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

Mudhoney - Shoot The Moon

ORIGINATION Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
LAST LISTENED TO yesterday
CHANCE OF WAKING TO IT good
RATING

Mudhoney again! Not really a surprise however, as Mudhoney fever continues exert its to grip.

This one's off their second full length album from '91. It's a standard full speed ahead Mudhoney track: two buzzing guitars, drums, bass, Arm's yelling. It stands out from the norm with what sounds like a backwards-played guitar solo and some unintelligible, filtered vocal parts that may or may not be having a laugh at the expense of their mate Mr Cobain. The twin guitars also play a few call and response style parts that are particularly fine examples of the Mudhoney sound.

Mudhoney - Inside Job

ORIGINATION Since We've Become Translucent
LAST LISTENED TO last night
CHANCE OF WAKING TO IT high
RATING

Yesterday i pulled out all of my Mudhoney records and turned them into mp3s. It turns out that i can listen to non-stop Mudhoney for six hours without repeating a song, which i never knew.

Mudhoney formed in '88 and their first single Touch Me I'm Sick, together with the following mini album, Superfuzz Bigmuff, were key elements in kicking off the '90s grunge wave (most of which sucked). They were said by many to be the 'Godfathers Of Grunge', more so even than Nirvana who actually supported Mudhoney on tour. They released records throughout the first half of that decade, but only one in the second half. So it was quite a surprise to find a new album out in 2003 and that it was back on legendary grunge label Sub Pop, where they began. By all accounts, this album was not only the best in a while, but quite probably their best ever, which was no mean feat for a band 15 years into their career.

Inside Job is one of the faster tracks on this LP and features former MC5 front man Wayne Kramer playing bass. It's a regulation Mudhoney tune featuring, as ever, twin guitars. One chugs along nicely and the other solos and riffs along with it. There are also a couple of nice breaks towards the end. The first four feature just the drums, the second four adding a couple of funky bass runs. It's an up tempo end to the first side of the LP but other than that is one of the less interesting songs on this album, which is the first of theirs to feature brass.

Mudhoney have a new album out on March 7th this year. I can't wait.