Kill Rock Stars CD

KILL ROCK STARS contains songs by bands who either hail from Olympia, Washington or who played at the Olympia Pop Festival in August, 1991. Performers include Nirvana, Melvins, Nation Of Ulysses, and Jad Fair.

Kill Rock Stars is an excellent 18-track various-artists collection capturing the essence of early-'90s indie-rock pop underground. It's divided equally between amateurish indie-pop, abrasive punk and riot grrrl, featuring many of the best underground bands of that time, including Bratmobile ("Girl Germs"), Mecca Normal ("Narrow"), Bikini Kill ("Feels Blind"), Heavens to Betsy ("My Red Self"), Unwound ("You Speak Jealousy"), Nation of Ulysses ("N.O.U. Cooking with Gas"), Some Velvet Sidewalk ("Loch Ness"), Nirvana ("Beeswax"), and Lois performing under the name Courtney Love ("Don't Mix the Colors"). ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Includes liner notes by Candice Pedersen.

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Photographers: Hannah Sternshein; Arthur S. Aubry; John Leach.

Unknown Contributor Roles: Courtney Love; Fitz of Depression; Heavens to Betsy; 7 Year Bitch; Jad Fair; Kicking Giant; Mecca Normal; Melvins; The Nation of Ulysses; Nirvana ; Some Velvet Sidewalk; Steve Fisk; Unwound; Witchy Poo; Bikini Kill; Bratmobile.Option (Nov.-Dec./92, p.123) - "...a top-notch collection...perfectly representative of a sound that can trace its collective roots back to Jad Fair and Half Japanese..."
Mojo (Publisher) (7/02, p.126) - "...These are the songs and singers who helped shape the feminist leanings of Kurt Cobain..."
NME (Magazine) (4/23/93, p.31) - (8) - Excellent - "...There is more going down on KILL ROCK STARS than the accepted `let's-make-a-record' mentality....[it's] an exciting force that's almost worth dying for. Kill for a copy..."