I remember reading complaints about the state of the Sub Pop roster around the same time I became familiar with the label, which would have been around 1993 (I was 15; give me a break). It revolved around the expansion past the confines of Washington state, with Sub Pop putting out full lengths by bands from Boston, Cincinnati, Ann Arbor, Providence, and Kent. I never got the complaint; Mssr, Pavitt had always shown interest in music far outside the PNW, dating back to the earliest Subterranean Pop tapes. Now, with points on "Nevermind", he and Poneman could finally put out LPs for what now looks like the cutting edge of independent rock.
We complained about weird shit in 1992.
Anyway, this one's a Europe-only release from 1992, featuring a mix of tracks released between 1990 and 1992, along with a couple of unreleased joints. The Walkabouts contribute a cover of "Maggie's Farm"; Codeine offers "Cracked In Two", a "Barely Real"-era recording that wouldn't turn up again until Numero Group reissued that EP in an expanded edition 20 years later. You also get Mudhoney covering Fang, Dwarves, Hole, Earth, Supersuckers, Tad, and Six Finger Satellite, amongst others. Mark Dancey from Big Chief drew a hell of a cool cover.
This one was a penny pickup on eBay from a seller who I've been buying a ton of cheap CDs from recently. Worth every cent.
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