Mudhoney Album: “My Brother the Cow”

I'm not sure if John from London is listening to the same disk (see the review above), but this is great stuff. Exceptional material played with all power, emotion, fuzz and distortion typical of Mudhoney. If you already know and love Mudhoney you probably already own this. If not, do yourself a favor and buy it. Better than 95% of the garbage being passed as rock music today. The CD even comes with a surprise ending!

"My Brother the Cow" is a great album. Going back to their roots, Mudhoney gets their old producer Jack Endino, who i might add is amazing, and delivers an all out expolsive album. One of the best CDs released in 1995. With their post punk tracks like Judgement, Rage, Retribution and Thyme, their tracks like FDK and their bluesy tracks like In My Finest Suit, Mudhoney shows us the range they have. This is probasbly the last great album of that whole "grunge" thing.

I guess I am not qualified to argue the finer points of Mudhoney. Let's face it, they aren't a very sophisticated band but all of their albums are good for the kind of music they turn out. I really don't like one much better than the other but I do like them all. Fans, of course, and rightly so, would be able to argue that one is better than the other but, for me, I like them all because, unlike bands of their ilk like the Stone Temple Pilots, Sound Garden, and Pearl Jam, they don't take themselves seriously, the drumming on all of their albums is much much better then those other bands, and they have a sense of humor. This might upset you to read this but brother, hey, it's only Mudhoney, don't have a cow.

I was a huge Mudhoney fan back in the early 90's; thought they could do no wrong. Then they did wrong, big time. Became boring and flat.

Unlike many others, I thought highly of "Piece of Cake", their major label debut. But afterwards they went downhill fast, first the country-tinged EP, which was ok if nothing special, and then this album, which is of vastly inferior quality to anything they'd done previously. The songs sound forced, lack any inspiration, and even the lyrics lack any hint of the good ole Mudhoney wit.

I remember being surprised at some of the way-off-mark positive reviews the album got when it came out, which heralded it as some sort of return to the "original" Mudhoney sound due to Jack Endino's production. The sad truth is that this album doesn't carry a tenth of the punch and verve of the last Mudhoney album Endino produced, their self-titled LP.

Just noticed that Mudhoney's putting out another new album. I don't know who's still keeping up with them, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

Sleep walking through yet another release, this band never ceases to let you down. The only good thing they ever did, was show us what reviewers were grading this album as a good one to make themselves look hip. 'Spin' magazine, I'm looking at you. Don't waste your money on this or any of their albums. Two bands does not a movement make, and being from Seattle does not make you a good band.