my favorite discography: every sasquatch album ever
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In the last Meteor Mags story I published, when faced with an insurmountable problem, Mags says, “This would be a good time to put on every Sasquatch album ever recorded, in chronological order.” It’s a nod to my favorite discography of all time, and a listening experience that everyone who loves heavy rock should indulge themselves in at least once.
https://youtu.be/2835VcADrtU
We’ve already established that my favorite album is Fugazi’s absolute masterpiece In On The Kill Taker, with a close second being Clutch’s Blast Tyrant, a relentlessly rocking riff-fest that’s chock-full of memorable lines and fist-pumping moments. And for many years, my favorite song has been “Three Days” by Jane’s Addiction, because I can’t think of any situation where I would not be happy to hear that song thanks to its epic scope, its unusual lyric about personal loss and transcendent love, its melodic guitar solo, and the super-heavy riff it breaks into near the end. A close second would be “Gardenia” by Kyuss.
But what if I had to listen to every album a band ever recorded, back-to-back?
In that case, there’s only one choice for me: Sasquatch.
https://youtu.be/ReO_-4vw940
Every other band I love has some tracks that don’t quite do it for me and could be skipped. Other bands I love might even have one or more albums that don’t quite do it for me.
Not Sasquatch. Every album is an apex of heavy rock riffs and grooves. Every song is a banger. Sasquatch is all killer, no filler: gloriously fuzz-drenched guitars, chest-pounding bass, all-powerful drums, and a singer who cuts to the bone with every line. I don’t just “listen to” Sasquatch; I get completely caught up in them to be transported to a realm of rock-and-roll euphoria.
https://youtu.be/YR5cymxGERU
Plus, every album sounds enormous. Some of my favorite albums suffer from sub-par, low-budget recording, such as Buzz Factory by the Screaming Trees, which rocks my world to this day but sounds like it was recorded in a basement on a portable cassette machine. Even Physical Graffiti by Led Zeppelin sounds thin to my ears these days, despite being one of the albums that most influenced my taste in heavy rock. Sasquatch albums, on the other hand, all sound top-notch, like an atomic-powered bulldozer smashing everything in its path.
https://youtu.be/jE68SOKyIqA
Yet along this merciless path of destruction is an uplifting, empowering quality — a strength and joy, a reveling in the power of amps cranked to the max, an unabashed celebration of bashing the hell out of a drum kit with precision and purpose. It’s music that lifts you up while beating down everything before you, one riff at a time.
If I ever meet god, I expect her to be listening to Sasquatch at a volume that would obliterate galaxies.
Collector’s Guide: Pick up every Sasquatch album from Bandcamp.
https://youtu.be/YR5cymxGERU
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