MUD - Its Better Than Working
December 17, 2024 8:58 AM   Subscribe

It's Tuesday, a perfect day to listen to some Mud, featuring the particularly pleasing vocals of Les Gray and guitars by Rob Davis. Let's focus on their 1976 album It's Better Than Working. Recommended tracks: It Don't Mean a Thing. Nite on the Tiles. Beating Round the Bush. Sweet and Sour Lady. Or just listen to the whole thing!

As far as I can see, MUD did not get airplay in the U.S., which I find incomprehensible. I think a lot of these songs would have been big hits.
posted by wittgenstein (5 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Mud were very popular in mid-'70s Britain, with, according to Wikipedia, "fourteen UK Top 20 hits between 1973 and 1976, including three number ones." There was no shortage of airplay here.

I suppose their big Christmas song was a little too downbeat to achieve the lasting ubiquity of the other old chestnuts from that era, 'Merry Christmas Everybody' & 'I Wish it Could Be Christmas Every Day'.
posted by misteraitch at 9:36 AM on December 17 [1 favorite]


I have “Dyna-Mite” by Mud on my Friday Night Glam playlist, which I use to celebrate the weekend after a long week of work.
posted by larrybob at 10:44 AM on December 17


Of that which we do not know, we must not comment.
posted by y2karl at 11:13 AM on December 17 [1 favorite]


I loved Mud as a child. They were so funny on Top Of The Pops
posted by GallonOfAlan at 12:56 PM on December 17


Another talented band powered by Chinn & Chapman hits
posted by scruss at 4:12 PM on December 17


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