| Sleepless in Seattle: The Birth of Grunge | |
| Type: | compilation |
| Artist: | Various artists |
| Cover: | Various Artists - Sleepless in Seattle - The Birth of Grunge.jpg |
| Recorded: | – |
| Genre: | Grunge |
| Length: | 64:52 |
| Label: | Livewire |
Sleepless in Seattle: The Birth of Grunge is a various artists compilation album released on February 7, 2006, by Livewire Recordings. The album features a sixteen-page booklet of liner notes written by Clark Humphrey that details the history of the Seattle music scene from the mid 80s to early 90s.[1]
Steve Leggett of AllMusic calls Sleepless in Seattle: The Birth of Grunge "a nice set from a fascinating era." David Browne of Entertainment Weekly praised the remastered music and called the album a "compilation of unruly Northwestern hard rock of the '80s and '90s is a valuable reminder that Seattle gave us more than Nirvana."[2] The Louisville Eccentric Observer claimed "what's here is empirical, historical documentation that a movement had been afoot long before Kurt Cobain's sad, snarling blue eyes looked through you."[3]
Tim Perlich NOW was critical of Sleepless in Seattles the track selection and said "a Seattle grunge comp without Mudhoney's Touch Me I'm Sick is one you don't need."[4] Seattle Weekly criticized the aesthetics of the liner notes but warmly received the music, saying "the whole thing flows like a prized mixtape."[5]
Adapted from the Sleepless in Seattle: The Birth of Grunge liner notes.[6]