There are a few different occasions that would be the first time I heard of grunge. One was when Mudhoney debuted with the album ”Superfuzz bigmuff entered” in the autumn of 1988, when the compilation ”Sub Pop rock city” was released the same year. Mudhoney was there also, He did the title song and a very young Nirvana appearance.
You can say that it was early in the story. The rock scene in Seattle low even in medieskugga, barely any of all of the grunge band had released the album.
it was already over. One that does is Mark Evison, who was a teenage fanzinemakare at the time, and now write little essays in two new editions that are now finally going to present the Green River in the full-length which they deserve: ”Dry as a bone” and ”Rehab doll” (both on Sub Pop/Playground).
Yes, the Green River was also on ”Sub Pop rock city” but then they were already divided. Two members had gone on as Mudhoney (with The Melvins originalbasist), the other two would form Pearl Jam. Talk to grunge it doesn’t get much more middle of the batter.
Two ep did they give out while they were there, and so an album that was completed after the group had actually ruptured. It is the latter two that are now reissued. The Ep ”Dry as a bone” from 1987 with lots of bonus material from singles, compilations and unreleased recordings. And the album ”Rehab doll” from 1988 with a bunch of extra records that never came.
as it should be, and there are a rather wonderful irony in the fact that originalgitarristen dropped out of back in 1985 – in protest against the increasing commercialisation.
this is blunt, bushy and generally grumpy music, in a rather wonderful point of intersection between punk, hard rock and alternativrock who have not yet received any particular name. Even if the ”Dry as a bone” is said to be the first disc that was grunge.
What now it means. Dystersång and slow metalriff is here not much; however, half of the ”Swallow my pride” stolen from the when the Blue Öyster Cult was that snärtigast – and not a whit the worse for it.
Read more musiktexter of Nils Hansson , for example, about how Rickard Eklund write the next chapter of the Finnish-Swedish pop music .