Even If And Especially When

My interest in Sub Pop Records and SST Records led me to a band that were on both labels - Screaming Trees. This is a band that I have always been aware of, but never really interested in. I always thought that they were at the wussier end of the spectrum, which is kinda true... although at the moment, this is more what I am in the mood for. SO I listened to them online and was really getting into it, and it sent me looking for records, and immediately I found one that seemed like a good buy.

'Even If And Especially When' is the band's second LP, and their first for SST Records. It was released in 1987 as SST 132. One of the reasons that I bought this was that I got the impression that this green vinyl copy might be quite rare. It's a recent repressing, but officially it doesn't seem to exist. All copies I can find for sale online are black vinyl repressings. But this copy was sold with the comment 'Green vinyl! seal opened to check colour'. I know from Black Flag colour pressings that the colour copies don't seem to be marked or sold as colour, and they seem to be part of pressing runs which are mainly black vinyl. So I just figured that this was a rare opportunity to grab a colour vinyl copy for an ok price, as the 90s SST colour vinyl pressings sell for quite a lot these days.

As I seem to be saying quite a lot lately, this is not the usual kind of thing I would go for. Even though Screaming Trees are hailed as one of the early pioneers of the grunge scene, their sound is more like 60s psychadelic rock. There's one song in particular that sounds like The Beatles, who I have never really been interested in. But despite all of this, I've been playing this one a lot lately, and I can absolutely see why they got pretty big and are still held in high regard.