Tuesday, January 10, 2023

various artists - Northwest Ungrunge

Let's kick off 2023 in earnest with a real slice of garbage.

I jest, of course...partially...at least. It's easy, in retrospect, to pick on a comp featuring the likes of Sweaty Nipples, Rubberneck, and Village Idiot. The Cherry Poppin' Daddies are the leading light here, a few years ahead of their 1997 breakout into the mainstream with "Zoot Suit Riot". The rest of this 11-song compilation serves as home to a wide variety of PNW ska, funk, alternative, and metal bands, the likes of which you'd read about in the back of CMJ or your local music tabloid in the early 90s. I lived through it, and it's wild to me to what sort of big tent held "college radio" back in the day.

I dunno...I own worse records; I've paid a lot of money for worse records.

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