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Mudhoney [Vinyl]

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I'll go out on a limb, with hindsight on my side, and say that at one precious moment in time Mudhoney was the best rock band on the planet. Maybe not for very long, and perhaps too long ago to be of any real relevance right now, but for one brilliant moment, they were the ones carrying the torch that had passed hands from Ike Turner to Chuck Berry to Keith Richards to Iggy Pop, and on and on and so on from now until forever.

Mudhoney was loud & fast, obnoxious and wild, and yet simultaneously heart-wrenching and melodic.

They had long hair, wore thrift store clothes, and looked cool in b&w photos with guitars in their in hands.

This, the self titled album, might be their best one. "I got something waiting for you, that's right", whispers Mark Arm on "This Gift", and you gotta wonder what he's hiding behind that smirk. Take him up on his offer, and get this.

This is by far Mudhoney's best release. From top to bottom, a solid classic. The guitar sound along with the drum parts on this release are unforgettable-this CD made me want to play the drums. As far as the Seattle sound of this time, this has to be ranked up there as one of the top albums of that era. If you are interested in grunge but do not know where to start your collection, this is definitely the release from Mudhoney that you will want to pick up. If you have Soundgarden and Nirvana anywhere in your collection already, you will not be sorry if you pick this one up too.

If you like hard rock music and hard core attitude you must own this record. Top to bottom great songs and you will love it from the first time that you listen to it...

When the masses wax philosophic on which album defined grunge the following albums would probably get the most prominent mention: Nirvana's "Nevermind", Pearl Jam's "Ten", Soundgarden's "Superunknown" or Alice In Chains's "Dirt". Truth of the matter is, none of these albums are really proto-grunge. "Nevermind" is punk-pop, "Ten" is Grand Funk Raiload-esque boogie pop rock, "Superunknown" is updated Zeppelin and "Dirt" is post-hair band metal.

True "grunge" is the meshing of punk and blues and Mudhoney pulled it off best with this epynomous LP debut. The songs, with limited chords and intentionally boneheaded lyrics (the suicide tale "By Her Own Hand" being the notable exception) are peformed with immaculate sloppiness by each of the quartet's players. Guitarist Steve Turner, the Eric Clapton of grunge, spews forth the licks with controlled ferocity. Dan Peters is an ace with his "traps". Matt Lukin rumbles the band's sound forward with his gutteral bass. And Mark Arm punctuates the racket with his incredulous yelp.

Standout cuts are "This Gift", "Flat Out F****d", "You Got It", "Running Loaded" and "By Her Own Hand". They are as good as grunge gets, even if the album didn't sell a million copies.

I hate to use "grunge" or "Seattle sound" to describe Mudhoney, but this album really does sum up everything that was so exciting about the then-new sound (emanating largely from SubPop records) we were hearing at the end of the 1980s--a welcome antidote to both the sterile synth-pop that dominated the airwaves and the rigidified hardcore/thrash/punk that was becoming so cliched by that time. This was something that harkened back to the early days of heavy metal--Jimi Hendrix, MC5, Blue Cheer, Black Sabbath--without being a repetitive retro-gesture like Lenny Kravitz. I first saw Mudhoney in Tampa in 1989--I'd never heard or seen anything like them before. I bought this album the day after the show. It's a pale reflection of the live performance, but it's the next best thing. No respectable rock aficionado would be without this album!

The Seattle grunge scene that happened years ago was a dismal, wild, mostly drunk and happy rollercoster ride. The names Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Nirvana pop into most minds when the scene is brought up. Everyone knows, though, that litteraly hundreds more bands rocked out before them, making the scene as potent to the world as it was. Mudhoney, one of Seattle's flukes of a band to still be together, came before all these bands, rocking out. This album represents them well, no doubt. Get it.

so we have come some time since the grunge word has been used and i was going through my cd collection and was thinking what album was the album that might of been the best so called-grunge album.well this is my choice for it..
mudhoneys first if not best album titled mudhoney of course.
this is not there first album the first was the supermuff album which was a compilation of all there singals and b-sides but this is a more solid album for that era may i say classic grunge.so what makes a good grunge album i have to say is it/ mark arms =sinister if not always angust vocals or steve turners =raw garage guitar/ dan peters =keith moon style off the walls trap blasts or is it /matt lurkins fuzzy growling bass.well that about says it.some great grunge moments are here the song 'flat out f#cked/or the ravor sharp 'the gift' they even do a little jamming on the garge rock instrumental with "magnolia caboose babysh#t"get you air guitar ready.another great moment is the mellow groovey "when tommorrow hits it will hit ya hard" i think ya get the idea what thats song is about coming form someone in seattle. so i will say that this era is not really gone because mudhoney has a new album coming out in 2002 .but i will say that when i went back and listened to this album after some years it made me think that the grunge movement only had like 2 or 3 good bands and this was one of them ..also check out TAD/SEAWEED/SKINYARD/SOUNDGARDEN(FIRST 2 ALBUMS.........CLASSIC GRUNGE..ITS HARD TO SAY THAT WITH A STRAIGHT FACE..

The songs are great but the sound quality is terrible. The volume is so low, you can't put any of the songs on a compilation disc without ruining the volume level of your other music.

I hate to use "grunge" or "Seattle sound" to describe Mudhoney, but this album really does sum up everything that was so exciting about the then-new sound (emanating largely from SubPop records) we were hearing at the end of the 1980s--a welcome antidote to both the sterile synth-pop that dominated the airwaves and the rigidified hardcore/thrash/punk that was becoming so cliched by that time. This was something that harkened back to the early days of heavy metal--Jimi Hendrix, MC5, Blue Cheer, Black Sabbath--without being a repetitive retro-gesture like Lenny Kravitz. I first saw Mudhoney in Tampa in 1989--I'd never heard or seen anything like them before. I bought this album the day after the show. It's a pale reflection of the live performance, but it's the next best thing. No respectable rock aficionado would be without this album!

I remember the whole scene developing. Most of sub pop verged on the metal - self indulgent widdly widdly. mudhoney really stood out - they were the only ones with that real fast, thick, dirty sound, and great tunesmiths too. up there with fugazi, sonic youth, dinosaur jr, big black and pixies as the best of late 80s/early 90s rock n roll. buy this album if you have a decent stereo and can turn it up very very loud.