Sub Pop 200

Compilation album by Various artists

Released

December 1988

Recorded

1986–1988

Genre

Punk rock, grunge, heavy metal

Length

70 min

Label

Sub Pop

Producer

Jack Endino, Bruce Calder, Chris Hanzsek, Steve Fisk

Various artists chronology

Sub Pop 100
(1986)

Sub Pop 200
(1988)

Sub Pop 1000
(2013)

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Sub Pop 200 is a compilation released in the early days of the Seattle grunge scene (December 1988). It features songs (many of them first releases and 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 incredibly 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.

The cover is an illustration by comics artist Charles Burns, who was regularly used by Sub Pop for covers and posters around this period.

Sub Pop 200 was originally pressed on vinyl as a 3-LP box, but a CD reissue is available and in print.

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