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“My Name is Mud” by Primus

From the album Pork Soda (1993)

“My Name is Mud” by Primus appears on 22 radio countdowns from 12 stations between 1993 and 2023. It was first released in 1993 on the album Pork Soda. Its best result is #4 on the Live 105 Top 105 Songs of 1993. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #70 alternative song of 1993 and #1,332 alternative song of all time.

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1993–2023years charted

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"My Name Is Mud" dragged Primus fans into the muck on Pork Soda, the band's third album, in 1993, and it went out to radio as a promo single. Les Claypool, Larry LaLonde and Tim Alexander wrote it together, and it's a grimy little crime story: two tweakers hanging out, a fight over something stupid, and one of them killing the other, with Mud as one of the pair.

They cut it in their own rehearsal digs, a string of warehouses in San Rafael, each player holed up in a separate space, watching the others on video cameras and tracking onto digital tape through their live console. It sounds like it: Claypool's bass lurching like a drunk down a staircase, the drums thudding, the guitar squealing around the edges. In 2010 they even redid it in Spanish as "Me Llamo Mud".

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

#807 of the '90s

Hard Rock & Metal

#1,321 of all time

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
1993	81	91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana	91X Top 91 Songs of 1993	91
1993	4	Live 105 San Francisco, CA	Live 105 Top 105 Songs of 1993	105

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
1994	92	Live 105	Live 105 Revolutionary 500 (July 1994)	500
1995	963	KISW	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995)	1000
1996	412	Q101	Q101 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (1996)	500
1999	460	WHFS	WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999)	500
1999	462	Q101	Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)	1017
1999	186	107.7 The End	The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)	1077
2001	390	WBRU	WBRU Modern Rock Top 500 (2001)	500
2002	901	KISW	KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002)	999
2002	163	Fred (XM 44)	Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)	2002
2003	642	Fred (XM 44)	Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)	2044
2004	200	107.7 The End	The End Original Alternative 500 (May 2004)	500
2005	105.3	Live 105	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of the '90s (August 2005)	106
2005	402	99X	99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005)	1000
2006	306	Live 105	Live 105 500 Co-Op Countdown (Memorial Day 2006)	500
2013	90	KBPI	KBPI Top 200 Songs of All Time	200
2020	298	105.9 The X	105.9 The X July 420 (2020)	420
2021	275	90.9 The Bridge	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s	908
2021	259	105.9 The X	105.9 The X July 420 (2021)	420
2022	272	105.9 The X	105.9 The X July 420 (2022)	420
2023	334	105.9 The X	105.9 The X July 420 (2023)	420

Also listed as: My Name Is Mud; My name is Mud.

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