Alcohol Funnycar, “Snapping the Straw” (1993)

Marshmallow Overcoat “Maintaining My Cool”

Blood Circus, “My Dad’s Dead” (1988)

We Never Called It “Grunge”

  A few reflections on what it was like to be a music fan in Seattle back in the heyday of the so-called “grunge” wave–provoked by the recent passing of Chris Cornell, having lived through all that in Seattle and at the time–frequenting joints like the O.K. Hotel, the Crocodile Cafe, and later on, Moe

Blood Circus: “Gnarly”

Coffin Break “Look Away”

Blood Circus, “Six Foot Under” (1988)

Rancid Vat, “Destroy Nature” (1988, Horton/Reflex)

  Good tune for Paris Climate Pullout Day. I knew the guy who put this out–the album cover comes from a medical textbook, although I always thought it looked a little like Muamar Qadhafi.

Beat Happening, “Bewitched” (1988)

Atomic 61, “Lily” (Live on Bongo Corral)