knew how to do seven-inches, but the full albums never seemed to work out.
― Nick Mirov (nick), Thursday, 15 May 2003 01:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 15 May 2003 01:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
lesser (but still good): Afghan Whigs, Mudhoney, Zumpano, Love As Laughter (great bands but not so consistent albums IMO)
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 15 May 2003 01:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― zilverberg.tk (zilverberg.tk), Thursday, 15 May 2003 08:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 15 May 2003 08:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
Velocity Girl - CopaceticVelocity Girl - SimpaticoPond - S/TPond - The Practice of Joy Before DeathEric's Trip - Love TaraSix Finger Satellite - The Pigeon is the Most Popular BirdAfghan Whigs - Congregation
― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 15 May 2003 14:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jm (jtm), Thursday, 15 May 2003 14:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jm (jtm), Thursday, 15 May 2003 14:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
-David Cross' stand up 2xCD-Love As Laughter's Sea to Shining Sea-Pleasure Forever's new one is fucking killer-and they now have the Constantines. This can only lead to good things.
― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 15 May 2003 14:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 18 December 2003 18:41 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 18 December 2003 23:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 19 December 2003 00:03 (twenty years ago) link
― earlnash, Friday, 19 December 2003 00:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 19 December 2003 01:58 (twenty years ago) link
― adam michel (adam michel), Friday, 19 December 2003 02:00 (twenty years ago) link
― jack cole (jackcole), Friday, 19 December 2003 02:03 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 19 December 2003 02:08 (twenty years ago) link
What is up with Sub Pop not releasing anything on eMusic or the Amazon MP3 store? It seems like they have decided to only release downloads on iTunes, which is annoying. Anyone have a link to their justification for this?
― schwantz, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link
there was an article on stylus a few weeks ago about indie labels and digital distribution and why some labels didn't go with some retailers, but I can't seem to find it on there now, and can't remember if they talked to sub pop directly. but it was a good article!
― akm, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/brave-new-world-the-indies-go-digital.htm
― schwantz, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Still nothing on why they are only on iTunes...
― schwantz, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
it probably has to do with how itunes handles payouts
― akm, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 20:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Et voila!
― schwantz, Thursday, 8 November 2007 23:30 (sixteen years ago) link
so ... anybody planning on going to this: http://www.subpop.com/sp20 ?
halfway tempted to jump a last minute plane out there just to see The Fluid, Green River and the Vaselines .. but there also a number of clunker bands or bands I've just plain never heard
― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link
No Codeine or Green Magnet School... no credibility.
― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Blood Circus, as I keep saying.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 22:37 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm not even sure if green magnet school were even on sub pop to be honest...
― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 22:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Some sort of co-release, I think.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 22:43 (sixteen years ago) link
The Fluid is more than enough cred. Man, they ruled live.
― QuantumNoise, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 22:47 (sixteen years ago) link
gms had two sub pop 45s, one of their own and one split with six finger satellite..
― electricsound, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 23:42 (sixteen years ago) link
the sleeper of the Sub Pop weekend is gonna be the Gutter Twins show on Sat evening, kind of a separate show. and i know there's lots of great stuff at the fest (wish i could go but halfway across the US), but boy, do the Gutter Twins kill it live.
― stephen, Thursday, 3 July 2008 00:03 (sixteen years ago) link
i thought they had some big falling out on tour a few months ago and were finished?
― akm, Thursday, 3 July 2008 00:14 (sixteen years ago) link
uh. i had no idea. apparently not though!
(what's the source on that?)
― stephen, Thursday, 3 July 2008 01:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Caught a glimpse of Sub-pop's version of cease and desist (for the newly leaked Mogwai album)
"Hiiiiiii guyssssss……
Isn’t this a wonderful album? We at Sub Pop think so, too. We like it so much that we’re paying a pretty penny to put it out. Sorry we have to be a Grinch about these matters, but we kindly request that you remove this (and all subsequent Sub Pop) release.
We do appreciate your enthusiasm, and we hope that our request (we don’t like the word demand, because we’re the cuddly type of suits) will not discourage you from buying our humble wares when it is released on 2/15/11.
Thank you, and have a good day."
― Cunga, Monday, 3 January 2011 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
wow sub pop still puts out albums huh
― Є|Э (Edward III), Monday, 3 January 2011 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
why wouldn't they?
― Scilk Mahouthy (DJ Mencap), Monday, 3 January 2011 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
future is in youtube-and-lathecut-only releases
― Є|Э (Edward III), Monday, 3 January 2011 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
everyone knows that cassingle will be the only format that matters in the 2k11
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 3 January 2011 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
it's super annoying and sad that Sub Pop has to pretend that they're the ones in the wrong by politely asking a poor innocent uploader to remove an album that hasn't been released yet
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 January 2011 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
like Matador would be all "take our fucking album down, you clown"
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 January 2011 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
we’re the cuddly type of suits
this is not comforting.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 3 January 2011 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
keep misreading that as cuddly type of sluts
― assorted curses (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 3 January 2011 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
now you're talking
― BIG HOOTY aka the Sapperticker (electricsound), Monday, 3 January 2011 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link
the smarm factor is so high in that email. i prefer WGW's proposed response; it's tougher, but refreshingly straightforward.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 3 January 2011 23:33 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe assclown, instead of just clown. idk; that's just the litigator in me.
Poor innocent uploader was just sharing the new Mogwai with his closest 1,390,000 friends :-/
They were just gonna open up an AIM window and talk about it at once.
― Cunga, Monday, 3 January 2011 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
man i would be totally listening to blood circus right now
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Go nuts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCCZmJ4hA8k
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 01:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not surprised by that Sub Pop letter, it just shows me (again) that Seattle is a city full of passive-aggressive pussies.
― van smack, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
it is! and thanks, ned.
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link
still corners AND memoryhouse? i might start liking sub pop again..
― vanilla friedman (electricsound), Monday, 7 March 2011 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Niki & The Dove too (but that may only be of interest to me).
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 7 March 2011 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
don't know em, will have to listen
― vanilla friedman (electricsound), Monday, 7 March 2011 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Gawd, I got some free Sub Pop stickers from friends at a record shop and couldn't believe how difficult it was for me to decide whether I should stick them anywhere or not. In full realization of being shallow, I am somewhat of a sticker guy and kinda developed an infatuation for them in my early 8-yr old skateboarding days... meaning, stickers were like, life man.
Or at least made stuff "look cool". I currently have a Merge sticker on the back of my mp3 player.. and have like 20more if any ilxors want some (pay fer ur own postage).
Anyways, I eventually threw the SP stickers away b/c I kinda had little respect for the label. They're great at defining their own niche, but I cannot think of a single act I like on the label. A whole bunch of bands I've listened to albums of maybe once, twice... never more. Just mediocre retro-act after another.
― Crouching Seward, Hidden Raggett (kelpolaris), Monday, 7 March 2011 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I laughed:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/25/virginia-tech-nirvana-letter_n_3653449.html
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 28 July 2013 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
They put out some bullshit, but they put out some great stuff too.I meanP I S S E D J E A N SSub Pop still got it.
― Walter Galt, Sunday, 28 July 2013 23:15 (eleven years ago) link
https://cascade.madmimi.com/promotion_images/0786/1789/original/SUB-POP-USA-cover.jpg?1413218591
Bruce Pavitt's SUB POP USA: The Subterranean Pop Music Anthology 1980–1988 Features Essays by Calvin Johnson, Ann Powers, Larry Reid, Gerard Cosloy, and Charles R. Cross; "The Insight Into This Period of Rock History Could Only Have Been Delivered by Bruce"—Kim Thayil, Soundgarden."
Bazillion Points Books is proud to announce the Nov. 15 release of SUB POP USA: The Subterranean Pop Music Anthology 1980–1988, (ISBN 978-1-935950-11-0) by Bruce Pavitt, an unprecedented, 400-page cross-genre survey of American independent music during the 1980s. Combining all nine issues of Pavitt's Subterranean Pop zine and six years of monthly Seattle Rocket newspaper columns, the book chronicles the rise of regional American indie pop, punk, hardcore, art/noise, metal, spoken word, hip hop, and rock’n roll—over 1,000 bands all told—alongside Pavitt's own path as DJ, zine editor, record store owner, music booster, and ultimately founder of Sub Pop Records.
In addition to unseen photographs by Charles Peterson and Michael Lavine, and early artwork by Charles Burns, Jad Fair, and Lynda Barry, the book includes indie perspective and regional background via original essays by Calvin Johnson (Beat Happening/K Records/Dub Narcotic Sound System); Ann Powers (NPR Music; Los Angeles Times); Larry Reid (Fantagraphics); Gerard Cosloy (Conflict, Matador Records); and Charles R. Cross (the Rocket, Heavier Than Heaven).
http://www.bazillionpoints.com/shop/sub-pop-u-s-a-the-subterraneanan-pop-music-anthology-1980-1988-by-bruce-pavitt
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 21:45 (nine years ago) link
that looks neat!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 22:39 (nine years ago) link
https://bandcamp.com/labels
20$ a month they pay
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 19:19 (nine years ago) link
Disappointing. Thought it'd be like a one-stop Love Battery/Velocity Girl shopping experience.
― how's life, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link
This is oddly appropriate, as the Sub Pop brand has the charm/personality of an airline: https://variety.com/2018/music/news/sub-pop-records-branded-airplane-1202894579/
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Friday, 3 August 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
Can someone explain to me why Sub Pop is celebrating its 30th anniversary this week?
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 13 August 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link
n/m it's the anniversary of them being a limited company or something
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 13 August 2018 22:31 (six years ago) link
Mark Arm is 68 years old and still shaped like a 12-year-old (Mudhoney at #SPF30 ) pic.twitter.com/6KfgqhoSid— President Bran Warms (@awardtour) August 12, 2018
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Monday, 13 August 2018 23:52 (six years ago) link