"The Banana Splits meet the MC5"

I've been enjoying "SUPERFUZZ BIGMUFF," the debut mini-LP by the SEATTLE grunge pioneers, MUDHONEY.
I like it because the band's songs don't sound like the clichéd sound that grunge descended into once the copyists became involved in the scene.
Instead, Mudhoney remind me of the Australian indie bands that had emerged after the demise of Radio Birdman -- New Race, the Visitors and Beasts of Bourbon.
In "OUR BAND COULD BE YOUR LIFE," Michael Azerrad writes that the way Mudhoney's "hell-for-leather garage attack was tempered by beery sing-along choruses" prompted at least one critic describing the sound as "the Banana Splits meet the MC5."
Azerrad also notes that singer MARK ARM often wrote songs mentioning either dogs or sickness, although never together.
"We kept hoping he'd come in with a song about a sick dog," guitarist STEVE TURNER said, "but he never did."