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personally, I'd start with Bullhead. Totally rockin, good mix of shorter and longer songs. But yeah, they rule.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 12 March 2005 21:02 (8 years ago) Permalink

Best place to start is the Atlantic trilogy of Houdini, Stoner Witch and Stag, if only to see how much The Melvins got away on a major label. Mark Deutrom was underrated in the bass slot. Then you should work backwards and check out Ozma, Bullhead and Lysol. Prick is terrible and anything on Ipecac is a crap shoot -- although The Colossus of Destiny, basically a 60-minute live noise set with Adam Jones and David Scott Stone, is f--king incredible.

― ng, Saturday, 12 March 2005 21:05 (8 years ago) Permalink

Prick is frickin' awesome! But then again I love the weird. I almost don't know WHERE to recommend starting with them, they've put out so much (and so much that's so great). Still need to get the Lustmord and Biafra collaborations -- also, didn't they put out a book?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 12 March 2005 21:08 (8 years ago) Permalink

where's the love for Gluey Porch Treatments? (wonder if my vinyl copy is worth anything) that and Bullhead and the Eggnog ep are great.

― eman (eman), Saturday, 12 March 2005 21:43 (8 years ago) Permalink

Bootlicker's good too.

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Saturday, 12 March 2005 23:05 (8 years ago) Permalink

hey, you wanna hear something weird? well, it's not that weird if you don't know me, but anyway, i don't think i've ever even heard the melvins. for real. i even owned one of there albums once and i never listened to it. i know a lot about them though. especially after reading decibel magazine's oral history of the melvins.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 12 March 2005 23:13 (8 years ago) Permalink

I must read this!

Hm, Scott, we must make arrangements. A career overview or something.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 12 March 2005 23:15 (8 years ago) Permalink

i kinda feel like i waited too long and now i don't really care.

have you seen decibel yet, ned? it's really cool. and now i'm writing for them so it's even cooler. and you get a full-page of john mountaingoat every month.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 12 March 2005 23:18 (8 years ago) Permalink

I bought the book, and It's very pretty, and ultra-bizarre, and comes with a ?greatest hits? CD. Worth the price, and I'm not even really a huge fan. The Biafra collabaration is sort of a wet dream if you are a Dead Kennedys fan, but not really all that melvinsy. I like it...

On a related note, the song "at a crawl" off of the book comp/let's kiss will finally and firmly convince anyone who listens to it that Nirvana should have been writing royalty checks to the Melvins. It's from 1984, and it sounds exactly like a lost B-side from "Bleach". No argument possible. It's kind of unnerving...

― John Justen (johnjusten), Saturday, 12 March 2005 23:42 (8 years ago) Permalink

I don't get the Melvins love. I never felt like they were nearly as heavy as they were always sold as being, like maybe they were super-heavy if you were a non-metal-loving indie-rock pud, but not otherwise. Plus, the self-satisfied smirking that seems to make up a significant chunk of their oeuvre pisses me off. The only album of theirs I actually own is Retarder, which was on Mans Ruin and is thus out of print now. That has a nice cover of Pink Floyd's "Interstellar Overdrive" and a bunch of other crap tracks. I also used to own Stoner Witch on pink vinyl - won it from WSOU, played it once.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Saturday, 12 March 2005 23:48 (8 years ago) Permalink

have you seen decibel yet, ned? it's really cool. and now i'm writing for them so it's even cooler. and you get a full-page of john mountaingoat every month.

I know, and I should be paying more attention to it. :-(

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 12 March 2005 23:54 (8 years ago) Permalink

I never felt like they were nearly as heavy as they were always sold as being, like maybe they were super-heavy if you were a non-metal-loving indie-rock pud

i fail to see how you could say this about their first 3 or 4 records, have you heard those? they're pure heaviness and totally indebted to metal. and the records you specifically name, stoner witch and retarder, were after they made a major stylistic shift from strict heaviness to the genre-hopping weirdness found on their more recent stuff, none of which interests me.

― eman (eman), Sunday, 13 March 2005 00:04 (8 years ago) Permalink

"At A Crawl" -- is that the one Soundgarden ripped off for "Gun"? One of those things on 10 Songs anyway. but I mean, wasn't Nirvana nothing other than COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY UPFRONT about their massive Melvins fandom? Not to mention the fact that Kurt's very first band was with Dale from the Melvins, and that Dale's on Bleach. I mean, cuts like "Paper Cuts" were total Melvins rips, that was always pretty obvious.

Man, phil you couldn't be more wrong. And I say that as someone who finds my taste intersecting with yours pretty often (dude you would have loved the gig I caught last night -- Marshall Allen, Henry Grimes, Fred Anderson and Avreeayl Ra, awesome.) There's nothing indie boy about em. GREAT powerful rhythm section early on. Caught em back in 1991 opening up for Helmet and it absolutely blew my mind. Have you checked out the earliest stuff? One problem is just the number of intentionally goofy and sub-par releases they shit out all the time nowadays. But that's them, that's who they are. Personally I lost track of em after they signed to Atlantic -- they fuckin sold out, maaaan. isn't Buzz like the only original member at this point?

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 13 March 2005 00:10 (8 years ago) Permalink

x-post, but yeah what eman said basically

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 13 March 2005 00:11 (8 years ago) Permalink

It's entirely possible that I'm totally wrong. I've never heard their early material, only the later, tossed-off jokey crap (which again cemented my impression that they were for indie-rock jagoffs who liked to laugh at metal more than listen to it - cf. the Fucking Champs). What's their all-time heaviest record? I've heard good things about Lysol; should I start there?

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Sunday, 13 March 2005 00:19 (8 years ago) Permalink

yeah their jokey stuff is just annoying. bullhead or lysol probably has the slowest, heaviest material. the first two records gluey porch treatments and ozma are classic too.

i'm listening to this judas priest "metalworks" double cd i got from the library and realizing how much ozma sounds like priest w/ weird time signatures.

― eman (eman), Sunday, 13 March 2005 00:27 (8 years ago) Permalink

isn't Buzz like the only original member at this point?

Oh heck no, Dale Crover on drums is the other one. The only thing that's changed since the start is who plays bass.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 13 March 2005 00:29 (8 years ago) Permalink

Well, Lysol is pretty damn awesome but it's basically three long droney tracks (including a cover of Alice Cooper's "Ballad of Dwight Fry"!) so not *entirely* representative, but then again I guess it is. That's the record it kinda seemed like they had been building toward as they had started to get into longer song lengths, like that big long track on the Eggnog ep, which preceded it. So yeah, I guess I'd say you could start there! If you like droney doomy stuff. Or Bullhead as suggested above, for shorter more swinging material. I find listening to the Ozma/Gluey Porch CD (which is the one I have, the 2 albs on 1 cd) in one sitting tough going at times, better to listen to those records individually.

when the first Earth records came out at the time I remember just thinking "oh, they're just taking the Melvins Lysol thing and stretching it out even further". I like Earth, mind you, but that's kind of what they did.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 13 March 2005 00:29 (8 years ago) Permalink

SEARCH: 10 Songs, Gluey Porch Treatments, Ozma, Eggnog, Bullhead, Lysol, and the first 6 (and #9 & #10) songs on Houdini. I think their career took a sharp turn for the worse right in the middle of that record.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Sunday, 13 March 2005 14:59 (8 years ago) Permalink

Stormy is technically right, Ned. Buzz Osbourne is actually the only "original" member of The Melvins, though Dale Crover joined after Buzz and Matt Lukin had been playing together for about 6-8 months. Dale often tells stories about watching The Melvins perform during a battle-of-the-bands. I think there's something about that in the book mentioned upthread. To be fair, The Melvins didn't record anything until Buzz kicked the first drummer out and brought Dale in...so Ned's correct, too.

― ng, Sunday, 13 March 2005 15:15 (8 years ago) Permalink

And all is well.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 13 March 2005 15:31 (8 years ago) Permalink

J Badlees OTM, except they got their mojo back later with 2/3 of The Trilogy (Maggot & esp Bootlicker). Every record after has been amazing: Electroretard, Hostile Ambient Takeover, Pigs of The Roman Empire. Blame major label fuckery.

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Sunday, 13 March 2005 17:26 (8 years ago) Permalink

I heard one tune from one of those records. It definitely rawkt balls in a Boner-era type fashion. I'll have to check those out. I've been fiending for more of Dale Crover's tubthumping for about 12 years now.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Monday, 14 March 2005 01:55 (8 years ago) Permalink

listened to Eggnog 3 times yesterday, "Hog Leg" and "Charmicarmicat" are brutal.

― eman (eman), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 22:08 (8 years ago) Permalink

the King Buzzo solo rec's hot too
'sgot Dave Grohl on drums it does

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 22:19 (8 years ago) Permalink

I also listened to Eggnog for the first time in a long while, on Sunday because of this thread, along with 10 Songs. Sounded great. "Alcohol .... is good."

yeah "Charmicarmicat" is a monster.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 22:37 (8 years ago) Permalink

"We can go to church... and you're naked"

― eman (eman), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 23:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

"And all the fowl of the air ... and fire"

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 23:35 (8 years ago) Permalink

roffle.

"of course people said .. they're drunk!"

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 23:37 (8 years ago) Permalink

gluey porch treatments pwns

― latebloomer: damn cheapskate satanists (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 01:37 (8 years ago) Permalink

yah i dont think you need to get 10 Songs if you have GPT though. isnt it on there?

― charleston charge (chaki), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 02:18 (8 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

HAS ANYBODY HEARD THE MELVINS TRIBUTE YET...I HAVENT SEEN IT IN STORES YET, CAME OUT LAST WEEK I THINK....

Mare - "Nightgoat"
The Dillinger Escape Plan - "Honey Bucket"
Mastodon - "The Bit"
Strapping Young Lad - "Zodiac"
Pig Destroyer - "Claude"
High On Fire/Keelhaul - "Oven"
Meatjack - "Shevil"
Strapadon Factory - "Joan of Arc"
Isis/Agoraphobic Nosebleed - "Boris"
Absentee - "Revolve"
EyeHateGod - "Easy As It Was"
Dog Fashion Disco - "Anaconda"
Disengage - "Raise a Paw"
Blessing The Hogs - "Hogleg"
CKY/Gnarkill - "Laughing With Lucifer at Satan's Sideshow"
Maritime Murder - "Copache"
Made Out Of Babies - "Bar X and The Rocking M"
Pincer 2 - "Echohead/Don't Piece Me"

THESE THINGS ARE USUALLY PRETTY DIRE, BUT THIS LOOKS PRETTY GOOD, SO WHO KNOWS.

― ddb (ddb), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 11:57 (7 years ago) Permalink

Need to hear it, yes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 12:04 (7 years ago) Permalink

Anyone heard the new release on Alternative Tentacles - Mangled Demos from 1983? I think it's a joint release with another label, can't remember which but it's on the AT website.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 12:06 (7 years ago) Permalink

yeah ipecac put it out on cd a couple months ago...i listened to it once....some ok stuff.

― ddb (ddb), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 12:12 (7 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

Q: But looking back, is there anything you know now that you wish you'd known then? Or where you might be if you hadn't started playing music?

Buzz Osborne: If I had known then what I know now I would have killed the guys in Alice In Chains before they ever got a chance to start.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Sunday, 13 November 2005 16:47 (7 years ago) Permalink

ka-zingggg !

― blunt (blunt), Sunday, 13 November 2005 17:39 (7 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

Lori Black
Also known as Lorax, she was the second bassist. She joined the band when they moved to California. Interestingly enough she's Shirley Temple's daughter. She also played bass in Clown Alley with Mark Deutrom(another former melvins bassist).

According to an interview with buzz this is why she was replaced, "Well, we tended to wanna work a little harder than she was willing to do, and I was going out with her for a long time, and I basically got sick of her. Dumped her. Just rid her from my life completely, and there's no way I could see playing in a band with her. That had a lot to do with it, plus, I thought she was lazy."

― nervous.gif (eman), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:15 (7 years ago) Permalink

I doubt you're going to find anyone remotely interested in The Melvins (i.e. who's going to click on this thread) who didn't know this since, oh, 1989, but thanks anyway.

Here's mine: Kurt Cobain of Nirvana used to be a Melvins roadie.

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

xpost -- she was replaced twice actually... Joe Preston was the bassist in between both Lori stints.

I still remember seeing Melvins at the UCI Student Center circa Houdini.. it was a VERY windy day. So windy that one of the PA speakers flat out FELL OFF the riser onto the stage and almost flattened Lori. She saw the speaker fall smack down on the floor centimeters away from her, and she didn't flinch at all.. she just laughed it off, just grooving along to her bass-playing in her shades.

Later that day during a radio interview, she screamed "I WANNA HEAR 'SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT AND I WANNA HEAR IT NOOOOOOOOOOWWWW!!' .. Buzzo and Dale ignored her the entire time. She was replaced a month later with Mark.

― DOQQUN (donut), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:46 (7 years ago) Permalink

I doubt you're going to find anyone remotely interested in The Melvins (i.e. who's going to click on this thread) who didn't know this since, oh, 1989, but thanks anyway.

no problem, faggot.

― nervous.gif (eman), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

correction: no problem, faggot

― nervous.gif (eman), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

xpost -- she was replaced twice actually... Joe Preston was the bassist in between both Lori stints.

pssshh. i've known that since, oh, 1935.

― nervous.gif (eman), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:57 (7 years ago) Permalink

Oh boo hoo.

Anyway.

Finally, four years after Hostile Ambient Takeover, another Melvins release (no collaboration/compilation/reissue, that is). Unfortunately, it's no new real Melvins album: Houdini Live, May 16th.

― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 23 April 2006 00:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

Anyway.

― nervous.gif (eman), Sunday, 23 April 2006 00:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

bootlicker is really great.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 23 April 2006 05:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

Honky - the 'real' album on AmRep - is awesome!
And I don't know if this will count this as a collaboration or an official Melvins album, but Dale and Buzz will be recording and touring with Big Business - who are a bass & drums duo and sound alot like the Melvins. Um, this year, sometime.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Sunday, 23 April 2006 16:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

Oh, and any info on the wherabouts and/or current activities of Kevin Rutmanis would be much appreciated.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Sunday, 23 April 2006 16:34 (7 years ago) Permalink

Kevin is presumably still playing with Tomahawk, who have a new record coming out in '06.

― ng-unit, Sunday, 23 April 2006 17:23 (7 years ago) Permalink

anybody know what ever happened to: MIKE & THE MELVINS...mike kinka of godheadsilo and (i guess) dale and buzz...i think sub pop was suppoesed to put it out.

i wish those recordings would surface.

― ddb (ddb), Sunday, 23 April 2006 17:49 (7 years ago) Permalink

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Minus the bluesiness, of course.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Monday, 11 September 2006 00:54 (6 years ago) Permalink

new album's pretty fuckin tight!
can't wait to see the Big Belvins...
another solid one

― edde (edde), Monday, 11 September 2006 01:08 (6 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Any more thoughts on Senile Animal? I'm listening now and it's pretty rad so far. I like that all the songs are either under three minutes or over six.

― Nigel (Nigel), Friday, 29 September 2006 15:42 (6 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

― stephen, Saturday, 23 August 2008 08:57 (4 years ago) Permalink

thoughts on above?

― stephen, Saturday, 23 August 2008 08:57 (4 years ago) Permalink

excellent album

― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 23 August 2008 14:43 (4 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

hey, wow, stoner witch is way better than i remember it being. like houdini but more cohesive or something. cohesive, that's a good word.

― REIGN IN FUDGE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 08:48 (4 years ago) Permalink

11 months pass...

Hostile Ambient Takeover: SO underrated. so much interesting stuff going on throughout. kicks ass also.

― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 16:15 (3 years ago) Permalink

Is the remixes album worth checking out? I generally hate remixes

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 18:50 (3 years ago) Permalink

Not heard it yet. i hear each remixer is actually using elements from a whole album rather than just a song, so could be interesting

― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 23:23 (3 years ago) Permalink

The remix album is best avoided.

― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 23:26 (3 years ago) Permalink

my annoying co-worker keeps talking about how heavy metal is his favorite music to make powerpoint presentations to. I found out he was talking about the Melvins.

― Mike Crandle, Financial Analyst, Bear Stearns, New York, NY 10185 (res), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 02:26 (3 years ago) Permalink

the remix album has its moments of brilliance and its moments of bleh, but none of it is better than unadulterated melvins.

― m the g, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 07:43 (3 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

As noted by Andy K elsewhere:

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 October 2010 13:56 (2 years ago) Permalink

buzz like the giants

― social-media-compost Circle of Life (jdchurchill), Friday, 29 October 2010 15:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

Cuet panda hat girl too.

― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 29 October 2010 15:29 (2 years ago) Permalink

that's thalia zedek

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 29 October 2010 15:33 (2 years ago) Permalink

lol

― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 29 October 2010 15:41 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

Anyone else going?

http://blowthescene.com/bands/melvins-bands/the-melvins-spaceland-residency-this-january.html

― puff pastry hangman (admrl), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:10 (2 years ago) Permalink

The Melvins are set to perform each Friday throughout January at Spaceland (Silver Lake, Calif.) with a different set and featured albums including the band’s current line-up, a 1983 incarnation with Mike Dillard and several albums in their entirety.

The band’s most recent release, The Bride Screamed Murder, was released by Ipecac Recordings in June. A limited edition vinyl version of the album will be on sale at the shows with each handcrafted album featuring detachable artwork from one of ten different artists.

If you missed it, Blow The Scene Senior Staff Writer Adam Rauf caught up with the Melvins in Washington DC as part of Isis‘s final tour for an exclusive interview.

Performance information is as follows:

Jan. 7: Melvins set (current line-up performing songs from Colossus of Destiny); Lysol and Eggnog records in their entirety

Jan. 14: Melvins 1983 (Buzz, Dale and Mike Dillard); Melvins set (current line-up performing normal set) and Houdini in its entirety

Jan. 21: Melvins Lite (Buzz & Dale only); Melvins set (current line-up performing normal set) and Bullhead in its entirety

Jan. 28: Melvins set (current line-up performing normal set) and Stoner Witch in its entirety

― puff pastry hangman (admrl), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:10 (2 years ago) Permalink

going on the 14th i think

― ObviousSccck (buzza), Thursday, 6 January 2011 08:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

I wish I could go tomorrow.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 6 January 2011 13:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

y'know Stag is a really cool album, for all of its genre-hopping weirdness...

― the Sonic Youths of suck (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 6 January 2011 15:56 (2 years ago) Permalink

whoa dude this sounds dope imo

― good and bad, interesting and boring, experimental and traditional (jdchurchill), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:16 (2 years ago) Permalink

anyone here go the the show last week??

― buzza, Friday, 14 January 2011 05:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

good show! had to leave a bit early because of the sitter but glad i went

― buzza, Sunday, 16 January 2011 01:17 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Any other reports on that show? I should try to dig up a piece I wrote when we booked Melvins to play outside of our student union at Macalester spring 1990. "Like an atomic bomb in a paper bag."

― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 16:37 (2 years ago) Permalink

Melvins Poll

― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 21:53 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

new live album Sugar Daddy Live is really awesome, one of their best live things. and these guys have a LOT of live albums... i dare not even count them. i think i have four but i know there's a few more.

― ilxor running, w/ laptop in hand, checking ILX as he sprints (ilxor), Sunday, 15 May 2011 16:38 (2 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, I was listening to it yesterday. The Melvins are better now than they've ever been, and this live album is the proof of that.

― that's not funny. (unperson), Sunday, 15 May 2011 16:53 (2 years ago) Permalink

i agree, though consensus seems like Bride was a bit undercooked/a mixed bag. do you agree?

totally loved Senile and Nude, tho

― ilxor running, w/ laptop in hand, checking ILX as he sprints (ilxor), Sunday, 15 May 2011 17:02 (2 years ago) Permalink

The first and last tracks kinda sucked; everything in between was great. (And I liked the first track when they played it live.)

― that's not funny. (unperson), Sunday, 15 May 2011 17:20 (2 years ago) Permalink

huh, maybe i should listen again, its been a year or so

― ilxor running, w/ laptop in hand, checking ILX as he sprints (ilxor), Monday, 16 May 2011 02:45 (2 years ago) Permalink

dudes bride is good melvins for sure listen

― 7+ minute (jdchurchill), Monday, 16 May 2011 03:03 (2 years ago) Permalink

run me run me in the dust
huh me huh me ten hut

― 7+ minute (jdchurchill), Monday, 16 May 2011 03:05 (2 years ago) Permalink

i mean dude evil new war god is top notch c'mon

― 7+ minute (jdchurchill), Monday, 16 May 2011 03:24 (2 years ago) Permalink

if you listen to pig house and don't die awesome

― 7+ minute (jdchurchill), Monday, 16 May 2011 03:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Whiney's feature on _Lysol_ is a must-read:

http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-06-01/music/the-melvin-s-power-disinfectant/

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 15:37 (2 years ago) Permalink

9 months pass...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/World-Famous-MELVAN-MELVINS-Tour-Van-Artwork-Kurt-Cobain-NIRVANA-/150771070206

― fuck deathcore and metalcore (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 5 March 2012 16:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

free EP download at Scion A/V

(info http://www.facebook.com/melvinsarmy )

― StanM, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

new album Freak Puke out on Ipecac this summer!

― ilxor, Saturday, 7 April 2012 15:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

hah! good title.

― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Saturday, 7 April 2012 18:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

this part of Buzzo's Village Voice interview had me laughing--

What was the thinking behind doing an album with stand-up bass? Trevor has played electric bass for you guys.
Well, I saw Trevor play stand up bass with Nels Cline and I thought it was something we could do and the wheels started rolling in my head. We reinvented the band but it's just an extension; it's not going to take over. We're gonna do both things—Melvins Lite and regular Melvins.
So Melvins Lite is not just a one-off thing. It will continue?
I certainly hope so.
And the two-drummer lineup will go on, as well?
You bet. Or we'll totally go insane and overdose in the toilet like Elvis.

― ilxor, Sunday, 29 April 2012 15:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

9 months pass...

I have been on a Melvins kick. I really love "The Bootlicker". That record is pretty much the Melvins make a their Pink Floyd album (or close as they ever gonna get) and kinda a bit of both Syd and later Floyd at that too.

― earlnash, Thursday, 7 February 2013 03:57 (4 months ago) Permalink

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