Retro Mudhoney

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.

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.

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

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

Those 32 tracks are spread over two discs, correct? I can't imagine them fitting on one.

Yeah, the second disc starts with the three demos.

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.

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.

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

'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.

I GOT A BELLY FULL OF OUZO

JUST CAUSE YOU GOT IT, KEEP IT OUT OF MY FACE