Piece of Cake (album)

Piece of Cake is the third studio album by the grunge band Mudhoney. Recorded and released in 1992, it was their first album released through Reprise Records. It features several songs, such as "Suck You Dry" and "Blinding Sun", that are consistently featured in Mudhoney's live setlist.

Piece of Cake
Studio album by
Mudhoney
ReleasedOctober 13, 1992
RecordedJuly 1992
Genre
Length44:33
LabelReprise
ProducerConrad Uno
Mudhoney chronology
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
(1991)		 Piece of Cake
(1992)		 My Brother the Cow
(1995)
Singles from Piece of Cake
  1. "Suck You Dry"
    Released: 1992
  2. "Blinding Sun"
    Released: 1993
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Rolling Stone[2]

Released at the peak of grunge, a genre Mudhoney had helped create, the band and Piece of Cake did not get any special notice, commercially or critically. However, Piece of Cake did sell over 150,000 copies on its initial release and "Spin" listed it at number 11 on its list of top 20 albums of 1992.

Reprise reissued this album bundled with the E.P. Five Dollar Bob's Mock Cooter Stew and the B-Sides from the album singles in 2003 (a similar effort like Sub Pop's Superfuzz Bigmuff Deluxe re-issue in 2008 and Reprise's reissue of My Brother the Cow in 2003).

Track listing

Original
  1. "[Untitled 1]" – 0:38
  2. "No End in Sight" – 3:34
  3. "Make It Now" – 4:25
  4. "When in Rome" – 3:55
  5. "[Untitled 2]" – 0:25
  6. "Suck You Dry" – 2:34
  7. "Blinding Sun" – 3:39
  8. "Thirteenth Floor Opening" – 2:31
  9. "Youth Body Expression Explosion" – 1:59
  10. "I'm Spun" – 4:04
  11. "[Untitled 3]" – 0:40
  12. "Take Me There" – 3:32
  13. "Living Wreck" – 3:30
  14. "Let Me Let You Down" – 3:57
  15. "[Untitled 4]" – 0:29
  16. "Ritzville" – 2:38
  17. "Acetone" – 4:15

Reissue
  1. "[Untitled 1]" – 0:38
  2. "No End in Sight" – 3:34
  3. "Make It Now" – 4:25
  4. "When in Rome" – 3:55
  5. "[Untitled 2] – 0:25
  6. "Suck You Dry" – 2:34
  7. "Blinding Sun" – 3:39
  8. "Thirteenth Floor Opening" – 2:31
  9. "Youth Body Expression Explosion" – 1:59
  10. "I'm Spun" - 4:04
  11. "[Untitled 3]" – 0:40
  12. "Take Me There" – 3:32
  13. "Living Wreck" – 3:30
  14. "Let Me Let You Down" – 3:57
  15. "[Untitled 4]" – 0:29
  16. "Ritzville" – 2:38
  17. "Acetone" – 4:15
  18. "Over the Top" – 2:35 *
  19. "King Sandbox" – 2:43 **
  20. "Baby o Baby" – 3:45 **
  21. "In the Blood" – 3:08 ***
  22. "No Song III" – 4:11 ***
  23. "Between Me & You Kid" – 3:38 ***
  24. "Six Two One" – 2:34 ***
  25. "Make It Now Again" – 4:35 ***
  26. "Deception Pass" – 2:54 ***/*/**
  27. "Underide" – 2:07 ***/*

Personnel

Chart positions

Album charts
Year Album Chart Position
1992 Piece of Cake Heatseekers No. 9
1992 Piece of Cake Official UK Charts No. 39
1992 Piece of Cake Billboard Top 200 No. 189

Charting singles
Year Single Chart Peak
1992 "Suck You Dry" Modern Rock Tracks No. 23

References
  1. "Piece of Cake - Mudhoney". Allmusic.
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20071203043907/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/mudhoney/albums/album/259328/review/5940651/piece_of_cake. Archived from the original on December 3, 2007. Retrieved September 18, 2007. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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