Albums of Gruntruck

Inside Yours (1990) 

Inside Yours is the debut album by the grunge band Gruntruck. It was released in 1990 by eMpTy Records and reissued in 1991 by Roadrunner Records with 2 bonus tracks.

Songs:

1) Not a Lot to Save 

2) Crucifunkin' 

3) Paint 

4) Eyes of Stone 

5) So Long 

6) Buried 

7) Flesh Fever 

8) Inside Yours 

9) Move in Silence 

10) Melt 

11) Broken 

Push (1992) 

Push is the second album by the grunge band Gruntruck. It was released in 1992 by Roadrunner Records. The album features "Tribe", "Crazy Love", and "Above Me", which were released as singles. The band received moderate mainstream attention around the time of the release; with several magazines such as Rolling Stone praising the album, as well as Gruntruck's music videos being occasionally played on VH1 and MTV.

Songs:

1) Tribe

2) Machine Action

3) Racked

4) Crazy Love

5) Above Me

6) Gotta Believe

7) Break

8) Slow Scorch

9) Follow

10) Body Farm

11) Lose

12) Push

Gruntruck

Gruntruck was a grunge band formed in Seattle, Washington, USA in 1989 by former members of Skin Yard, Ben McMillan and Scott McCullum. They were joined by Tommy Niemeyer and Tim Paul to close down their training. However, McCullum only witnessed the formation of the group, which was soon replaced by Norman Scott.Their sound was described as grunge, and the band focused more on the metal side of the genre.

The band only released two albums and toured with Alice in Chains in autumn 1992 and Pantera in 1993. Gruntruck also opened for other artists like Screaming Trees. The bassist Tim Paul left the band in 1993 because a legal dispute to be replaced by Alex Sibbald and Norman Scott was replaced by Josh Sinder, after stopping for three years, in 1996. In that year the band recorded an EP called Shot, and then grouping together (Niemeyer, Paul, Scott and McMillan) because they want to give several concerts and record composite. This material was never released because the band separates in 2002 definitely. For the gallery were two discs, recorded in 1990 and 1992, entitled Inside Yours and Push respectively. The vocalist and guitarist of the band, Ben McMillan, died of diabetes in 2008

First Albums of The Melvins

Studio albums

Gluey Porch Treatments (1987)

Gluey Porch Treatments is the debut album of The Melvins. The album was released in 1987 through Alchemy Records. The original release was vinyl only. This album was later released on tape with the Six Songs EP through Boner Records and appears as bonus material on the CD version of Ozma









Songs:

1) Eye Flys
2) Echo Head/Don't Piece Me
3) Heater Moves and Eyes
4) Steve Instant Neuman
5) Influence of Atmosphere
6) Exact Paperbacks
7) Happy Grey or Black
8) Leeech
9) Glow God
10) Big As a Mountain
11) Heaviness of the Load
12) Flex with You
13) Bitten Into Sympathy
14) Gluey Porch Treatments
15) Clipping Roses
16) As It Was
17) Over from Under the Excrement

Ozma (1989) 

Ozma is the second album by the Melvins. The album was released in 1989 through Boner Records.

"Love Thing" is a cover of the Kiss song "Love Theme (from Kiss)", "Creepy Smell" includes the intro to the song "Living In Sin" from Gene Simmons' solo album. "Candy-O" is originally by The Cars and was a bonus track on the CD version.

The title refers to the character Princess Ozma from the Oz series of books.

Songs:

1) Vile
2) Oven
3) At a Crawl
4) Let God Be Your Gardener
5) Creepy Smell
6) Kool Legged
7) Green Honey
8) Agonizer
9) Raise a Paw
10) Love Thing
11) Ever Since My Accident
12) Revulsion/We Reach
13) Dead Dressed
14) Cranky Messiah
15) Claude
16) My Small Percent Shows Most

Bullhead (1991) 

Bullhead is the third album by the Melvins released in 1991 through Boner Records. This album is notable for having longer song lengths than previous Melvins albums. Before this, most of their songs were under 2 or 3 minutes.
The Japanese experimental rock/drone/metal band Boris took their name from the first track on this album.

Songs: 

1) Boris
2) Anaconda
3) Ligature
4) It's Shoved
5) Zodiac
6) If I Had An Exorcism
7) Your Blessened
8) Cow

Melvins

Melvins is a band of grunge and metal sludge, originally from Seattle formed in 1983 in Aberdeen, Washington by Buzz Osborne (guitar, vocals), Matt Lukin (bass), Mike Dillard (drums, Dale Crover would join them later), and was the inspiration for what would later be called grunge.

The band was named after a supervisor at a Thriftway in Montesano, Washington, where Osborne also worked as a clerk. "Melvin" was despised by other employees, and the band's members felt it to be an appropriately ridiculous name

The Melvins have had a direct influence on bands like Nirvana and Mudhoney, as friends and members of the latter have been members and weight influence on the music of their bands.
Matt Lukin, Melvins founder member, when he left the band form in 1989 along with 2 former members of Green River (Mark Arm and Steve Turner) and a former member of Nirvana, Dan Peters, one of the fundamental groups of grunge, Mudhoney.

The Melvins sound has been influenced by Black Flag (punk side) and Black Sabbath (on the side heavy and oppressive). His approach in favor of metal sludge, the unique sense of humor and the experience of his music have played a bad commercial broadcasting, but the sound is slow and oppressive to strongly influence on grunge music, especially Nirvana and many other groups Seattle

Green River Albums

Come on Down (1985)

Come on Down is the debut EP by Green River. It was released in May 1985 through Homestead Records. Cited by many as being the very first grunge record. This record also marks Green River's only record with original guitarist Steve Turner. It contains the first recording of the song "Swallow My Pride", a song describing a lover's disdain for his girlfriend's feverish American patriotism, which was later re-recorded for the band's debut album, Rehab Doll






Songs:


1) Come on Down
2) New God
3) Swallow My Pride
4) Ride of Your Life
5) Corner of My Eye
6) Tunnel of Love

Dry As a Bone (1987) 

Dry As a Bone is the second EP by the American rock band Green River. It was released in July 1987 through Sub Pop Records. he EP features the band's first material with guitarist Bruce Fairweather, formerly of bassist Jeff Ament's previous band, Deranged Diction. In June 1986, the band began production on its second EP with local producer Jack Endino at Reciprocal Recording in Seattle, Washington. Green River chose to record Dry As a Bone for Bruce Pavitt's new label, Sub Pop Records.

Songs:

1) This Town

2) P.C.C
3) Ozzie (Tales of Terror)
4) Unwind
5) Baby Takes

Rehab Doll (1988) 

Rehab Doll is the only full-length studio Green River. It was released in June 1988 through Sub Pop Records.  Almost immediately following the release of Dry As a Bone, the group re-entered the studio in August 1987 to begin production on its first full-length album, Rehab Doll. The band initially started work on the album with producer Jack Endino atReciprocal Recording in Seattle, Washington, however the band switched to producer Bruce Calder and changed its recording location to Steve Lawson Studiosin Seattle. Band in-fighting, though, took center stage over the music. 

Songs:

1) Forever Means
2) Rehab Doll
3)Swallow My Pride
4) Together We'll Never
5) Smilin' and Dyin'
6) Porkfist
7) Take a Dive
8) One More Stitch

Green River

Green River was an American rock band from Seattle, Washington that was active from 1984 to 1988. Although the band had little commercial impact outside of its native Seattle, Green River proved to have significant influence on the genre later known as grunge, both with its own music and with the music its members would create in future bands including Pearl Jam and Mudhoney. In 2008, Green River reunited and has since played several live shows.

The band was formed in early 1984 by vocalist/guitarist Mark Arm, guitarist Steve Turner, drummer Alex Vincent and bassist Jeff Ament. Guitarist Stone Gossard then joined the band to allow Arm to concentrate on singing. Prior to joining, each member had played with punk and hardcore groups. Arm and Turner had played together in both Mr Epp & The Calculations and the Limp Richerds. Turner had also performed with Vincent in Spluii Numa, and Gossard in The Ducky Boys. Ament had been asked to join after moving from Montana with his band Deranged Diction.

Mad Season

Mad Season was an American rock supergroup formed in Seattle,Washington in 1994 by members of three popular Seattle-based bands:Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam and Screaming Trees. Mad Season released only one album, Above, and is best known for the single "River of Deceit". The band went on a semi-permanent hiatus in 1996 due to the band members' conflicting schedules and vocalist Layne Staley's problems with substance abuse. Attempts were made in the late 1990s to revive the group without Staley; however, the band dissolved following the death of bassistJohn Baker Saunders in 1999. Staley died three years later of a drug overdose.

During the production of Pearl Jam's Vitalogy, guitarist Mike McCready went into rehabilitation in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he met The Lamont Cranston Band bassist John Baker Saunders.[1] In 1994, when the two returned to Seattle, they formed a side band with Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin. Immediately the trio set up rehearsal time together and began writing material. McCready then brought in friend and Alice in Chains frontman Layne Staley to round out the line-up. McCready had hoped that being around sobermusicians would push Staley to get himself sober

Unplugged

The MTV Unplugged series are small concerts organized by the company MTV. The series had its height in the 90's, as a vehicle for artists to devote time to revitalize the careers of great performers. This type of format, created by MTV, has caused much attraction to the public, because in each concert will show different types of new instruments that help to get a very good resonance and musical arrangements.

The term Unplugged has become a term used to describe music usually heard on amplified instruments such as electric guitar and synthesizer that is rendered instead on instruments that are not electronically amplified, for example acoustic guitar or traditional piano, although a microphone is still used.

The word became incorporated into the title of a popular MTV series that began in the 1989/1990 US TV season, MTV Unplugged, on which musicians performed acoustic or "unplugged" versions of their familiar electric repertoire. Many of these performances were subsequently released as albums, often featuring the title Unplugged.

Alice In Chains (1996)

Nirvana (1993)

Pearl Jam (1992)

Temple Of The Dog

Temple of the Dog was an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990. It was conceived by vocalist Chris Cornell of Soundgarden as a tribute to his friend, the late Andrew Wood, lead singer of Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone. The line-up included Stone Gossard on rhythm guitar, Jeff Ament on bass guitar (both ex-members of Mother Love Bone), Mike McCready on lead guitar, Matt Cameron on drums and Eddie Vedder providing lead and backing vocals.

The band released its only album, the self-titled Temple of the Dog, in April 1991 through A&M Records. Although earning praise from music critics at the time of its release, the album was not widely recognized until 1992, when Vedder, Ament, Gossard and McCready had their breakthrough with Pearl Jam.