Nirvana may have been the band that put an entire generation in flannel, and Pearl Jam and Soundgarden sold more records, but Mudhoney were truly the group that made the 1990s grunge movement possible. Their music took the sweat-soaked, beer-fueled mixture of heavy metal muscle, punk attitude, and garage rock primitivism to the hipster audience for the first time with early releases like 1988's Superfuzz Bigmuff and 1989's Mudhoney. The band never scored big hits, though they did land a major-label deal that produced several strong albums, especially 1995's My Brother the Cow and 1998's Tomorrow Hit Today. Mudhoney's importance on the Seattle scene cannot be underestimated, and they have continued to produce strong, relevant music into their third and fourth decades on 2013's Vanishing Point and 2023's Plastic Eternity.