This is great! Good subject, good question, good responses. Thanks!

 

I guess I'll chime in as the "grunge guy""...

 

I always thought Mudhoney was a pretty cool band from the latter part of that era, along with some of the other Sub Pop bands from back then.

Look into the Sub Pop label for that Seattle slice of this pie. 

OKOK,

some 90's:

Lazy Cowgirls - Tapping the source or/and the self titled first one.

New Bomb Turks - Destroy oh boy! = Classic + Nightmare Scenario.

And take a bit of GAUNT with that.

Pleasure Fuckers - For your pleasure (among their other things. They turned into the sin city six when good Kike Turmix went on to leave this world).

Teengenerate - Get Action! is a good entrance.

Guitar Wolf - Loads, but Ufo Romantics & Jet Generation will help at first. Ya can catch them play right now. It's what zen is meant to be!

The Rip Offs - Got a record + Rip off records - (Among them Greg Lowry from Supercharger. Some of these folks are to be blamed ;) for helping a band called the Donnas be the Badasses they are now)

The Flat Duo Jets - Take "Safari" or "Introducing..." if you ask me. But ya can't go wrong with the FDJ (The Romweber Family is a american RNR treasure)

The Chrome Cranks - (A bit of the Teel Family, ya know)

The Makers - Just dig thru anything leading up to "Psychopathia Sexualis"

...and a bazillion more.

 

Check these flicks: WILD ZERO and The Sore Losers. They have a lot 90's Rock'NRoll peeps in them.

 

Hell, just check Crypt records and dig thru the cake!

 

But as with one of them KUNG FU scrolls that leave the end of the formula out to have you find your own way , ...go out and dig this shtuff!

Yup, that about soups up the ship!

And don't let it get past you that good Gring here had a hand in some vivacious TRASH himself. Before he was in the Jackets even. The local peacekeepers might not want you to know about it, but he's in with this gang of goofs that are making this VOODOO RYTHM label. Part of the mess up that got me into the wild sounds of Rock'n'Roll back in the 90's. ;)

 

 

Gringo Starr said:

Here is my list of some of the best albums from the '80s garage revival. In no particular order:

The Miracle Workers - Inside Out
The Gravedigger V - All Black And Hairy
The Untold Fables - Every Mothers Nightmare
The Morlocks - Emerge
The Fuzztones - Leave Your Mind At Home
The Chesterfield Kings - Here Are The
The Tell-Tale Hearts - The Tell-Tale Hearts
The Unclaimed - Primordial Ooze Flavored Unclaimed
The Pandoras - It's About Time
The Crawdaddys - Crawdaddy Express
The Creeps - Enjoy The Creeps
The Beguiled - Gone Away
The Outta Place - We're Outta Place
Thee Fourgiven - It Aint Pretty Down There

I'm just skimming the surface greatness here. There are many more great bands and albums from the 80s to discover. I also forgot to mention VOXX Records' great compilations, "Battle of the Garages" - probably the first definitive collection of the first wave of 80s Garage bands.

 

Here is my list of some of the best albums from the '80s garage revival. In no particular order:

The Miracle Workers - Inside Out
The Gravedigger V - All Black And Hairy
The Untold Fables - Every Mothers Nightmare
The Morlocks - Emerge
The Fuzztones - Leave Your Mind At Home
The Chesterfield Kings - Here Are The
The Tell-Tale Hearts - The Tell-Tale Hearts
The Unclaimed - Primordial Ooze Flavored Unclaimed
The Pandoras - It's About Time
The Crawdaddys - Crawdaddy Express
The Creeps - Enjoy The Creeps
The Beguiled - Gone Away
The Outta Place - We're Outta Place
Thee Fourgiven - It Aint Pretty Down There

I'm just skimming the surface greatness here. There are many more great bands and albums from the 80s to discover. I also forgot to mention VOXX Records' great compilations, "Battle of the Garages" - probably the first definitive collection of the first wave of 80s Garage bands.

 

I agree, the book is a must. If you only read the first page of each chapter then you'll get a potted history of it.

Dude!!!?? The first big Garage Revival happened in the 80s!! Wilderness years??? Come on! Check out the above link as well as Timothy Gassen's book, "Echoes In Time" - plus his DVD's, "Knights of Fuzz". If Gories and Mummies is all you know, you are about to be pleasantly surprised! Get Googleing!

Read Eric Davidson's "We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988 - 2001."  He was the singer of the New Bomb Turks, now a music journalist, and he writes a very comprehensive overview of the scene during that time period.  Lots of interviews with the key bands, and it comes with a soundtrack.

http://www.halleonardbooks.com/product/viewproduct.do?itemid=331985&lid=0&keywords=we%20never%20learn&menuid=10283&subsiteid=168&;

oh yeah i meant to add i suppose i'm trying to paint a picture of what was going on before the so-called garage revival of 99/00