Deluxe reissues of seminal grunge group Green River‘s two Sub Pop records will be released by the venerable Seattle label in 2019.
The albums, “Rehab Doll,” and “Dry As a Bone,” are getting expanded editions that include previously unreleased material and remixed versions of songs on Jan. 25. Jack Endino served as the executive producer for the project excavating and restoring tapes, mixing, remixing and mastering both records. Between the two albums there will be 14 previously unreleased songs.
The band played an important role in the development of what would become the Seattle scene in the 1990s with its members (Mark Arm, Steve Turner, Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Bruce Fairweather and Alex Shumway) going on to form Mudhoney, Pearl Jam and Love Battery respectively after Green River broke up in 1988.
The records will each receive several previously unreleased recordings as well tracks that were contributed to various compilations, including the infamous “Deep Six” album, which is oftentimes credited, along with Sub Pop, for bringing grunge into the spotlight.
Endino, who worked on the original releases of both albums, found six lost tracks from the “Dry As a Bone” sessions on Betamax and restored them to be included with the deluxe reissue. “Rehab Doll” includes eight additional songs recorded with Endio that reportedly best captured the band as they sounded live at the time.
“When I listen to these mixes, I think, ‘This is how we actually sounded—this is the kind of energy we had,'” Shumway said in a press release announcing the reissues. “It’s much more raw, and it’s much more real.”
“There were a lot of weird things that we did in the recording of ‘Rehab Doll’ that we had never done in any other studio,” said Arm in the same release. “I remember doing the vocals for ‘One More Stitch’ underneath a piano that had its strings mic’d—so I was singing and that was being recorded, but the reverberation from the strings was being recorded at the same time.”
Both Green River Sub Pop releases have been out of print on vinyl for years and the reissues bring several bonus cuts with them, making each a two-LP set. The albums will mark the third Green River release by Sub Pop in less than three months with the label releasing a Green River/U-Men split 7″ holiday single as a part of Record Store Day’s Black Friday offerings this year. Green River’s first album “Com On Down” was reissued on vinyl by Homestead Records earlier this year.
Pre-orders for the reissues are currently available on Sub Pop’s website. The limited Loser editions of “Dry As a Bone” is pressed on on forest green vinyl and the Loser edition of “Rehab Doll” is pressed on on opaque lime green vinyl.
Rehab Doll
Tracklisting
1. Forever Means
2. Rehab Doll
3. Swallow My Pride
4. Together We’ll Never
5. Smilin’ and Dyin’
6. Porkfist
7. Take a Dive
8. One More Stitch
9. 10000 Things *
10. Hangin’ Tree *
11. Rehab Doll * ^
12. Swallow My Pride # ^
13. Together We’ll Never * ^
14. Smilin’ and Dyin’ * ^
15. Porkfist * ^
16. Take a Dive * ^
17. Somebody * ^
18. Queen Bitch * ^
* = Previously unreleased
^ = Reciprocal 8-track versions
$ = Previously released on the Hype! Soundtrack (Sub Pop)
# = Previously released on the Dry As A Bone / Rehab Doll CD (Sub Pop)
Dry As a Bone
Tracklisting
1. This Town
2. PCC
3. Ozzie
4. One More Stitch *
5. Unwind
6. Baby Takes
7. Searchin’ #
8. Hangin’ Tree *
9. Together We’ll Never @
10. Ain’t Nothin’ To Do @
11. Bleeding Sheep *
12. Bazaar $
13. Thrown Up *
14. This Little Boy *
15. 10000 Things ^
16. Your Own Best Friend ^
* = Previously unreleased
# = Previously released onDry As a Bone / Rehab DollCD (Sub Pop)
@ = Previously released as a 7” (Tasque Force Records)
$ = Previously released onAnother Pyrrhic Victorycompilation (C/Z Records)
^ = Previously released onDeep Six compilation (C/Z Records)
