Mudhoney

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Mudhoney
Mudhoney (2007)
Mudhoney (2007)
General information
Genre (s) Garage punk , grunge
founding 1987
Founding members
Mark Arm
guitar
 Steve Turner
Matt Lukin
Dan Peters
Current occupation
Vocals, guitar
 Mark Arm
guitar
 Steve Turner
bass
 Guy Maddison (since 2001)
Drums
 Dan Peters
former members
bass
 Matt Lukin (until 1999)
bass
 Wayne Kramer (2000)
bass
 Steve Dukich (2001)

Mudhoney is a grunge band from Seattle . The name refers to the film of the same name by Russ Meyer from 1965 , which the band members had not yet seen when the band was founded.

Band history

Mudhoney was founded on Halloween 1987 by friends Mark Arm and Steve Turner , who had already made music together in the bands Mr. Epp & The Calculations , Green River and the project The Thrown-Ups . Mark Arm had left Green River after Steve Turner, as irreconcilable musical and career-related differences to the other band members had opened up. They then founded Mother Love Bone . The band was completed by bassist Matt Lukin (ex- Melvins ) and Dan Peters , who played as a sought-after drummer in numerous bands, including Bundle of Hiss and Feast .

In 1988 Mudhoney released the EP album Superfuzz Bigmuff on Sub Pop , which defined the sound that was later referred to as grunge . Before the success of Nirvana , Mudhoney were the flagship of Sub Pop. Titles like Touch Me I'm Sick , You Got It, and If I Think were widely played on clubs and college radio stations. Due to their partially distorted, punk-heavy sound, Mudhoney was never as successful commercially as Nirvana or Pearl Jam. Her first album Mudhoney was released in 1989, the second album Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge in 1991.

Out of dissatisfaction with Sub Pop's financial difficulties and the label policy, Mudhoney finally switched to the major label Reprise Records . The first album on this label was Piece of Cake . After the commercially unsuccessful successors Five Dollar Bob's Mock Cooter Stew (an EP dealing with a wide variety of genres), My Brother the Cow and Tomorrow Hit Today , Reprise requested demo recordings for further LPs in order not to produce further "flops". 2001 Reprise separated from Mudhoney.

The appearance of the retrospective March to Fuzz (2000) and the departure of Matt Lukin made it look like Mudhoney was going to dissolve. Arm and Turner focused on and toured with The Monkeywrench , but after Guy Maddison replaced music-weary Matt Lukin as bassist, Mudhoney returned to Sub Pop and released Since We've Become Translucent in 2002 . This album is clearly marked by Mark Arm's predilection for Hawkwind and other psychedelic rock bands.

The band members are now married, some have founded families and play music as a hobby alongside their jobs for a living. After a long hiatus, they released Under a Billion Suns in 2006 and Live Mud in 2007 .

In May 2008 the album The Lucky Ones was released , on which Mark Arm does not play guitar for the first time. Also in May, for the 20th anniversary of the Superfuzz Bigmuff EP, a new deluxe version of this EP was released, which also contains newly discovered live recordings of a concert in Berlin in 1988 in the Sub Pop archive.

influence

Mudhoney's music is heavily influenced by the so-called protopunk bands MC5 and The Stooges . This is most clearly audible in 1995 ( My Brother the Cow ), which, musically and in terms of content, follows the tradition of the Stooges songs in 1969 and 1970 . MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer made a guest appearance on the 2002 album Since We've Become Translucent , where he played the part on bass for the track Inside Job . Conversely, Mark Arm acts as a singer in the US appearances of the DKT / MC5 project and has recorded as a guest singer for the Stoner rock band Nebula I Need Somebody from the Stooges. Mark Arm mentions Can , Amon Düül and The Beatles as further influences in various interviews .

Mudhoney like to pay homage to their role models in the form of cover versions. Examples include a. Fix Me from Black Flag , Magnolia Caboose Babyshit (originally: Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger ) from Blue Cheer , Hate the Police from The Dicks , Over The Top from Motörhead or Urban Guerrilla from Hawkwind; Mudhoney covered the latter song for a John Peel session in 2002.

Mudhoney influenced many musicians such as Kurt Cobain . Mudhoney was the band that Hole took on a tour to Europe.

Discography (albums)

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
  UK 34 08/31/1991 (2 weeks)
Piece of Cake
  UK 39 10/17/1992 (2 weeks)
  US 189 10/31/1992 (1 week)
My brother the cow
  UK 70 04/08/1995 (2 weeks)
Singles
Let it slide
  UK 60 08/17/1991 (1 week)
Suck you dry
  UK 65 October 24, 1992 (1 week)
Generation Spokesmodel
  UK 100 06/03/1995 (1 week)
  • 1988: Superfuzz Bigmuff (Sub Pop)
  • 1989: Boiled Beef and Rotting Teeth (Tupelo)
  • 1989: Mudhoney (Sub Pop)
  • 1991: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (Sub Pop / Sony)
  • 1992: Piece of Cake (reprise)
  • 1993: Five Dollar Bob's Mock Cooter Stew (reprise)
  • 1995: My Brother the Cow (Reprise)
  • 1998: Tomorrow Hit Today (Reprise)
  • 2000: March to Fuzz (Sub Pop)
  • 2000: Here Comes Sickness / The Best of the BBC Recordings (Strange Fruit)
  • 2002: Since we've Become Translucent (Sub Pop)
  • 2006: Under a Billion Suns (Sub Pop)
  • 2007: Live Mud - Live in Mexico City (Sub Pop)
  • 2008: The Lucky Ones (Sub Pop)
  • 2013: Vanishing Point (Sub Pop)
  • 2018: Digital Garbage (Sub Pop)

Mudhoney's most successful album so far is “Piece of Cake” from 1992 with over 150,000 units sold. Other best-selling works by the band are "Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge" with 50,000 units sold, "My Brother the Cow" with 40,000 units sold and "Tomorrow Hit Today" with 12,000 units sold.

literature

  • Michael Azerrad: Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 Back Bay Books, Reprint 2002, ISBN 0-31678-753-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BBC - Radio 1 - Keeping It Peel - 08/09/2002 Mudhoney
  2. ↑ The runout groove: MP3: Mudhoney Peel Session 2002
  3. ↑ Chart sources: UK charts / US charts

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