Seven Years Golden

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Total Tracks: 27   Total Length: 60:05

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04.22.11
Come on in, the mud is fine.
2000 | Label: Amphetamine Reptile / The Orchard

A prankish band playing prankish sludge that somehow morphed into a real band playing real sludge, this precursor to Mudhoney (Steve Turner and Mark Arm did time as Thrown-Ups) was the first non-Halo act signed to AmRep. Golden compiles every released note of the Thrown-Up's proto-grunge. The operative word there is "proto" — this stuff is the Neanderthal cousin to Mudhoney's homo grungus — where Mudhoney uses tools, the Thrown Ups bang on rocks. But come on in, the mud is fine.

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