With only several singles to their credit (including their classic “Touch Me I’m Sick”), Mudhoney set out to record their first full-length album in 1989 for the Sub Pop label. With the late-’80s rock scene focusing on glam and thrash metal, Mudhoney and their ilk (Nirvana, Soundgarden, Screaming Trees, and the Melvins, etc.) were a refreshing break from the norm.

MUDHONEY remains one of the band’s finest albums, offering an abundance of stripped down, brash three chord rockers. For a taste of Seattle rock before it became copied and homogenized by the mid-’90s, just check out such cuts as “This Gift,” “Flat Out Fucked,” “You Got It,” and the suicide tale “By Her Own Hand.”

Tracklisting
1. This Gift
2. Flat Out Fucked
3. Get Into Yours
4. You Got It
5. Magnolia Caboose Babyshit
6. Come To Mind
7. Here Comes Sickness
8. Running Loaded
9. Farther I Go
10. By Her Own Hand
11. When Tomorrow Hits
12. Dead Love