Thursday, July 20, 2006

Mudhoney - Suck You Dry

ORIGINATION Piece Of Cake
LAST LISTENED TO January
CHANCE OF WAKING TO IT lower than the average hair
RATING

This one is from Mudhoney's first major label album. When it came out in '92, it saw Mudhoney experimenting with their sound and moving away from a regular grunge sound. For a major label debut at the height of grunge's fifteen minutes, it was a typically willful act that was pretty much the opposite of what everyone had expected.

Suck You Dry
is about as heavy an assault as can be managed from the 'Honey battery, with big, beefy walls of riffage punishing the listener from the off. Other than that, it's business as usual with Mark Arm's sneering vocals and Steve Turner throwing in a typically fuzzed up solo. It's all over in two and a half minutes, althouth with the density of noise it at times seems longer.
Further Mudhoney songs: Inside Job | Shoot The Moon

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