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Chicago, Illinois, USA (1993 – present)
Veruca Salt was formed alongside the friendship of Louise Post and Nina Gordon. Introduced by Gordon’s good friend, actress Lili Taylor, Gordon and Post quickly bonded and formed what is now known as Veruca Salt. Originally, the band was an Indigo Girls-inspired acoustic act, but the women quickly realized this wasn’t their sound. They quickly enlisted bass player Steve Lack and eventually Gordon’s brother Jim Shapiro joined as a drummer, even though he originally was just drumming as a favor to his sister.
Veruca Salt released a self-funded demo tape and shopped it to labels, and began to play a handful of small club shows. The buzz around the band grew furiously, and after only a few live gigs, the band was signed to Minty Fresh Records and began recording with producer Brad Wood. At the time Brad was popular due to having recently produced Liz Phair’s critically acclaimed Exile in Guyville.
The band released an orange 7” single for the song “
Seether” to radio. “Seether” was a bratty, distorted alt-rocker about an angry and misunderstood woman. Compared to the rest of Veruca Salt’s material, “Seether” was very pop, so much so that Gordon said that when she wrote it, she didn’t think the rest of the band would like it. They sent “Seether” to radio, as it was the most radio-friendly song they had written and the reaction was unexpectedly positive. Unfortunately, the album wasn’t complete and they found themselves rushing to complete the album, before “Seether” lost its radio momentum. It ended up peaking at #8 on the Modern Rock charts.
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My_Sharona Can't fight the seether<3
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death_in_april Top 5 would have to be Earthcrosser, Sleeper Car, Seether, Shutterbug, and Get Back
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EchotheSun Developing a new appreciation for IV
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EchotheSun
Not sure if I prefer sleeper car or number one blind, now that you mention it.
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earthcrossing According to my scrobbles, these are my top 5 (most listened to least): 1) Sundown 2) Save You 3) Fly 4) 25 5) Number One Blind
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Miss-Kei The Seether!
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EchotheSun
Post your all time top 5: 1. Aurora 2. Venus Man Trap 3. Never Met Her 4. Fly 5. Sleeper Car
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helloimjoshua snozzberries? who ever heard of a snozzberry?
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Kalistri Love this band, the later two just as much as the first two (Circular Trend and Born Entertainers are my favs from the more recent ones)... my brother kind of ruined Eight Arms for me by over playing it. Anyway, considering the direction that Nina Gordon went in after leaving, and that Louise Post pretty much continued in the same direction as before, I'd say this was always Louise Post's project. I wouldn't be too surprised if Post wrote most of the music all along.
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CRAZYBALLIZTIK Nice band but I would have prefered if they were less clean and a bit more "trashy".
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jacobfreakscene louise post is a babe. if i was a teenage boy in the 90s, i'd go out of my way to be her groupie.
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right33 5th albujm plzm
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Panther_Panther i love this band
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randomlife310 My favorite band name of all time.
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EchotheSun
Agree...but that debate and this band are long dead.
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foreverblondes So, dear Louise, find another name and move on.
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foreverblondes
No matter what they say, Veruca Salt was Veruca Salt until Eight Arms to hold you. Whatever came after that , it's just Louise Post's projects.
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slidein Seether!!! I love it!!!
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cheap_cheerful just so good. oh my god
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hecmon awesome :D
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