Touch Me I'm Sick

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"Touch Me I'm Sick" is the first song appearing on Mudhoney's Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles album. It features a catchy, upbeat hard rock riff produced by an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff distortion pedal. The song is easily Mudhoney's most important and influential to date.^{[citation needed]} Mudhoney's lead singer Mark Arm has acknowledged that the song was the defining moment in the band's career.^{[citation needed]}

In the liner notes for the Best Of & Rarities compilation March to Fuzz, guitarist Steve Turner said concerning the song:

In retrospect, it's The Yardbirds' "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" by way of The Stooges' "Sick of You". At the time I was trying for the stuttering R&B guitar of The Nights and Days.

In the same liner notes, Mark Arm stated, "I thought this song was a b-side toss off, until it stormed up the independent charts."

[edit] Trivia

• References to the song title include "Touch Me, I'm Dick" from the movie Singles.

• A book entitled 'Touch Me, I'm Sick' by Charles Peterson was released comprising of photos of the 90's Grunge era.