{"id":13913,"date":"2020-11-10T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T05:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=13913"},"modified":"2020-11-07T12:03:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T12:03:59","slug":"mudhoney-real-low-vibe-the-reprise-recordings-1992-1998-cherry-red-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=13913","title":{"rendered":"Mudhoney – ‘Real Low Vibe: The Reprise Recordings 1992-1998’ (Cherry Red Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>It seems to be a thing in 2020 with no live shows to get excited over and everyone everywhere being on lockdown.\u00a0 Some labels have been very busy trawling the archives for material to pull together box sets and nobody has been better at it recently than Cherry Red who have released a plethora of great box sets of the last few months many that we here at RPM have been very happy to get our teeth stuck into.\u00a0 Today we tackle another of the better box sets that which belongs to Mudhoney easily one of the best bands ever to emerge out of the early 90s grunge explosion but those who know are well aware there was so much more going on with Mark Arm and his band of Brothers than being anther Grunge band because they never really fitted into the genre comfortably as much as the media wanted to paint them as just another Sub Pop band they were more closely belonging to the post Stooges garage scene than anything else and their music was so much better than 99% of the other bands coming out of the USA at the time.\u00a0 showcasing Mudhoney\u2019s major label period, 1992-1998.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What we have here is the three albums, some B-sides and live recordings, plus the promotional-only \u2018On Tour Now\u2019 live album that the band did during their major label period in the ’90s, 1992-1998 if you want to be precise.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Also includes are rare outtakes and sampler-only tracks.\u00a0as well as the singles \u2018Generation Spokesmodel\u2019, \u2018Suck You Dry\u2019, \u2018Blinding Sun\u2019, \u2018Five Dollar Bob\u2019s Mock Cooter Stew\u2019 and \u2018Into Your Shtik\u2019, plus the B-sides.\u00a0 This was also loving put together\u00a0in conjunction with Mudhoney. and to be fair the\u00a0Sleevenotes includes new interview material with Mark Arm so a thorough trawl has been made.<\/p>\n

Having emerged in 1989 and become a mainstay of the American alternative scene, Mudhoney moved from Sub Pop to Reprise Records and produced three albums during the 1990s for Reprise Records. Whilst not achieving the success enjoyed by the likes of Pearl Jam and Nirvana, the band kept at it and even expanded their live following and always maintained the respect of their peers.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The live promo-only recording is unhinged and shows how damn good Mudhoney was\/are live.\u00a0 ‘Suck You Dry’ still sounds fantastic and ‘Piece Of Cake’ was and still is a cracking album. For me I loved ‘My Brother The Cow’ most of all and still consider it their finest album from that head fuck slide of ‘Judgement, Rage, Retribution And Thyme’.\u00a0 The brooding menacing of ‘In My Finest Suit’. The wild ride of ‘F.D.K. (Fearless Doctor Killers)’.\u00a0 Some of the period B sides do leave a lot to be desired and were cutting room floor experiments to amuse the band and probably were better off staying uncovered. ‘Sissy Bar, ‘Carjack 94’ etc are fine examples of a band not taking themselves too seriously. but amongst the rough tracks are the diamonds that need a little spit and shine and songs like ‘Not Going Down That Road Again’ are gems.\u00a0 HArdcore fans and completists will find a lot fo this as much needed nuggets from Arm and co.<\/div>\n
‘Tomorrow Hit Today’ is one of those long-overlooked albums but when you have distance and clarity like maybe now, it’s a lot better than I remember.\u00a0 Who knows if the band were tired or had hit a bit of a wall only they know that but songs like ‘I Had To Laugh’ and ‘Poisoned Water’.\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n
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Finally, disc 4 sees the first eight-track being commercially available for the first time but taken from the promo ‘On Tour Now’ recorded in Seattle in ’93 at the peak of the band’s powers and rightly so. They were the kings of the scene for me they embraced Garage Rock of the Stooges and MC5 as well as what was current in the alternative rock scene as Grunge they had it all but were perhaps too cool and hip to be regarded as Grunge frontrunners.\u00a0 But those who know,\u00a0 know.\u00a0 Mudhoney fans and people with a hankering for some loud fuzzy Rock get a hold of this box set now.\u00a0 Happy Christmas one and all!<\/div>\n
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Buy\u00a0 Real Low Vibe Here<\/a><\/p>\n

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Author: Dom Daley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems to be a thing in 2020 with no live shows to get excited over and everyone everywhere being on lockdown.\u00a0 Some labels have been very busy trawling the archives for material to pull together box sets and nobody has been better at it recently than Cherry Red who have released a plethora of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[4817,6063,5000,1597,6062,6061,1019],"class_list":["post-13913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-cherry-red","tag-mark-arm","tag-mudhoney","tag-nirvana","tag-pearl-jam","tag-reprise-records","tag-sub-pop","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13918,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13913\/revisions\/13918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}