Ridiculing the Apocalypse

The first band of Mark Arm — Before Green River, before Mudhoney! 

Originally issued on CD in 1996, Ridiculing the Apocalypse now receives its first-ever vinyl edition. Bang! Records and Jo Smitty have reshaped the anthology into a concentrated sixteen-track LP, newly remastered for vinyl by Sergio Delgado in Madrid in 2026. It includes the complete Of Course I’m Happy, Why? EP, the band’s most essential studio recordings and two live tracks captured at Seattle’s Metropolis.

The packaging completes the document: Todd Why?’s original drawings, the wrecked EPP car, rehearsal and live photographs, Craig Joyce’s extensive band history and Jo Smitty’s track-by-track notes. Nothing has been cleaned up or rewritten into respectable rock history. The entire edition retains the photocopied, basement-made, fanzine-and-rented-hall aesthetic that defined MR. EPP.

Limited edition of 500 copies on black vinyl. Essential for followers of Mudhoney, Green River, Flipper, early American hardcore, post-punk and outsider noise — and for anyone who wants to hear Seattle before it became an industry.

Not a footnote. Not a novelty. The sound of a band turning ridicule into method.