seby wrote: Mon Jul 17, 2023 6:08 am

jakethesnake wrote: Tue Jul 04, 2023 5:56 pm Yet another guy who loved Mudhoney back in the day but for whom the appreciation has degraded due to the lack of "interesting" qualities their Stooges/Blue Cheer/60's garage rock may offer beyond the admittedly awesome Mark Arm "swag" which simply cannot carry a band alone.

Basically, alredy in the mid-70s, there were detroit rock revovalists Radio Birdman. This carried on until the 80s with Cosmic Psychos (first EP better than Mudhoney), Scientists (better than Mudhoney), Bored!, Beasts of bourbon, even Hoodoo Gurus and New Christs and Celibate Rifles to certain extent.

How on Earth do you know about New Christs and Bored! And so on?? Did you spend some time in Australia?

No but I'm from sweden and there was a BIG hype for so-called aussie rock here; by the time it was over, I started to get into so-called indie -rock and the second hand stores even had a *cheapie bin* labeled "aussie-rock" and yes, it either sounded like Stooges *or* were some wacky, post-Birthday party mess that frequently *still* sounded like Stooges. And yes, I know all that shit: God, Celibate rifles etc.

In regard to Bored!, they were signed to glitterhouse here in europe which was actually the same label that distributed Sub Pop and Amrep (and Bitch Magnet!) here; I was up on all that shit and never missed a release... bored! rocked hard but were a bit (understatement) lacking in the songwriting area which was a common aussie-rock problem (when was the last time *you* wistled some King Snake Roost on the bus-stop)... basically, while hoodoo gurys, New Christs and God had at keast a catchy tune or two, acclaimed acts like Cosmic Psychos just struck me as a grey wall of cool-sounding riffs and little else... kind of like Mudhoney besides "Touch me I'm sick"...

I think Scientists did a better job at the later Mudhoney sound.

Krev wrote: Mon Jul 17, 2023 8:26 pm I think Scientists did a better job at the later Mudhoney sound.

Well they were a huge influence on Mudhoney! : )

Thanks for your post above. It genuinely warms my heart to know all of this.

Check out :The Tripping Priest", and "Sluggo" from the Hellmenn:



Balance" from Massappeal



"Cheesecake" by Budd:



"Promise and the owl" by Distant Locust:



"Pumping Ugly Muscle" by The Primitive Calculators:



I really like the Swedish band Fidget. Their album "Glad to be your enemy" is one of my faves : )

Mudhoney, only because I like a larger percentage of it.

I love about half of Salt Lick, God’s Balls, and 8-Way Santa. Zero interested in the rest.

I enjoyed the Conrad Uno Mudhoney stuff in the 90s but I thought that dog song they did recently was just boring microwaved leftover Stooges playing to the sympathies of dog owners.