Mudhoney - Let It Slide

What this video is

Released in June 1991, 'Let It Slide' arrived at the precise moment Mudhoney occupied the apex of the Sub Pop underground — months before Nirvana's Nevermind (September 1991) shifted the commercial centre of gravity away from the band that had helped build it. Mudhoney had deliberately rejected a major-label deal to record Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge on an 8-track desk at Conrad Uno's Egg Studios, a choice that…

Why it matters

Mudhoney were, per AllMusic, the band that 'made the '90s grunge rock movement possible,' and this video documents them at their creative peak. The raw, anti-spectacle production approach — dim lighting, moderate motion, film grain — is itself a genre document: a visual record of grunge's…