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It Crawled From The Basement - The Green Monkey Records Anthology

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funkyratchet Indie, garage, paisley, pop, rock n roll...a whole lot of gems here Favorite track: Kim The Waitress.

Jerry Lewis ‘Kim The Waitress’...need I say more?

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“If you want to delve into Seattle’s seethingly creative history in the days before Grunge put the city on the world map for good (and you should) I’d suggest you grab hold of a copy of a stunning 2CD collection called ‘It Crawled From The Basement’: a generous 47-track compendium gathering together many of the city’s underground movers and shakers firing on all cylinders during a remarkable period circa 1983 to 1991.” Tim Peacock – whisperin and hollerin

“Over the eight years of GMR’s existence, founder Tom Dyer amassed a formidable stash of smart pop thrills. … Ignore the best of this double dose of forty-seven pre-grunge charms at your aesthetic peril.” Popmatters

“Before mass media wanted to pigeonhole Seattle as having a “sound”, this was music from bands who only knew of one sound: the Puget one. Historical? Maybe, but it’s good times represented by good sounding music from an era that pushed others to get off their asses and rock out, before coffee and binary codes dominated our (un)consciousness.” John Book

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1.	Al Bloch - Hangin' Around 03:38	buy track
2.	Tom Dyer - (Half the World is Made of) Women 02:47	buy track
3.	Mr. Epp and the Calculations - Out of Control 03:13	buy track
4.	Tom Dyer - Van Vliet Street 04:07	buy track
5.	Me Three - Alien Breakfast 03:31	buy track
6.	The Green Pajamas - My Mad Kitty 01:56	buy track
7.	The Icons - Work Ethic Rock 01:51	buy track
8.	Evan Schoenfeld - Europe After the Rain 02:00	buy track
9.	Prudence Dredge - Problem Child 03:32	buy track
10.	Liquid Generation - I Love U 03:29	buy track
11.	Green Pajamas - Peppermint Stick 04:23	buy track
12.	The Icons - Write Back To Me 02:39	buy track
13.	Pip McCaslin - Americans Like That 02:57	buy track
14.	Al Bloch - Falling Star 03:53	buy track
15.	The Walkabouts - 1+1 03:02	buy track
16.	Melting Fish - Fiasco 01:34	buy track
17.	Arms Akimbo - This Is The Place 04:04	buy track
18.	The Fastbacks - Time Passes 04:23	buy track
19.	Danger Bunny - For This 03:07	buy track
20.	The Queen Annes - If You Could Only See Me Now 03:19	buy track
21.	Prudence Dredge - Botherin' You 03:12	buy track
22.	The Elements - I Know That You Know 03:05	buy track
23.	Bombardiers - What Do You Know About Love 02:48	buy track
24.	Tom Dyer - I Call Your Name 03:42	buy track
25.	Green Pajamas - Kim The Waitress 06:04	buy track
26.	The Life - If It Works(don't fix it) 03:37	buy track
27.	Glass Penguins - Shadow of a Fish 03:20	buy track
28.	The Queen Annes - You've Got Me Running 04:13	buy track
29.	The Fall-outs - A Fine Young Man 01:22	buy track
30.	Keith Livingston - Little Jane 03:26	buy track
31.	The Life - If I Had You(for Natalie) 03:35	buy track
32.	The Elements - It's Not You 02:45	buy track
33.	Glass Penguins - She Moves Me 04:11	buy track
34.	Steven Lawrence - Julia 03:02	buy track
35.	Green Pajamas - Suzanne 01:45	buy track
36.	The Green Pajamas - Instrument of Love 04:39	buy track
37.	Rich Hinklin - Crows Come and Go 02:23	buy track
38.	Jon Strongbow - Electric Man 03:52	buy track
39.	Capping Day - Mona Lisa 04:12	buy track
40.	The Purdins - Psychedelic Day 02:12	buy track
41.	The Hitmen - I Love Your Poems of Love 04:31	buy track
42.	Mad Mad Nomad - Keeper of the Cage 03:32	buy track
43.	The Hitmen - Thrasher's Corner 03:52	buy track
44.	Slam Suzzane - Perforated Condom 02:35	buy track
45.	Swelter Cacklebush - We Could 01:56	buy track
46.	Slam Suzzane - Double Latte 01:56	buy track
47.	Tom Dyer - Beautimus - Life is Perfect 03:22	buy track

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1983 to 1991 in Seattle, Washington. All things were possible in the post-punk world - the Nirvana grunge explosion had not yet subsumed the city. In this world, Green Monkey Records came and lived and went. It was rock. It was art. It was beautiful.

This 47 track masterpiece covers the label’s 44 releases, with tracks by 32 artists. This set is a vital link in the post-punk pre-grunge Seattle music world, it is history that rocks, fer chrissakes. Album features the Green Pajamas’ Kim the Waitress as well as two previously unreleased Pajamas tracks.

Green Monkey’s first release since 1995 is a retrospective that marks the beginning of a new era. This CD is the first of many new releases for the label, with re-releases of back catalog, various historical oddities and all-new materialby GMR superstars on the way!

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released July 28, 2009

It Crawled From The Basement: The Green Monkey Records Anthology is a 2 CD set with 28 page booklet, written and remastered for you with love by GMR Prez Tom Dyer.

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Northwest underground music of some sort.1983-til the End of Time. Releases are mostly determined by what Tom likes, but sometimes Howie.

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