It’s a Book, It’s a Playlist: Everybody Loves Our Town, by Mark Yarm

everybody loves our townIt’s an oral history of grunge, it’s a playlist. Here are the Mark Yarm’s Seattle grunge essentials, dumped into Spotify for your time/space-travelling pleasure.

The author’s complete list, without Spotify holes:

1. Mudhoney “Touch Me I’m Sick”
2. U-Men “They”
3. Green River “Ain’t Nothing to Do”
4. Soundgarden “Nothing to Say”
5. Nirvana “Love Buzz”
6. TAD “Jack”
7. 7 Year Bitch “Lorna”
8. Mother Love Bone “Crown of Thorns”
9. Temple of the Dog “Hunger Strike”
10. Pearl Jam “Even Flow”
11. Alice in Chains “Fear the Voices”
12. Screaming Trees “Nearly Lost You”
13. Melvins “Sky Pup”
14. Candlebox “You”
15. Mudhoney “Overblown”