Grunge obsession: An alphabetical list of all the bands quoted in Nick Soulsby's oral history of Nirvana

You can check out our review of the book here, but here's the TL;DR of what Nick Soulsby took on in his book I Found My Friends: the Oral History of Nirvana.

"I hunted down 210 members of 170 of the bands who played with Nirvana 1987-1994, three-quarters of the bands who ever played alongside Kurt Cobain, and created the tale of that era in music entirely through their memories and experiences."

I mean ... that's a crazy amount of research. 

The book is entirely in the words of those bands. And yes, it's a great resource for Nirvana fans, but more than that, it's a priceless document of an era — a way to revisit those bands if you were around in the '90s, or a way to learn more about the era if you were too young to see them in their prime.

Pretty much everyone on the planet knows Nirvana, but it's cool to think that bands like Steel Pole Bath Tub, Fitz of Depression, Cows, Unrest, the Didjits and so many more get a second chance here. Time to go on a YouTube binge! 

24-7 Spyz — Amorphous Head — Anxiety Prophets — Arm — Attica

Bad Mutha Goose — Bayou Pigs — Bhang Revival — Bible Stud — Biquini Cavadão — Bjorn Again — Black Ice — Blank Frank and the Tattooed Gods — Blood Circus — Boredoms — Butthole Surfers — Buzzcocks


Calamity Jane — Captain America — Cat Butt — Caustic Soda — Charmin' Children — Cheater Slicks — Chemical People — Chemistry Set — Chokebore — Claw Hammer — Cliffs of Dooneen — Coffin Break — Come — Cordelia's Dad — Cows — Crash Worship — Crow — Crunchbird — Cypress Hill

D.O.A. — Danger Mouse — David Von Ohlerking — Death of Samantha — DeFalla — Derelicts — Dickless — Distorted Pony — Dr Sin

Eleventh Dream Day

Fitz of Depression — Flor de Mal

Girl Trouble — Gobblehoof — God Bullies — Grinch — Gumball

Happy Dead Juans — Happy Dogs — Haywire — Heavy into Jeff — Hell Smells — Hell's Kitchen — Helltrout — Herd of Turtles — Hitting Birth — Hole — Holy Rollers

I Own the Sky — Inspector Luv and the Ride Me Babies

Jacob's Mouse — Jad Fair — Jello Biafra — Jux County

Kai Kln — Kill Sybil — King Krab — Knife Dance

Landsat Blister — Leaving Trains — Lonely Moans — Loop — Los Brujos — Love Battery — Lush

Machine — Meat Puppets — Medelicious — Midway Still — Monkeyshines — Mousetrap — Mudhoney — My Name


Napalm Sunday — New Radiant Storm King — Nirvana — Nisqually Delta Podunk Nightmare — Nubbin — Nunbait

Oily Bloodmen

Pansy Division — Paradogs — Pele — Pirata Industrial — Power of Dreams — Psychlodds

Rat at Rat R — Rawhead Rex — Roger Nusic

S.G.M. — Saucer — Screaming Trees — Second Child — Shonen Knife — Sister Double Happiness — Sister Skelter — Slaughter Shack — Son of Bazerk — Sons of Ishmael — Soylent Green — Sprinkler — Steel Pole Bath Tub — Stone by Stone — Sun City Girls — Surgery — Swallow — Swaziland White Band — Sweet Lickin' Honey Babes


Tad — Teenage Fan Club — Television Personalities — Terry Lee Hale — The Bags — The Bombshells — The Cateran/The Joyriders — The Didjits — The Doughboys — The Dwarves — The Fluid — The Gits — The Guttersnipes — The Jesus Lizard — The Magnet Men — The Thrown Ups — The Wongs — Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 — Thornucopia — Three Merry Widows — Thrillhammer — Treacherous Jaywalkers — Tree House — Tumbleweed

Unrest — Unwound — Vampire Lezbos — Vegas Voodoo — Victim's Family — Volcano Suns — Vomit Launch

Witchypoo — Wool

Yellow Snow