In 2008 both Sub Pop and Mudhoney are celebrating their 20th anniversary. This is the deluxe, re-mastered edition of "Superfuzz Bigmuff", containing the original EP in its correct running order, singles, demos, and two blistering live recordings from 1988, all re-mastered, or in some cases, mastered for the first time. "...for all the play and worldwide attention several Seattle-area bands got during the 1988-92 period, at the end of the day...there was Mudhoney - and then there was everybody else...These recordings were so life-affirming upon their release, connecting everything great about the sixties (biker movies, fuzz boxes, old guitars, three-minute songs) with the frothing, punk rock of the early 80s, that a whole new 'style' of music was born. They called it grunge, but to me it was amped-up, clear-the-room, ramalama rock...and it was about as joyous and as fun a noise as anyone'd heard in years" - Jay Hinman, liner notes.

"...for all the play and worldwide attention several Seattle-area bands got during the 1988-92 period, at the end of the day...there was Mudhoney - and then there was everybody else...These recordings were so life-affirming upon their release, connecting everything great about the sixties (biker movies, fuzz boxes, old guitars, three-minute songs) with the frothing, punk rock of the early 80s, that a whole new 'style' of music was born. They called it grunge, but to me it was amped-up, clear-the-room, ramalama rock...and it was about as joyous and as fun a noise as anyone'd heard in years." --Jay Hinman, liner notes.

1-1 Touch Me I'm Sick 2:33
1-2 Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More 3:46
1-3 Twenty Four [Remix - Johnny Sangster] 2:46
1-4 Need 3:01
1-5 Chain That Door 1:52
1-6 Mudride 5:44
1-7 No One Has 3:26
1-8 If I Think 3:37
1-9 In 'n' Out Of Grace 5:31
1-10 The Rose 4:04
1-11 Hate The Police 2:09
1-12 You Got It (Keep It Outta My Face) 2:55
1-13 Burn It Clean 2:58
1-14 Halloween 6:12
1-15 Need (Demo) 3:23
1-16 Mudride (Demo) 6:03
1-17 In 'n' Out Of Grace (Demo) 4:53

Live In Berlin, October 10, 1988
2-1 No One Has 3:59
2-2 Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More 3:45
2-3 Need 2:47
2-4 Chain That Door 1:59
2-5 If I Think 3:18
2-6 Mudride 6:20
2-7 Here Comes Sickness 4:12
2-8 Touch Me I'm Sick 2:51
2-9 In 'n' Out Of Grace 6:55

Live On KCSB, Santa Barbara, November 16, 1988
2-10 Mudride 5:34
2-11 Here Comes Sickness 4:10
2-12 No One Has 3:32
2-13 By Her Own Hand 3:32
2-14 Touch Me I'm Sick 3:14
2-15 Dead Love 14:18

Mark Arm - vocals, guitar
Steve Turner - guitar, backing vocals
Matt Lukin - bass
Dan Peters - drums

Deluxe Edition issued as a 6-panel Digipak with clear trays housed inside a slipcase. Includes a 32-page booklet with first and last side to be folded open and containing photos, cover artworks and liner notes. Sticker on front: "Superfuzz Bigmuff 2CD Deluxe Edition / Remastered. Includes all the early singles, compilation tracks, demos and two complete live sets recorded in 1988."

Tracks 1-1 & 1-2 originally released as a single, Summer 1988.
Track 1-3 originally appeared on the Dope Guns and Fucking in the Streets Vol. 1 7" EP, courtesy of Amphetamine Reptile Records. The original master was lost, remixed at Avast Classic November 16 & 17 2007 on an 8-track provided by Whiting Tennis.
Tracks 1-4 to 1-9 comprised the original Superfuzz Bigmuff EP in its correct running order; originally released November, 1988.
Track 1-10 originally appeared on Sub Pop 200.
Track 1-11 originally released in the Fall of 1988 on the Mondostereo compilation LP.
Tracks 1-12 & 1-13 originally released in the Spring of 1989 as a single.
Track 1-12 is a different version than the one that appears on SP44 Mudhoney s/t.
Track 1-14 originally released January 1990 on the Sonic Youth/Mudhoney split single. Probably recorded during SP44 Mudhoney s/t sessions in July 1989.
Tracks 1-15, 1-16 & 1-17 mixed at Avast Classic on an 8-track provided by Whiting Tennis, November 16 & 17 2007.

All tracks recorded and mixed at Reciprocal Recording.
Tracks 1-1 to 1-3 & 1-15 to 1-17: April 15 & 21 and May 3, 1988
Tracks 1-4 to 1-11: July 22-24, August 6, 15, 21, 25 and September 29, 1988
Tracks 1-12 & 1-13: February 22 & 23, 1989

Tracks 2-1 to 2-9 recorded on 2 inch 24 track, October 10, 1988 at the Metropol in Berlin during Berlin Independence Days Festival by a couple of anonymous Germans who changed reels immediately before "Touch Me I'm Sick". The first 30 seconds were missing and had to be spliced in from a widely bootlegged audience recording supplied by Dean Whitmore. We're quite impressed with the results if we do say so ourselves, thanks to the skills of one William Inglot. Mixed at Avast Classic, November 16 & 17, 2007.

Tracks 2-10 to 2-15 broadcast live at KCSB, Santa Barbara, November 16, 1988. A cassette recording of this was provided by Jay Hinman.

Mastered at Digiprep. Disc 1 remastered from the original tapes.

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