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Seaweed is an American band from Tacoma, Washington who were active throughout the 1990s. Their style of music is a combination of punk rock and grunge.
In their early days, Seaweed were signed to Washington's Sub Pop, but later released albums on Hollywood Records and Merge Records. Seaweed's contemporaries during the time of their existence included Mudhoney, Samiam, Jawbreaker, and tourmates Superchunk and Quicksand. Their song "Kid Candy" was featured as a music video in an episode of Beavis and Butt-head.
The band toured extensively in the United States with Green Day, Superchunk, and Bad Religion, as well as overseas, including shows in Brazil with Garage Fuzz and others in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. They were well known for their cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Go Your Own Way", which appeared in the movie Clerks. In 2006, their song "Losing Skin" appeared on the soundtrack for the video game NHL 2K7.
On May 15, 2007, the band announced, via MySpace, that they had reformed and were writing a new album, tentatively titled Small Engine Repair. They also announced several live dates. Neither the album nor the tour came to pass, but in 2011 the band did release a 7-inch single on the punk record label No Idea, titled "Service Deck" / "The Weight". Frontman Stauffer works as a nurse in Northern California and has said "It’s hard to play a show because it hurts me physically. I only have one show in me. I can’t do two."
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I heard "Last Humans" on MTV in November of 1995 while I was drunk as a high school senior in some hotel in Houston, Texas. My mom would give me the album for Christmas a month later (a long with debut by Everclear...just to give some proximity).
I fell in love with 75 percent of the album. Granted, I knew nothing of them at all when I was jamming to Spanaway. They are more polished and poppy on Spanaway now that I have heard their catalogue. I love "start with" and "Saturday nitrous " among others. They have their moments on this album...truly they do.
I think seaweed is better than much of their mid 90s competition such as Pennywise or soul coughing or the attempted reemergence of Rancid.
Good album. Memorable if you can connect it to life the way I did...in a positive way. Also..thw first song called "free drug zone" is a good start and an implication of how the album is going to sound.
I don't know what kind of metal they play in New England, but in Tacoma we would call this some good damn punk. Forget about those little prissy sellout metal groups like Metallica and Guns and Roses, these guys just love to play, and they sure as hell know how!
For those of you don't know them, Seaweed plays grunge/pop-punk with huge-sounding guitars and a whole lot of Quicksand influence (i.e., not entirely melodical, but still good)
This isn't Seaweed at their best, but if you see it in the used bin, it's worth your money. The first couple of listens it'll be pretty bad aside from Crush Us All and Start With, but it'll grow on you a good deal. If you were committed to buying a Seaweed album, I'd steer towards Four or Actions and Indications (depending on wether you want RAWK or feeling, respectively). A worthwhile purchase, but probably for somebody who's already a Seaweed fan
Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2002
If you can actually manage to get a copy, DON'T BOTHER. The classic Seaweed sound just isn't here, nothing like on the self-titled album, Weak and somewhat apparent on Four. It's not a coincidence they didn't stick with Hollywood records for more than this album. The more recent releases on Superchunk's label are advisable. They've started to gear in more of that classic sound. Sadly, I doubt they'll ever revisit the heavy dual-vocalist insanity they had going on the older releases that truly made me fall in love with this band from the start. I highly recommend picking up a copy of Weak so you can get a true feel for the heart of this band. Jack Endino did a hella job producing it.
Yeah, Seaweed's sound evolved, changed about three times. Some folks gotta problem with that, I guess. Spanaway was a transitional album, moving away from the early hardcore sound which culminated in the brilliant Four, but toward a more complex sound, a sound that found its zenith with the polished, focused anger of A&I.
Yeah, I can do without the power ballad too. But Spanaway does grow on you after about three listens - "Free Drug Zone", "Common Mistake", "Undeniable Hate" all have as many hooks and as much power as anything in the Seaweed catalog.