Mudhoney

Like AC/DC, you know what you’re getting when you slip a new Mudhoney CD into your player. And Mudhoney’s latest release, Since We’ve Become Translucent, doesn’t let you down. While so many of the Seattle bands of the late ’80s have either returned to the same bars that they started out at or become reclusive rock stars, living behind gated mansions, Mudhoney has stuck to its guns. The middle-aged men are in fine form with songs like “Where the Flavor Is,” “In the Winner’s Circle,” and the best song on the disc, “Take It Like a Man.” Mudhoney flips the bird to society as if they were still in their 20s and living in a beat-up house with no furniture in the Seattle’s U-District. Only 11 more years before Mudhoney can be nominated into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Naw, it’ll never happen.