MUDHONEY - Under A Billion Suns Review

You don't have to be the best to win, you just have to win; something I'm sure Mark Arm, Steve Turner et al must be painfully aware of by now. Taking the baton from the awesome Green River they produced the first fully realised grunge record, 'Superfuzz Bigmuff' in 1988....full text Just like it’s almost impossible to use the term “punk” without conjuring up stereotypes of leather jackets, Sid Vicious and three-chord primitivism, it’s unavoidable that when you start bandying words like “grunge” we’re stuck with visions of bad flannel, Eddie Vedder and head-banging noises of the Northwest....full text Growing up in the era of grunge, there was always something a little scary about Mudhoney. They were separate, yet inextricably joined with my way of life... in that there was everything I liked, and then there was Mudhoney. I knew I should like them - much the same way I knew I should like both Lou Barlow and J. Mascis - but Mark Arm and Co. were undoubtedly the evil twin, far from favor....full text