I don't recall if I was inspired by the Vinyl on Demand box set of John Balance's early works before COIL, or talking to my kids about the Green River/Mother Love Bone/Temple of the Dog/Mudhoney/Pearl Jam evolution. Maybe it is my talking point about how Soul Asylum were much better when they used to be a punk band. Nevertheless, I wanted to dust off some tracks of the early bands that helped launch musical careers of artists that are more well known for their later projects. Some of these are very well known, like Warsaw, Gen X and Throbbing Gristle. Others are a bit more obscure and were fun to track down. Some tracks are low quality, like The Castiles, and I intentionally went with the demo version for Napalm Death. The track from Earth is a fan made mix, as the original version I have of this is only a minute long, so someone cleverly mixed it onto of itself to make the track a little longer.
This is a good reminder for life. Pay attention to where you came from, so you know where you are going.
Crap, once I finished this mix, I realized I neglected Inside Out, the first band of Zach De La Rocha from Rage Against the Machine, and also Blind Illusion featuring a young Les Claypool. Oops!
00:00 101ers - Letsagetabitarockin' (The Clash)
02:02 Loud Fast Rules - Black and Blue (demo) (Soul Asylum)
05:25 LayneMeyer - Alarm (Gaslight Anthem)
08:24 Lockjaw - The Young Ones (The Cure)
10:12 Proud Crass Fools - Happy (Soul Asylum)
13:52 Vatican commandos - Why Must I Follow (Moby)
15:39 Deep Wound - In My Room (Dinosaur Jr)
16:41 Napalm Death - Abbatoir (Godflesh, Scorn/Mick Harris)
20:19 Warsaw - At a later date (Joy Division)
23:30 The Boys Next Door - The Nightwatchman (Nick cave)
25:30 Strontium 90 - Visions of the Night (The Police)
28:21 Earth - When I came down (Black Sabbath)
30:23 Tippi Tikarrass - Ottar (Sugarcubes/Bjork)
32:57 Easy Cure - Need Myself (The Cure)
35:10 Green River - This Town (Mother Love Bone/Pearl Jam/Mudhoney)
38:27 Skywave - Over and over (A Place To Bury Strangers/Ceremony)
43:01 Fool's Dance - Sa'Ha (The Cure)
46:58 Fridge - EH4-800 Phase Shifter (Four Tet)
49:14 Crisis UK - No Town Hall (Death In June/Sol Invictus)
51:43 Mag/Spys - Lifeblood (The Cure)
53:13 Gen X - Dancing With Myself (Billy Idol)
56:55 Mudcrutch - Don't It Get Weird (Tom Petty)
60:54 The Castiles - That's What You Get (Bruce Springsteen)
64:00 Dream6 - Rain (Concrete Blonde)
67:10 Psi Com - 14th Floor (Jane's Addiction)
70:55 Images in Vogue - Call It Love (Skinny Puppy)
74:39 Throbbing Gristle - United (Chris & Cosey/Psychic TV/COIL)
78:37 The Future - Cairo (Clock DVA/The Human League)
81:42 E.G. Oblique Graph - Merge (Muslimgauze)
86:25 Stabmental - Thin Veil of Blood (COIL)
89:14 Murderwerks - Blue Funk (Scars for E) (COIL)
93:55 A Primary Industry - Body Blow (Ultramarine)
98:02 Cultural Amnesia (feat Jhonn Balance) - Yellow Song (COIL)
100:11 :Zoviet*France: - Amadan (Dead Voice On Air/Rapoon)
Spotify (19/34) And some of these got replaced for other tracks. I didn't expect much of this mix to be available there.
Other artists I had considered but didn't follow through on:
Violent children --> Youth of Today/Shelter/Better than 1000
The Lower Third --> Bowie
The Rockin Vickers --> Hawkwind --> Motörhead
Magic Mushroom Band --> Astralasia
Slam Bamboo --> Nine Inch Nails (this one is just funny)
Throwing Muses --> Belly, Kristin Hersh
