You’re No Big Deal: Grunge Us Underground & Beyond – You’re No Big Deal: Grunge Us Underground & Beyond [CD]

4CD Set Exploring Grunge And The American Alternative Underground 1984-1994. During the late 1980s, whilst pop, rap and glam metal dominated the American airwaves, underground musicians sought an antidote. During the middle of the decade, from Seattle in the west to New York in the east, bands immersed in a less highly polished, raw and more powerful sound began to emerge, fusing punky garage band attitude with meaningful, often disenchanted lyrics and lashings of distortion to create something new. The “grunge” tag quickly took hold, absorbing bands from all over the States and becoming a social phenomenon, drawing countless other underground and college circuit bands into it’s orbit in the process. Overnight, macho rock was dead. Featuring an embarrassment of key bands and classic tracks, alongside lesser-known nuggets and a hand-picked selection of Australasian artists who were inadvertently feeding into the scene, ‘You’re No Big Deal’ explores a vital period in post-punk American musical history, the rebirth of rock music and it’s new place among the underground elite. With sleevenotes from Mudhoney’s Mark Arm, whose previous band Green River were the first to be given the “grunge” tag, this is an on-the-ground, broad reaching dive into a time and place that saw the unlikeliest of anti-rock stars recalibrate what American guitar-based music could be, reconnecting it with ordinary suburban kids and reigniting punk rock’s spirit. Packed with over 80 tracks spanning a decade, and presented in roughly chronological order, ‘You’re No Big Deal’ tells a story that spread far beyond the ambitions of it’s key players.

Tracklist:

1. Green River – Come on Down
2. Red Kross – Linda Blair 1984
3. 10 Minute Warning – Stooge
4. Bam Bam – Villains (Also Wear White)
5. Poison 13 – One Step Closer
6. Meat Puppets – Swimming Ground
7. Feast – Look for the Light
8. The Scientists – If It’s the Last Thing I Do
9. Husker Du – Crystal
10. Malfunkshun – My Only Fan
11. Dinosaur JR – Little Fury Things
12. Soundgarden – Hunted Down
13. U-Men – Solid Action
14. Pixies – Caribou
15. Feedtime – Curtains
16. The Replacements – the Ledge
17. The Flaming Lips – Maximum Dream for Evil Knievel
18. Green River – This Town
19. Cosmic Psychos – Can’t Come in
20. The Celibate Rifles – Jesus on TV
21. Happy Flowers – Mom and Dad Like the Baby More Than Me
22. Mudhoney – Touch Me I’m Sick
23. Bundle of Hiss – Rabies
24. The Fluid – Cold Outside
25. Cat Butt – 64 Funny Cars
26. Blood Circus – Two Way Street
27. Babes in Toyland – Dust Cake Boy
28. Scream – Fucked Without a Kiss
29. Ultra Vivid Scene – Mercy Seat
30. Girl Trouble – Riverbed
31. Crunchbird – Subway Circle
32. Soundgarden – Flower
33. Tad – Behemoth
34. Kill Sybil – Olympia (Single Version)
35. Love Battery – Between the Eyes
36. Seaweed – Inside
37. Skin Yard – Start at the Top
38. Gas Huffer – Firebug
39. Mudhoney – in and Out of Grace
40. Helltrout – Smoking Lounge
41. Mother Love Bone – Thru Fade Away
42. Sonic Youth – Kool Thing
43. L7 – Shove
44. Toadies – I Hope You Die
45. Pavement – from Now on
46. The Thrown Ups – Stockboy, Superhero
47. Poison Idea – Feel the Darkness
48. The Breeders – Glorious
49. Dinosaur JR – the Wagon
50. Hole – Teenage Whore
51. Nomeansno – Body Bag
52. 7 Year Bitch – Lorna
53. Screaming Trees – Uncle Anesthesia
54. Mercury Rev – Syringe Mouth
55. Calamity Jane – Say It
56. Eric’s Trip – Lost
57. Thrillhammer – Bleed
58. Cop Shoot Cop – Discount Rebellion
59. Treepeople – Ballard Bitter
60. Nubbin – Macaroni
61. Temple of the Dog – Pushin’ Forward Back
62. The Monkeywrench – I’m Blown
63. Stone Temple Pilots – Sex Type Thing
64. Honcho Overload – Sugarfoot (Single Version)
65. Luscious Jackson – Keep on Rockin’ It
66. Cheater Slicks – Murder (Live at CBGBS)
67. Beasts of Bourbon – Just Right
68. The Gits – Here’s to Your Fuck
69. Superchunk – Precision Auto
70. Dead Moon – It’s O.K
71. Melvins – Set Me Straight
72. Patchouli Sewer – Beauty Sleep
73. Wool – Kill the Crow
74. Kim Salmon ; the Surrealists – Non Stop Action Groove
75. Veruca Salt – All Hail Me (Remix)
76. Sleep Capsule – Eat It’s Tongue
77. Steel Wool – Four Winds
78. Wicker Biscuit – Creepy Doll
79. Gary Young – Plant Man
80. Cellophane – Tripping Fields
81. St. Johnny – I Hate Rock and Roll

UPC: 5013929119994
Label: Cherry Red
Release Date: 9.26.25
Format: CD