Sounds like a jolly night out....
― Si Carter (Si Carter), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― European Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― European Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― European Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― European Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amon (eman), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link
x-post
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link
I mean, Mudhoney's been a working, performing band this whole time, releasing new albums, writing new material -- there's nothing weird or depressing to me about them wanting to go out and play a bunch of old songs one night.
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm blown away at how great it is. They could truly work up a head of scree guitar noise and Stooges-influenced wailing.
Part of it is straight up nostalgia - I used to see them all the time around this period, at the Vogue, CoCa, Hub Ballroom.
I'm sure there is a lot of hate for them around here, but they truly rocked this period like no one else. They deserve some serious props.
― Garibaldianne (Garibaldianne), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― European Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link
I don't know about faded so badly, maybe I am in the minority, but I liked the last Mudhoney album "Since We've Become Translucent".
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― European Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link
Mudhoney never broke up or "reunited", for christ's sake. They just haven't been as active -- or more the point, mentioned in the press. I saw Mudhoney and the Climax Golden Twins just before 9/11, and Mudhoney have definitely done many shows since.
Yeah, Mark and Steve and those guys have been working in town for quite a while. Steve Turner now has his band Steve Turner And His Bad Ideas (NOT to be confused with Gibby Haynes And His Problem.), but Mudhoney -- and the Monkeywrench for that matter -- are still available for gigs at any time, but just on an occasional basis, and not a consistent basis. Martine still works, AFAIK, at Fantagraphics too, as does Mark.
Mark was part of the very enthusiastic crowd at the A-Frames record release party two and half weeks ago... He was also at the DMBQ (Japan)/Federation X show this past weekend. And I see Dan occasionally doing shopping in Fremont. So, no one in the band is or has ever been "hiding."
― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:48 (nineteen years ago) link
You know, the more I think about the more I would quite like to see them again, actually!
― European Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Garibaldianne (Garibaldianne), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:54 (nineteen years ago) link
Mudhoney was my favorite band, bar none, through all of high school, so I feel pretty fucking old, too. But I'm thrilled they keep on playing.
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:04 (nineteen years ago) link
Maybe there is, I don't know, actually.
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:05 (nineteen years ago) link
Should we care what someone in Alabama thinks? No offense to people in that state of course, but bands don't owe updates to the world of their existence on a regular basis... I said what I said so that someone from Alabama reading this would now know. That's all.
― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Garibaldianne (Garibaldianne), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link
Nothing nostalgic/sad abt those guys. In fact, they're the exception to the rule, as has been impied here.
― Toenes, Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Toenes, Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:34 (nineteen years ago) link
I think it's implied that anything I type here is going to be geekier-than-thou :)
― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link
That's a good way to put it.
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Garibaldianne (Garibaldianne), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.diskant.net/interviews/steveturner.htm
― Stew (stew s), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link
actually they broke up in 1999 when Lukin left and reunited to record "Inside Job" for a comp with Wayne Kramer on bass. Song kicked enough ass that they grabbed a new guy and kept on keeping on. Mudhoney rule (as does Monkeywrench).
― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link
OTM. Actually, when I started the thread, I didn't think of it as a reunion, more a celebration of their early work. So I bought a couple of tickets too. FAP?
― Si Carter (Si Carter), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Si Carter (Si Carter), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link
still, i had planned to go and yell at them to play "Revolution"...
― kingfish, Thursday, 21 April 2005 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 21 April 2005 23:40 (nineteen years ago) link
Actually Donut Debonair is correct, they never officially broke up. After Lukin left they were inactive and working on other projects, but they never announced anything and in interviews have said they never broke up.
― Garibaldianne (Garibaldianne), Thursday, 21 April 2005 23:48 (nineteen years ago) link
I spent a good chunk of my student grant following these guys around northern England... I think I'd actually be quite up for this for old times sake.
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 22 April 2005 07:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Peter Trahms, Friday, 22 April 2005 15:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Wasn't one of Mudhoney a carpenter?
I like Mudhoney, although I didn't get very far when I tried lsitening to SFBM again.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link
In the liners to March To Fuzz Steve Turner says that Mudhoney "lasted until summer 1999, when Matt hung up his bass for good." But it's irrelevant anyhow. They're around and they kick ass.
― miccio (miccio), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Friday, 22 April 2005 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Friday, 22 April 2005 18:22 (nineteen years ago) link
The liners are dubious, you appeared to have more facts when you challenged the initial statement...you said "actually". Just don't. Mudhoney rocks.
― Garibaldianne (Garibaldianne), Saturday, 23 April 2005 06:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Thursday, 15 September 2005 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Thursday, 15 September 2005 23:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― blunt (blunt), Saturday, 8 October 2005 00:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― blunt (blunt), Saturday, 8 October 2005 00:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Saturday, 8 October 2005 00:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― blunt (blunt), Saturday, 8 October 2005 01:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― amon (eman), Saturday, 8 October 2005 01:38 (eighteen years ago) link
Who needs Anal Cunt all that unreal OTT metal stuff when you have perfectly offensive no-nonsense everyday street talk.
― blunt (blunt), Saturday, 8 October 2005 01:50 (eighteen years ago) link
Mudhoney covered the Angry Samoans' "You Stupid Asshole" and it was on record years before.
― Harry Klamt, Saturday, 8 October 2005 02:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― blunt (blunt), Saturday, 8 October 2005 02:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― nostalgia for an age yet to come, Monday, 27 February 2006 12:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Monday, 27 February 2006 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― josh in sf (stfu kthx), Monday, 27 February 2006 16:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― eedd, Monday, 27 February 2006 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link
Anybody seen 'em lately? It's hard to believe, but it's been FIVE YEARS for me. seems like yesterday. god times flies. They are playing tonight. psyched.
― Stormy Davis, Friday, 2 November 2007 21:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I've never stopped loving their records - I still play the 'million suns' one about once a month - but damn if they haven't been seriously underwhelming every time I've seen them live. 5x since 1988, always in Chicago fwiw - tho more charming as time marches on.
― Mike Dixn, Friday, 2 November 2007 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link
They were retro in the first place, innit.
"That a band can be this urgent, and yet so uninvolving, this frenzied, and yet so ultimately immobile, this charged, and yet so fundamentally lazy, is a testament to some kind of dire deadlock. The moment has passed, an impasse has been reached. It would be more rewarding to watch someone struggle, uncomfortably and unsuccessfully, to get to some beyond, than to witness something as consummate as Mudhoney.
For Mudhoney are immaculate. Every thrust, rip, rent, howl, jut and jive is perfectly placed, and asserts, with a conviction that's utterly convinving, that punk's not dead. And I don't mean some privileged moment in '76, but punk as Lester Bangs invented it, the bad boy trash lineage that runs from rockabilly, through Sixties garage, Seventies gumbo metal to contemporary thrash. It's alive and burning still. Mudhoney have the riffs, the songs, the vehemence, the attitude, the windmilling longhair, the witticisms ... "I'll give $50 to the first guy to come onstage and throw his guts up", "we're not playing another song until they erect a stage barrier", "we're tired of all you over-active young people, let's have some old people up the front now" ... They've only just begun and already they're washed up, standing still at a point of perfection, giving the people what they want, fitting our talk without testing it, meeting our need without stretching it."
Simon Reynolds, 1989
― pc user, Friday, 2 November 2007 22:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Just found this info on a reissue of Superfuzz and a new album for '08. I see there is a new Monkeywrench record out on Birdman records also. A busy year for Mudhoney and friends. 1. Touch Me I'm Sick 2. Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More 3. Twenty Four 4. Need 5. Chain That Door 6. Mudride 7. No One Has 8. If I Think 9. In 'n' Out of Grace 10. The Rose 11. Hate the Police 12. You Got It (Keep It Outta My Face) 13. Burn It Clean 14. Halloween 15. Need (demo) 16. Mudride (demo) 17. In 'n' Out of Grace (demo) 18. No One Has (live in Berlin 10/10/88) 19. Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More (live in Berlin 10/10/88) 20. Need (live in Berlin 10/10/88) 21. Chain That Door (live in Berlin 10/10/88) 22. If I Think (live in Berlin 10/10/88) 23. Mudride (live in Berlin 10/10/88) 24. Here Comes Sickness (live in Berlin 10/10/88) 25. Touch Me I'm Sick (live in Berlin 10/10/88) 26. In 'n' Out of Grace (live in Berlin 10/10/88) 27. Mudride (live at KCSB 11/16/88) 28. Here Comes Sickness (live at KCSB 11/16/88) 29. No One Has (live at KCSB 11/16/88) 30. By Her Own Hand (live at KCSB 11/16/88) 31. Touch Me I'm Sick (live at KCSB 11/16/88) 32. Dead Love (live at KCSB 11/16/88)
Monday, March 3 The Lucky Ones Track List: The following 11 songs will be on The Lucky Ones (SP765) released by Sub Pop on CD and LP May 20:
1. I'm Now 2. Inside Out Over You 3. The Lucky Ones 4. Next Time 5. And the Shimmering Light 6. The Open Mind 7. What's This Thing? 8. Running Out 9. Tales of Terror 10. We Are Rising 11. New Meaning
― steampig67, Sunday, 23 March 2008 13:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Those 32 tracks are spread over two discs, correct? I can't imagine them fitting on one.
― Reatards Unite, Sunday, 23 March 2008 13:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, the second disc starts with the three demos.
― steampig67, Sunday, 23 March 2008 14:03 (sixteen years ago) link
i love mudhoney, though i never got to see them live at all in their heyday. some of their major label stuff is pretty underrated, "piece of cake" was dope and so was that ep "5 dollar bob's mock cooter stew". and the split CD single they did with jimmie dale gilmore is awesome too:
http://www.discogs.com/release/875844
gilmore's cover of blinding sun is awesome.
― pipecock, Sunday, 23 March 2008 14:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I listened to "Right Turn" on Alice In Chains' Sap for the first time in a decade, the song where Layne splits vocal duties with Chris Cornell and Mark Arm. When Arm comes in and just monotonally sucks (saps) the life out of everything, it really shows you how dude was just coming from a different place than all the indie dudes in Seattle trying to be Robert Plant. Love you, Mudhoney.
― jigglepanda.gif (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 11 October 2008 23:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Kinda surprised to learn Mark Arm sang on an AIC song, for some reason. I always thought he/Mudhoney were a completely different world from AIC even though they were both called grunge
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 11 October 2008 23:36 (fifteen years ago) link
'Grunge' was totally incestuous, especially with the Seattle bands like AIC, Mudhoney, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, etc...they were all in each other's punk/glam/garage bands in the 80's, auditioned for each other, whatever...not that they were necessarily besties but their circles definitely ran pretty close together.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 11 October 2008 23:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I GOT A BELLY FULL OF OUZO
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link
JUST CAUSE YOU GOT IT, KEEP IT OUT OF MY FACE
― earlnash, Sunday, 5 April 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link