Mudhoney, the Seattle band that didn't make it. Ha, one of the first real "grunge" acts of that era in Seattle. Well kinda, following Green River, which consisted of most of Mudhoney. Hmm, try to keep up, Mark Arm forms Green River after his high school band breaks up, in that band are future Pearl Jammers, Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament, Green River becomes the first official "grunge" band. They release 2-3 ep's/lp's(?) and they break up. Gossard, Ament and drummer Bruce Fairweather form Mother Love Bone with Andrew Wood, while Arm forms Mudhoney and gets signed to Sub Pop. And the rest is history, (for everyone but Mudhoney). Anyways if you got Kurt Cobain, Chris Cornell and Andrew Wood all in the same room they would all tell you that Mudhoney was the best band around at the time. Plus how can you not love them after you learn that they are the basis for Matt Dillon's fictional band Citizen Dick in the Movie Singles, complete with Citizen Dick single "Touch Me I'm Dick" being a rip off of their first single, "Touch Me I'm Sick". And there is today's history lesson. This is a great track off the Singles soundtrack, making fun of the whole "grunge" blow-up at the happening at the time.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
#434. Overblown-Mudhoney
Mudhoney, the Seattle band that didn't make it. Ha, one of the first real "grunge" acts of that era in Seattle. Well kinda, following Green River, which consisted of most of Mudhoney. Hmm, try to keep up, Mark Arm forms Green River after his high school band breaks up, in that band are future Pearl Jammers, Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament, Green River becomes the first official "grunge" band. They release 2-3 ep's/lp's(?) and they break up. Gossard, Ament and drummer Bruce Fairweather form Mother Love Bone with Andrew Wood, while Arm forms Mudhoney and gets signed to Sub Pop. And the rest is history, (for everyone but Mudhoney). Anyways if you got Kurt Cobain, Chris Cornell and Andrew Wood all in the same room they would all tell you that Mudhoney was the best band around at the time. Plus how can you not love them after you learn that they are the basis for Matt Dillon's fictional band Citizen Dick in the Movie Singles, complete with Citizen Dick single "Touch Me I'm Dick" being a rip off of their first single, "Touch Me I'm Sick". And there is today's history lesson. This is a great track off the Singles soundtrack, making fun of the whole "grunge" blow-up at the happening at the time.
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