Smells Like Smoked Sausages

It's been a weird year so far. Two months in and it's been all work, work, work and listening to the same few records. But recently I was chatting to a friend online and it inspired me to pick up some more of the older Sub Pop releases. Fortunately I have a lot of the bigger releases that everyone wants and that are worth a lot of money, but there are a lot of other releases that are super cheap nowadays. So it feels that it's not a bad time to go decide to collect these things.

This double 7" compilation is titled 'Smalls Like Smoked Sausages' and was released in early 1992. hot on the heels of the worldwide Nirvana explosion. All copies were on pink vinyl, with one record being clear pink and the other a solid pink.

A lot of the Sub Pop singes club releases were not Sub Pop artists, and that's certainly the case here. All of the 8 bands on this release were signed to the Amphetamine Reptile record label, which is probably still most famous for putting out early records by The Melvins and Helmet. Seems like a really cool idea to me, having one record label put out a record showcasing bands from another label.

I've listened to this one quite a bit the last couple of weeks, and the Helmet song on here is absolutely one of their best. It's only a minute and a half long, but it's an incredible song. TUrns out it's also a cover of a Melvins song that was originally released on a 7" on Leopard Gecko records, which was run by some dude from Seaweed. There's also a great song on here by a band called Surgery, which made me want to explore more of their catalog too.

All in all, I'm having fun listening to something a bit different at the moment. More to come...