Reviews (page 2 of 8)
What is this Nerdvana?
I have no idea why this would be ok this list. Superfuzz Bigmuff is far superior.
Good, of a time, and that time rocked pretty hard. Definitely worth a better run than I got to give it, but mudhoney is on a list.
Walmart Nirvana
Typical. You wait 959 days to hear your first Mudhoney album and then two come along in a fortnight. Thought this one was better than Superfuzz, a bit more varied and melodic. It's still not something I'll be adding to the rotation but didn't mind it through a couple of times.
Decent grunge
Took me 2 listens, but that helped me appreciate the album. Is it a must listen? I don't know, but I was happy to do it. A bit forgettable at times, but some real highs. You can hear Incesticide in here for sure, so it left a mark. Probably 3.5 for me, but bumping
Not a bad album but it's a pretty unnecessary inclusion since I think "Superfuzz Bigmuff" was enough for these guys. I like the wacky album cover though. It's gotta unique style for a grunge record. Favorite track: Thorn
I like rock, but these tracks felt vacuous to me
Grunge pioniers, maar wel een saai album, richting het einde wordt het gelukkig wat leuker
Wacht... Waarom zijn dit precies 'pioniers' in grunge? Alles wat ik hoor is een vrij oppervlakkig en soms saaiig rockalbum dat slechts enkele weken uit is gekomen voor beide Nevermind en Ten. Even los van mijn duidelijk te hoge verwachtingen door alles wat ik over dit album kon vinden, staan er wel aardige nummertjes op deze plaat. Vooral de wat meer punky tracks, zoals Thorn, zijn wel cool.
generic simple and boring
actually just bad
Very not good
Pretty bad
Pretty crap really
Pretty mid
Mehh it’s okay but I wouldn’t return to it
Good
Not impressed
There's a reason why out of all of the Seattle bands, this is the one I listened to the very least. Very uninspiring. 2/5
Fine.
Alright overall but nothing special
I could definitely hear the Seattle grunge scene coming through here. Not bad.
I've got into the habit of having a quick read of the basic information on an artist/album before starting to listen. I really wanted to like this album as I've, surprisingly to me, enjoyed several grunge albums on this list. This was painful though. I had to turn if off, but I persevered long past the point I usually would.
It was ok, very interesting to hear grunge but not from one of the big grunge bands, didn’t blow me away but didn’t need to skip anything
More like the bits of Superfuzz Bigmuff that I didn't enjoy so much. Still some good noise.
Poop
was vibing with this till some fucker snored in my ear for a minute straight. why would anyone include that in an album. why
Over a span of one or two songs, I am convinced Mudhoney are the last great hard rock band. It sorta doesn't matter what songs either. A whole album's worth tempers that elation a bit because their formula doesn't waver much. But any two songs are killer.
I was never all that into Mudhoney until I saw them live, which is how their primeval power is best appreciated. That said, this is a pretty killer release, updating the template of tried-and-true 60s garage psych for a new(ish) age, adding some 90s-vintage cynicism/disgust, the piss of punk and the sleaze of the Stooges and letting it all ride a groove, delivered with a forceful rhythm section.
yea, meh
Not as good as superfuzz bigmuff but still worth your time.
Meh
*1991. Seattle-based early grunge. *I enjoyed this one, and probably would've worn this one out if I'd been older when it first came out. *No track particularly stood out, but I never wanted to skip a track. *Strange mix of really early 90s grunge and also like 70s punk with maybe some Led Zeppelin mixed in? *Bumping this from 3.5* to 4* so I can find it when I look through my 5's and 4's at the end of this journey. RATING - 7/10
Solid 90s rock but doesn't stand out
Hell yeah Mudhoney! The kings of Seattle fuzz. They originated grunge, rode it for kicks, made fun of it when the world went all lamestain, then just kept making raw asskicker music because they liked it. Mark Arm, Steve Turner & crew are legends because they never gave a fuck about hype. And the music follows. The album is raw, fun and fucking loud, and that’s the whole story.
This was okay, but nothing more really. I preferred it to the silly voiced American 90s alternative bands, but it doesn't reach the spots that Dinosaur Jr or Nirvana does.
Okay I guess, but just not for me.
I was expecting grunge but what I got seemed very alt – rock, post punk and I really liked it. It just seems so amiable and other reviewers have called it charming, and although that seems strange for a grunge band, I can relate to it. The band does just what they have to do and do it well without bells and whistles. High 3.
This is amazing. I've never listened to it before and now fool me. Recorded on 8-track and designed to capture raw garage/grunge noise. I love it. Straight into heavy rotation, head and shoulders above some of the peers of it's time.
Cool grunge album. I'm not the biggest fan of grunge music but I can admit that these guys are so influential and this album itself is the pivotal point for the entire grunge wave.
It’s summer, it’s hot, you’re on the highway headed to another town for a punk show with all the windows rolled down. Trash that’s been hiding in every nook of the car is now swirling around and getting sucked out the windows. This album is in the cassette deck playing at full volume. Everyone is bouncing in their seats. I have nostalgia for this but I probably won’t be spinning this too often.
First time listen to anything by this band, and to my complete surprise I really enjoyed it. Will definitely be listening to it again.
It's okay. Not much to write home about. Honestly a bit disappointed in it, which is surprising since I tend to really enjoy grunge, and really like some other Mudhoney stuff.
Grungy rock
It is such a fun album, I had a blast listening to it. Not a deep meaning or something just some fun songs Fav songs - Let It Slide, Broken Hands 4/5
Grungey garage punk.
The grunge phase was real and the lineage is audible — Mudhoney as the missing link between the Stooges and Nirvana makes complete historical sense, and there's a version of this listener who would have found the raw, fuzzed-out garage rock here genuinely thrilling. That version existed. The time has passed. What remains is too much fuzz for fuzz's sake — distortion as the point rather than the vehicle, rawness that sounds unfinished rather than urgent. The organ that surfaces occasionally hints at something more interesting underneath, and the moments where the hooks find the distortion convincingly show what the band was capable of. Those moments aren't enough to carry the record past the general noise that surrounds them. A two that respects the historical importance without being able to recommend the listen. Some records belong to a specific time in a listener's life, and this one's time has passed.
not bad, decent rock album
Tolerable by grunge standards, so just average at best.
Solid grunge album. Not totally my jam but I still enjoyed it.
So this album actually rips. I will say, it kinda suffers the same problem as the Hives album on here though. The tracks (for the most part) blend into one another. Idk, I had fun with it. Proto grunge mixed with punk/garage rock. I can hear so many of my favorite bands in this record, so I thought that was fun. I actually don’t mind the blown up and distorted vocals. Is it 1001 worthy? Probably not, but these 1001 god has a hard on for proto insert any genre here.
Kinda cool to hear the band that invented Grunge on here not the best album but it rips and has its moments the intro is so much smoother than the end. I find that the ideas fall off until the end I do not totally hate this but there is a reason why nirvana and alice in chains beat these guys. I did think it was just passable though
Growing up, I remember Mudhoney tshirts everywhere. I always thought they were a metal band! Is this a masterpiece? No. Some songs are a bit more same-samey than others, but overall it’s enjoyable, interesting, and I can see why it was so influential.
Drunk bike album = 4
Awesome
This is sick, don't really follow the grunge classification other than being from Seattle but ngl I've never understood how all those bands relate anyways
Najs. Man hör på vissa låtar att dom var stor inspo för Nirvana. Tycker deras tidigare EP och singlar är ännu bättre!
I wasn’t a huge fan of this genre of music. It was boring unfortunately.
For a grungey album, this is remarkably dull. The sound is occasionally good but never leads to anything that compelling that stayed with me- you can find many better examples of American rock from this period than this. Every good boy deserves fudge, every album this dull deserves two.
This record starts off decently with a few enjoyable songs. 'Good Enough' is good enough, as is 'Let It Slide' and a few other tracks, but it all gets a bit samey towards the end. Not a bad record by any means, but you only really need to hear a select few tracks.
This album by one of the Seattle grunge scene’s major bands (not that one) started off decently, but by the end I was definitely ready for it to be over. Another album that felt much longer than it actually was. Yes, some songs had something slightly different like a harmonica or whatever, but fundamentally every song here was so samey that they all merged into one, thus I don’t have any standout tracks one way or the other. This monotony wasn’t helped by the murky, bass-heavy production. The opening of ‘Don’t Fade IV’ sums up my thoughts about this one.
Not the first grunge album, but at the beginning showing influences from punk, metal, and noise. I like it.
I didn’t like as much as their debut album. Maybe it needed more fuzz? I don’t know.
This was not fun to listen to.
Forgettable
Didn’t know of this band. Not as bad as I expected.
I enjoyed superfuzz bigmuff but thought this was a bit crap. Maybe I just wasn’t in the mood
Some good tracks. Some that even sound like early Flying Nun Records (New Zealand).
Good, punky, proto-grunge. I’m sad I missed out on Mudhoney at the time, but at least they are on my playlist now.
Somewhere between a 3 and a 4. I appreciate the importance of the band, but I just wish the recording had more punch.
And every good boy deserves a good album after this. 3/5
Its good. I like grunge
Nice find from a band that taught Seattle how to grunge.
A 2.5 for me rounded up. Really liked / didn’t like certain songs.
I love Nirvana, but I don't care much for grunge apart from them. Bands like Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains are just tedious. That's likely the reason I've never given Mudhoney a listen. After the first listen, I'm positively surprised. The punk influences and lo-fi production feel much more closer to my heart than the polished soundscape of Superunknown, for example. After a second listen, a couple of highlights stand out (especially 'Let It Slide' and 'Good Enough'), but there's still quite a bit of filler. Right now it's a strong 3 stars, but extra listens could push it to a four.
No fav song
Damn. I had high hopes for this, since I consider myself invested in the grunge movement and Seattle Sound of the early-mid '90s. Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Screaming Trees, Mad Season, Green River, Mother Love Bone... it's a vibe, man. This irritated me within minutes of turning it on. It's just so repetitive, grating, wandering, listless. I discern no value, no momentum, no direction. It's effectively the sound of revving in neutral, of spinning your tires in a mud puddle. It's basically Sonic Youth without the irony, so it's a miss from me dog.
A cross between punk, hard rock and alternative. While a few songs hit well, it all sounds the same and seems like screaming the point across.
So boring. Couldn’t wouldn’t finish. RYM: N Saved a song: N
I shouldn't have liked it this much
Sub Pop SP105b (US) CD rip: I don't get it. It sounds like they're playing even though they actually don't want to. Like they begrudgingly went into the garage and put it all down in a single take. Caring is uncool so maybe this is *actually* what grunge is supposed to be? Favorite track is "Broken Hands."
Will listen again
Some OG grunge
Gillar albumnamnet då jag gillar fudge. Men albumet var tyvärr ganska lättglömt. Stark tvåa.
Det är inte en slump att det inte var mudhoney som tog grungen ut i världen
Det här var segt alltså. Finns bra mycket bättre grunge. Besviken!
nä jag gillar inte grunge
Not as heavy as I expected, like it.
Not bad but nothing i'd recommend to anyone.
Fine, not as good as I was expecting
Enjoyed this. A good bit of punky grunge
Couldn't get through it. Too annoying
I missed listening to Mudhoney when grunge was big and I am not sure that I would have even enjoyed it very much since this isn't the typical big "grunge" sound that I preferred to listen to. As I stated in my review of the prior Mudhoney album, this isn't even really grunge music but is more garage rock, which of course, is where so much grunge really originated from. I am not sure this book needed two Mudhoney albums, but I have started to wonder if I don't say that about many of the albums that are represented in this book. I do think this type of music is overrepresented in the book...and I am a fan of this type of music. My favorite songs: Let It Slide Good Enough Into the Drink Who You Drivin' Now? Shoot the Moon Check Out Time
Almost good!
I tried, but nah.
Too noisy
Who You Drivin' Now was first song that stood out. Grunge needs to make a full comeback. But if not, we will always have the early 90s. 3/5
Not my thing
Rock muy pesado para mi gusto
Really great alt and early grunge album.
Pretty good punk/grunge without much to write home about, good enough
6/10 Meh, no es malo pero no me atrapó. Fui medio distraído todo el viaje, no había nada que me llame la atencion pero no es malo
Ed Fotheringham's illustration is the cover art here and supposedly his crazy chaotic style suits the music. Cover is ok but the music is better and darker than the cover. I didn't know this band so thanks 1001.
I got fudge
This is a pretty good album full of punky grungy goodness
Pas trop certain, c’est comme du mauvais Offspring Trop mauvais j’ai arrêté après la tune avec les ronflements
Tres core. On dirait vrm le tout debut du indie et garage rock
Vraiment cool mais je catch pas pourquoi c’est dans ma liste
eh
I didn't hate this but it ended up just feeling like this big tuneless mess. I finished listening to it a few hours ago and I can barely remeber anything about it.
Amazing grunge had a fresh vibe to it and the lyricism was amazing some songs were js mid 9.4/10
It was good, if just wasn't anything special to me. I prefer a lot more grunge albums and bands that came out during this period.
I wouldn’t know Mudhoney existed without the Singles soundtrack. This is not that. Same few chords and lousy vocals. The drummer seems ok. Not a very enjoyable album even in the 90’s.
Yeah this was fine. Not as good as some other pink albums, but not bad.
Not the worst thing ever. This album is actually pretty good at times, but it really doesn't do anything exceptionally well.
Generator, O Generator, you've done it to me again. I tell you that I don't want any metal and yet you try to sneak it through under the label of "grunge". Call it whatever you want, but this is unlistenable dreck.
2,5
#428 / 1089 Heard before? ❌ Revisit? ✅ It was a bit underwhelming at first, I soon realized that was intentional on the bands part. I felt it sounded a lot more old timey than 1991 at first and after reading about the making of the record, they were indeed going for the 70's garage rock punk sound, which I would rather call proto-metal hard rock sound (Blue Cheer et. al). I like Superfuzz Bigmuff EP, so in my opinion this is a rather weird turn in their career. Then again, they've got tired of one thing and went towards a new one for most of their career. Not my favourite, I've not extensively listened to their catalogue either. Decent 3/5, but left me wanting.
I just know they hired a child to draw that album cover. The band would have certainly made a worse cover, based on how talentless they are at making music.
Shitty boring grunge
Oh goody, another album full of shitty 2 and a half minute alt rock/grunge songs sung with a grating voice. There is absolutely nothing here you couldn't find made better elsewhere, and I have no idea why this is considered a must listen before you die. Just rubbish
All of the energy and angst of Soundgarden but without any of the talent.
I've heard plenty about Mudhoney but have never actually heard an album by them until now. I like this. The Nirvana comparison is probably too obvious, but maybe not fully apt either: Whereas Nirvana felt more in-your-face and raw, this album at least played around with some different instrumental layers and incorporated a wider variety of influences than Cobain and Co. ever did. Nothing really stood out to me here, but it was an enjoyable listen.
No
Interesting listen. Enjoyed some of it but not blown away
Altså, nei. Eller, det va jo ikke _dårlig_, men det e ganske mange av de her 1001 albuman som e ganske kjedelig. Også vet æ ikke helt om det e fordi æ høre dem for første gang i 2026, og den musikalske påvirkninga e oppbrukt fordi den e så innebygd i alt æ høre, eller om det e fordi utvalget av musikk på lista e kjedelig. Æ orke ikke grave i det for å finne det ut, det e for mye energi å bruke på menn æ aldri kommer til å høre på igjen.
Meh
Not sure why its on the list to be honest
Ok I guess. Didn’t really move the needle for me though, feel like there was a few grunge bands during this era that were somewhat overhyped
This is not nice to listen to
Not the end of grunge that I prefer, but still fun enough. Bit scrappy which I guess is part of the charm.
Slightly boring
2.9
Not for me
Not quite my tempo but maybe
boring
Stupid fucking album name. This album was a very pleasant surprise, as I’m not really a fan of grunge. Really dug the garage punk edge, and then theres some of that subdued feel that will become a mainstay of 90s rock, but then there’s even some late 60s and surf vibe. There are lots of fun ideas and unique approaches to guitar in particular in these songs, it feels fresh even today. It’s entertaining to me when the guitarist pops out a key for a bit during a solo. Much more my style than a lot of the more boring grunge I’ve heard
Just a bit too hard for my tastes, especially because I didn’t recognize any of the songs.
Not really naw
Pretty good, much better than Pearl Jam
Good in parts!
I like this i like this
I rather liked this album, it was interesting and I cant tell if the poor production was done on purpose or not, but it sort of adds to it.
A decent grunge album but not one that hits home for me (or with as many monster hits) as several others from this period.
I’m very indifferent about this. Grunge is definitely not my style but this album was fine
This is #day683 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… I've never quite gotten around to grunge bands like Mudhoney, Mother Love Bone, or Stone Temple Pilots, so this list is a good opportunity to catch up. This record does feel like an important branch of the genre, though I can't say I'm hell-bent on revisiting it soon. The garage-punk production is fun and helps it stand out from other albums in this vein. Otherwise, let it be a 3 out of 5 for now. We'll see what their other record has in store when the time comes. Looking forward to #day684.
Consistent career of being just good enough.
i thought the 1st Mudhoney album/EP was pretty good, hopefully this one is too Generation Genocide - no rating Let It Slide - 3/5 Good Enough - 3/5 Something So Clear - 4/5 Thorn - 4/5 Into the Drink - 3/5 Broken Hands - 5/5 Who You Drivin' Now? - 4/5 Move Out - 3/5 Shoot the Moon - 3/5 Fuzzgun '91 - 3/5 Pokin' Around - 3/5 Don't Fade IV - 4/5 Check-out Time - 4/5 Average score: 3.5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ i liked this a little less than Superfuzz Bigmuff, but it was alright
I get the spot this holds in the Seattle rock scene, it’s got that messy garage punk vibe and plenty of fuzzy riffs. Parts of it are fun and definitely nail that DIY '90s aesthetic, but overall, most of the songs just kind of blend together for me. It ends up feeling more like background noise than a standout record. Compared to earlier stuff like Superfuzz Bigmuff, this just doesn't have the same bite. It’s cool to hear the raw, dirty sound that helped build that scene, but it lacks the real energy. It’s decent enough, but compared to the heavy hitters of that era it just feels a bit flat and forgettable.
There is no way to put enough lipstick on the pig called Mudhoney. Mark Arm can't sing a lick, the music is garage quality, the songs are subpar. We can certainly give them credit for being part of the initial grunge wave, they're an OG, but they still don't have the chops to make it on the Top 1001. You can hear the influence they likely had on Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, The Replacements, etc but that doesn't qualify this as a must-hear album. The only tolerable song was "Good Enough" and it's the only one with a substantial lister count (3.7M). Most songs are around 250K listens, that's not impressive - those are reminiscing hardcore fans who loved them in HS or college and used see them at the Off Ramp, Central Saloon or The Crocodile back in the day. Songs like "Broken Hands", "Move Out" and "Who You Drivin' Now" are hard to sit through. Mudhoney isn't a band anyone sits around and listens to today, the music hasn't held up super well and again, he isn't much of a singer. There are no hits or songs another band made famous. Not many people will agree that this deserves a spot in the elite T1001. Kudos for influence. 2 stars
Eh
Yeah! Very good!
A pleasant surprise, gritty boisterous fun.
hm. tönt nöd guet. sie sind glaub funny. aber hm. ok keeeeein pman wiso dass das sött do sii. null sonn 1 sorry kei spass gha.
scho besser tönendi musig ghört hahaha aber isch ja au de sinn vom ganze sie stelled sich selber vor als "truly the band that made the '90 grunge rock movement possible" ...findi jz scho grossi wort wo da gschriebe werded aber joaaa es gaht alles chli ah mier verbii aber thorn hani jz na cool gfunde joa es passt iwie nöd so ufd liste. falls sie würkli so hrunge-pioniere sind, verstahni nöd wiso nöd s debutalbum druff isch. hanmer weg dem es 2 überleit aber grunge gfalltmer eifach. gaaaanz knapps 3
My wife’ll give me a skelp for this, but I’m not a fan. A little too plodding for my tastes. Favourite track: Check Out Time
If it looks like shit, if it sounds like shit, it is shit.
Estos me sorprendieron. No tenía idea quienes eran, nunca los habia escuchado. Ví muy poquito de quienes eran, y resulta que fueron fundadores de la escena grunge? No tenia idea, tampoco sigo mucho el género. Pero en cuanto a sonido, super trashy, guitarras distorsionadas y desafinadas, sonido de garaje y mucho, mucho ruido. Algunas canciones son repetitivas y hasta abusan de lo desprolijo y desarreglado, pero eso me compró. Le voy a poner 4 puntos por la sorpresa, se lleva un 8/10. Algo más de ellos escucharé.
Pretty good album that I have never heard before. Kind of punk lite in a way. It has a lot of good music that has some variety to it. Nothing really blew me away but it was consistently good throughout. Just read a little about them and realized that they contributed to the Seattle Grunge movement in the 90's which would explain why I like it. I was the perfect age to absorb that music at the time. I'm sorry I didn't listen to it when I was young, I'm sure it would have loved it.
1% more polished production wise compared to their earlier entry on this list, but still a fun early grunge album. Not entirely sure the band needed 2 albums in the book though. 7.5/10.
I forgot about this album as I was listening to it.
A hidden gem of grunge.
I could probably have coped with this when I was twenty but I'm too old for it now.
A real grungy sounding album.
I was interested at the beginning, but then it turned into mumblerock.
This is a nice hidden gem of the early grunge era. I've been sleeping on these guys.
Oof. They sound like your high school’s second best band. Plodding and repetitive with a couple of good hooks if you’re being generous. These songs should never have left whoever’s basement they used for practice.
Great
I play trombone, so I tend to operate on the “Good Boys Deserve Fudge Always” side of things. But this was a great adventure up to the top of the staff.
"man, Superfuzz Bigmuff was pretty good i wonder i-" the answer was no. Superfuzz Bigmuff had some quality to it that this does not. the albums sound the same except the apparent magic was absent ig. good for background noise in english class. 3.2
I don’t know. I can’t put my finger on the words to review this album. Meh. Punk/grunge rock that’s a little grating I guess? DNF (2)
When people talk about grunge, they often talk about heaviness, angst and cultural impact. This album has little interest in any of those things. The surprise is that the engine driving it isn’t really grunge at all. It’s garage rock. Again and again I found myself hearing The Sonics, The Kingsmen, all sorts of Nuggets obscurities, the Stooges and Buzzcocks. The structures are wonderfully primitive: find a riff, find a groove, and trust them. The Seattle contribution is mostly harmonic. Sonics structure, grunge chords. What makes the album special is the confidence of its choices. The tempos breathe. The organs sound cheap in exactly the right way. The harmonica repeatedly appears where a guitar solo might be expected. Every decision feels instinctive and immediate. Not careless decisions - swift ones. The band seem to understand exactly when further refinement would start removing the life from the music. The deeper I got into the record, the more varied it became. One moment there’s a chiming guitar part that opens a window in the middle of all the fuzz. The next there’s the swampy menace of “Into the Drink”, the full-on Sonics assault of “Who You Drivin’ Now?” or the unmistakable Buzzcocks pulse running through “Pokin’ Around”. Every time I thought I had the album pinned down, it revealed another side of itself. What surprised me most was the ending. After forty minutes of movement, humour, momentum and glorious racket, “Check-Out Time” changes the atmosphere completely. The spoken delivery, the euphemistic title and the lyric about an ordinary man listening to the wrong voice reveal a darkness that had largely been hidden until that point. It isn’t dramatic or theatrical. That’s what makes it unsettling. The album spends most of its running time behaving like a gang of garage-rock hooligans before quietly revealing that it has something more serious on its mind. The irony is that this supposedly scruffy 8-track oddity sold in enough numbers to help keep Sub Pop afloat. Listening now, that’s not difficult to understand. Beneath the muck is an excellent set of songs. Mudhoney simply had the confidence to leave the muck where it belonged.
Pffffft. I’ve heard better from bands doing the same stuff.
Definitely never heard of this band. It’s much more exuberant than I expected given the grunge label. I will say it didn’t really take me on a journey anywhere, personally — it feels so in-the-garage it kind of feels like you’re just sitting in a chair listening to them in said garage. Clearly an influence on the 2005-2015 indie rock I grew up on, some of which I’m not sure has aged tremendously well. I don’t really love his voice. The album art is very cute. Fav tracks: Thorn, Broken Hands, Shoot the Moon
If I didn't know Mudhoney by name, I would finish listening to this and just conclude that it was a solid punk record, not knowing its association with grunge. Pretty sick album btw.
No real comments about this one. Didn’t really interest me. Rating: 3/10 Favorite Song: n/a
That was the shet
This was better than expected but also not great per se. Many people say this is one of the best grunge albums ever made. You must hear it if you like the raw, rough sound of early Seattle rock. It shows that the local music scene was much bigger than just the few famous bands that became huge. Would not join my rotation but I'm ok being forced to listen to it.
Never heard this grunge band. Solid. Seattle band bsides
6.5/10
Each song terminates in grungy energetic fun. That’s what I’ll remember most about this album, but Mudhoney deserves their place on this list for sure. Nirvana probably owes them royalties.
Another solid entry from Mudhoney, but for different reasons. Their first album felt way more prescient in terms of the development of Grunge, but here they opt for a more grungier follow-up rather than a commercial step forward. It doesn’t really play it this way, but it seems they remained a little more true to the process and purpose than their successful peers (Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Sound Garden, etc.) and as a result, they still feel fresh and new on this album.
The Good: We get fudge! The Bad: We don’t know what kind of fudge… The Ugly: Don’t want to find out what we get if we are bad boys… 1991 was an awesome year to be young (as in, old enough to drink “legally”, young enough to know nothing about 1960’s music, or even ‘70s music. Saturday Night Live probably had one of the best casts ever. Beer was cheap, smokes were cheaper, and fuel was given away for free… almost. I watched the movie “Singles”, still have a DVD copy at home, and it acted as a small documentary of what grunge was all about… My favorite band of that style is Temple of the Dog… missing on the list, to my knowledge. Anyway, Mudhoney was a band who’s name I heard here and there, and I probably heard a song or two by them hidden somewhere in the back… So, listening to this album was like me busting my cherry 3 1/2 decades later… I was not impressed. Yes, it has noise. Yes, it has guitar. Yes, it is grungy. I believe that I could have done without this album… 2 1/2* upgraded to 3*, because I like to support guitar based music...
Fun fuckin grunge record. Should listen more
Takie se. Ani dobre, ani złe. 2,5
That was not bad!
3.5 Nice guitar sound
I know Mudhoney are a grunge staple, and as a teen who cut his teeth on grunge-era music I was always vaguely aware of them, but never really got into them. Thus my expectations were kinda low heading into this one, and call me pleasantly surprised with this. Way more nuanced and musical than I was expecting to find (I mean, the album name alone provides some indication that there's actual "musical" music therein). Embarrassed to not have given this one a shot, and glad to finally come around. Good stuff.
puha jeg er ikke vild med det... synes bare det blev lidt kedeligt og noisy.
Solid, but not outstanding. I didn't really get into Mudhoney back in the day, and listening to this doesn't change my view. Heard before ❌️ Listened this time ✅️ Revisit ❌️ ★★★☆☆ (6/10) Total reviewed : 334 Already owned : 76 Purchased : 16 To buy : 3 Nope : 239
This is the 2nd or 3rd Mudhoney album, I don't dig it
This was ok. Nothing particularly special or memorable about it.
A 90s Seattle rock album, but not the highlight of that scene by any means. It's muddy and grungy with some decent moments, but this album suffers with songs blending into each other and gets boring after a while.
Enjoyed it a lot, weirdly reminded me of Mastodon if they were lighter. Stoner rock. Interesting little blues bits. Def coming back to it. Technically by my rubric that makes it 4 stars, but it's lightly held,
T'was alright
Not going on any list of mine.
Pretty good, like a high 3
Bit mid but fine
I was going to give this a higher rating but I listened to most of it yesterday and have straight up forgotten most of it. None of the songs I particularly liked, even if I thought it might be my thing tonally. A couple of songs were actively bad.
Sorry but it was totally uninteresting and boring
I enjoyed not listening to this more than I enjoyed listening to this.
Oh this has been a bad week. I think the algorithm has only one star albums left to give.
родоначальники гранжа в целом. довольно хороший, но не слишком запоминающийся альбом, да и не самый лучший у них в дискографии. конечно же, когда начинал знакомство с гранжем в целом, слушал и их. не считаю это очень плохим альбомом, но мне не хватает здесь энергетики. оценка: 3/5
The music was alright, actually, I quite enjoyed some of it, but the voice, blagh.
Decent quality grungy listen.
There was excitement heading into this one! The albums generator has graced me with Superfuzz Bigmuff and I've been a fan of Mudhoney since. This one has all the signs of being a solid piece of work, it's described by themselves as perhaps the most cohesive project, and it's got some pretty stunning artwork representing it. We're working a burning image in primary colors, with two harsh pastels and intense reds, it's like Munch meets Harring and the Life's Good logo. I don't think it's as impressive as it reads on paper, it really just gave me the urge to listen to Nirvana by the end of it. I gave it another listen, same acceptable experience with the yearnings for a more solid grunge experience. I'd buy the record at a discount price, just to have something well made in between my rock and roll listens. 3.2/5
fun atmospheric grunge moment
Was a bit indifferent towards this early, yet undeniably influential grunge group back when I first heard them with 'Super fuzz'. Haven't revisited it much, but I think I failed to notice just HOW ahead of its time that EP was. But, while 'Superfuzz' was released well before the Nirvana (and Grunge) explosion, this album was released around the same time as the album 'Nevermind'. It's certainly a more fragmented album when compared to that early EP and many of their contemporaries, opting to explore a vast range of ideas and instrumental pallets rather than stick to one homogenous sound and fleshing it out, not unlike the Pixies, for example. I did find myself enjoying this album way more than that early EP, though. The drumming here remains a standout; it's sort of unorthodox, kind of hypnotic, and a bit tribal feeling, but can easily switch to that familiar punk/garage style at the drop of a dime, like on 'Shoot The Moon'. The guitar work is varied enough to keep me interested, especially on a song like 'Good Enough,' which has maybe the most memorable riff here. And if there's one thing Mudhoney didn't abandon, it's their unrelenting '80s punk energy - just listen to songs like 'Thorn', 'Into The Drink', and especially the organ-driven 'Who You Drivin' Now?'. Oddly enough, the instrumental 'Fuzz Gun '91' really stuck with me as well; it had this early '70s proto-punk vibe that I really dug. Overall, though, the undeniable highlight was this album's centerpiece, 'Broken Hands', just the way the song shifts and grows, and hypnotizes over its 6-minute trudge through this tragic heartbreak, painted with imagery that's so potent and ugly. And that closing solo absolutely kills, might be the best thing I've heard by these guys yet. While nowhere near as catchy or even memorable as many of their contemporaries, especially the Big Nirvana, I did find myself enjoying pretty much every moment here. The at times non-cohesive and messy presentation, the experimental punk energy, and off-kilter fusions... I'm not sure if Mudhoney were always like this, or if they were trying to set themselves apart from the scene they so obviously helped bring to the mainstream. Either way, a damn good record with an infectious energy.
Maybe I missed what makes this special but it was pretty average. It's not really a 2 but it's not a 3 for me
Есть только один нормальный представитель гранжа - Nirvana. Всё остальное убого.
grunge isn’t for me
Would I listen again: no All kind of blurred into one. I don’t think i’m a fan of grunge
Some classic grunge.
was this on Skate? It should've been. Very enjoyable - classic 90's punk. 7/10.
interesting and rough sounding. Weird in a good way. I liked it.
Omg more MEN WHO CAN'T SING
Mudhoney never really did it for me the way the other big grunge bands did, but I still respect them as trailblazers. You can hear all the elements of grunge and later 90s bands to come, especially Nirvana and Pavement.
Ret godt. Lidt lo-fi og stenet til tider men på en ret groovy og chatchy måde.
Sonic Youth møder Sex Pistols. Det er beskidt punk med legende, eksperimenterende elementer. Det er den rå lyd af Seattle. Endnu et Grunge mesterværk til samlingen.
Not a bad listen. Had my head bobbin a few times. Classic 90s sound.
Didn't catch my attention once
every good girl (daphne) too
4/10 Def not the worst but not one of my favorites
Tosh
I saw Mudhoney once, opening for Pearl Jam the day we first heard the news about Kurt Cobain. The weeks before, I was listening to the Five Dollar EP on repeat, still along with Pieces of Cake, my favorite of theirs. It's certainly dated but still fun.
This is alright. Not wowing me. The music kind of reminds me of Nevermind era Nirvana with maybe a little more punk thrown in. The vocals are kind of just there. Nothing wrong with it, but it's not gonna stick with me.
I know this album and listening again here I am mildly disappointed, as it seems dated.
Himbo album (pretty but not much substance)
2.14
More monotone than I would prefer.
2
Early grunge album. Never listened back in the day. My intro to grunge were nirvana, pearl jam and the likes. Though not as impactful it still has its place. Not a bad album in my opinion
its fine. prob foundational. too slow and not enough emotion for me; put it in broadening anyway
not gonna lie, me está costando escucharlo. a pesar de que varias canciones me recuerdan a sex bob-omb (y ellos me gustan mucho), este disco no me la está haciendo mucho :/ seh... algunas me gustaron un poco yet i didn't love the whole thing. creo que le doy 2.5 pero lo bajo a 2
Surprisingly good.
Never heard of Mudhoney, only the big grunge bands. Nice to hear another one. Cool punky rock, jammin stuff. Love the harmonica!
better than expected
I prefer their album Superfuzz Bigmuff for the obvious reason, but I was a grunge kid of the early 90s who found the alternative sound from genres like Punk, Grunge, Shoegaze, etc... very appealing as it was so different from the mainstream music of the 80s. These guys are a prime example of the Seattle grunge scene and i like it. Thorn is good song, too bad the album started off bad, 4 stars.
I wasn't really a big fan of this album at all. It all seemed a bit sludged together with nothing really standing out at all. I personally found all of these tracks very forgettable, with nothing to them. I think it's always a tell-tale sign of an album not being great when you're constantly checking the tracklist to see how many more songs you have to sit through until the end. Instrumentally, it's okay, and vocally, it's not awful, but the whole thing just seems a bit boring to me, like something you'd have on in the background as just sort of noise. There were no real standouts to me in this album, as they were all fairly forgettable to me, unfortunately.
Okay Grunge, not unpleasant, but not a classic for the period. Haven't heard of them before.
Didn't care much for this one
p664. 1991. 3 stars. Noisy Nirvana clones with some decent songs, but not good or with enough variety to repay repeated listening.
Boring
it's ok. theres better sludge and better grunge out there.
Weirdly, it almost felt too peppy for grunge and too passive for punk.
Overall, quite a bit of a meh album. Nothing exciting really happened, but it was decent leaving it in the background while I was doing other stuff.
maybe this one isn’t even that bad but i was NOT in the mood for punk today. some of the drums were cool though. may revisit
2 things. 1) I love Mudhoney 2) Mudhoney is so fun and silly and great and amazing. I heard or read somewhere years ago that Mudhoney is the kind of band that happens when record collecting nerds start a band. It was either Mudhoney or Dinosaur JR, regardless let's for the sake of argument say it is Mudhoney, this time. My favorite song on this album is "Who You Drivin' Now?" To be honest though it's hard to really pick out songs on here that are not amazing. You really get the fuzz sound that they are 'famous' for on this album and "Who You Drivin' Now?"
Tja, ikke så givende. Sterk 2, i grenseland til 3.
Just a few days ago I received a Mudhoney album, and in the review I said "Noises with smell of cocaine." Well, it's the same here, but this time they drank a lot before recording.
meh... 2 star
This is a fun and noisy album. Mixing on it is kind of weird; looks like it was all done with a cheap tape 8-track. But overall, a fun album I would definitely listen to again. 4/5
Last album! And it's a great last album. I've never listened to this one, and it is really good. It has a nice loose energy like they're barely containing it. The recording sounds good too, even with the fully-panned instruments in some cases. I am glad that this was what we ended on, and not like... Woodface by Crowded House... 4/5
Noisy but decent
This was an interesting listen at first, but then I just kinda got bored. I had heard of Mudhoney before, but I don't think I'd ever heard anything by them before today. The style was kinda punk/grunge, and they had a sorta Nirvana/Sonic Youth sound to them, but without the spark of energy and clean spunkiness that I want from that genre. I didn't hate the music, but it was a slog to get through the album. Two stars.
Not my favourite.
Poking around in my ears with the god damn harmonica. I already was feeling quite low with this album and this just hurt me personally. It's probably not my genre, but I don't think the vocals or instrumentation hooked me for any amount of time.
I didn't hate this album but it was a bit lacking... I didn't find any of the hooks all that catchy and not a lot of the tracks really grabbed my attention (for good or bad). As far as grunge goes, this is no Nirvana, it lacks some spark that I can't put my finger on. There were a few bits that had me going briefly and a few bits that I wanted to skip (like the random 30 seconds of snoring). Going to go with a low 3.
Standouts: Thorn - I'm such a sucker for fuzzy bass lines Broken Hands ⭐- great stuff all around here some good stuff on here! - fuzzy raw guitar with a bunch of distortion (ik its due to recording equipment but they made it work really well) - an acceptable amount of feedback (not enough!) - after so much bob dylan it's nice to have a harmonica that isn't destroying my ears. also it's a interesting instrument for the genre. I don't think it works particularly well but I appreciate the experimentation I'm normally not a fan of short songs but they suit this album, each song has a good idea and it completes the vision and moves on, no complaints there. Good variety of songs from punchy to slow High 3 bumped up to a 4 by the awesome album cover
wieder rock.. ganz ok.. gut? idk
Fine example of grunge from one of the founders of this music. Mudhoney is just not as melodic as the Seattle bands who made it big. They never developed an ability to deliver more polished songs with hooks. It’s an entertaining album but for grunge I’m choosing Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice In Chains, or Nirvana.
Decent enough grunge
More of a messy experiment than an actual grunge album, but one that pays off in some moments. I just don't think this album ever really commits to an idea for long enough to actually make anything out of it, which is pretty frustrating as there is a lot of potential here. I had have fun listening to it overall, like I said the ideas that it has are for the most part really interesting and unique, but it moves so quickly with no real rhyme or reason that it just ends up coming across as incomplete in the end.
I thought it was okay. "EGBDF" has to be the worst (but not terrible) grunge album I've heard so far. The tracks on it are more punk than alternative rock, the latter being more associated with grunge. Listening to "EGBDF" proves that, although Mudhoney helped invent grunge, Nirvana made it special. Anyway, I've had a great week, so getting a bad album was inevitable. 2 stars for "Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge".
love the name
It's fine. This sounds like something I would have pretended to love just because 'Nick the Dick' was into them or something like that. 3/5
Generally, Mudhoney has always struck me as a band known entirely for being around at the same time as other, better, much more successful bands and subsequently drifting entirely off that recognition. And good for them!
Hard to focus on this one. It sounded fine.
This is kind of a mess. Anxiety inducing. The harmonica playing is stressful. Fun album art.
Solid. Probably a 3 really but I like their style so bumping it.
Not familiar with Mudhoney (and not particularly keen on grunge), I played the expanded edition of this album, with a bunch of demos and alternative versions. Unusually, I kind of preferred the more raucous sound of the extra tracks over the album proper, which sounded a bit too smoothly produced for me. I rate the album 3, the bonus tracks 4.
Not as rough a diamond as their first (very short) album and sounded more like they went into the studio with the bare bones of each track and then 'jammed' it out. But yes it was ok.
Not bad but nothing is that notable. Every songs sounds super similar. Vocalist annoyed me for some reason. Still not a "bad" album.
An album with no lows and a couple highs for me. Pretty fun all things considered. Pokin' Around is familiar sounding, the starting chords.
It's alright, solid grunge but nothing groundbreaking
3.5 stars. Rowdy/raw punk-twinged early grunge with heavily distorted guitars and Alice In Chains-esque drawn out vocals. Enough hooks to make it a good listen though. Standouts are "Good Enough", "Into The Drink", and "Shoot The Moon".
Jotenkin tuntuu että tässäkin yritetty hieman liikaa. Joissain biiseissä jopa ihan mukavaa tunnelmaa mutta latteaksi jää kokonaisuus
no resonance
Suht epämiellyttävää musiikkia, lauluäänikin on sellainen että ihan kuin olisi kaktus perseessä.
Muistan kun nää veivas joskus sata vuotta sitten Ilosaarirockissa ja sen jälkeen silmäätekevät musajullit sano, että jo ol kaameeta. En tiiä sitten ootettiinko Narvanaa vai mitä sairaan kovaa poppispändiä, mutta kyl se ol sitä mitä menussa luki eikä muuta. Kai se myös vähän kuvastaa sitä, miten erikoinen genretermi se koko runke on, kun sen alle mahtuu monensorttista tavaraa, jotka ei kauheesti kuulosta toisiltaan. Ehkä semisti yllättää, että jokainen hyvä poika ansaitsee tän 1001 albumin listalleen, mutta toffeetahan tää on. Nannaa pieninä annoksina, mutta hampaathan siinä menee, jos liiaks naatiskelee. Keskiviivan arvio lienee tän kohtalo.
Ei tämmöstä räminää jaksaisi millään kuunnella. Omaan korvaan kauheeta paskaa.
I really regret not diving into Mudhoney's discography at the time. Listening to it for the first time now doesn't have the same impact as it would have back then. I still like the album a lot. The songs are more "hooky" than on Superfuzz/Bigmuff and there's a great variety in the songs. It lacks the X-factor that made Nevermind a classic, though. Well, maybe if I'd started listening to them in the 90's
i think i know why this album is on here, and it is pretty good overall. i don't hear much difference across songs and found myself frequently bored by too many of the instrumentals
No filler, but no killer either 🤷♂️
Well, this was dull as dishwater.
It's not not good, but it's not good, just kinda decently boring
Never been a huge grunge guy but respect these guys for being the OGs. I am not sure there would be a Nirvana if there wasn't first a Mudhoney.
Growing up in Seattle (and at about the right time), I knew a variety of people who swore by Mudhoney, and a friend in college (from Portland) who absolutely loved them, but I never really found the right hook to get into them, either then or later. They definitely formed part of the burgeoning grunge scene, at least in Seattle (although thankfully were spared from the heroin curse that plagues so many post-Green-River Seattle bands), and I can see why people seem to consider this their best album, but it feels like something is missing from nearly every song, although I can't say what exactly; maybe it's just their intentionally very lo-fi recording style, or maybe it's their slightly-too-snarky humor. My favorites of the lot are probably the one-two punch of "Let it slide" and "Good enough" (the latter having a weird hipster/Madchester video), "Broken hands", and the final track "Check-out time". Not at all a bad album, but also strangely forgettable; it'll be interesting to see if their debut album (also in this collection) is much different.
didn't grab me--is it my headphones or does the whole thing sound very subdued?
Fine!
It's about time. 964 albums in and I finally get a Mudhoney lp. This one's a ripper. Tons of energy and killer fuzz guitar. Dig it. The less commercial side of grunge but a lot more enjoyable in my opinion.
meh
Maybe it’s me but I feel like grunge is not a genre that has aged particularly well. I’ll give this record a “it’s fine” rating, really based on the obvious Neil Young references.
2.5
Album Review 096 Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge by Mudhoney (1991) Rating 4/5 If and when I want to listen to “grunge”, Mudhoney (after Nirvana) are my go-to. To me, EGBDF is the essence of the grunge sound; none of your over-polished Pearl Jam or your woe-is-me-I’m-so-sad Alice in Chains, this 14 rapid-fire tracks of sludgy, fuzzy chaos in the mold of the Stooges.
Deed me even heel weinig
It started and ended lacking in quality compared to how good the songs in the middle were. High 3
It was ok, not my liking but I can see some of the appeal if you like 90s grunge. 2 stars for some small highlights in that album