History Music / Mudhoney

** "Tales of Terror" is named after a HardcorePunk band Mudhoney were influenced by (Mark Arm's former band Green River had covered the Tales Of Terror song "Ozzy").

* ''My Brother The Cow'' (1995)

* AlbumFiller: ''My Brother the Cow'' might have the ultimate example, with its thirteenth and final track simply being the entire album (except for tracks 1, 2 and the first half of 3) played backwards, presumably to pad the album's running time to 74 minutes, the maximum length for a ''Red Book''-compliant CD.

* HiddenTrack: ''My Brother The Cow'' has the unlisted independent track "woC ehT rehtorB yM", which is a slightly abridged version of the entire album played in reverse.

** "Touch Me I'm Sick" is a {{subversion}} due to the disgusting, self loathing, and angsty way that the sex is presented.

* SelfDeprecation: The PerformanceVideo for "Suck You Dry", where they're playing a sparsely attended "Ten Years Of Grunge" event at a small bar in 1998 (the song was released in 1992). The audience is mainly sitting by the bar looking bored, while the one apparent diehard fan in attendance pogos and slam-dances in front of the stage by himself.

** They're named after an ExploitationFilm. Though the band have said they'd never actually seen the movie, they just noticed the title on a marquee for a theater that was screening other Creator/RussMeyer films all day.
** "Tales Of Terror" is named after a HardcorePunk band Mudhoney were influenced by (Mark Arm's former band Green River had covered the Tales Of Terror song "Ozzy").
** The title of "FDK (Fearless Doctor Killer)" is a nod to Music/BadBrains' "FVK (Fearless Vampire Killers)" - and by extension, the movie of the same name.

* ToiletHumour: The [[NoTitle untitled]] fifteenth track on ''Piece Of Cake'' consists of the band playing a simple repeating riff for 30 seconds, with fart sound effects (possibly achieved via WhoopeeCushion) played in time with the music. The final fart sound effect then segues into the start of "Ritzville".
* VisualPun: The artwork to ''Piece Of Cake'' includes a cake slice sitting in a urinal... Thus, a literal "urinal cake".

** ''Plastic Eternity'' includes "Tom Herman's Hermits", a tribute to Music/PereUbu guitarist Tom Herman which also mentions Music/HermansHermits.

* NoTitle: ''Piece of Cake'' contains four tracks that are untitled on the track listing, all of which are short outtakes of the band goofing around in the studio - at least one promo cassette of the album lists these tracks with "titles" contained within square brackets: track 1 is "Techno"; track 5 is "Snippet[=--=]Snip It"; track 11 is "Wooden Legged Cowboy Buck"; and track 15 is "The Fortez".

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness : A pretty solid 6. With a couple songs, like "Crankcase Blues", going down to a 4. And a few, such as "FDK (Fearless Doctor Killer)", going up to 7.

* SpringtimeForHitler: When they were asked to write a song for a specific scene of the movie ''Film/WithHonors'', they offered an instrumental outtake, but the studio insisted they submit a song with lyrics. So they added some very repetitive throwaway lyrics to the song, gave it the TitleOnlyChorus of "Run Shithead Run", and sent in both the instrumental and vocal versions, figuring this would result in the instrumental being used after all. Instead, "Run Shithead Run" appeared complete with vocals both in the movie and on the soundtrack album... However, the band also noted that they never got another soundtrack offer again.

One of the few cases where the lead singer was both the TropeMaker and the TropeCodifier for the same genre, as Green River was one of the first grunge bands along with Music/{{Melvins}} and Malfunkshun.

* IntercourseWithYou: "Touch Me I'm Sick" is a {{subversion}} due to the disgusting, self loathing, and angsty way that the sex is presented.

* ShoutOut: They're named after an ExploitationFilm. Though the band have said they'd never actually seen the movie, they just noticed the title on a marquee for a theater that was screening other Creator/RussMeyer films all day.

One of the few cases where the lead singer was both TropeMaker and TropeCodifier for the same genre.

* SomethingBlues: "Crankcase Blues" from ''My Brother the Cow''.
* SpringtimeForHitler: When they were asked to write a song for a specific scene of the movie ''With Honors'', they offered an instrumental outtake, but the studio insisted they submit a song with lyrics. So they added some very repetitive throwaway lyrics to the song, gave it the TitleOnlyChorus of "Run Shithead Run", and sent in both the instrumental and vocal versions, figuring this would result in the instrumental being used after all. Instead, "Run Shithead Run" appeared complete with vocals both in the movie and on the soundtrack album... However, the band also noted that they never got another soundtrack offer again.

* SingerNamedrop: In "Freak Momma", a song [[AWildRapperAppears featuring]] Music/{{Sir Mix A Lot}}, Mix-A-Lot works the band name into a pun: "I wanna get you in the mud, honey".

--> ''"They planted on desert sands; Mudhoney was hatched / Mudhoney hates policemen, yes it's true"''

Mudhoney is a {{Grunge}} band formed by former Green River frontman Mark Arm. Along with Music/{{Nirvana}}, Mudhoney is the main {{Trope Codifier}} of {{Grunge}}. Despite this they received little popularity or media attention besides their college radio hit "[[AntiLoveSong Touch Me I'm Sick]]". However Mudhoney has a strong grassroots fanbase, and they've even managed to record eight albums without any mainstream success. They continue to perform live, despite the waning of Grunge's popularity.

* ''March to Fuzz'' (Half GreatestHitsAlbum; half compilation of rarities and B-sides; 2000)

* ''[[GreatestHitsAlbum March to Fuzz]]'' (2000)

* {{Intercourse With You}} : Touch me I'm Sick is a {{subversion}} due to the disgusting, self loathing, and angsty way that the sex is presented.

!!Albums
* Superfuzz Bigmuff EP (1988)
* Mudhoney (1989)
* Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles (1990)
* Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (1991)
* Piece of Cake (1992)
* My Brother The Cow (1995)
* Tomorrow Hit Today (1998)
* [[GreatestHitsAlbum March to Fuzz]] (2000)
* Since We've Become Translucent (2002)
* Under a Billion Suns (2006)
* The Lucky Ones (2008)
* Vanishing Point (2013)

!!Tropes

* ShoutOut: They're named after an ExploitationFilm. Though the band have said they'd never actually seen the movie, they just noticed the title on a marquee for a theater that was screening other Russ Meyer films all day.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Despite the angsty lyrics and the snotty, aggressive vocals, many interviewers have pointed out that Mark Arm is a very amiable and friendly dude.

* LongRunnerLineup: Type 1 + Type 2. The original line-up of Mark Arm, Steve Turner, Dan Peters, and Matt Lukin, lasted 13 years (1988-2001). Lukin retired from the band and was replaced by Guy Maddison, who has remained with the band since then.
* {{Mean Character Nice Actor}} : Despite the angsty lyrics and the snotty, aggressive vocals, many interviewers have pointed out that Mark Arm is a very amiable and friendly dude.

** The title of "FDK (Fearless Doctor Killer)" is a nod to BadBrains' "FVK (Fearless Vampire Killers)" - and by extension, the movie of the same name.

* SingerNamedrop: In "Freak Momma", a song featuring Music/{{Sir Mix A Lot}}, Mix-A-Lot works the band name into a pun: "I wanna get you in the mud, honey".