Since We've Become Translucent

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
10 tracks split up by three different studios in Seattle. But the tenth track was recorded a year earlier. This album is one of the most varied Mudhoney records ever, ranging from Hawkwind-esque psych freakouts to horn-injected stompers to tender ballads. Sub Pop. 2002. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Since We've Become Translucent
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • New Millenium Mud
  • Inside Job = Lust for Life
  • Inside Job Kills
  • What?! This one sucks...
  • Best Album Since Debut
 Since We've Become Translucent
Mudhoney
Manufacturer: Sub Pop
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006A6YA
Release Date: 2002-08-20

Tracks:

  1. Baby, Can You Dig The Light
  2. The Straight Life
  3. Where The Flavor Is
  4. In The Winner's Circle
  5. Our Time Is Now
  6. Dyin' For It
  7. Inside Job
  8. Take It Like A Man
  9. Crooked And Wide
  10. Sonic Infusion

Album Description

10 tracks split up by three different studios in Seattle. But the tenth track was recorded a year earlier. This album is one of the most varied Mudhoney records ever, ranging from Hawkwind-esque psych freakouts to horn-injected stompers to tender ballads. Sub Pop. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars New Millenium Mud.......2007-01-29

Despite the fear that Y2K threatened to singlehandedly whipe out Mark Arm's computer of a brain, Mudhoney has returned after rumors of breakup and member lossage to make their career account for providing music during three calendar decades.

With the release of "Since We've Become Translucent", Mudhoney has returned to their hometown Sub Pop Records which at the time was steering away from the once favored 'Seattle Sound' and digging it's fingers into the now-associative and weaker sounding indie-pop genre. As with 2006's "Under A Billion Suns", these grunge daddies bring back the slew 'n' roll of the label's historic yesterdays and makes Sub Pop's wallpaper artist Iron And Wine sound even more... flower patterned.

The intro to the opening cut finds Mudhoney dabbling in an eight minute free-jazz freak-out rather than their previous tricks of off-kilter Sonic Youth noise experimentism, using horns (a Mudhoney first which is undoubtedly influenced by The Stooges "Fun House") and clean guitar effects. In a quest to find meaning, the song's ending lyrics "This is the end of the tunnel and there is no light/Where is the light/I always thought I'de see some kind of light" may very well tell the abbreviated tale of Mudhoney's beginnings at Sub Pop, then venturing out to Reprise Records in hopes of greater exposure, but ultimately returning to their humble starting point.

So what's a band to do? Re-invent itself. Kind of. Assuming you know the band, in the years that have passed since 1998's highly underrated "Tomarrow Hit Today", Mudhoney's bassist Matt Lukin left the band to persue his carpentery talents, Mark Arm and Steve Turner made a second (brilliant) blues-punk Monkeywrench album, and Dan Peters probably just drank pools of beer which left the band to question itself on their viability as a functioning group of 40 year old rockers. Instead of becomming another trended Seattle casualty, the band recruited Mark Arm's Austrailian friend and music colleague Guy Maddison (see Bloodloss and Lubricated Goat) to hold down the low end.

With the band in full tow, songs such as "The Straight Life", "Inside Job", "Dyin' For It", and the anti-Bush/anti-Gore anthem "Our Time Is Now", Mudhoney has regrouped their unmistakable audio assualt unit which has succeeded in overpowering most songs from their previous three albums in smarter and renewing energy. Although Mudhoney has fallen victim to album cohesiveness of the years, "Since We've Become Translucent" still counts as a sequel to their trademark sound and will not end up sounding dated when we all ring in the next decade to skirt in the Great Grunge Revivial of the 2010's. Until then, welcome to and enjoy the New Millenium Mudhoney.

1 out of 5 stars Inside Job = Lust for Life.......2005-08-16

Inside Job is just a copy of Iggy Pop's Lust For Life.

3 out of 5 stars Inside Job Kills.......2005-03-05

This is not my favorite Mudhoney release but to be fair, I need to give it another chance.

That said, Inside Job is one of the all time great garage rock songs. The fact that it was totally ignored upon its release while the media was tripping over itself to praise the Hives and the Vines is just one more twist of the irony knife in the heart of this great band.

1 out of 5 stars What?! This one sucks..........2005-02-22

I don't know what the other reviewers have been smoking, but this one is a giant stinker. Don't waste your time. They totally lost their edge. No maddening guitar riffs, no dirty sex lyrics, nothing left that used to define Mudhoney as the grandfathers of grunge. They used to be good, now I want ot vomit.

Instead of this, buy their self titled album and 'Super Bigmuff plus Early Singles.' Those both hold up even with age. If you have both of those and want something contemporary, get into the Queens of the Stone Age, Mondo Generator, Eagles of Death Metal, and the Desert Sessions. Bands like these carry on the tradition of the grunge greats, not in their sound but in their attitude.

5 out of 5 stars Best Album Since Debut.......2002-10-23

This is easily their finest work since the unbridled rage and lunacy of the self-titled full-length debut. The Black Sabbath-style guitar/bass sludge is in full force. The blues-infused influence of Stevie and Mark's Monkeywrench project is in effect. The twisted guitar and rolling drumbeats inspired by Sonic Youth are everywhere. Mark Arm still wails like no one in rock and roll. And, this time, THE HORNS...baby, can you dig the HORNS?!?! Seriously, Mudhoney has not put out an album this strong and consistent from the first track to the last since the beginning.

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