Re-Post: Mudhoney - Since We've Become Translucent

This awesome album was originally posted here. Mediafire has let me down again! So here it is again on another file host site. Enjoy the Sonic Infusion!

Mudhoney - Since We've Become Translucent (2002)

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The Lucky Ones + Bonus 7" Single

Two weeks ago I went to the Mudhoney show at the Melkweg, Amsterdam. This show was really awesome. They played almost all the songs I wanted to hear (Except for Sonic Infusion, but I can't have it all!). After the show I bought four vinyl records and there was a surprise with it: The records contained a coupon to download the albums as MP3's from the Subpop website. Thank you Subpop!
Another surprise was the bonus 7" single that was packed with this album, The Lucky Ones. The Single has two covers on it: Street Waves by Pere Ubu and Gonna Make You by The Troggs. Subpop, thanks again!

My favourites of The Lucky Ones are: Next Time, Tales Of Terror and The Lucky Ones. Enjoy!

The Lucky Ones marks Mudhoney's twentieth anniversary as a band, and in those two decades they've evolved from the guys that first brought the Seattle sound to loser record collectors around the world into a living anachronism as the Last Grunge Band Left Alive. But The Lucky Ones is a telling album to release on Mudhoney's big birthday, as it's the simplest and most unadorned album the band has released since 1995's overlooked masterpiece My Brother the Cow, and also the best. While Since We've Become Translucent and Under a Billion Suns proved Mudhoney had lost nothing in the way of fire or focus in the Twenty-First Century, The Lucky Ones is a brave step backwards into the primitivism of Superfuzz Bigmuff, and though Tucker Martine's engineering and mix is cleaner and better detailed than what Jack Endino brought to the band's early sessions, the approach seems much the same -- roll tape and lurch into the songs with all the muscle the boys can muster, and when the band kicks into fourth gear on "The Open Mind," "I'm Now" and the title cut, this stuff comes on as raw and messed-up as anything Mudhoney has unleashed in years, and Steve Turner's guitar work is little short of feral. The twisted sense of humor that informed much of Mudhoney's "classic period" is in short supply, but Mark Arm's command of the verbal sneer remains unsurpassed, and when he bellows "the lucky ones have already gone down," its with the voice of the leader of the last gang in town. For good or ill Mudhoney remain bloody but unbowed, heavyweight champions of fuzz and feedback, and on the evidence of The Lucky Ones, no one with any sense is going to challenge their title anytime soon; they built this strange machine, and they can drive it better than anyone before or since.
(By Mark Deming at All Music Guide)

Mudhoney - The Lucky Ones + Bonus 7" Single (2008)

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Two Types Of Distortion Pedals

I recently posted Since We've Become Translucent from Mudhoney. Now its time for Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles from the year 1990. There are some great songs on it like You Got It, In 'N' Out Of Grace and Touch Me I'm Sick. Enjoy!

Named after the band's favorite distortion pedals, Superfuzz Bigmuff was actually Mudhoney's first EP; the Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles package collects that recording, as well as the A- and B-sides of their first two 45s and two covers (of the Dicks and Sonic Youth), all released in 1988-1989. Taken as a whole, this output makes a case for Mudhoney as the first true grunge band; due to the time constraints of the forms in which this material was originally released, it also makes for their best, most consistent album, as the band largely refrains from the sort of aimless, grinding Stooges updates that slow the momentum of most of its records. Instead, Superfuzz Bigmuff has all the best attributes of Mudhoney's Stooges fixation -- whether slow or fast, this music is grimy, raucous, and violently enthusiastic, with a stronger melodic sensibility than Iggy's band possessed. Mudhoney's dominant traits are simple chord progressions and a filthy-sounding, ultradistorted guitar racket, punctuated by Mark Arm's snarling, demonic howls. It isn't the most original approach to rock & roll, but when it all comes into focus -- as on their (and Sub Pop's) debut single, the ultimate grunge anthem "Touch Me I'm Sick" -- Mudhoney's power is absolutely throttling. "Touch Me I'm Sick" would be essential listening for anyone even remotely interested in the genesis of the Seattle scene, but the album is full of menacing, vital rock & roll, plus sharp songwriting that elevates several other songs to classic status. Mudhoney's musical range may be quite limited, but as Superfuzz Bigmuff proves, they can be amazing at what they can do. This is the birth of grunge, and a reminder of exactly why the music was christened with a word meaning "dirt."
(By Steve Huey from Allmusic.com)

Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles (1990)

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After The Sonic Infusion I've Become Translucent

Mudhoney from Seattle, U.S.A. started in1988 with the classic EP Superfuzz Bigmuff. Since We've Become Translucent is their sixth album released in 2002. In those days I didn't like this album at all. I didn't even enjoy the concert I saw at that time. Over the years I learned to appreciate this album and has become one of my favourites.
The last song on the album is Sonic Infusion, one of the highlights in Mudhoneys oeuvre.

Yes folks, Mudhoney is back -- three years after the near-fatal one-two punch of Matt Lukin's resignation from the band and Reprise Records dropping the group from their roster, the founding fathers of grunge have shaken off the dust and recorded Since We've Become Translucent, which oddly enough sounds a bit like the adventurous major-label project the band never bothered to make for Bugs Bunny. Mudhoney still ranks low on the slickness meter on Since We've Become Translucent (the entire album was recorded in eight days), but the band sounds at once heavier and more confident than it did during its major-label tenure, and the addition of horns on three tracks (and violin on one) adds new textures to the classic Mudhoney throb without crushing the band's personality or spirit. (Don't fret -- the often atonal sax on the Stooges-esque "Baby, Can You Dig the Light" could have been pulled straight from side two of Fun House, while "Where the Flavor Is" is a raunchy slice of mutant funk in the manner of Exile on Main Street.) While Guy Maddison is in many respects a stronger bassist than Lukin was, he has the good sense to stay in the background where he belongs, and if Mark Arm and Steve Turner are playing less dropped-tune metalized riffs these days, this is still Mudhoney, and there's something gloriously unclean about the snotty "The Straight Life," the sleazy "Where the Flavor Is," and the menacingly anthemic "Our Time Is Now" after all these years. Since We've Become Translucent isn't always the Mudhoney you remembered, but the album clearly carries the stamp of the band's personality, and shows the group can still rock out while pulling a few new tricks from its collective sleeve. Nice to have you back, guys -- did you bring beer money?
(From Allmusic.com)

Mudhoney - Since We've Become Translucent (2002)

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