Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge Music Cd

Mudhoney - Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

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Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge      Artist : Mudhoney      List Price : $11.98 USD        Your Price : $11.98 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1991-07-26      Studio : Sub Pop      Label : Sub Pop      Avg. Customer Rating : (10 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge      5+ Stars...The Greatest Grunge Album--EVER      Rating:      ...and, if you are into grunge and don't have this CD, you're collection is incomplete. Not having this CD is like being a classic rock freak and not having Led Zeppelin IV, seriously. This CD was released in '91, when grunge was just starting to hit the radio. The Seattle scene was going strong, with Soundgarden, Nirvana and Alice in Chains already putting out albums and having very strong followings. The craziest thing? I saw all of these bands in the early-early 90's, and I can't tell you how many band members were wearing Mudhoney shirts...all of the Seattle bands knew Mudhoney, did side projects with them, and respected them. To date, I have all their releases up to and including My Brother The Cow (1995). I can't speak for any of the newer releases, because I haven't heard them, but I will say everything from 88-95 is incredible, with Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge being at the pinnacle of their musical genius. (For those of you who don't read music, the phrase 'Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge' is the way you remember the treble clef bars: E,G,B,D, and F.) The biggest difference between this release and their others is simple. The music is good, all of it, but this CD doesn't reveal a weak track. Every song is awesome, and the production is great--garage sound, lo-fi muffled guitars, but the drums and bass are clean. When Steve or Mark switch to the acoustic sound, it becomes clean. They mastered the "garage" sound without sounding like your next door neighbor's garage band. Even the order of the tracks is superb. I could go on and on--this is a great CD, no matter what the price. I've owned this since it's release, and I may be ready to buy another copy--I've warped this CD like it was an LP, it sat in the CD player for so long. TRUST ME--this will be your favorite CD as soon as you hear it...I promise.     Customer Reviews for Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge Cd      I can't believe...      Rating:      ...only nine people have reviewed this album (actually, more like 8 - this Rubard fella's review is pretty obviously designed to be ignored). I also can't believe the people lining up to cry in this band's beer for them. I really doubt they're that broken up about how things turned out. It is also ridiculous to say that they could have "made it" if their sound had been more polished...polish is exactly what stole the magic away, starting with Piece of Cake: their last listenable album and a mere shadow of this fine, fine record. I'm not going to blather on with some kind of social commentary about Seattle, and how sad it is that it's all over, and how music has gone to hell since then. Just suffice it to say that this album (or, arguably, the self-titled "Mudhoney") is what should be listed in the dictionary under "Grunge." I would hesitate to apply that term to Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, or even Nirvana, frankly. Those bands all seem much closer to metal than the fuzzed-out essence of the garage. Mudhoney were basically the Troggs on crack, and this album broke it wide open. One other reason I have such a special affinity for this particular Mudhoney release is that while it has all the whacked-out dirty humor of their earlier stuff, this one seems to add the tiniest emotional element...it has a little feeling, and provokes a little feeling. The two-song group of "Pokin' Around" (harmonica!) and "Don't Fade IV" for some reason always make me a little sad. Maybe sad because it means I'm almost to the end of this SEMINAL album. Mudhoney didn't suck, and didn't fail. They did exactly what they were supposed to do: hand us their dirty little defnition of Rock & Roll. It's a definition I can agree with.