Currently obsessed with Mudhoney. Many may write them off as "grunge also-rans". Not only was the term 'grunge' coined to describe their sound, but it's not the overdriven DS-1 sound of their more famous peers. It's 60s style germanium fuzz. They were the first grunge band to break the UK, the band's singer, Mark Arm, packages and ships their records himself and--for my money--their post grunge era records are their best. Oh! And they have lyrics about shithead antivaxxers.
@heydon Yeah. Mudhoney were / are grunge, as far as I was concerned. Listen fairly frequently to Superfuzz Bigmuff, and boy does it stand up well. There’s a documentary about them, and they are just properly good people.
@heydon Just banged on their latest album while gardening. Ooof. Good stuff! Was vaguely aware of it coming out and people saying good things about it, but that was up there energy-wise with their early stuff! Thx for rec!
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