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At least the guitar tone is great, as you’d expect from an album with a name like this. Too bad the music itself doesn’t do me much and I absolutely can’t stand the singer’s voice.
Not for me. But fun
It’s grunge, at some places very creative and unique but otherwise not my jam.
Not for me at all. Great album name though!
402/1089 - Good thing it's only 20 minutes long. Atrocious voice and boring guitar work with it being nearly the same texture the entire time. I think that's one of the main reasons I'm not really into genres like metal, grunge, or noise, there's just not enough sonic variety for me to find anything to latch on to. The first song is decent.
It’s pretty mid, not bad but not a stand out
It was ok
4/10 - a bit of a struggle to be honest, not too hardcore but boring
I can hear how this band must have inspired a lot of other artists. I just don’t really like this record - It’s too messy and loud
reading about the history and entanglements of the seattle grunge world is better than listening to most of it. It's a fun rabbit hole to go down.
Turns out I was wrong about there being only one Mudhoney album on this list.
Grungey but not great.
didn't really perk my ears up. However, cool to learn about it's place in establishing Grunge and it's influence on Nirvana and other bands.
Blah
Only listened to the original six tracks and it’s a mixed bag for me. I’m not a grunge fan, and the heavy fuzz and deliberately messy sound wear thin pretty quickly. There’s some attitude and energy I can respect, but overall it’s more interesting historically than something I’d choose to revisit.
I want to listen to some good music, not just a bunch of noise.
Not a big fan. Sounds like noise. I know this was a Cobain fav…but I never really got this.
I’ve been battling through this 120 min album… just read the wiki that the real track listing is 23 minutes! I’m done early! God is good!
Ugh, just couldn’t really get into this album despite really wanting to. A few okay plays, but nothing stuck like other grunge does for me. If I Think was good.
According to Wikipedia, the original release is only a merciful 6 songs and 26 minutes long. Like the last album we had from these guys, this one is noisey but not that good.
i only listened to a few of their songs, cause DAMN WHY IS THIS ALBUM 2HOURS LONG :/
I wasn't a big Mudhoney fan. I skipped right to Pearl Jam and Nirvana. Mudhoney sounds like they were trying to make post-punk before they dove full into Grunge. But go listen to "Good Enough" on their Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge album. Do you hear echoes of the Kinks and Rolling Stones before the song makes a full dive into Seattle sound at 2:40?
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03/01/2026 This is my type of music, but in the end it just dragged on and became quite boring. I couldn't wait for it to finish. Spotify listeners: 167.8k
God I wish I liked the vocals cuz damn near everything else is pretty awesome
I think I would have been a bit kinder to this album at the beginning of the project, but by now it kind of feels like I've heard this all before. "Halloween" was kind of interesting, I guess.
"2h of this" i thought... well the orignial album was 23 min so that's what im listening to. When you stripped it down to 23 forgetable minutes of garage rock i can really see what the thing was about. it wasn't as much about music as it was rebelion against the 80s pop music. but that's just my guess as a younger listener (it repeat it self in every generation anyways) and i think that's why they think it's a must listen, but this don't really stand out as something special and more a product of it's time. Being at a musical shift leading into the much serious 90s from the happy go lucky 80s. So yeah, that's my cultural analysis of it. Not musicaly interesting to me, it's just garage punk rock.
I dunno man I realize this is foundational but sometimes it's good that things get refined
Appreciate that they paved the way for nirvana to make good grunge music.
2 stars. Seriously, why and how did this album make the list?
It’s all grungy
I remember seeking out Mudhoney in the wake of Nirvana's breakthrough, which hit at the exact right age to reshape my taste in music. It turned out that I was far more into Nirvana's Beatles-with-a-fuzzbox sound than I was the sludgey post-metal that most of the 80s/90s Seattle bands were pioneering. Some of those bands went on to tighten up their sound to capture more of the overflow Nirvana created, leading to incredible albums that I still listen to today. But Mudhoney's barely organized chaos buried under 16 feet of pure white fuzz just doesn't do anything for me. They inspired a lot of bands that I like, but, for me at least, this is a footnote in musical history, not an album worth diving into. That said, I bet their live shows are legendary, and I would be happy to spend an hour with them at something like Riot Fest. They seem like a band that could blow the doors off a place and incite fierce loyalty from fans who encountered them that way.
growing up made me realise I don’t really like grunge.
Ehh 2
Interesting
Just noise. I've come to realise punk/grunge just isn't for me. Not the worst thing I've heard but it was a chore to get through.
Its pretty good. Really raw sound. If I heard it when I was younger it would probably be something I was really into.
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muffuz
The music sounded like classic rock. It was outstanding or anything, and the vocals were not for me. I would definitely notice it playing in public, but not in a good way.
Unrefined filthy nonsense. You either run with it or away from it.
Not for me. It's for someone. But not me.
One of the really prominent grunge bands I've never given any time to until now. Influential? Sure. Enjoyable? Not really. I can appreciate its legacy but I will almost certainly never revisit this.
Solidly in the "influential rather than enjoyable" bucket for me. On the high end of that spectrum, but still not a lot here that got me excited to return to it.
First thoughts are “oh god, not grunge” - second thoughts when you load it up are “2 hours plus of this bullshit?” - mercifully I checked the original release and it’s only 6 tracks on disc 1 (4 through 9) and the rest of the junk in this collection are add on’s from various re-releases. All grunge should be 1, but because I was spare an extra 1+ of noise I’ll toss them a bonus star.
The orignial album appears to have been 23 minutes, according to wikipedia. The one linked here is 2 hours?! I did not feel compelled to go for the whole "deluxe" experience. But the more distilled release seems pretty ok. You can feel the early grunge. Especially in the drums. Not my favourite, but its ok. 2-3
4/10
Uhhhhhh 2/5? I'm really not sure how to describe my feelings about this album. It exists?
I don't know... Hard frantic , not bad, but too much of it - starts to blur together. So busy it is making me tired...
Seattle grunge. Nice try, but nowhere near the best of the genre.
It's too long
fav: need
6.5
Wasn't bad but also wasn't anything to write home about
I did it again. Last review was about this album Deserter's Songs was impressive in places, a 3 maybe even a 4, good thing is I don't have to choose now
What is it about grunge that I’ve never been able to take to? Is it the image of dirty longhairs in the Pacific Northwest doing heroin? Is it that meat-and-potatoes vibe I get from Nirvana, Pearl Jam and the like? Is it that it’s kind of punk but not, like an uncanny valley situation? That might be it. Mudhoney is not bad- I can enjoy the fuzzy, bluesy guitars, the wall of noise, the wailing and howling. It’s a mix of garage punk and early metal and some blues and I guess that’s what grunge is and maybe if it had come out on Lookout! I might have liked it more. That’s tribalism if I’ve ever heard of it. Or, just maybe, the songs meander too much and go nowhere. Best songs: ¨Touch Me I’m Sick,¨ ¨Twenty Four¨
not my thing, not listening to all that
I hate grunge but much better than Nirvana, or till now I didn’t find any grunge worse than Nirvana
Didn’t care for it. Very messy, and the songwriting isn't good. A lot of “I’m so sad life is so hard” stuff.
This one is not for me. It may be a great grunge album, but I can't tell why.
I reviewed Mudhoney’s Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge about 700 albums ago, and based on my review (I had to look it up, because I don’t remember the album very well), I thought it was fine. My expectations for Superfuzz Bigmuff aren’t incredibly high, but I’m hoping that I’ll be in for a pleasant surprise. I wasn’t that impressed by Superfuzz Bigmuff. The overall sound of the album was okay, and I did like how despite the fuzzed-out guitars, the overall production was clean and crisp, but this album just didn’t do anything to capture my attention. This album wasn’t bad by any stretch, but I just didn’t find it that interesting. I know that Mudhoney paved the way for alternative rock as the nineties dawned, but the overall listening experience wasn’t what I tend to gravitate towards.
I only listened to the ep version but it was cool ig. in n out of grace slaps pretty hard
Só de ver que tem 2 horas de album, já deu um arrepio ruim na espinha kkk. Até foi que bom.
So so.
The only thing I like about this album is that it is short and that it is sort of entertainingly bad at points.
After the first 2 songs, I thought I was going to enjoy this more than I did. It tailed off and all of the songs began to blur into one.
Wtf is this...
I do t really care for grunge
Ehhh kinda noisy and unpolished. Iggy Pop esque, but not sleazy enough I see why all the bands I like from the 90s like them….and I’ve seen them as openers a bunch of times, but they just aren’t for me.
Hardcore grunge without melody. Give me Soundgarden and Alice In Chains. But "Need" is pretty good.
Un EP bastante corto que muestra los inicios del grunge a finales de la década de los 80. No soy muy fan de estos sonidos agresivos y, sobre todo, de los gritos en las canciones. No es horrible pero tampoco me ha vuelto loco. 2/5
This is a band that helped shape the look and sound of grunge music. I appreciate that for what it is, I just wish I enjoyed their music more.
While this may have been one of the first definitive grunge albums, I was not really impressed by this album. Don't get me wrong, the album is good but I feel that it is not as good as the grunge albums that came after especially from bands like Nirvana or Alice in Chains. I feel that it is sounded more like a Sonic Youth record than it did something like the Seattle Grunge bands that came in the early 90s when it was at its height. But then again this was grunge in its infancy rather than what it evolved into. Other than that, I think it is okay on its own. A good song that came from this album is "Touch Me I'm Sick", it almost sounds like an early punk song that would be by Iggy Pop. But again, with grunge only being around for about a few years, it didn't really sound groundbreaking or influential like other albums at the time. Favorite Tracks: Touch Me I'm Sick, Hate the Police, You Got It (Keep It Out Of My Face) Rating: 2.5/5
Interesting ok, been meaning to listen to this, no idea if it’s actually good. Effectively the basis for grunge, yet many other bands did all the components of their sound much better. They really drafted the treatise on the genre here. Middling.
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Appreciate the intensity and some of the lyrics and songs, but overall the heavy garage metal guitar style and sound is just not for me. High 2.
It's better than their other album on the list. At least it sounds as if they mean it on this album. They did it before Nirvana, but it's really not good enough by today's standards. Favorite song: Touch me, I'm sick.
too rowdy for me
idk. didn't click for me. felt like they were trying too hard. I could see how it could be intoxicating at the right time in the culture, right time of your life. didn't work for me now.
Apparently this helped to birth the grunge genre? In that case I wish it had been aborted.
No individual song is bad, but the album is. No diversity in song structure, sound, and chords leads to a tedious overall experience.
Didn't finish listening. Made it to 15 songs out of 32, which made me realize the album is a whopping 2 hours 15 minutes long. I can appreciate a bit of grunge, but not this much...
Ascoltato sul 27A da Sardegna fino ad Indipendenza Nord e per un minuto e 50 circa non lo finivo. Album grunge da garage, molto da garage. Un solido album da debutto con voce, chitarra ritmica e solista e batteria, uniti in un sound molto sentito e basico: l'utilizzo dei tamburi in ottavi durante la maggior parte della canzone, seguiti poi da groove con hi-hat aperto generi di questo genere, come le chitarre distorte e rumorose. Un album bello, arrangiato bene, se solo non trovassi il grunge un genere scomodo, rumoroso e senza tecnica.
Only listened to the first 9 tracks. 2.5 rounded down.
No thanks
Early grunge. Some of the songs stuck with me initially, but still too abrasive. Fits the genre definition.
The album title has already annoyed me, which isn’t the best start. I accept that if the song ‘sweet young thing ain’t sweet no more’ was by Hole, or any riot grrrl band, I would like it, but that is because CONTEXT MATTERS. ‘Need’ is winning me round - I can hear what it influenced - namely a lot of the grunge and riot grrrl that I like. I am quite bored, though. Every time I think I’ve reached an opinion they do something I find musically interesting, and then they do something I find tiresome. The spirit behind ‘Hate the police’ is so valid, and the repeat of ‘mommy’ is excellent, but they really didn’t have to say the n word to get their point across. We did know by the late 80s that not everyone can say that. A confusing, frustrating experience for me. Spotify tells me they never matched the commercial success of their contemporaries, and I can see why.
Muito barulhento e "nervoso", mas tem seus momentos interessantes. Este tipo de som claustrofóbico não funciona pra mim, preciso de pausas e alternâncias de andamentos e colocações melódicas agradáveis para me permitir uma experiência prazerosa ao ouvir um disco.
Boo!!!
The name of the album definitely describes the music. There is tons of fuzz and big muff pedals pumping out a lot of pre-grundge tracks. I liked listening to this; especially the live version tracks. I wouldn't get it as vinyl but it's a good band and album to know.
Superfuzz Bigmuff is a great name for a ‘70s skin flick.
Hard to find the plot of the album through the noise.
Good for them
These guys just want to be alive in chains or nirvana or something. Just crunch sound with no feeling
Yeah... Nah.. for another mudhoney album
So much distortion. Vocalist is rubbish.
Listened to a third of it, got bored
I immediately knew I would lose patience with this sound after about 20 minutes. And it seems like most Spotify listeners agree with me. By the end of the track Halloween, I'd had quite enough, and stopped listening after that point. For whatever reason, Mudhoney decided the fans needed an expanded edition of their debut, featuring roughly four times the original album length. They were incorrect, mainly because there are very few songs that actually stand out from the heaving mass of proto-alt rock. The ones where the guy sings with a properly melodic voice instead of a scream are a relief more than anything. And whenever you find yourself being repeatedly strained then relieved during any artistic experience, something's gone very wrong. Superfuzz Bigmuff needs to be shaved down. If I Think, with its multiple engaging sections, is the best track here – no question. I'm surprised it's on the original version of the album and wasn't a separate single. The song Need has kind of a deranged punky vocal, which isn't great, but it's an improvement on the tried-and-untrue scream. The main highlight is the high-energy rhythm section and hilarious backing vocals that sound like they were tacked on at the last minute. Mudride, though pretty simple, is catchy enough to be in the better half of songs here. The album opener, Touch Me I'm Sick, would be a key track with its incredibly distinctive guitar sound – but again the singing kind of ruins it. Shameful. As with most artists from the genres of punk, post-punk, Britpop, and alt-rock – four genres that are vastly overrepresented on this list – more noise does not equate to a better sound. More musicality/intrigue does. 2/5 Key tracks: Need, Mudride, If I Think
Poor man’s grunge birding on speed metal. Blah.
The most over represented genre on the list, surely?
Annoying hard rock noise. Apparently this band helped make this genre popular, but it got overplayed and has never been a sound I like. I just don't want to listen to this album again, so it's 2 stars for that reason - 2nd song isn't quite as terrible. Still reminds me of the music in my motocross game back in the day. Lots of noise. But 2nd song has earned a slightly longer listen - "In'n'Out of Grace" solidified this as a 2-star album. Had to skip it
Just not a big grunge fan. Thought this was very lame Rating: 2.0
Eh. Nothing of note here. I've heard the first track before. I think on the 1996 documentary Hype! which is about grunge and worth seeing, along with Doug Pray's follow-up called Scratch, which is about turntablism. Anyway, this is middling at best. I'd give it a 2.5 if I could.
Mmmm…expected more…
Nirvana and its consequences. Also 2 fucking hours long.
Couldn't really find a song on here that I'd listen to again. The vocalist is great, and I can tell the band members have talent, but each song feels slightly unpolished like they just said "go wild" in the studio and released 12 songs with that vibe. Listenable, but I'd rather hear Pearl Jam/Nirvana/RHCP.
It was aight. Nothing more, nothing less
Ehhhhhhh I think mudhoney sits in my adolescent mind as noisy and interesting and good because it annoyed older people in my life but now I am older people and it wasn’t as fun as I remembered
spotify looped mudslide four times before i noticed. 2.5
So when I pulled up this album to listen to and found only the deluxe edition on apple music, I went to the wikipedia page to confirm which songs were actually part of the original release. As it turns out, the original original release was just an EP of six songs which was later expanded into a full length album by the addition of some various other singles and B-sides. I add all this backstory in my review because I came to find the difference between the two classes of tracks pretty stark in my listening. While not really my thing, I can appreciate the six tracks that make up the original EP. I even kinda liked "Chain That Door" and "If I Think". But the other six tracks that were slapped on to the album to add to the run time are awful, god awful. That the deluxe edition starts with three such tracks had me questioning a lot of things about peoples' motivations for making music. It's not really clear which version this list wants us to review. If it were just the original six song EP, I'd give this a solid, middling 3 stars. The other six songs are an easy 1 star which would put the originally packed full-length album at an average 2 stars. I did not listen to the deluxe edition content. I believe the original 12-song album is what was intended in any case, which is a shame.
C'pas le nom d'une pédale de guit'? Ou ça viens du nom de l'album en premier? Tant de mystères, si peu d'intérêt...
another forgettable grungy punk album
I'm sure this is cool for reasons that escape me, but it's sloppy and not appealing.
2 hours?! Proto-grunge is very punk adjacent. I've heard of these guys in the context of Nirvana/Soundgarden/the Seattle grunge scene, but this is not for me, I prefer the grunge that comes after this band. 2*, got the gist after 1 disc.
Another album to be endured, droning grunge rock, all the tracks sound the same. I did not have a good time listening to this, but I didn't *hate* it.
Pre-grunge that clearly influenced a lot of great bands and that I just couldn't get into.
Nothing on this grabs me
There is so much incredible grunge music to choose from, so not sure why this was chosen lol. Just a forgettable Nirvana ripoff to me.
Meh, I had another Mudhoney album early on in this list and it was a bit shit. This one didn't feel as shit, so either it's a slightly better record though still drones on too much, or I'm just getting used to listening to mediocre albums on this list. Either way, it's still a 2
idk girl how many grunge albums are on this list
# 417 : Not bad, a bit noisy and shouty but my younger self, had I know about this 20 or 30 years ago, might have actually loved it.
From what I can see online, this was an EP of 6 songs, so will review only these and nothing else from the deluxe LP. What's left is pretty brutal noise rock/early grunge. Mudride is the highlight from this, everything else is mostly formulaic proto-grunge, basic songwriting. Best Tracks: - Mudride Worst Tracks: - Need - Chain That Door Rating: 3/10
I like the fuzzy guitars. But otherwise this just wasn’t my thing. 2/5
Not for me
Short grungy songs. Chunchy and fun, but vocals aren't great
I thought I’d really like this but it was way too repetitive and far too long
Not a grunge guy. Most bands sound like high schoolers trying to be Pixies without any of the subtlety, imagination or musical diversity. Couple of fun punky numbers. But doesn't sustain across the album.
Lekker up-tempo rockmuziek. Klinkt best aardig eigenlijk, maar ook weer niet zo heel leuk.
Musically it is quite good (worthy of 3 or 4 stars) but the vocals aren't up to par...and at times, they can be annoying to listen to
I'm sure this is for someone, but it's not for me. Really didn't like this.
I have heard other Mudhoney albums and I liked them. This....not so much.
Very rock... Gotta be in the mood for this kind of rock.
Garage Punk being screamy, repitious and in deluxe version very long while song differentiation stays super fuzzy.
tracks 4 - 9 of the deluxe album on spotify, to match rym
Never heard of this lot or knew that they were there at the birth of grunge. Never a lover of the grunge sound at the time and less so now. So it’s a miss from me. 2/5 29/12/24
Proto-grunge
Didn't do anything for me. There was only a bit of cool guitar.
Groupe inconnu. Le son est très massif. Par contre je n'accroche pas vraiment, les morceaux ne sont pas très originaux. Pas sur d'avoir envie de l'écouter de nouveau. =>2/5
Not terrible but didn’t feel like coming back to it after I got back into the car
This sucks. Not much music talent to be found.
Average grunge
Honestly one of those albums I didn't listen all the way through. This noise just isn't the right type for me.
I don't like this band, most grunge outside of Nirvana is ass
Started off terrible, got bad by the end.
I love punk and grunge and all those types of genre. However, when I listened to this album all I could think was that a bunch of rich kids had some music lessons paid for by their parents, along with some recording time. There was nothing really 'wrong' with their music, i just didn't feel the raw, hungry passion that the genre warrants.
Slow and dull
When I saw the runtime of this album, I wanted to shoot myself. Thank fuck it's just the deluxe edition and I don't have to sit through more than 6 songs on this thing - because I was done by about the 5th. I guarantee this album only got popular after Nirvana (and Kurt's head) exploded. Just because this is loosely related to Nirvana, doesn't make it good. This is fucking lame. It's like if you took all the bad parts of hardcore punk and slapped a shitty singer who sings in different tones on each song so there's no cohesion. Not a fan.
Look, I get if you think Nirvana are pretty overrated. But getting this album just a few days after Nevermind really puts things into perspective and shows how much of an upgrade they are over this AliExpress type proto-grunge. The album really only shifts between being boring and irritating. The singer sounds like he's only just getting over puberty and the instrumentation feels like it is pulling some sort of prank where they are trying to repeat the same shit in a song and seeing how long they can get away with it for a full track. I wasn't sure which of these songs was in the original release so I just stuck this on until I tapped out, I got around 9 songs in before I got to the one with the corny cold open with the royalty free monologue from somewhere Highlights: Hitting the pause button and backing out to something else
This sounds like your mates band who asks you to come to their show at some local venue and when you get there the place smells like shit and there are people actively doing nangs in the crowd. Profoundly generic music that I could not pick out of a lineup of any number of other low effort grungepunk slop.
Not a fan. Too distorted and yelly.
I’m okay with this musically but the vocals are awful. Taking a point away because the vocalist ruined this for me.
Couldn't get into this, just noise. Didn't sound like magmuffs to me. 1.9/5
It's alright, I didn't love the Spotify album version, which was the same songs repeating until it came in at a brisk 2 hours and 15 minutes of listening. Grunge ain't my jam. Jam is my Jam.
Had its high points and low points.
я почти весь послушала но у них одни и те же песни по четыре раза… просто не успела
This was about 90 minutes too long
❤️❤️/5
"The 1001 albums..." *Puts an EP in it*
Def proto-nirvana sound, almost early 90s grunge. It's consistent
Absolutely too self indulgent. 2hr long album is too much, make more albums instead.
Too fucking loud, but okay I guess. Would probably have loved this in high school, but it wasn't on my radar back then.
I don't know. this is a "culturally relevant" band for a certain group of people so I guess it should be on this list, but the only thing I thought of was angry white boys don't really make bands anymore they just sit on the internet and crap on people. Just a little boring for my 2024 ears.
4/10 - I do not like grunge I have learned. It was a lot of noise that I did not enjoy listening to. Also why are there so many versions of the same songs on this album on spotify.
Depressing.
Kind of annoying. Not very good.
“sono proto-Nirvana” e sticazzi. Probabilmente la lunghezza non andrebbe considerata in un voto, ma è davvero impossibile quando un album la tira così lunga. It’s a no for me
Boh, carine le prime ma 2h e 58 di sta roba Grunge non la augurerei nemmeno al mio peggior nemico (Marco Resi)
Eh. Couldn’t finish it.
I listened to it today at an earlier time than usual. The vocals are terrible and annoy me to death. At least the proto-grunge riffs are decent. Better yet, the EP is only 22 minutes long. It would get a worse rating if it was longer. 2 stars for "Superfuzz Bigmuff".
Mudhoney just never been my thing for whatever reason.
Scraping the bottom of the grunge barrel.
Not sure why this is here
One or two tracks were ok, but very repetitive.
Meh. Okay I guess. 2/5
Not for me
It's long. The songs all sound the same/very similar.
meh. like a want to be edgy band.
I wasn’t really feeling this one today either. It’s not bad, it just all sounded the same and I found that boring.
Not much to commend it really.
Kind of ass. Just boring short songs with nothing to them
Not for me.
it’s not bad but isn’t for me right now.
I don't get punk...
grunge lovers may see some distinctive character, to me it all sounds almost the same
Idk, I was around for Mudhoney, I was aware of them. They never peaked my interest. I was listening to Pixies, REM, Jane's Addiction at the time and this just doesn't hold up. It's like a shittier version of the Meat Puppets out something. I understand their influence, but I really never understood why anyone upholds the hype behind this band. Whatever. Noisy waste of time.
Insomma... un po' troppo per me
I can't imagine why I would ever want to listen to this when there are infinitely better options and genres available.
more punk than grunge. not my favorite
I understand it’s context in music, history and grunge and punk interplay, but I do not connect with this.
2 - There was nothing here to really grab me, so a lot of it ended up sounding like boring noise to me. There's not really a spark there, at least not that I could hear.
50/100
Annoying, monotone and yelly vocals, but other than that it was semi-interesting punk.
Listening on the way back from Thatcher. This stinks Im bored Booo 2/5
This album seems like something I would like but for some reason its just not doing it for me. Something about the heaviness of it just isn't quite clicking. The drumming and reverb guitar starting halfway through In n Out of Grace was pretty sweet though. Pretty much the only high point.
Utterly forgettable. More 60s inspired than a lot of the other grunge I’ve heard.
How nice that humanity's infinite creativity means there is music to precisely match whatever feeling, state or story you want. Playing this album by Mudhoney perfectly recreates and channels suffering, anguish, pain, chaos and some defiant anger. Some people may find this hits the sweet spot for them, for some catharsis. Probably best experienced LIVE in a dusty hot outdoor arena, but anywhere that smells of dirt, heat and sweat should do. No thanks
Another entry that shoes a certain preference of the 1990s and grunge, alternative and similar genres. Not a bad collection of songs per se but it's certainly no album I need to listen to before I die. Everything I heard here I heard in punk before.
I feel like punk and grunge are to genres that would always make sense together. Unfortunately not my taste. I prefer grunge that's slower and more plodding. But there are definitely parts in here that are good. Not AiC or Soundgarden good, but good. Top tracks: If I Think, In 'n' Out of Grace
reminded me of Nirvana's influences tm. crazy for a study day but also if it was one more day and i was done with exams, "twenty four" would be my anthem.
The ear fatigue hit HARD. Also, why did he say that?
The only reason they didn’t get one star is because I listened to them in the 90s and know how influential they were. But the rawness has manifested itself into annoyance.
I get it, this is supposed to be a monumental landmark for the Seattle grunge scene but I can't even ironically try to tolerate this nauseating effigy of hard rock. More like a pile of grunt punk dog barf, and dogs do unironically love their own barf, so bon apetit.
Rock un poco heavy rollo.
чет хз, ощущение что альбом прям так себе; ну то есть (сейчас будет легендарочка) это не плохой альбом, но у этих чуваков есть треки лучше
First thought was that the album did not sound 80s. Definitely ahead of their time.
Punky, but still a discernable melody and structure
I made sure I just listened to the 22 minute release of this album because I really don't like grunge. My prejudices remain intact. One or two tracks had me nodding along, the rest had me nodding off. 2/5. All grunge singers just remind me of the "Fight and win" guy, funnily enough he was from Seattle too... Is this just what they do up there?
I like big muff as much as the next guy, but when your big muff is coming in with some super fuzz, that’s just a step too far.
all of the songs sounded the same, couldn't tell when a new song was playing
Too much fuzz for me. Sounds a bit like some of my friends rehearsel room jams in the middle to late nineties.
Man har liksom hört det förut.
meh
I only had a chance to listened to a few random songs. There are Dozens of bands that do the same thing only better.
Na zoveel 1001-platen gehoord te hebben, kan ik serieus zeggen dat ik wel eens slechter heb gehoord dan dit. Maar ik heb ook heeeeeel veel beters gehoord. Gelukkig had je bij dit album de optie om de korte versie van maar slechts 6 nummers te nemen. Vond ik meer dan genoeg.
To the heroes who managed to listen to all 2+hours of this, I salute you. It is like all of grunge in one album, except grunge isn't my thing. 2/5.
I remember a lot of head shaking around Mudhoney as to why they didn't hit it big like Nirvana and Pearl Jam. I think this album really captures for me why that was the case. It's not terrible, but it's also not particularly special either. The hooks are fine but simple and unremarkable, the musicianship is unremarkable, the vocals are unremarkable and a little whiny. It reminded me a bit of Riverbottom Nightmare Band without the charisma of Chuck Stoat and Stanley Weasel.
Das hat mich jetzt nicht begeistert. Für meine Ohren zu rauh, aggressiv. Ohne Zweifel sehr gut produziert, arrangiert und die Musiker hervorragend. Aber ich würde dieses Album nicht kaufen.
Stam
Influential? Maybe? I liked it a little, but I'll pass on these guys. 2/5
Solidly alright but nothing to write home about... I thought I liked Mudhoney more than I actually do it seems
Desperation rock.
Not bad, not great
Was driving between Ski Cooper and Wolf Creek listening to this one. Maybe this is even an inflated rating!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Second album recommended from Mudhoney who are still garbage.
A little to repetitive for my liking but has a couple good songs
Grunge not my favorite
A lot of noise and navel-gazing
Solid proto grunge. A couple of tracks tip in to good, most are in the totally fine bracket.
Alice in Chains proved that the grunge-metal crossover can be brilliant. Mudhoney proved that the grunge-metal crossover can also be terrible. However, even at times during this mess, the crossover still works for me. The punk-esque singing does not work here even remotely though. All of the cornerstone grunge bands had great--iconic, even--singers, and the lack of one here severely draws back from the end product
Eh. I don’t see the big deal.
Grunge’s leaner, louder, messier predecessor. Honestly kind of disappointing. Lots of thrashing and screaming without much melody or purpose. Best song: No One Has
eh
Rudimentary rock, too much screaming and noise for my taste.
Not my cup of tea.
Not my thing but I see the appeal and what was inspired by it.
lots of mentions of nirvana - except they aren't nirvana
Honestly, if Mark put as much effort and energy as he did in “In ‘N’ Out Of Grace” then this would’ve been a great EP, instead , his grating vocals in most of the songs ruin the band’s great instrumental backing, and I know that Mudhoney was one of the first bands to really embrace and popularise grunge as a genre, but it’s like listening to Slick Rick in 2023, you acknowledge how great, influential and innovative it must’ve been for the time, but the people that have come after have mastered the sound so much better. 2.5/5
I can see the genesis of grunge. I like the first song: Touch Me, I’m Sick. It’s fine for grunge but not 2 hours’ worth!
Started out liking it, but I soon caught on that this is nothing more than drunken horniness. Every song can be heard in the first 15-30 seconds. I don't recommend the deluxe edition. Then there was their cover of The Rose. That was pretty funny.
Noisy
This just feels like a sonic wall of noise and untalented musicianship. I did not enjoy. Fav tracks: N/A
A 22 minute EP is about how much grunge I can tolerate in one go. Overall, this isn't bad and rocks quite hard. Coming out in 1988, this probably influenced the genre rather than following it, so I guess I can blame Mudhoney for inventing 'that' grunge vocal. Rating: 2.5/5 Playlist track: Need Date listened: 12/12/23
Grunge before the genre got big. I strictly listened to the original release's six tracks, and didn't need to hear more. 2/5
I probably could have been into this in my teen years, but at my current age, it’s just not hitting.
I don't hate superfuzz or bigmuff pedals, but when you try to make your album sound like those effects it is going to be a noisy mess. Mudhoney succeeded in that part.
Luckily the actual album is only track 4 to 9
Why is this album so long I want to die.
A second Mudhoney album here? Are you having a laugh?
Well, what do you know? A second Mudhoney album. I didn't exactly rave about the first one we listened to, but this one seemed even less compelling. Not bad, mind you, but just not something that stands out for me. The best part was that it was 22 minutes long! And I was not tempted to listen to the extra 2 hours of the deluxe version, except for their version of "The Rose," which I thought might be fun. It wasn't.
not bad
Has a few okay songs and good drums but overall just not that enjoyable. Vocals not very amazing but guitar and drums are great. Best song: Need
Just medium ok grungy & too screamy & swear-y.
Meh is about all i have to say on that
Wow, these guys really covered “the rose” by Bette Midler. I personally prefer the Happy Hands Clubs rendition, but this is good too.
Wasn't horrible, wasn't good.
Motivaatio loppui kesken 2h15min levyn. Varsin keskinkertaista rynkytystä avausraidan jälkeen.
Samat biisit pyöri ympyrää? En ymmärtäny… Muuten kyllä ihan ok grungea
Superfuzz Bigmuff = When I haven't shaved for a few days, and your mom hasn't shaved for a month. The resulting friction is simply electric! 🧔🧔
Seattle grunge is interesting (and great) genre of music. But I don't fully hear it here. There are a few moments or tracks when you can start banging your head to, but the band is too embroiled in the act. 2.5/5.
It was meh. It wasn't bad but wasn't good. It was a little screaming a points. Thankfully it was short so no songs were skipped. Probably better than a 2 but I will round down.
Was kind of excited for this one as, despite my distaste of grunge, I've heard some mudhoney before and liked it, but this just didn't work for me.
On taas pikkusen liian pitkäks venytetty levy Ja mikä tää homma on että sama kappale pistetään useempaan otteeseen levylle? (Okei ilmeisesti tämä on deluxe versio mikä on venytetty ja mihin on heitetty toistoina kappaleita.) ((Okei ilmeisesti nää toistot on joltain livekeikalta, mutta kappaleen nimeen ei ole sitä jostain tyhmästä syystä laitettu)) Joo jätän viimeisen liven kuuntelematta, koska se on taas samat kappaleet uudestaan. En ees tiiä enää, ihan jees lievän kaoottista grungea, mutta tää toistaminen kyllä vähän pilas kokemuksen.
Somewhere between punk, hardcore, '80s "hair" metal and lo-fi noise experimental styles of Sonic Youth. Easy to hear the connection and influence on grunge and Nirvana. Nonetheless, I don't like it much and thankful I only listened to the original 6 track LP plus The Rose to see how differently they interpreted it to Bette Midler's classic version (actually not too badly in their scuzzy rock style).
Poeeeh, een Grunge album. We krijgen er wel van langs zeg Ik kijk verlangend uit naar het eerste hiphop/elektronische album. Grunge is niet helemaal mijn ding Vind In 'n out of grace een prima nummer, lekker edgy Maar verder niet echt mijn ding FAVO: In 'n out of grace
Punk, leuk. Ik ben niet vies van een beetje scheurende gitaren, en dit klinkt prima. Ik begin een patroon te vinden waarin teksten waarschijnlijk een zeer belangrijke rol spelen in muziek, en ik ben helaas iets meer sonisch ingesteld. Ik mis ongetwijfeld een hoop, het is wat het is. Sonisch gesproken vind ik dit album ook niet bijster spannend, helaas Favorieten: Mudride
I’ve had to give this a few attempts to get into it. Much as I really like grunge, my head is not in this today, nor was it yesterday. The album title makes me laugh, and this is seminal material with good energy. But I think I like later grunge with a bit more refinement.
I have never been a fan of Mudhoney. To scream-y. The cover of The Rose was disappointing.
I saw these guys once in '92. I'd heard of Mudhoney, but didn't know their music. (On the plus side, a then-unknown band called The Flaming Lips opened up for them, and they were amazing.) The music was completely unmemorable. What was getting swallowed up by a mosh pit, getting kicked in the head by a flying mosher, and barely making it out of the pit with my glasses intact. Anyway, I've avoided Mudhoney's music ever since. So I was a little surprised that I found any enjoyment from this album (or EP) today. The songs for the most part lack any good hooks, but I did enjoy some of the guitar work and the energy was cool. Mark Arm, though, is completely lacking in charisma, nor does he really have the vocal chops to keep me interested. All of these songs would have been better if you simply you swapped him out in favor of Courtney Love. These guys really want to be The Stooges, which I can appreciate. But I don't know that they bring enough originality for that pursuit to be worthwhile. This is more of a 2.5 but I'm rounding down because I'm still annoyed by those moshers. Which isn't Mudhoney's fault, but fuck 'em.
Well I got through this multi-hour Mudhoney deluxe edition only because I was cooking late-night lasagna. By hour 2, I was like “do I like Mudhoney?” No. I don’t like their music. I do like the band name and appreciate grunge more than heavy metal. These are my only observations.
I’m not really buying what Mudhoney is selling.
This just didn't do it for me at all, which I'm surprised by, cos by all rights I should love it. Very grungy, very shouty, lo fi recording, and a big muff. Maybe I wasn't in the right frame of mind for it, but it just seemed to be basically the same thing over and over for a very long time.
Bucket of shite
Noisy nu-metal with shoutng vocals. Not for me 2 stars
just fuzzy noise.
If I didn’t know any better, I’d say there were some superfuzzes and bigmuffs on this album! Mudhoney was always one of those bands to me that had a fan base I just knew were way too cool to talk to me. I guess that’s why I mostly stayed away from them. But that’s all different now. I’m a big boy, with a job! Didn’t care for this one too much. The mixing on these late 80s heavy albums just doesn’t resonate with me.
Extra star for keeping this shite down to 21 minutes 👍🏾
p589. 1988, 2.5 stars. Adequately done prototype Nirvana. Didn't sell well at the time, hasn't improved with age.
eh.. just not feeling it
Yes, well
Can’t remember it.
C'est loooooooooooooong
au suivant
I did not like this and thought it was very silly. Not my bag. Imagine its something fun to see live but kind of just ground my gears tbh
Would've gotten a three if it wasn't so damn long. There's way too much mediocre garage rock on this list.
I like Nirvana, they had a spark (something special). These guys no doubt influenced them but I just can't find anything to really get into here. Middle of the road I'm afraid.
This review is temporary, and I'm only writing it because I want to see the next album.
No just too much, I didn't enjoy this. Loud and out of tune. Plenty of energy though
I can appreciate the influence it had on other grunge artists but the lyrics are terrible. I like grunge and punk but this is a sophomoric effort. Disappointing.
I don’t know most of the time I really like this kinda music but this one just didn’t hit 2/5
This is one of the bands I just don’t like. They’re not doing anything wrong really I just don’t like their sound
very garage rock rough and grimy 2.5
2/5. A pretty fun collection of distorted garage rock. Nothing standing out as a repeat listen.
It's big, it's load, it has a great title, I was bored most of the way through.
Bleh and the deluxe is super long
Not a big fan, it's too much moaning. Too slow for proper punk, and not enough rhythm
Wicked album cover. The music not so much.
Nothing of note here. Quite literally.
favorite tracks - chain that door least favorite tracks - Sweet young thing, Mudride, Rose, You got it Lead is intensely unlikable. Would rather listen to breeders or smashing pumpkin
Dramatic and fun, though not always pleasant to listen to. Most notably influenced by the Ramones, with notes of stadium rock and and metal. Clearly an originator of Seattle Grunge as described in reviews, you can really hear the two pedals the album is named for