CAN YOU BREAK THROUGH? Various Artists 1990

 

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Tracklist

A1	–Fuel (5)	For Lack Of Better Words
A2	–Angry Son	Suffocation
A3	–Dog Tired	Song And A Prayer
A4	–Sticks + Stones*	Means
A5	–Lost (7)	See You Tomorrow
A6	–Walt Mink	Fragile
A7	–Green Day	Best Thing In Town
B1	–People's Court*	The Subsurface
B2	–Bad Trip	Fix Quick
B3	–Sticks + Stones*	Lost Along The Way
B4	–Dog Tired	Quick To Judge
B5	–Beef Trust	Crack In The Ice
B6	–Gneissmaker	Universe M
B7	–Go! (2)	Greg

DÜ HÜSKERS: THE TWIN CITIES REPLAY ZEN ARCADE Various Artists 1993

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Tracklist

1	–Hammerhead (2)	Something I Learned Today	2:40
2	–The Mighty Mofos	Broken Home, Broken Heart	2:20
3	–Prest Asbestus	Never Talking To You Again	3:06
4	–Muskellunge	Chartered Trips	2:48
5	–Lies Incorporated / TVBC*	Dreams Reocurring	1:45
6	–Superball '63	Indecision Time	2:07
7	–Dogfight	Hare Krsna	3:29
8	–God's Favorite Band	Beyond The Threshold	2:03
9	–The Pseudonymphs	Pride	1:40
10	–Salbando	I'll Never Forget You	2:50
11	–Dylan Hicks + 3 Pesos	The Biggest Lie	3:02
12	–Janitor Joe	What's Going On?	4:54
13	–Vertigo (12)	Masochism World	2:46
14	–Zuzu's Petals	Standing By The Sea	3:53
15	–Walt Mink	Somewhere	2:15
16	–Flour	One Step At A Time	1:53
17	–The Blue Up?	Pink Turns To Blue	1:56
18	–Balloon Guy	Newest Industry	4:29
19	–Willie Wisely Trio	Monday Will Never Be The Same	1:09
20	–Arcwelder	Whatever	3:22
21	–Teenage Larvae	The Tooth Fairy And The Princess	3:59
22	–Big Trouble House	Turn On The News	4:59
23	–TVBC*	Reocurring Dreams	9:13
24	–The Hang-Ups	Eight Miles High	4:07

WALT MINK Listen, Little Man! 1990

 

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Walt Mink's first release was a cassette called Listen, Little Man! I found a copy with extra tracks.

 

 

Tracklist

1. Fragile

2. All Night Grocery

3. Love You Better

4. Hummous Overload

5. Chowder Town

6. Factory

7. Zero Day

8. Croton-Harmon

9. Swifty

10. Up & Out

11. Everything Worthwhile

12. Miss Happiness

13. New Life

14. Pink Moon

15. Disappear

16. Pop Song

17. Quiet Time

18. Smoothing the Ride

19. Twinkle and Shine

20. Erasable You

21. 9 O'Clock World

22. Turn of the Religious

23. Sugartop

WALT MINK Colossus 1997

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Walt Mink Biography by John Bush

The alternative punk-pop group Walt Mink formed in the late '80s at Macalester College in Minnesota, with guitarist/vocalist John Kimbrough, bassist Candice Belanoff, and drummer Joey Waronker taking their name from a favorite psychology professor. Inspired by proto-punkster Jonathan Richman as well as English folky Nick Drake (whose "Pink Moon" the band covered on their first album), Walt Mink debuted in 1990 on a split 7" single (with Gneissmaker) for Skene! Records. After releasing two cassette-only albums -- Listen Little Man and The Poll Riders Win Again!! -- during 1990-1991, Walt Mink got the chance to play at the New Music Seminar in New York, due to their association with Babes in Toyland.

Thanks to positive reviews from the New York show, the band signed to Caroline Records. Their debut album, Miss Happiness, was released in 1992, with production help from Doug Olson. The LP did well in college radio, and Walt Mink toured with the Lemonheads, Soul Asylum, and Mudhoney during the rest of the year. The band self-produced their second album, Bareback Ride, and Caroline released it in 1993. Bareback Ride fared less well than the debut, but the major label Columbia signed Kimbrough, Belanoff, and Waronker anyway. Before Walt Mink could release any material, however, Columbia dropped them. Waronker decided to leave the band -- going on to work with Beck -- and Orestes Morfin (ex-Bitch Magnet) joined in his place. The label seesaw ride continued through 1994-1995, as Atlantic bought their contract and released El Producto in early 1996, but later dropped the trio as well. Morfin left the band soon after. After signing to the Deep Elm label, Walt Mink returned in 1997 with Colossus, but said their goodbyes one year later with a farewell live album. 

 

Tracklist

1	Goodnite	3:43
2	John's Dream	5:05
3	She Can Smile	2:56
4	Brave Beyond The Call	4:05
5	Lost In The World	5:14
6	Lovely Arrhythmia	3:33
7	Boots	4:08
8	Lama	2:59
9	Act Of Quiet Desperation	3:18
10	Freetime	6:26

WALT MINK El Producto 1996

by request

 

 

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Review by John Bush

Walt Mink's third album returns the band to the green pastures of their debut; it's full of good pop songs and sounds as if John Kimbrough had less on his mind than on the self-produced second album, Bareback Ride. More free time in the studio gave Walt Mink -- and producer John Agnello -- a chance to play with production techniques, resulting in some playful experimentalism on several tracks. Most songs, however, are strictly saccharine with Kimbrough's occasionally whiny vocals being the only negative to pop nirvana. 

Tracklist

Stood Up
Everything Worthwhile
Betty
Overgrown
Settled
Me & My Dog
Little Sister
Up & Out
#246
Listen Up
Sunshine M.
Love In The Dakota

I HATE THE 90s Volume 1 Compilation

Here is the first compilation of some of my favorite songs from the 90s. Enjoy!

1. Wishplants – The Maze

2. Pooh Sticks – Young People

3. School of Fish – Unrecognizable

4. Mendoza Line – I Know I Will Not Find the Words

5. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 – My Pal the Tortoise

6. Bailter Space – Splat

7. The 360’s – Dead 1970

8. The Reivers – Over and Over

9. Howlin’ Maggie – Alcohol

10. Walt Mink – Showers Down

11. The Connells – Stone Cold Yesterday

12. The Grifters – Re-Entry Blues

13. The Dylans – Grudge

14. Starfish – Supercool

15. 3 Lb. Thrill – Born Again

16. Bo Bud Greene – Clear Yellow Button

17. Red Five - Around the Wicked

18. The Vestrymen – Greener

19. 4 Non Blondes – Mary ‘s House

20. Truck Stop Love – Stagnation

21. Pell Mell – Week of Fire

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WALT MINK

Miss Happiness
1992

Bareback Ride

1993

Discogs

Walt Mink Biography by John Bush

The alternative punk-pop group Walt Mink formed in the late '80s at Macalester College in Minnesota, with guitarist/vocalist John Kimbrough, bassist Candice Belanoff, and drummer Joey Waronker taking their name from a favorite psychology professor. Inspired by proto-punkster Jonathan Richman as well as English folky Nick Drake (whose "Pink Moon" the band covered on their first album), Walt Mink debuted in 1990 on a split 7" single (with Gneissmaker) for Skene! Records. After releasing two cassette-only albums -- Listen Little Man and The Poll Riders Win Again!! -- during 1990-1991, Walt Mink got the chance to play at the New Music Seminar in New York, due to their association with Babes in Toyland.

Thanks to positive reviews from the New York show, the band signed to Caroline Records. Their debut album, Miss Happiness, was released in 1992, with production help from Doug Olson. The LP did well in college radio, and Walt Mink toured with the Lemonheads, Soul Asylum, and Mudhoney during the rest of the year. The band self-produced their second album, Bareback Ride, and Caroline released it in 1993. Bareback Ride fared less well than the debut, but the major label Columbia signed Kimbrough, Belanoff, and Waronker anyway. Before Walt Mink could release any material, however, Columbia dropped them. Waronker decided to leave the band -- going on to work with Beck -- and Orestes Morfin (ex-Bitch Magnet) joined in his place. The label seesaw ride continued through 1994-1995, as Atlantic bought their contract and released El Producto in early 1996, but later dropped the trio as well. Morfin left the band soon after. After signing to the Deep Elm label, Walt Mink returned in 1997 with Colossus, but said their goodbyes one year later with a farewell live album. 

Miss Happiness

Tracklist

1	Miss Happiness	3:26
2	Chowdertown	3:02
3	Love You Better	3:56
4	Showers Down	4:09
5	Quiet Time	3:33
6	Pink Moon	3:16
7	Smoothing The Ride	3:10
8	Croton-Harmon (Local)	3:32
9	Twinkle & Shine	3:03
10	Factory	5:51

Bareback Ride

Tracklist

1	Subway	2:18
2	Shine	4:06
3	Zero Day	1:59
4	Disappear	2:49
5	Sunnymede	3:49
6	Frail	3:42
7	Turn	2:31
8	Fragile	3:02
9	What A Day	3:00
10	Tree In Orange	3:32