The Sounds of Seattle 1986 1995 A Gendered Perspective

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The Sounds of Seattle1986 1995A Gendered
Perspective

• It was like one big, loud, unoiled machine that
  was about to explode. (Kurt Danielson, Loser,
  p. 138)

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• The new Seattle sound was officially christened
  on April 1, 1986, when the Deep Six compilation
  was released on the small Seattle label C/Z.
• (Mudhoney, p. 419)

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• We dont really have a Seattle sound. We think
  of it as primal rock. If the cavemen were
  playing rock n roll, this is what it would sound
  like.
• (Geoff Robinson, Loser, p. 125)

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• Fuck what everybody else thinks, were going to
  do what we wantwere paying homage to all the
  music we loved as kids, and we havent denied the
  punk-rock energy that inspired us as teenagers.
• (Kurt Cobain, Loser, p. 110)

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Sub pop

• If we play our cards right and get the records
  out on time its going to be an invasion of
  unheard-of proportions. Seriously.
• (Bruce Pavitt, Loser, p. 125)

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MUDHONEY
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When we say World Domination, were saying,
Fuck you, were from Seattle, and we dont care
if the media machines are in L.A., were going to
create our own. (Bruce Pavitt, Mudhoney, p.
437)
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Screaming Trees
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The new thing the big thing the God thing
a mighty multinational entertainment conglomerate
based in the Pacific Northwest.(Sub Pop 100,
Mudhoney, p. 420)
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• Sub Plopwhat part of we have no money dont
  you understand?
• (Mudhoney, p. 449)

Jonathan poneman bruce pavitt, co-founders of
sub pop
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Soundgarden
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Pearl Jam
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• Emotionally, a lot of the music was very
  menacing and intense, very physically expressive.
  The way they movedthey fell down on the floor
  and who cares if you miss a few guitar chords
  the looseness of it was really pretty
  revolutionary. It really projected a fuck it
  attitude.
• (Bruce Pavitt, Mudhoney, p. 425-6)

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Nirvana
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• Riot Grrrl the name refers to the
  movement-at-large has forged salient
  connections between musical subculture and
  explicitly feminist politics these qualities in
  turn transform or revise previous paradigms of
  rock production and consumption.
• (Gottlieb and Wald, Smells Like Teen Spirit, p.
  253)

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Bikini Kill
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Moshing is not a feminine activity but a chance
for a man to reach into himself, grab all of the
anger and hatred that has built up and bash
everybody around over the head with it. Women
have their own ways of dealing with stress(Fan
letter to Rolling Stone Magazine, Gottlieb and
Wald, Smells Like Teen Spirit, p. 257)
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7 Year Bitch
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Some people say little girls should be seen and
not heard. But I sayOH BONDAGE, UP YOURS!
(Poly Styrene, Smells Like Teen Spirit, p. 261)
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L7
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It was an exercise in self-destruction. We were
born to destroy ourselves and we did. It was
really fun. What I learned was uh uh
nothing.(Danny Bland, Loser, p. 130)
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Say goodbye to your friends and family/Welcome
to the menageries/ Funny how they forget to tell
you/ this is all you will ever be.(From The
Posies Definite Door, Loser, p. 145)
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• Gottlieb, Joanne and Gayle Wald. "Smells Like
  Teen Spirit Riot Grrrls, Revolution and Women in
  Independent Rock" pp. 250-274
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