Mudhoney, Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge, A Review (1991) ENG

Mudhoney, Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge, A Review (1991) ENG

By: Erreh Svaia

Rock N Roll Animal

Nearly pastoral keyboards, very similar to some of the best progressive rock of the 70s appear in Generation Genocide, an instrumental theme with which this album begins, but if anyone harbored any doubt about the peculiar style of humor of the prodigal children of Seattle, these are quickly dissolved for the ferocity that they print on Let It Slide, with their brutal guitars barking and growling at the incredible Mark Arm, singular leader of the band that could easily claim the missing Kurt Cobain from Nirvana, as his undisputed artistic disciple.

But for the band that made famous the shirt with the legend "Loser" offered by the then legendary record label Sub Pop, there are also some issues backwards and quasi psychedelics like Good Enough, which represent in a wonderful way another facet of the band, with guitars and percussions that easily remind of Velvet Underground.

For Thorn the band returns to territories more "punk" style with an Arm giving free rein to the Iggy Pop that lives inside of him, next to a Steve Turner that invokes certain passages in rockabilly plan with his guitar, and if somebody thinks that Mudhoney only influenced others just with their "Loser" shirt, think twice and think about people like Beck, it will be enough to give a listen to Into the Drink that undoubtedly already announced the sound of the postmodernist composer, to clear up those doubts, this before arriving at psychedelic jewels in the Nuggets plan as Who You Drivin Now, route that the band gladly continues with singular talent in Move Out, that more than one will remember those soundtracks of movie of motorcyclists of the 60s.

Fierce guitars and psychedelic textures form the main base of Shoot the Moon, with the equally fierce presence of Matt Lukin's bass and the always outstanding performance of Dan Peters, who along with Dale Crover of the Melvins, have proven to be the best drummers of the original was grunge, while Turner and Arm engage in a duel of guitars that print Fuzzgun 91 sounds coming from great artists like Hendrix, Ted Nugent, the MC5 and the Blue Cheer.

Pokin Around is a beautiful theme with a certain pop flavor that should have given some notoriety to the Mudhoney in those years, sometimes with some echo to Dinosaur Jr., while Dont Fade does a bit of echo to garage bands like the Troggs in an amazing trip to the best of that time to close such a spectacular album with the incredible Check Out Time, leaving us impressed of what this band is capable of performing, Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge is surely the best record that the band ever released and where the essence of the group is alive better than ever, one whose peculiar sense of humor rivals Butthole Surfers, and whose legacy matches that of another great band from this region, the Melvins, both groups pioneers of the northern sound of the 90s and both survivors intact and quite active to this day, which many of their most popular followers could not say.