Artist · chart history
Mudhoney
Band Seattle United States Formed 1988 US rock band
Mudhoney formed in 1988 in Seattle, United States. Mudhoney has 11 chart appearances on 9 radio countdowns from 6 stations on RockLists, spanning 1988–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Touch Me, I'm Sick”, which appears on 4 lists with a best position of #209. The station that charted Mudhoney most often is 107.7 The End (Seattle, WA), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1989.
Mudhoney rose out of the rubble of Green River in Seattle on New Year's Day 1988, and from the first squall of feedback they sounded like a garage band that had been left out in the rain too long. Mark Arm sang and bashed out rhythm guitar, Steve Turner played lead through what sounded like a blown-out fuzz box, Dan Peters pounded the drums and Matt Lukin thumped the bass.
Their debut single on Sub Pop, "Touch Me, I'm Sick", is a snotty, sludgy blast of noise and sneer, and together with the Superfuzz Bigmuff EP it did as much as anything to invent the sound the world would soon call grunge. "Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More" and "You Got It (Keep It Outta My Face)" kept the mess coming, and the band moved on to full albums with Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge in 1991 and Piece of Cake on Reprise in 1992.
For all that, the big money never came their way, and they stayed an underground band at heart. Lukin eventually left and Guy Maddison took over the bass, and Mudhoney kept on grinding, with eleven studio albums to their name and a long line of grunge and alternative bands in their debt.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Mudhoney on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Touch Me, I'm Sick | 4 | #209 | – | – | |
| 2 | You Got It (Keep It Outta My Face) | 1 | #16 | – | 1989 | |
| 3 | Suck You Dry | 1 | #633 | – | – | |
| 4 | Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More | 1 | #31 | – | 1988 | |
| 5 | No One Has | 1 | #636 | – | – | |
| 6 | Good Enough | 1 | #1769 | – | – | |
| 7 | Overblown | 1 | #46 | – | – | |
| 8 | I'm Now | 1 | #93 | – | 2008 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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