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“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.

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Bleach has become a grunge/hard rock classic, with songs like “About a Girl” and “Negative Creep” now part of the pop culture lexicon. My favorite song on the album is one not written by Kurt Cobain, but rather is a cover of Robbie Van Leeuwen’s “Love Buzz” (originally released in 1969 by Shocking Blue). Nirvana injects “Love Buzz” with a dirty needle of grinding, menacing speed.

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Noisy, garagey early 90′s post-punk and hopelessly mislabelled, on the back cover and on the record label too. You really need to know the songs/bands or cross-reference to figure out what track is actually being played. Three of my favorites: the Cows “My Girl” is a heavy cover of the traditional folk lament “In the Pines” aka “Where Did You Sleep Last Night” (first made commercially popular by Bill Monroe, then Lead Belly and even more so by Nirvana with their performance in ‘94 on MTV Unplugged). As I love all things Jon Spencer, I especially enjoy Boss Hog’s “Fire of Love,” a cover of Jody Reynolds’ 1958 spooky rockabilly single that peaked at #66 (and was also later covered by MC5 and the Gun Club). Pulling away from the dirge-beat of those two tracks is Surgery’s almost danceable, hip-shaking mosh-pit ready song (with standard 90′s grunge guitar solos) “Our Demise.”

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Here is a live version of “Dancing Shoes” performed at The Mohawk Austin; I don’t know what year but it’s obviously a more recent concert by the decidedly dad-look singer Spencer Moody is sporting. But he still rocks almost as hard as he did in the late 90′s, when he sported the more college computer nerd look, which you can see in a different live performance of “Dancing Shoes.”

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Runoff groove etchings: Side A (the “Judas” side) – “Judass kicks ass” and Side B (the “Jesus” side) – “Free Dick Johnson” The back cover of the album states “This record is lovingly dedicated to convicted felon Dick Johnson”

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This EP is brilliant, angry but angry in a way that makes the listener feel gloriously alive. “Shove” is majestically, anthemically amazing and rips everyone and everything in its way to shreds. (“Get out of my way or I might shove. Get out of my way or I’m gonna shove”). “Fast and Frightening” is female power at its dirtiest, nastiness, finest:

Her glance hits me like lightning
I heard that girl is fast and frightening
Dirty hair and a laugh that’s mean
Her neighbors call her an evil machine
She’s fast, she’s lean
She’s frightening
She’s fast, she’s lean
She’s frightening
Popping wheelies on her motorbike
Straight girls wish they were dykes
She’ll do anything on a dare
Mom and Daddy’s worst nightmare
Down at the creek smoking pot
She eats the roach so she don’t get caught
Throws her mini off in the halls
Got so much c*** she don’t need no balls

Run-off groove etchings: Side A – “Rock show tonight – big butts live on stage” Side B – “Smell It Sniff It Smell It” and “Swappin’ fluids across the nation”

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