Mudhoney: Superfuzz Bigmuff

Label: Sub Pop

Nirvana had the breakout hit, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden had the major label success (and sales), but it was Mudhoney that was the heart and soul of grunge. To do a two-CD deluxe edition of a six-song EP may seem odd; what we really have here is a comprehensive look at Mudhoney’s first year. Disc one has the epochal “Touch Me I’m Sick”/“Sweet Young Thing Ain’t Sweet No More” single, Superfuzz Bigmuff, the “You Got It”/“Burn It Clean” single, Dicks and Bette Midler covers from the Superfuzz session that showed up on various SubPop compilations, three demos, and one outlier, a July 1989 cover of Sonic Youth’s “Halloween” for a split single. Disc two has a pair of short but kick-ass 1988 concerts. We hear “Mudride” four times and a few other songs three times, but I’m not complaining! (Steve)