| Sleepless in Seattle: The Birth of Grunge | |
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| Compilation album by Various artists | |
| Released | February 7, 2006 |
| Recorded | February 1982 – November 1993 |
| Genre | Grunge |
| Length | 64:52 |
| Label | Livewire |
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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]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [2] |
Steve Leggett of AllMusic calls Sleepless in Seattle: The Birth of Grunge "a nice set from a fascinating era."[2] 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."[3] 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."[4]
Tim Perlich NOW was critical of Sleepless in Seattle's the track selection and said "a Seattle grunge comp without Mudhoney's Touch Me I'm Sick is one you don't need."[5] Seattle Weekly criticized the aesthetics of the liner notes but warmly received the music, saying "the whole thing flows like a prized mixtape."[6]
Adapted from the Sleepless in Seattle: The Birth of Grunge liner notes.[7]
| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
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| United States | 2006 | Livewire | CD | LWR-1012 |