Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney recorded the album in spring 1991, with Conrad Uno producing and engineering at Egg, on cheap tape through an eight-track desk. Turner said that limit made them think hard about what went on each track. It was made at a time when the band was thinking about a major label, but it came out on Sub Pop, catalog number SP105. The cover art is by Ed Fotheringham. The title is the mnemonic music students use for the notes on the lines of the treble clef. Turner said the band were trying to remember how the strings were tuned and one of them wrote it out, and that Arm was the only one who had taken piano lessons.

Before it, the band had recorded five songs with Jack Endino for a would-be second album and scrapped them. Turner said they sounded a little too fancy, too clean, and PopMatters reported that he was eager to get back to the sound of Touch Me I'm Sick, so he booked Uno's basement studio. Arm plays Farfisa organ, which opens the album on Generation Genocide, and the sessions produced the single Let It Slide and a promotional release of Into the Drink. Check-Out Time has an alternate version on the Let It Slide EP.

The album reached 34 on the UK chart. Trouser Press credited Uno's dry eight-track production with sharpening the garage-rock edge. Entertainment Weekly wrote: "Imagine the heaviest of Black Sabbath heavy metal, only somewhat speeded up and with added touches of humor". Rolling Stone described a 43-minute aural assault owing as much to garage rock as to hardcore, and noted concert staples Into the Drink and Good Enough. Pitchfork's Stuart Berman put it among the best grunge albums of the 1990s, and the 1001 Albums book calls it a classic album. Sub Pop issued a remastered 30th-anniversary edition in 2021 with demos and B-sides.