4CD – Import

4CD SET EXPLORING GRUNGE AND THE AMERICAN ALTERNATIVE UNDERGROUND 1984-1994.

COMPILED WITH MUDHONEYS MARK ARM.

FEATURES SOUNDGARDEN, MUDHONEY, DINOSAUR JR, HOLE, GREEN RIVER, MELVINS, SKIN YARD, SCREAM, TAD, SONIC YOUTH, HUSKER DU, PIXIES, MEAT PUPPETS, SCREAMING TREES, PAVEMENT, L7, FLAMING LIPS, VERUCA SALT, STONE TEMPLE PILOTS, TEMPLE OF THE DOG, BABES IN TOYLAND AND MORE.

ALSO FEATURES A HANDFUL OF ANTIPODEAN BANDS BELOVED OF THE SEATTLE SCENE.

SLEEVENOTES BY MARK ARM.

During the late 1980s, whilst pop, rap and glam metal dominated the American airwaves, underground musicians sought an antidote. During the middle of the decade, from Seattle in the west to New York in the east, bands immersed in a less highly polished, raw and more powerful sound began to emerge, fusing punky garage band attitude with meaningful, often disenchanted lyrics and lashings of distortion to create something new. The grunge tag quickly took hold, absorbing bands from all over the States and becoming a social phenomenon, drawing countless other underground and college circuit bands into its orbit in the process. Overnight, macho rock was dead.

Featuring an embarrassment of key bands and classic tracks, alongside lesser-known nuggets and a hand-picked selection of Australasian artists who were inadvertently feeding into the scene, Youre No Big Deal explores a vital period in post-punk American musical history, the rebirth of rock music and its new place among the underground elite. With sleevenotes from Mudhoneys Mark Arm, whose previous band Green River were the first to be given the grunge tag, this is an on-the-ground, broad reaching dive into a time and place that saw the unlikeliest of anti-rock stars recalibrate what American guitar-based music could be, reconnecting it with ordinary suburban kids and reigniting punk rocks spirit.

Packed with over 80 tracks spanning a decade, and presented in roughly chronological order, Youre No Big Deal tells a story that spread far beyond the ambitions of its key players.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE

1 Green River – Come On Down

2 Red Kross – Linda Blair 1984

3 10 Minute Warning – Stooge

4 Bam Bam – Villains (Also Wear White)

5 Poison 13 – One Step Closer

6 Meat Puppets – Swimming Ground

7 Feast – Look For The Light

8 The Scientists – If It’s The Last Thing I Do

9 Husker Du – Crystal

10 Malfunkshun – My Only Fan

11 Dinosaur Jr – Little Fury Things

12 Soundgarden – Hunted Down

13 U-Men – Solid Action

14 Pixies – Caribou

15 feedtime – Curtains

16 The Replacements – The Ledge

17 The Flaming Lips – Maximum Dream For Evil Knievel

18 Green River – This Town

19 Cosmic Psychos – Can’t Come In

20 The Celibate Rifles – Jesus On TV

21 Happy Flowers – Mom and Dad Like The Baby More Than Me

DISC TWO

1 Mudhoney – Touch Me I’m Sick

2 Bundle Of Hiss – Rabies

3 The Fluid – Cold Outside

4 Cat Butt – 64 Funny Cars

5 Blood Circus – Two Way Street

6 Babes In Toyland – Dust Cake Boy

7 Scream – Fucked Without A Kiss

8 Ultra Vivid Scene – Mercy Seat

9 Girl Trouble – Riverbed

10 Crunchbird – Subway Circle

11 Soundgarden – Flower

12 Tad – Behemoth

13 Kill Sybil – Olympia (Single Version)

14 Love Battery – Between The Eyes

15 Seaweed – Inside

16 Skin Yard – Start At The Top

17 Gas Huffer – Firebug

18 Mudhoney – In And Out Of Grace

19 Helltrout – Smoking Lounge

20 Mother Love Bone – Thru Fade Away

DISC THREE

1 Sonic Youth – Kool Thing

2 L7 – Shove

3 Toadies – I Hope You Die

4 Pavement – From Now On

5 The Thrown Ups – Stockboy, Superhero

6 Poison Idea – Feel the Darkness

7 The Breeders – Glorious

8 Dinosaur Jr – The Wagon

9 Hole – Teenage Whore

10 Nomeansno – Body Bag

11 7 Year Bitch – Lorna

12 Screaming Trees – Uncle Anesthesia

13 Mercury Rev – Syringe Mouth

14 Calamity Jane – Say It

15 Eric’s Trip – Lost

16 Thrillhammer – Bleed

17 Cop Shoot Cop – Discount Rebellion

18 Treepeople – Ballard Bitter

19 Nubbin – Macaroni

DISC FOUR

1 Temple Of The Dog – Pushin’ Forward Back

2 The Monkeywrench – I’m Blown

3 Stone Temple Pilots – Sex Type Thing

4 Honcho Overload – Sugarfoot (Single Version)

5 Luscious Jackson – Keep On Rockin’ It

6 Cheater Slicks – Murder (Live at CBGBs)

7 Beasts Of Bourbon Just Right

8 The Gits – Here’s To Your Fuck

9 Superchunk – Precision Auto

10 Dead Moon – It’s O.K

11 Melvins – Set Me Straight

12 Patchouli Sewer – Beauty Sleep

13 Wool – Kill The Crow

14 Kim Salmon & the Surrealists – Non Stop Action Groove

15 Veruca Salt – All Hail Me (Remix)

16 Sleep Capsule – Eat It’s Tongue

17 Steel Wool – Four Winds

18 Wicker Biscuit – Creepy Doll

19 Gary Young – Plant Man

20 Cellophane – Tripping Fields

21 St. Johnny I Hate Rock And Roll