Last year I got really into early Sub Pop releases. It was a really fun time for me, discovering lots of bands I had never heard before many years after they existed, and picking up a bunch of cheap 7"s. I ended up buying 64 Sub Pop 7"s, but at some point I knew that I would turn my attention the 12" format. One of the early 12"s that I had somehow never heard of until 2024 shot straight to the top of my want list, based purely on the band name alone... Cat Butt.
This 12" is titled 'Journey to the Centre Of' and was released by Sub Pop in August 1989 with the catalogue number SP41. The first 1,000 copies were on green vinyl.
Cat Butt (sometimes written as one word, Catbutt) was a band from Seattle active from 1987-1990. They are absolutely from the same era and scene that spawned 'grunge' and this sounds like a text book example of a grunge record. I've done some internet reading and it seems that they were pretty popular in Seattle back in the day and apparently toured with Nirvana, Tad and Mudhoney... although I have no doubt that all of these bands played with each other week in, week out back in the day.
Anyway, there you have it... Cat Butt. Instantly the best band name in my collection.
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Couple of the Cat Butt guys ended up in Yummy who had two great 7"s one on Empty Records and one on Bag Of Hammers Records in the early 90's. Both hold up pretty well and worth checking out.
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