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Two songs you know and love by the band that launched a thousand imitators.Nirvana. Label: Sub Pop Year: 1988 Singles Club #1 Kicking it off with what has become a legendary release. This band seemed destined to be huge.and they got sorta big (a video on 120 Minutes is nothing to sneeze! That Dave Kendall was the Ricki Rachtmann of alterna-ness back then!).then got small again, and then came roaring back a couple years ago to the praise that had alluded them way back when.Link updated 11-30-14. And, that's got to be the ultimate compliment, right? It's meant to be. Label: Sub Pop Year: 1989 Singles Club #6 Damn, I do love me some Afghan Whigs! Nobody else sounds like they do, then or now. Would you believe blues damaged psychobilly sleaze? How about if I told you Slim Chance from The Cramps was a member of the band? Make more sense?.Link updated 11-30-14. Label: Sub Pop Year: 1989 Singles Club #7 The name Mad Daddies had me worried that this was going to be the ska entry into the Singles Club, and lord knows, there really isn't much worse in this world than ska.īut, then the Peter Bagge cover art leads you to believe that this could be some Estrus Records styled cowpunk-greaser-retro thing. #DOWNLOAD PIXIES DISCOGRAPHY RAR FREE MOVIE#The B-side to this 7' is a cover of The Creation's 'Making Time' long before you heard that song on the Rushmore movie soundtrack.Link updated 11-30-14. My memory of Das Damen is as the band who opened for Nirvana at the Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill in (I believe) October of was a school night.I remember that much. Label: Sub Pop Year: 1989 Singles Club #9 Squeaky clean by Sub Pop standards, Das Damen was a NYC band who bounced around from Ecstatic Peace to SST to Twin/Tone, and sorta worked on each of those labels. Pretty sure this has been posted here, we're trying to be completists here.Link updated 11-30-14. They, who flirted with offensiveness at every turn, and challenged the tastemakers of the underground to defend their own neurotic assumptions about what was 'ok'. Sims, and Ray Washham who slashed their way through a post-Big Black world with bombast and aplomb. Label: Sub Pop Year: 1989 Singles Club #10 What more needs to be said about Rapeman? The Voltron-like assemblage of Steve Albini, David Wm.
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