Skin Yard: Jump the Wall

I wouldn't call Skin Yard a grunge goth band, but they helped usher in grunge music in the '80s, and this track certainly qualifies as grunge goth. You can hear the influence of '80s post-punk in some of their other songs, too.

"Jump the Wall" is listed as an alternate version of their song "Gentle Collapse," one of the tracks on their third album, Fist Sized Chunks (1990). "Jump the Wall" was on their 2001 limited-release compilation, Start at the Top. It does sound a little like "Gentle Collapse," but otherwise I don't get the connection. Apparently it was a rewrite.

This is a classic but underplayed band. I might teach one of their faster songs to my band one of these days.


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