Sub Pop 200

Sub Pop 200
Artwork by Charles Burns
Compilation album by
ReleasedDecember 28, 1988
Recorded1986–1988
Genre
Length71 min
LabelSub Pop
Producer
Sub Pop Records chronology
Sub Pop 100
(1986)
Sub Pop 200
(1988)
The Grunge Years
(1991)

Sub Pop 200 is a compilation released in the early days of the Seattle grunge scene (December 1988).[1][2] It features songs (all of them first releases and some otherwise unattainable) from Tad, the Fluid, Nirvana, Steven "Jesse" Bernstein, Mudhoney, the Walkabouts, Terry Lee Hale, Soundgarden, Green River, Fastbacks, Blood Circus, Swallow, Chemistry Set, Girl Trouble, the Nights and Days, Cat Butt, Beat Happening, Screaming Trees, Steve Fisk, and the Thrown Ups.

Many of these bands went on to be influential in the early 1990s and onwards. Most notable of these were Nirvana, Soundgarden, Green River (who spawned Mudhoney and Mother Love Bone and later Temple of the Dog and Pearl Jam), Screaming Trees, and Mudhoney.

  1. ^ "Dusting 'Em Off: Sub Pop 200". October 17, 2009.
  2. ^ Earles, Andrew (September 15, 2014). Gimme Indie Rock. Voyageur Press. ISBN 9781627883795 – via Google Books.