Mudhoney “You Got It (Keep It Outta My Face)” b/w “Burn It Clean” 1989. Sub Pop Records. Mudhoney, Sub Pop’s first true success, was the band that helped pave the way for other Seattle bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, etc. to find commercial success with the rise of the 90′s indie rock/grunge scene. Allmusic writes “[Mudhoney] took the sweat-soaked and beer-fueled mixture of heavy metal muscle, punk attitude, and garage rock primitivism that would become known as “grunge” to the hipster audience for the first time.”

“You Got It,” which appears on Mudhoney’s debut self-titled LP, has always been one of my favorite singles from the grungey late 80′s/early 90′s, all flippantly punk while still being infectiously danceable. The flipside, “Burn It Clean” is on the EP/singles album Superfuzz Bigmuff.

Runoff groove etchings:

Side A – “Mouthful of dirt”

Side B – “Handful of charms”

Here is a photo of our young Vault member channeling his inner Mudhoney earlier this summer at camp.