Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

I feel like I am in the minority here, but I really liked this album a lot! Maybe I am just unknowingly into grunge.

An album on the list that bothers me because why are multiple Mudhoney albums worthy? What are we missing on this list because this generic bland album is on here? There are a lot of albums on here I hate because they are bad, but I can tell they are important or just not my style, but this album is just not important in the slightest. Best Song: Good Enough Rating: 5.5/10 Stars: 2

I really liked this album. It's got great energy and performances. Yes it's grunge and punky, but there's a lot of thought behind the songs, some with odd time signatures, which I like. I like how raw Mudhoney sounds. This album is definitely not a polished work, and that's how it should be. Real. I have to give it another listen! Liked Songs Added: Let It Slide Thorn

I really liked this. Had the rhythm, the guitar, a bit of yelling... everything I love in music. (4.8)

“Good Enough” might be the best grunge song. Or maybe “Pokin’ Around”, which surprised me with immediate joy. Look, I grew up with grunge, but I’m not an uncritical fan of the genre, nor of Mudhoney. Yet this slays. After the list already serving “Superfuzz Bigmuff”, I’m surprised to see this, the second album, less-feted, adjustments and experiments, no leap from the original idea, just better, killer-packed. The grunge is enlivened by flashes of eccentric cleverness, tints of echoey psychedelia, deceptively underpinned by Arm’s yawn-sneer and guitars that carry confused aggression and comic force, a drunk exaggerating their drunkenness, the songs often going unexpected places that eventually make sense. The cleaner guitars swapped in for the distorted during “Something So Clear”’s climaxes are inspired heralds of the old electric axe gods, Pete Townshend and Mick Green, tempo unchanging but the frantic strumming making everything go faster. A pulse-raiser. If Nirvana were Black Sabbath times The Beatles, on this record Mudhoney were Dick Dale to the power of the Stooges. Don’t think they ever matched this.

Good quality grunge, perhaps a bit too much 'Wedding Present guitar strum" (which was the style at the time) but the tunes keep coming. "Pokin' Around" is indeed a woozy highlight!

Decent B tier grunge

Ok

A little punky... Didn't feel a thing.

not my favorite 😅

Can really see how this spurred grunge along.

7/10 - This is a genre I am quite fond of. The album was a good intro into the genre, but nothing stood out or rose above some of the more well known albums in the genre. It was enjoyable but not something I would consider a staple for the genre.

I remember a lot of people talked about Mudhoney as some undiscovered gem. They were compared to Nirvana a lot, which seems weird all these years later but they were close and part of the same scene. A lot of this is reminiscent of pre-Nevermind Nirvana but with more guitar fuzz and less of a driving punk sound. I didn’t like them back then, and the album has aged worse. It didn’t move me on this listen, and the songs I enjoyed reminded me of specific better Nirvana songs. “Move Out” reminds me of “Negative Creep” for example, but is nowhere near as effective.

Muy malo

I remember getting Superfuzz Bigmuff earlier and thinking "surely, an album with such a name can't be all that bad?" but sure enough, didn't do anything for me. Thus, wasn't expecting much from this either. And yeah, I was right. Like most music labeled grunge, it's too simple in the wrong way, flegmatic, topped with the horrible early 90s production, meaning extremely dry overall sound and annoying drums (particularly the high-tuned snare, that the whole decade was cursed with). Yeah, not for me.

Good grunge record

grunge is alright but I did not appreciate having to listen to snoring noises at the start of that one song

Pretty underrated in the grander arc of grunge, and almost underrated in Mudhoney's discography. I know it's considered one of their best full lengths, but anymore I just hear people talk about Superfuzz Big Muff. And admittedly, that album is excellent. It's basically 25 odd perfect minutes of grunge, wildly influential and with production that makes it sound like an absolute grease fire. This still has some of the most creative noisy feedback, but I will say the sound here is a little toned back. But that isn't really to say this is much worse for it. The sound here has something indie-esque, almost breezy to it. Even the heaviest moments here have a nimble-ness that sits in sharp contrast to the caveman stomp of SuperFuzz Big Muff. I also wouldn't say the indie aspect of this is at all generic either, there's just a really odd kind of jangle here. I honestly find this album incredibly distinct, just as distinct as Superfuzz. Something like Let It Slide could have fit in there, but just the next song, Good Enough, has this strange infectious, airy little groove to it that makes the song live in a world all it's own when dragged into the soil by the stubbornly thick vocals. Honestly, Superfuzz is probably still a better release, but that's just because it's incredible brevity allows it to be almost supernaturally tight. A full length like this has just a little more wiggle room for error. But above all, I think Mudhoney is super underrated now. They had a little belt there where they just wouldn't stop pushing grunge into weird new places, and putting out fantastic new music while doing it.

I like some of the first few tracks. It's a bit of a drone and I got pretty bored by the end. Maybe this is a significant album that was part of a movement or whatever, but to me it's just dime a dozen garage rock.

in a word, *raucous*. very fun rock band (the videogame) energy to it. i don't think there's really any songs that transcend past "pretty dope" into incredible, but the baseline is a very proficient. favorite song is maybe Broken Hands. strong 3

A delightful and uncomplicated version of grunge. Probably due to the fact that this came slightly before the advent of Pearl Jam’s Ten. “Something So Clear” perked my ears up a little, but “Pokin Around” was by far the coolest track. A perfect blend of a pop-inspired melody strung into the fabric of grunge aesthetics. 3/5 I casually enjoyed this one shoutout to Bellevue Washington shoutout to Seattle Washington

Fuckin rock n roll baby

gritty

This was interesting

Wasn't too bad I guess

That was a lot of noise that all blended together. I couldn’t tell you if any individual track was a sad song, rageful, delighted, a love song. It all came out kind of bland.

A punk-y and grungey album!! Finally! I really liked the first half of this, but the second half fell a bit short in my book.

Really liked this one a lot. Some really good tracks in here and overall a good album.

Once again I love the fuzz and rawness to their sound, it all seems to come together well.

This album basically suffers from not being the excellent ‘Superfuzz Bigmuff’. Here be too many mid paced plodders, and not the anarchic sludgy garage fun which they are best at (not the least because Mark Arm is a terrible singer, which is exacerbated at a slower pace). That being said there are a ome fun tracks, but this just isn’t where I head for a Mudhoney fix.

I do deserve some fudge

# Album Name: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge # Artist: Mudhoney # Rating: 2/5 # Comments: Was alright, but not sure why these guys are so hyped. Nothing on nirvana, pearl jam etc # Top Tunes: # Would I listen to it again? No

Yeah, this album rocks. Not sure I like it any better than Superfuzz Bigmuff, and I don't really see any reason for having BOTH of those albums on a list of 1001 I need to hear before I die. If you like your grunge leaning toward the heavy metal side, either album will let you know what these guys are all about. Letting us experience a completely different sound with a Warren Zevon album (NONE of the list of 1001) would have seemed a more worthy use of one of these slots.

This is pretty awesome

A fine but forgettable 90s alternative album

An ok album but just ok.

I’ve already forgotten about this one

Solid grunge but the back half of the album falls off

Hard and i like it

Pretty good but not terribly memorable

Liked it, but that I was going to like it more

3/5

Often heard of Mudhoney being referenced by old grungy pals of mine. I never quite got into Screaming Trees and Green River and the likes so avoided this band. Actually quite surprised that I like it. Right of the bat it starts well and doesn't really lose any steam. Definitely more nuanced than I thought they were. Good fizz, good melodoes. Very Nirvana-esque but suspect that's a two way street in terms of influence and scene etc. Good stuff, not quite a 4 but a strong 3.

Pretty exhausting for early in the morning. I like grunge and alternative rock. But this album didn't win me over at all. It was raw and gritty, but not much else besides that. "Good Enough" was good enough. The rest was pretty mind-numbing. 2/5

Occasionally a good riff or tune here and there, really love the energy but generally too messy for me to truly love.

Quality stuff, nice!

Well, if this doesn't make you want to put on some flannel and shoot some heroin, nothing will... maybe for the best. I knew of Mudhoney as OG Sub-Pop, but never took the time to listen. Worth it.

Just not for me. Didn’t find the music all too interesting and didn’t care for the vocals.

It was a fun album to listen to. This is one of the first albums in the Seattle grunge scene after all and was the vanguard of much good to come. Having said that, the album itself is not particulary good.

Good grunge songs, but nothing too memorable.

Liked more than I expected to. Pretty fun time capsule

Wasn’t bad - enjoyed it but felt like I wouldn’t go back to it anytime soon

Classic Mudhoney… I am not really a huge fan.

Good punky album

About halfway there, fun but nothing really sticks

Imagine what mixing mud and honey together would taste like. That's pretty much what you get listening to this album. There are some glimpses of good in here, but most of it is bland '90s punk/alternative rock. A little sweetness buried in a whole lot of mud.

Chaotic grungey goodness. I know little about this band but I enjoyed the rough and raw feeling to the whole thing.

Just very boring to me

Correct 2/5

First time listen which I'm super surprised by. Incredibly diverse sounding and much more expensive than a lot of their stuff I've heard before. Really good stuff.

Not for me.

I've seen this album name while flicking through the book, though the page it was on didn't include an album cover. Not bad - I do quite like the colours of this artwork. Anyways, there's no guessing what genre this album belongs to when looking at the year of release - this is very obviously an American alt rock album. That, or an American post-hardcore album, which have generally been quite well-represented on the list. I'm deadset on the alt rock prediction, however. Here goes. Grunge/garage punk. Man, I was on the precipice of being right, though I think I can be excused for not thinking that this album cover or name is particularly grungy/punky. This was dreck. Very Pixies-coded with its shitty vocals, wailing, discordant guitars and blown-out mastering. Yeah, not a ceiling fan of this. Not even a desk fan or a hand fan, to tell you the truth. If I am to say something positive about this album, it's that I thought there was a commendable level of variety for a genre I generally find to be sludgy and indistinct. I suppose the speed of this music was also a welcome change of pace from the dull, meandering style of grunge. All in all, however, this album just kind of flew by me without much notice. Book time. Mudhoney were never one of those bands that never achieved mainstream commercial success despite being influential within a popular music genre from the time. "[Fans of Mudhoney] called them pioneers of grunge, and the raw, frenetic, and confident third album Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge supports the fans' argument. [...] Mudhoney sounded like a 1950's garage band on speed." "The album persists in the memory as one long, smug sneer, from the irreverent title to the vocal delivery and lyrics." The entry closes by calling this album "...a classic album, one of the best of the genre." Wikipedia says that this album helped keep the band's indie record label in business, having sold over 50,000 copies. Critic reviews were only middling-to-positive, which seems to challenge the "classic" status of this album. The album only charted in the UK, where it peaked at No. 34. The 90s American picks have exclusively fucking sucked, and this album is sadly no different. That being said, I'm yet to think that the grunge picks are overrepresented, so I'm content with letting this one through. I cosign this inclusion.

3 stars for ‘Good Enough’. Minus two for the rest of the album.

This ended up being a little more than just a boring punk album, but I still don't love the production. Although, I guess it's best the vocals sit in the background of the mix because the vocalist isn't particularly pleasant to listen to. I probably got more pure, visceral enjoyment out of this album than the Bruce Springsteen, but not enough to give it a 3

As I said recently about a 2nd Arcade Fire album, I also don't think we needed a 2nd Mudhoney album here, and I see now no reason to change my "high 2" rating that I gave to the previous Mudhoney album. See that review for additional comments (precursors to Nirvana, etc.).

two albums by this band huh? The fact that the most glowing review by the guy who said MudHoney is their fav band gave this 4 stars and not 5 says enough whiny voice, subpar melodies, bad attitude. . . . yep that's the 90's the one redeeming quality for me is that it's rhythmically energetic and engaging

make more bad art

Once I was a guest star on iCarly and when I met Miranda Cosgrove she told me this was her favorite album.

2.5

2.5

Dope

'They own you to the grave / Nobody's here to stay.' There's heavy heavy & then there's light heavy - Mudhoney's second record is a very, very good instance of the latter. What this means is that Mudhoney has moved away from grunge, which is saying something b/c Superfuzz Bigmuff was already a punkier grunge than would be exhibited by Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, & Pearl Jam. But Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge is e'en lighter & e'en faster than their first EP - & it works brilliantly well. 'I lose my bank of memory / How did we e'er get on?' Tracks that take on a slower tempo, like 'Broken Hands,' are ballads rather than slow-burning depressive cases that you'd get from other grungers. +, the harmonica-use is fucking killer.

good but too long

Strong music I get why they were influencial at the time and why a lot of the big grunge and garage bands mention them. Just not the type of music that does much for me, personally.

Great album.

No está mal, tiene una honda de Misfits con algo de rock n roll clasico, es interesante

pop rock, ok pas mal mais aussi redondant avec les albums de rocks deja ecoutes. J'ai du mal a les differencier. La pochette est vraiment chouette.

A un moment il y a 30 secondes d'un type qui ronfle. Et avant ça c'était déjà pas terrible. Le grunge c'est pas terrible.

The usual crap American rock band. Every good boy (and girl) deserves finer music than this. Were they on board the plane on the album cover? I hope so.

ziemlich „grunge“. eher weniger mein ding.

Grunge wie es sein soll

As a 50 year old, it's atrocious that I've never heard this. Now I have, it was pretty good. Will listen again.

Underrated grunge pioneers. .

This started out very promisingly with some fat, dirty, fuzzy riffage which got my head bopping, as well as some interesting angular instrumentation, but by around the album's halfway point I'd just had enough of the vocals and the fairly samey sounding tones throughout. I hung on hoping I'd manage to get back into it, but come the end it felt every bit of its 42 minutes.

Excellent album!

This was grunge before it ossified, a grab bag of punk, Nuggets-style garage psych, Dinosauric college rock, Replacements-style hootenannying, all the rich potential of the moment, served with a smirk and a Big Muff. Simpler times.

Not for me. 1/5

Love this band, not my favourite of theirs..but a solid 3

ok

Unremarkable

Definitely has its moments, when they go more punk or garage. Sadly, I recognise that the stodgy bits are the important and influential ones, and the punky bits are ultimately only really as good as a Descendents or Black Flag album track. And others would do the garage revival better. So I respect it, and some songs I would come back to from time to time, but it lacks the (especially) lyrical and sonic hooks to turn it to a proper classic for me

Slightly better than expected. Prefer to Big Muff Superfuzz

Is dit nu heel erg anders dan het andere Mudhoney album op de lijst? Was er een tweede nodig? Naar mijn mening niet echt, het klinkt eigenlijk gewoon identiek als de eerste. En wederom; grunge is gewoon niet echt mijn ding. Het is slordig, maar dat zal wel de bedoeling zijn, maar daarnaast is de geluidsopname ook gewoon vrij ondermaats. Tsja er zit een (mond)harmonica op Move Out, en dat is dan denk ik ook meteen het meest interessante dat ik tot nu toe ben tegengekomen. Heb Broken Hands opgeslagen; want vette gitaarsolo, maar als je nu een ander nummer aan zou zetten en zeggen dat dat Broken Hands was zou ik je ook best kunnen geloven. Is dit nu echt het beste wat Grunge te bieden had? Na Nirvana dan. Poeh, dan vind ik het niet heel vreemd dat je tegenwoordig niemand meer over grunge hoort. Prima om een keer te horen, maar ik ga dit nooit nog een keer luisteren. FAVO: Broken Hands( die gitaar solo is echt dik)

Decent grunge rock album. Takes a little to get going, but has some solid songs on the B side. A little too sloppy (especially from the drums) at parts, but fine enough to listen to. Top tracks: Broken Hands, Who You Drivin' Now?, Shoot the Moon

Good for what it is

Very fun grunge album. Great guitar riffs. Cool album cover

Bruh, it is freakin garbage. Dull af and brings nothing to the table

This was okay. It had some highs and some lows as well. I don't really like what they were going for near the end of the record. Favourite Track(s): Fuzz Gun '91, Thorn Least Favourite Track(s): Don't Fade IV, Check-Out Time

2 Mudhoney albums in less than a week, not much to add. This would have been the 1 album I guessed at. Though I actually enjoyed the ep more now. 3Star

Great rough guitar tone. Nice energy but the vocals aren't always my thing.