SKIN YARD: Start at the Top

Skin Yard

Start at the Top

© 2002 Soul Doubt Music / Skin Yard

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Try to imagine a place where King Crimson and Motorhead find common ground. Now add in a vocalist with traits of Bowie and Murphy. Tripped-out and noise-damaged sound from the early daze of Seattle Grunge.

tracks

1 Start At the Top
2 Watch
3 Jump the Wall (gentle Collapse)
4 Machine Gun Etiquette
5 Twelve Points
6 Make Room
7 Snowblind
8 Bulldog
9 This Lonely Place
10 Nwap Ii
11 The Ha-ha
12 No Right (alternate)

notes

Start at the Top is the great lost Skin Yard release. It is a collection of their old singles, b-sides, and outtakes, starting off with the two songs from the long out-of-print Sub Pop single. None of the tracks have ever been on CD before, and several have never even been heard prior to this release. Skin Yard were one of the seminal "grunge" bands from Seattle. At the helm were Daniel House (president and owner of C/Z records) and Jack Endino (producer extraordinaire known for his work with Nirvana, Soundgarden, Afghan Whigs, Mudhoney, and a seemingly never ending list of bands). Ben McMillan sang for the band, and later founded Seattle Grunge-Metal band Gruntruck with SY drummer, Scott McCullum. There were a host of Skin Yard drummers who left a substantial mark on the history of Seattle Rock. Among them were Matt Cameron (Soundgarden, Pearl Jam), Jason Finn (Love Battery, The Presidents of the United States of America), and Barrett Martin (R.E.M, Screaming Trees, Mad Season, Mark Eitzel).

The band was active from 1985 through 1992, and released five proper albums during those years. They were heavy and played some big meaty riffs, but there was always something very different about them. Skin Yard opted to stray from the pack with a more tripped-out and noise-damaged sound. They experimented playing with odd time signatures and were not afraid to work on more sophisticated arrangements. Try to imagine a place where King Crimson and Motorhead find common ground. Now add in a vocalist with traits of Bowie and Murphy. Skin Yard was a band well ahead of their time, one that would have probably seen greater success had they started a few years later. Start at the Top pressed in a hand-numbered limited edition of only 1200.

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  • Real Tight Man,Good Stuff Keep Rock Alive
    author: Mountain Bassist SHATERED IMAGE

    I really like the stuff your doing,keep it up. love the bass style,GO BASS!

  • Old school flavor...Great Rock Feel
    author: TJ Drummer SHATTERED IMAGE

    Like what I heard quite a bit. Would have liked to hear some more of the tunes!!

  • nice
    author: donato

    what a beautiful music! skin yard is the best band around the world, i hope that that jack will sell other cd on the cdbaby website.

  • what an amazing cd!
    author: mark

    wow,, what an amazing cd! i couldnt have expected anything better! leaves me wanting to hear more from Skinyard, even though i have bought every cd they ever put out! thanks alot for the new one,, really appreciate it!

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