Artist	Song
Nirvana	About a Girl
from Bleach (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (2009)
The Postal Service	The District Sleeps Alone
from Give Up (2003)
The Shins	New Slang
from Oh, Inverted World (2001)
Hot Hot Heat	Bandages
from Make Up the Breakdown (2002)
Band of Horses	The Funeral
from Everything All the Time (2006)
Mudhoney	Touch Me I'm Sick
from Superfuzz Bigmuff (2008)
Sunny Day Real Estate	Seven
from Diary (1994)
Iron & Wine	Naked As We Came
from Our Endless Numbered Days (2004)
Nirvana	Love Buzz
from Bleach (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (2009)
The Postal Service	Such Great Heights
from Give Up (2003)
CSS	Music Is My Hot, Hot Sex
from Cansei de Ser Sexy (2006)
Sebadoh	Brand New Love
from Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock (1999)
Rogue Wave	Publish My Love
from Descended Like Vultures (2005)
The Helio Sequence	Keep Your Eyes Ahead
from Keep Your Eyes Ahead (2008)
The Gutter Twins	Idle Hands
from Saturnalia (2008)
Beach House	10 Mile Stereo
from Teen Dream (2010)
Sleater-Kinney	Jumpers
from The Woods (Bonus Track Version) (2005)
Flight of the Conchords	Bowie
from Flight of the Conchords (2008)
Oxford Collapse	Please Visit Your National Parks
from Remember the Night Parties (2006)
Ruby Suns	Tane Mahuta
from Sea Lion (2008)
Fleet Foxes	Mykonos
from Sun Giant - EP (2008)
Band of Horses	No One's Gonna Love You
from Cease to Begin (2007)
Seaweed	Losing Skin
from Four (1993)
Constantines	Young Lions
from Shine a Light (2003)
The Murder City Devils	Press Gang
from In Name and Blood (2000)
The Jesus and Mary Chain	Cracking Up
from Munki (1998)
Patton Oswalt	At Midnight I Will Kill George Lucas With a Shovel
from Werewolves and Lollipops (2007)
Eugene Mirman	Revolve (The Complete New Testament In the Form of a Teen Magazine)
from En Garde, Society! (2006)
Wolf Parade	Shine a Light
from Apologies to the Queen Mary (2005)
Chad VanGaalen	Red Hot Drops
from Skelliconnection (2006)
The Album Leaf	Falling from the Sun
from A Chorus of Storytellers (2010)
The Thermals	No Culture Icons
from More Parts Per Million (2003)
No Age	Eraser
from Eraser - EP (2008)
Pissed Jeans	Half Idiot
from King of Jeans (2009)
Ugly Casanova	Things I Don't Remember
from Sharpen Your Teeth (2002)
Low	Monkey
from The Great Destroyer (2005)
The Shins	Phantom Limb
from Wincing the Night Away (2007)
L7	Shove
from Smell the Magic (1991)
Sebadoh	Skull
from Bakesale (Deluxe Edition) [Remastered] (2011)
Damien Jurado	Ohio
from Rehearsals for Departure (1999)
Beachwood Sparks	By Your Side
from Once We Were Trees (2001)
Hot Hot Heat	5 Times Out of 100
from Knock Knock Knock - EP (2002)
Pigeonhed	Battle Flag
from The Full Sentence (1997)
The Vaselines	Molly's Lips
from Enter the Vaselines (Deluxe Edition) (2009)
Red Red Meat	Stained and Lit
from Jimmywine Majestic (1994)
Iron & Wine	Boy With a Coin
from The Shepherd's Dog (2007)
Rosie Thomas	Since You've Been Around
from If Songs Could Be Held (2005)
Retribution Gospel Choir	Hide It Away
from 2 (2010)
Sunny Day Real Estate	5/4
from Sunny Day Real Estate (1995)
Fastbacks	Gone to the Moon
from Zücker (1993)
The Elected	Not Going Home
from Sun, Sun, Sun (2006)
Tiny Vipers	Dreamer
from Life On Earth (2009)
Beat Happening	Fortune Cookie Prize
from Dreamy (2007)
Velocity Girl	Sorry Again
from ¡Simpatico! (1994)
Grand Archives	Witchy Park/Tomorrow Will (Take Care of Itself)
from Keep In Mind Frankenstein (2009)
Eric Matthews	Fanfare
from It's Heavy in Here (1995)
The Spinanes	Winter on Ice
from Strand (1996)
Radio Birdman	Burn My Eye '78
from The Essential Radio Birdman (1974-1978) (2001)
Supersuckers	Born With a Tail
from The Sacrilicious Sounds of the Supersuckers (1995)
Comets On Fire	Dogwood Rust
from This Delicious - Terminal Sales, Vol. 2 (2006)
Foals	Cassius
from Antidotes (Bonus Track Version) (2008)
The Afghan Whigs	Rebirth of the Cool
from Uptown Avondale - EP (1999)
Holopaw	Hoover
from Holopaw (2003)
The Pernice Brothers	Clear Spot
from Overcome by Happiness (1998)
The Baptist Generals	Going Back Song
from No Silver/No Gold (2003)
Kinski	Child Had to Catch a Train
from Down Below It's Chaos (2007)
Wolf Eyes	The Driller
from Human Animal (2006)
Codeine	Loss Leader
from The White Birch (1994)
Damon & Naomi	The New Historicism
from The Wondrous World of Damon & Naomi (1995)
Six Finger Satellite	Coke and Mirrors
from Paranormalized (1996)
No Age	You're a Target
from Losing Feeling EP (2009)
Zumpano	The Sylvia Hotel
from Goin' Through Changes (1996)
Pond	Sideroad
from The Practice of Joy Before Death (1995)
Earth	Coda Maestoso in F Flat Minor
from Pentastar - In the Style of Demons (1996)
5ive Style	Deep Marsh
from 5ive Style (2003)

Comment:

"Sub Pop was winging it 20 years ago," said Mudhoney frontman Mark Arm. "No one knew how royalties worked, no one had a contract — it was just, 'You wanna put a record out? Sure, let's do it.'" While the Seattle label — make that [i]legend[/i] — has certainly figured out how to balance a spreadsheet, their sign-now-ask-questions-later spirit has never wavered. No wonder virtually everyone we know has a life-changing Sub Pop moment, sparked by such classic albums as [i]Bleach[/i] (the knotted hooks of "About a Girl" and "Love Buzz"), [i]Oh, Inverted World[/i] (the breezy balladry of "New Slang"), [i]Superfuzz Bigmuff[/i] (the Stooges-gone-Seattle stomp of "Touch Me I'm Sick"), and [i]Give Up[/i] (the skittering beats and smoothed-out melodies of "The District Sleeps Alone"). Put it this way: Sub Pop is one of the only labels we can think of that can't be judged by critical and commercial success alone — not when it's spent its entire history burning its way into pop culture consciousness, actually [i]improving[/i] the music industry (and our lives) in the process.

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