RadioXU #23


Greetings, friend! Welcome back to RadioXU! Tonight we begin a four-part series of episodes focusing on the Sub Pop Singles Club – a mail-order subscription service offered by Sub Pop Records in the late-1980s that sent subscribers limited-edition singles issued on the Seattle-based record label. Vintage indie rock at its finest!

– Playlist –

NIRVANA – Love Buzz
LONELY MOANS – Shoot The Cool
VERTIGO – Dynamite Cigar
REVEREND HORTON HEAT – Psychobilly Freakout
KREVISS – Going To Hell
SONIC YOUTH – Is It My Body?
THE FLUID – Candy (Live)
UNSANE – Vandal-X
POISON IDEA – Taken By Surprise
DWARVES – She’s Dead
DWARVES – Fuckhead
THE GORIES – Give Me Some Money
PAIN TEENS – Death Row Eyes
TSUNAMI – Left Behind
VELVET MONKEYS – Rock The Nation
SEVERIN – Powerplay
DAS DAMEN – Sad Mile
CODEINE – Realize


What do you think of this music?
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5 comments:

Peacefrog said...

Love it. Sure Subpop was founded on the shoulder of giants like Nirvana and Soundgarden and Mudhoney, but these tracks prove that there was a whole lot more out there than Seattle based grunge. That said, Subpop definitely had a specific "sound" in its early days regardless of the band. Great stuff as always. Looking forward to the next chapters in the Subpop series.
Byrnes

MAD4MUSIC said...

Glad you enjoyed it, KB! More interesting music to come in this series. There’ll be a few familiar bands, but most will be of the “little-known” variety. Nuggets from the Golden Age of indie rock!

MarsHottentot said...

Hey Tom! This is my wheelhouse - I was right at the perfect age for this nasty, noisy post-hardcore / post-punk - it ended up getting called grunge but what blew up didn't really resemble this stuff too much! This sojourn into the singles club is a welcome dive into some well known stuff (Nirvana, Vertigo, RHH, Unsane, Dwarves, Gories etc.) And stuff I didn't know prior like Kreviss and Severing!

MAD4MUSIC said...

Mars! Good to hear from you, buddy. I'm glad you're onboard for this Sub Pop Singles Club trip. Sounds like you'll definitely be enjoying what's coming ahead. You're absolutely right about this being the music that laid the foundation for "grunge rock," unfortunately it seemed like grunge lost the "indie sprit" once it went mainstream...

MarsHottentot said...

That it did!