Showing posts with label Mudhoney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mudhoney. Show all posts
Friday, 22 August 2014
Thursday, 3 July 2014
The Video - Mudhoney's "I Like It Small"
I don't need no magnum; a snub nose would do just fine.
The wonderful, vibrant, playful vid from grunge gods Mudhoney for the sweet sharp shock of the punktastic "I Like It Small."
Cute skater chick at the end too.
Directed by Carlos Lopez, the vid was shot in the visually-delectable Radar Hair and Records in Seattle's SODO district.
This mighty slice of strutting Iggy Pop petulance wss the lead single from their damn fine "Vanishing Point" LP.
Here's a piece from popthomology was an extra on the vid and took some great shots (a few posted here)...
The band had made an open call for extras and I thought, heyyyyy, it would be really fun to be able to bring my camera along to document the whole filming process and be able to give fans a behind-the-scenes look. I contacted director Carlos Lopez with my idea and he very kindly said, yeah, do it! Wheeee!
The song (which everyone certainly learned by heart that night!) is "I Like It Small," from Mudhoney's ninth album, the brand-spankin'-new "Vanishing Point" on Sub Pop Records, and the video was going to be a continuous shot, single camera process so everything had to be timed perfectly.
The evening started out at Radar by everyone nomming on multi-boxes of pizza and sucking down a keg o' brew while the crew finished setting up the space for the shoot. It was pretty nifty to see so many of my friends and music people I know there. I ate a slice o' 'za and tried to scope out where I should stand so that I could get some good shots without tripping over all the video equipment and cables and ruining everything like a ruinous ruiner,
There were a few run-throughs prior to filming, with so much going on at once. There were lots of walk-on roles, lots of off-camera things for vocalist Mark Arm to do very quickly and then get back in front of the camera (smoking jacket, straightjacket, stigmata, etc.), walls to be moved in and out, blow-up dolls to be thrown in the air, so there were many assistants beside the very-able crew (director Lopez, DP Brady Hall, AC Daniel Mimura, AD Sarah Crowe, gaffer Rory Emmons, safety coordinator Peter "Drago" Tiemann, and stairs/wardrobe wrangler Cathy Lopez).
Everyone learned their cues, and then the filming began! It was a tight space, and I appropriated a short staircase each take in order to get a better view until it had to be used for the video. At the end, I ran back and forth from the front to the back to the front again in order to get some wide shots of all the extras cramming in for the PARTAY TIME shots. Everyone was workin' hard, but it was SO much fun. Lots of smiles.
Sunday, 21 July 2013
Wednesday, 3 July 2013
Art of the Cover - Mudhoney's "Vanishing Point" (2013)
Great cover with photography by Emily Riemanand and Art Direction by Jeff Kleinsmith.
A predictably good album too about which Subpop says...
25 years in, Vanishing Point decisively affirms that, even in an age where only the newest of the new can survive (and even then, only for a few weeks at best), Mudhoney still have plenty to say and more to offer.
These are songs written from the rare vantage point of a band who went through the rock ‘n’ roll meat-grinder and not only lived to tell such a tale, they came out full of the wisdom and dark humor such a journey provides. Vanishing Point is filled with dread, psychoanalysis and Nuggets-on-fire riffs; the sort of real, uninhibited rock music that is harder and harder to locate these days.
With Vanishing Point, Mudhoney make it easy.
Allmusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that this is "a Mudhoney album through and through", which contains "no outright surprises sonically, but beneath the roar it's hard not to admire how their perennial piss-takes are subtly deepening and how their saturated superfuzz always sounds so good."
A drownedinsound review said ...
Twenty-four years on from their debut, and five years from their last release we arrive at Vanishing Point, the ninth Mudhoney album. While it’s very much business as usual - groove-led-Stooges-acid-pop with added screaming - it sounds so gloriously Mudhoney it offers a thrill akin to Popping Candy fizzing in My Little Pony blood.
TracklistingSlipping Away
I Like It Small
What to Do With the Neutral
Chardonnay
The Final Course
In This Rubber Tomb
I Don't Remember You
The Only Son of the Widow from Nain
Sing This Song of Joy
Douchebags on Parade
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
Art of the Cover - Mudhoney's "Vanishing Point" (2013)
A blast from the past here, indeed. Touch me .... I'm not sick!
Yap, the Seattle youngsters have thankfully survived the rock n' roll meat-grinder and Sub Pop's finest are back, baby ..... backkkkk!!
Given that this month marks the 25th anniversary of both Mudhoney and their legendary label, Sub Pop Records, the grunge pioneers will mark the occasion with the release of their ninth studio album, a 10-track record from a band that's still, apparently, “full of wisdom and dark humour.”
So, dropping today, it's "Vanishing Point" - a tribute to the cult car classic flick so beloved by everyone from Primal Scream to Tarantino - replete with the wonderfully titled Douchebags On Parade - which must be a song about U2!
Yap, apparently .... "Twenty-five years in, Vanishing Point affirms that, even in an age where only the newest of the new can survive, Mudhoney still have plenty to say and more to offer. These are songs written from the rare vantage point of a band who went through the rock n' roll meat-grinder and not only lived to tell such a tale, they came out full of the wisdom and dark humor such a journey provides.
Vanishing Point is filled with dread, psychoanalysis and Nuggets-on-fire riffs; the sort of uninhibited rock music that is harder and harder to locate these days.
With Vanishing Point, Mudhoney makes it easy."
Tracklisting
1. Slipping Away
2. I Like It Small
3. What To Do With The Neutral
4. Chardonnay
5. The Final Course
6. In This Rubber Tomb
7. I Don't Remember You
8. The Only Son Of The Widow From Nain
9. Sing This Song Of Joy
10. Douchebags On Parade
Thursday, 5 November 2009
Mushi Mushi Yummy Nurse Yumi Sugimoto
I won't live long and I'm full of rot.
Gonna give you girl, everything I got.
Touch me, I'm sick .
Yeah. Touch me, I'm sick
Sunday, 20 September 2009
Mudhoney - "Touch Me I'm Sick"
(one, two)
ooh
wow
ooh
I feel bad, and I've felt worse
I'm a creep, yeah, I'm a jerk
Come on
Touch me, I'm sick
wow
I won't live long, and I'm full of rot
Gonna give you - girl - everything I got
Touch me, I'm sick, yeah
Touch me, I'm sick
Come on baby, now come with me
If you don't come
If you don't come
If you don't come
You'll die alone
wow
ooh
I'm diseased, I don't mind
I'll make you love me 'till the day you die
Come on
Touch me, I'm sick
ahhh
Fuck me, I'm sick
Come on baby, now come with me
If you don't come
If you don't come
If you don't come
You'll die alone
A wonderful live high-energy performance of "Touch Me I'm Sick" from the band's heyday back in 91.
Ni Hao Naughty Nursie Wu Yi Man !
Come on. Touch me, I'm sick.
I won't live long, and I'm full of rot.
Gonna give you - girl - everything I got!
Now this is what I call medicare!
Wonderful Wu Yi Man (aka 蔓蔓!) sure makes one hell of a nurse!
A gaggle of Nursing chicks like this and Obama's Healthcare woes would be over!
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
The Grunge Years - A Sub Pop Compilation
The Grunge Years - A Sub Pop Compilation
Some great tracks on this Sub-Pop compilation of acts grouped under the lazy "grunge" description! A few tracks, less so!
What strange cover-art !
Some great tracks on this Sub-Pop compilation of acts grouped under the lazy "grunge" description! A few tracks, less so!
What strange cover-art !
Tracklisting
1. Nirvana - Dive (3:52)
2. L7 - Shove (3:11)
3. Tad - Stumblin’ Man (3:36)
4. Beat Happening - Red Head Walk (2:08)
5. Mark Lanegan - Ugly Sunday (3:55)
6. Screaming Trees - Change Has C (3:18)
7. Soundgarden - Birth Ritual (6:08)
8. The Fluid - Tomorrow (2:39)
9. The Afghan Whigs - Retarded (3:24)
10. Babes in Toyland - House (3:34)
11. Mudhoney - Come to Mind (4:50)
12. The Walkabouts - Long Black Ve (5:00)
13. Love Battery - Between the Eye (4:26)
14. Dickless - Saddle Tramp (1:35)
Here she be:
The Grunge Years - A Sub Pop Compilation
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