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You know who LOVED Beat Happening? Kurt Cobain. His concept for Nirvana was basically to fuse Beat Happening and The Melvins.
Sounds right. Cobain loved the Vaselines, too, who Beat Happening sort of reminds me of. But again, Beat Happening is much less twee and much less folk and more electric than The Vaselines. I think back when I was listening to all this stuff, I sort of rock n' rolled it -- I cut away the more esoteric influences of the bands I liked and focused on the rawk aspect of it. When I listen to those recordings from the Pacific Northwest and that scene, I'm reminded of what sort of diverse influences they were fusing together. I naturally veer more towards the punk and rock of it all, but there's a whole lot of independent weirdness to go around with these bands, and some of the original influences were able to get five minutes of indie stardom along the way. Anyway, the Pacific Northwest seems to be fertile ground for musical exploration and creation, at least, as evidenced by K, Kill Rock Stars, Sub Pop, etc.
Did you ever hear Eugenius, the rock band Eugene Kelly formed after the Vaselines broke up? Not surprisingly they sounded kind of like Nirvana. Good stuff.
Heard of it, I think, but never listened to it. I liked Nirvana's covers of the Vaselines, but I did not like the band itself, really. I vaguely remember Eugenius. That was many moons ago, though.Pip's Invitation said:
Right. The Vaselines were basically outsider art. Eugenius was not. This is one of my favorites from them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgqq9-8j5kw
Existing playlists are in the first post, and since that was last updated, which was a while ago, RNR Hall of Fame, Bluesville and Faction have been started. Maybe others but one would have to go through the last few pages of the thread to be sure.
I saw them open for Mudhoney and loved their set. That led to the purchase of Oomalama, their current album at the time, and later Mary Queen of Scots. I think they broke up not long after MQOS came out.
