Legendary Seattle label Sub Pop turned 30 this August! For three decades it served as a home not only to grunge heavyweights like Nirvana and Soundgarden, but also to a slew of well respected (if lesser-known) and diverse acts like Earth, Godheadsilo, Clipping and Wolf Eyes.
We asked we our readers to share their favorite SP releases (and/or artists) – here’s what they had to say:
20 years ago? Something loud. Now? @IronAndWine
— Zion80 (@ZION80band) March 13, 2018
This is good…. pic.twitter.com/P4snbtXtxs
— NoiseCrumbs (@NoiseCrumbs) March 13, 2018
Really really love this song.https://t.co/8jmG2uWi43
— Ｔｈｅ Ｎｉｇｈｔ Ｔｒａｉｎ (@RadioNightTrain) March 12, 2018
I’m going with Tad – God’s Balls 🙂
— Glitchfield Plaines (@_Glitchfield) March 13, 2018
Bastro/Codeine 7″
— Chandan Narayan (@GutStrings) March 13, 2018
(Thinks of albums released by artists that wasn’t greenlit by Ishmael) Hot Hot Heat’s Make Up the Breakdown
— Token Black Aspie aka Mr. Awetism (@LightningPill) March 12, 2018
Also, obviously @clppng‘s self titled.
— Token Black Aspie aka Mr. Awetism (@LightningPill) March 12, 2018
Favorite @subpop artist: Six Finger Satellite
Favorite release is It’s Not Funny by David Cross— Auxiliary Out (@AuxOutBlog) March 13, 2018
— Billybob69 (@WillieMcAlpine) August 29, 2018
Yup, with y’all on this pic.twitter.com/V1trLLKs4V
— Soundart Radio (@SoundartRadio) March 14, 2018
— Drawing Room Records (@drwngrmrcs) March 12, 2018
#Nirvana – Bleach ? pic.twitter.com/RrcH5wrzMh
— Victor Nils (@Aneurysm1984) March 12, 2018
— recite the plan (@recitetheplan) March 12, 2018
— odubhda (@odubhda) March 13, 2018
i always love me some Vaselines – The Way of…https://t.co/4CghaQDjHH
— Petridisch (@petridisch) March 13, 2018
Soundgarden: Ultramega OK
— heartscore (@heartscore) March 13, 2018
Sonic Youth
Nirvana @BeaccchHoussse ? @FleetFoxesSing @bandofhorses @TheShins— Amy Steele (@msamysteele) March 13, 2018
That is a freaking hard question with all of the great bands who have been on this label at one time or another. I guess if I have to pick just one The Vaselines Sex with an X. It’s so weird and great.
— Vanessa Briscoe Hay (@Pylongirl) March 14, 2018
since we’ve become translucent. underrated mudhoney album
— # (@arizonamayfield) March 14, 2018
Codeine – White Birch
Earth 2
Supergrass – Lose It
Tad – 8 Way Santa
Superfuzz Bigmuff
Ween – skycruiserAnd Dwarves, Lanegsn, Whigs…so many!
— sam shepherd (@socksinhell) March 13, 2018
Anything released before 1992 by Tad or Mudhoney.
— GEN[X] Todd-Death to ࿕ swine (@Argus_99) March 13, 2018
This is hard:
Earth 2
Steven Jesse Bernstein “Prison”
Green Magnet School “Blood Music”
Clipping “clppng”
This is hard— Terence Hannum (@TerenceHannum) March 13, 2018
Earth and Clipping.
Body and Blood is a fantastic songhttps://t.co/K8JUD00sU4
— ¡a!n (@xxiainxx) March 12, 2018
Obvious, Mudhoney ‘Superfuzz Bigmuff’.
— Night Folk on IO (@nightfolkio) August 29, 2018
Eric Matthews – it’s heavy in here
— A Spaceman (@ASpaceman2) March 13, 2018
Cannot believe no one has picked….#SixFingerSatellite – The Pigeon Is The Most Popular Birdhttps://t.co/Hj4UVyO4VI
Or#RedRedMeat – Jimmywine Majestichttps://t.co/IGzN3OfW10
— TheVortex (@VogonLaundromat) August 29, 2018
“Screaming Life/FOPP” is a strong contender regardless. I’d have a hard time between that & Mudhoney S/T, Earth 2, Bleach, Green River “Rehab Doll” (oldies but goodies I know), etc etc etc
— 5-Track (@cosmicprimitive) March 12, 2018
Addendum to this: apparently Audit in Progress by Hot Snakes was also on Sub Pop which is also one of my favorite albums
— mike (@playkiller7) March 13, 2018
Sunny Day Real Estate – How It Feels To Be Something On ?? https://t.co/8wTpTuuTAt pic.twitter.com/OpM7u95lqw
— stephen donnelly (@tecumsehvalley) March 13, 2018
The Afghan Whigs’ Congregation, Sebadoh’s Bakesale, Sleater-Kinney’s No Cities To Love.
— Bafflegabs! (@Bafflegabs) March 13, 2018
— EL BARTO ANTIFA (@ElBartoArmy) August 29, 2018
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