The Muffs (album)
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| Studio album by The Muffs | ||||
| Released | May 11, 1993 | |||
| Genre | Punk rock, pop punk | |||
| Length | 41:05 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Producer | Rob Cavallo, David Katznelson, The Muffs | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Punknews.org | [2] |
The Muffs is the debut album by the pop punk band The Muffs, released on May 11, 1993 on Warner Bros. Records. The album contains the single "Big Mouth". "Everywhere I Go" was later used in a popular Fruitopia television commercial (the cassette version of the track is actually the demo; the band was torn between which version to release and ended up splitting the difference).[3]
Track listing
All tracks written by Kim Shattuck, except where noted
- "Lucky Guy" – 2:46
- "Saying Goodbye" – 2:16
- "Everywhere I Go" – 3:12
- "Better Than Me" – 2:48
- "From Your Girl" – 3:27
- "Not Like Me" – 3:08
- "Baby Go Round" – 2:47
- "North Pole" (Barnett) – 0:35
- "Big Mouth" – 1:51
- "Every Single Thing" – 2:22
- "Don't Waste Another Day" – 2:35
- "Stupid Jerk" (Saunders) – 0:31
- "Another Day" – 2:16
- "Eye to Eye" (Shattuck, Vammen) – 3:30
- "I Need You" (Barnett, Shattuck) – 3:41
- "All for Nothing" – 3:20
Personnel
- Kim Shattuck – Lead Guitar, Vocals
- Ronnie Barnett – Bass
- Melanie Vammen – Rhythm Guitar
- Criss Crass – Drums
- Korla Pandit – Organ
- Rob Cavallo – Producer
- David Katznelson – Producer
- The Muffs – Producer
Reception
- "There's a certain charm to the group's 3-chord riffing and primitive rhythms that seems to have most appeal when driving a vehicle beyond the posted speed limit on a hot, sunny day. But stretched over 16 tracks, the forced minimalism begins to wane in appeal." (Roch Parisien, Allmusic)[1]
- "The Muffs is a powerful pop-punk album that has Ramones-styled power-chord rockers in addition to more laidback and soothing numbers. " (Matt Carlson, Billboard/Allmusic)[4]
- "You'd have to reach all the way back to Blondie's Plastic Letters to find punkish power pop this endearing." (Jim DeRogatis, Chicago Sun-Times)[5][6]
- "PERHAPS it's post-punk integrity that makes "The Muffs" such an uneven affair, but it's probably just incompetence. The debut album from this half-female, half-male LA quartet has its bristly moments - notably the 31-second "Stupid Jerk," a cover of an Angry Samoans rant." (Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post)[7]
References
- 1 2 Parisien, Roch. The Muffs at AllMusic. Retrieved April 6, 2011.
- ↑ Cocksedge, Rich (July 2, 2013). "The Muffs - The Muffs (1993)". Punknews.org. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
- ↑ Freek, Jim (Jan 20, 2000). "The Muffs - Hamburger (Sympathy for the Record Industry)". Phoenix New Times. Retrieved August 25, 2011.
And practically everyone with a television set is by now familiar with the opening strums of "Everywhere I Go" (a.k.a. the song from that Fruitopia commercial), a morsel of jangly '60s pop that appeared on the Muffs' debut long-player but shows up here in a rawer demo version (which was actually released on the cassette version of that first album).
- ↑ Carlson, Matt. "The Muffs - The Muffs". Billboard (magazine). Retrieved April 6, 2011.
- ↑ DeRogatis, Jim (June 27, 1993). "Barbra Streisand Shows Regards For `Broadway'". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved April 6, 2011.
- ↑ ASIN B000002MJM, The Muffs
- ↑ Jenkins, Mark (Jun 4, 1993). "Muffs: Sometimes On, Sometimes Off". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 6, 2011.
External links
- ASIN B000002MJM, The Muffs
- The Muffs at AllMusic
- The Muffs at Discogs
- The Muffs Discography from Billboard.com
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