10 Most Underrated Grunge Bands Of All Time

Probably the biggest name on this list, Mudhoney came as close as it gets to mainstream exposure without quite making it. In many ways they’re the definitive grunge act, even down to their name, making a career out of the meeting point between scuzzy guitars and sweet melodies.

Their 1988 debut EP Superfuzz Bigmuff (named after two of the effects pedals which defined their sound) comes out swinging with “Touch Me I’m Sick”. Mudhoney took the garage sound of the sixties and injected more volume and venom for a modern audience, and helped to define a genre.

Their self titled first album brought down the tempo and added further levels of distortion, but they really hit their stride on Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge. Each song is perfectly constructed, with the guitars choppy and bright instead of the thick soup of many contemporaries. In “Good Enough”, they even had a wry pop hit, a slacker anthem that sounds timeless.

Mudhoney have kept up the pace over the years, and if they’re not the influential force they once were, they’re an act who’ve commendably refused to stay still for so much as a minute.