Rehab Doll

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Rehab Doll
Rehab Doll cover
Studio album by Green River
Released June 1988
Recorded August 1987–January 1988 at Reciprocal Recording and Steve Lawson Studios, Seattle, Washington
Genre Grunge
Length 31:38
Label Sub Pop
Producer Bruce Calder, Jack Endino
Professional reviews
Green River chronology
Dry As a Bone
(1987)		 Rehab Doll
(1988)		 Rehab Doll/Dry As a Bone
(1990)

Rehab Doll is the first and only full-length studio album recorded by the grunge band Green River. It was released in June 1988 through Sub Pop Records.

Contents

[edit] Overview

Almost immediately following the release of Dry As a Bone, the group re-entered the studio in August 1987 to begin production on its first full-length album, Rehab Doll. The band initially started work on the album with producer Jack Endino at Reciprocal Recording in Seattle, Washington, however the band switched to producer Bruce Calder and changed its recording location to Steve Lawson Studios in Seattle. Band in-fighting, though, took center stage over the music. A stylistic division developed between Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard on one side, and Mark Arm on the other.[1] Ament and Gossard wanted to pursue a major-label deal, while Arm wanted to remain independent, viewing the duo as being too careerist. On October 31, 1987 Ament, Gossard and Fairweather stated their desire to quit the band.

Although the band members agreed to complete production of Rehab Doll during the next three months, Green River had by late October 1987 ceased as a band. The recording sessions for the album were completed in January 1988. The song "Swallow My Pride" originally appeared on the band's debut EP, Come on Down. It was re-recorded for this album. Rehab Doll also contains a cover of the David Bowie song "Queen Bitch". The album was released in June 1988 on Sub Pop Records. Ned Raggett of All Music Guide called it "a record that sounded caught somewhere between grunge mania and metal/corp rock folly."[2] It was reissued in 1990 as part of the Rehab Doll/Dry As a Bone compilation.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Mark Arm, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, Bruce Fairweather, and Alex Vincent, except where noted:

  1. "Forever Means" – 4:20
  2. "Rehab Doll" (Arm, Paul Solger) – 3:23
  3. "Swallow My Pride" (Arm, Steve Turner) – 2:59
  4. "Together We'll Never" – 4:01
  5. "Smilin' and Dyin'" – 3:23
  6. "Porkfist" – 3:13
  7. "Take a Dive" – 3:28
  8. "One More Stitch" – 3:53
  9. "Queen Bitch" (David Bowie) – 2:58
    • "Queen Bitch" appears on the album's cassette format only.

[edit] Personnel

[edit] References

  1. ^ Azerrad, Michael. Our Band Could Be Your Life. Little Brown and Company, 2001. ISBN 0-316-78753-1, pg. 422
  2. ^ Ned Raggett. "Rehab Doll". All Music Guide.
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