Amelia L.’s Reviews > Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 > Status Update

MUDHONEY- doubles as the entire history of legendary underground label Sub Pop. Independent optimism at its finest!

FUGAZI!! revolutionary in sound, timeless cool, strict ethos. Fave quote comes from here: "If Walden author Henry David Thoreau were to have managed a rock band, it probably would have been run a lot like Fugazi." p.405

Dinosaur Jr- It's pretty funny that You're Living All Over Me is universally recognized as the best Dinosaur album.. vive la naissance du slacker rock!

Big Black- Steve Albini’s vessel for explosions and noise and piss and shit and opinions. Iconoclastic, feverish and cherished for their realness. hugely influential

Cannot believe I spent so long reading about a band called the Butthole Surfers

Hüsker Dü and the Replacements: here, stuck together by Midwestern romantic drunk ethos- I was much more familiar with the ‘Mats but I loved learning about their faster-paced indie darling frenemies

Minor Threat- foudational straight-edge. All because of Ian MacKaye’s iconoclastic attitude, determined to stick it to The Man

Mission of Burma- the indomitable aura of an indie band who “never sucked.” I’d never listened to them before today but I’ve really enjoyed what I’ve sampled. “Johnny Burma” reminds me of “roadrunner” by JR and the modern lovers

College radio keepin’ jamming econo alive
Loved learning about Minutemen- crazy how influential they are today. RIP D. Boon

“I’M ABOUT TO HAVE A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN”

- love black flag and their freak ethos