Green River - Rehab doll (Remastered reissue) CD
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The story of Seattle’s rise to global rock supremacy in the late ’80s and early ’90s begins with Green River. Made up of Jeff Ament (bass), Mark Arm (guitar/vocals), Bruce Fairweather (guitar), Stone Gossard (guitar), and Alex Shumway (drums), the quintet put out three 12”s and a 7” single during its brief existence. Green River’s influence on Seattle’s music scene spread far and wide thanks to the members’ dispersion into bands including Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, and Love Battery, as well as the punk-glam-sludge-rock songs they left behind.
“By ‘83, ‘84, there was definitely a movement that was happening within hardcore, like Black Flag slowing down for My War,” says Arm. “The Replacements and Butthole Surfers were rearing their heads, and they’re very different bands, but they’re not hardcore—the Replacements are pretty much straight-up rock, and Butthole Surfers were God knows what. Sonic Youth’s Bad Moon Rising was around, and a lot of really interesting post-hardcore things were happening.”
Green River, which formed in 1984, was part of that evolution, with a sound that straddled a lot of different genres—blues, punk, bloozy straight-ahead rock. The mini-LP Dry As A Bone, which came out in 1987, and the band’s lone full-length Rehab Doll, which came out in 1988,
Forever Means
Rehab Doll
Swallow My Pride
Together We'll Never
Smilin' and Dyin'
Porkfist
Take a Dive
One More Stitch
10000 Things (Rehab Recovery)
Hangin' Tree (Rehab Recovery)
Rehab Doll (Reciprocal 8-track)
Swallow My Pride (Reciprocal 8-track)
Together We'll Never (Reciprocal 8-track)
Smilin' and Dyin' (Reciprocal 8-track)
Porkfist (Reciprocal 8-track)
Take a Dive (Reciprocal 8-track)
Somebody (Reciprocal 8-track)
Queen Bitch (Reciprocal 8-track)