― doug, Wednesday, 25 September 2002 22:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 26 September 2002 00:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
Their records on AmRep are terrible, especially Prick.
I haven't heard the trilogy or the new one, but have been on a Melvins kick, so I might search one out myself.
― earlnash, Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― brg30 (brg30), Thursday, 26 September 2002 20:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
The new one (Hostile Ambient Takover) double RULES.
― Marinaorgan (Marina Organ), Friday, 27 September 2002 09:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Rockingham, Saturday, 12 March 2005 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 12 March 2005 21:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― ng, Saturday, 12 March 2005 21:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 12 March 2005 21:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― eman (eman), Saturday, 12 March 2005 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Saturday, 12 March 2005 23:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 12 March 2005 23:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Hm, Scott, we must make arrangements. A career overview or something.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 12 March 2005 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Saturday, 12 March 2005 23:48 (nineteen years ago) link
I know, and I should be paying more attention to it. :-(
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 12 March 2005 23:54 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 13 March 2005 00:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Sunday, 13 March 2005 00:19 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Sunday, 13 March 2005 14:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― ng, Sunday, 13 March 2005 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 13 March 2005 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Sunday, 13 March 2005 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Monday, 14 March 2005 01:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― eman (eman), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link
yeah "Charmicarmicat" is a monster.
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― eman (eman), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 23:35 (nineteen years ago) link
"of course people said .. they're drunk!"
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: damn cheapskate satanists (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 01:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― charleston charge (chaki), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 02:18 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 12:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 12:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― ddb (ddb), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 12:12 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― blunt (blunt), Sunday, 13 November 2005 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
Here's mine: Kurt Cobain of Nirvana used to be a Melvins roadie.
― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:45 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
no problem, faggot.
― nervous.gif (eman), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― nervous.gif (eman), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link
pssshh. i've known that since, oh, 1935.
― nervous.gif (eman), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:57 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
run me run me in the dusthuh me huh me ten hut
― 7+ minute (jdchurchill), Monday, 16 May 2011 03:05 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean dude evil new war god is top notch c'mon
― 7+ minute (jdchurchill), Monday, 16 May 2011 03:24 (thirteen years ago) link
if you listen to pig house and don't die awesome
― 7+ minute (jdchurchill), Monday, 16 May 2011 03:28 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
free EP download at Scion A/V
(info http://www.facebook.com/melvinsarmy )
― StanM, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
new album Freak Puke out on Ipecac this summer!
http://loudwire.com/files/2012/02/melvinslitefreakpuke-300x300.jpg
― ilxor, Saturday, 7 April 2012 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
hah! good title.
― original bgm, Saturday, 7 April 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
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.
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
More just to showcase this bit of angry hilarity:
http://www.avclub.com/article/melvins-buzz-osborne-picks-songs-by-bands-that-wer-200741
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 15:30 (ten years ago) link
I pre-ordered one of these in Decemberhttp://i.imgur.com/SqzRqLd.jpg
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 15:56 (ten years ago) link
great article btw Ned, thank you!
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 16:07 (ten years ago) link
so great
Buzzo OTM throughout
― sleeve, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 16:12 (ten years ago) link
THE MELVINS' BUZZ OSBORNE RELEASES FULL-LENGTH SOLO DEBUT, THIS MACHINE KILLS ARTISTS, JUNE 3 VIA IPECAC RECORDINGS
http://exclaim.ca/images/buzz2.jpg
Buzz Osborne, the legendary grunge progenitor who has helmed the Melvins for thirty plus years, releases his debut solo full-length album, This Machine Kills Artists, on June 3 via Ipecac Recordings. "I have no interest in sounding like a crappy version of James Taylor or a half-assed version of Woody Guthrie," said the grunge progenitor of the 17-song offering, continuing, "which is what happens when almost every rock and roller straps on an acoustic guitar. No thanks... This Machine Kills Artists is a different kind of animal." Rolling Stone gave listeners early access to music from Osborne's acoustic release, premiering the song "Dark Brown Teeth." The magazine described the song as "doomy, ill-angled" and with the "Beefheartian edge his band is renown for." This Machine Kills Artists track listing: 1. Dark Brown Teeth2. Rough Democracy3. Laid Back Walking4. Drunken Baby5. Vaulting Over A Microphone6. New River7. The Vulgar Joke8. Everything's Easy For You9. The Ripping Driving10. How I Became Offensive11. Instrument of God12. The Spoiled Brat13. Illegal Mona14. Good and Hostile15. The Blithering Idiot16. Useless King of the Punks17. The Hesitation Twist
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 20 March 2014 13:46 (ten years ago) link
lol i like this
― Kornblud (admrl), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 20:28 (ten years ago) link
SubPop has put the new Mike & The Melvins album on youtube and I'm loving this insane final track. Dale doing blast beats!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_HMmhLIMxk&index=12&list=PLbOGt8cOph4V-FsNSj924xHIG6myxdF7T
― woman in the dunes, Monday, 28 March 2016 03:49 (eight years ago) link
I always figured King Buzzo was one of those weirdo libertarians that liked to say provocative things to piss people off, but uh the quotes I've seen from his interview with Gav1n Mc1nn3s(!!) don't paint him in a very favorable light.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 6 August 2020 14:12 (three years ago) link
aw man :(
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Thursday, 6 August 2020 14:18 (three years ago) link
I have no desire to seek it out, but the quotes on Twitter are "lesbian weirdo liberals", "socialists are the real Nazis" and apparently a rant about "racial diversity" in film.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 6 August 2020 14:22 (three years ago) link
Buzzo has always seemed like an assholehe used to be on that "hip" Fox news show Red Eye
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 6 August 2020 14:37 (three years ago) link
Yeah that was as big a warning sign as any.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 August 2020 14:39 (three years ago) link
Damien from Fucked Up was a fixture on there iirc, to the best of my knowledge he's not like this tho
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Thursday, 6 August 2020 14:40 (three years ago) link
Yeah, was just reading that was where he developed a relationship with Mc1nn3s started. I'm not at all surprised he's an asshole, just disappointed to learn what flavor of asshole he is.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 6 August 2020 14:41 (three years ago) link
Wow I botched that sentence, I blame answering a work call in the middle of typing it.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 6 August 2020 14:42 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zZFwUljowg
Enjoy!
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 6 August 2020 15:10 (three years ago) link
^ Video where he breathlessly praises Thomas Sowell
malkmus has been on red eye
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 6 August 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
Malkmus once complained about leftism within indie
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 6 August 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
Malkmus prob. didn't praise Thomas Sowell for five minutes or call people weird lesbos, though.
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 6 August 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
That's for the next solo album uh wait.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 August 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
Should have known people would already be on top of this. I definitely don’t feel guilty about never actually checking them out anymore (it mostly stopped when I saw the swastika album but part of me was thinking some of that was badly-executed irony)
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Thursday, 6 August 2020 19:52 (three years ago) link
They were huge for me when I was in high school but since at least 2000 they have struck me as only being interested in finding creative ways to fleece their collector scum fan base.
The last time I thought they were remotely interesting live was mid-90s opening for Nine Inch Nails, otherwise every time I've seen them since they have seemed nearly as bored with playing their music as I was having to hear it.
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:19 (three years ago) link
As part of that collector scum fanbase, this is a classic
https://www.discogs.com/Melvins-Shit-Sandwich/release/1120833
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:25 (three years ago) link
Lowest: $250.00Median: $274.40Highest: $300.00
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:26 (three years ago) link
I was big into them in the mid to late 90s, but I'll cop to also being really into the Big Business era line-up.
That said I'm blissfully unaware of what the "swastika album" refers to, or at least I think I am because I don't know which one that means.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:29 (three years ago) link
https://www.discogs.com/Melvins-The-Trilogy/release/1129351
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:31 (three years ago) link
Oh, thanks. Had no idea. I only had The Maggot on CD, so I wasn't aware of that vinyl version.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:34 (three years ago) link
Not just a swastika, but a Klan cross-with-blood-drop too. That's a real racism deep cut.
I liked the Big Business quartet lineup a lot (interviewed all four members for a Wire cover story, saw them live twice, possibly three times) but don't really care for/about the bulk of their catalog. The impression I got of Buzzo was "smart guy who's being sarcastic 90+ percent of the time," plus he's closing in on 60, so it's no surprise that his quest for ways to bait interviewers and/or anyone listening to him drifted into right-wing bullshit a time or two. I mean, if you read the "Political and social views" section of his Wiki page, it's obvious that his real politics boil down to "fuck you, leave me alone, and stop caring so much about stuff, you big pussy":
Political and social viewsIn a 2011 interview with the music magazine L.A. Record, Osborne stated when asked about American politics that "I hate conservatives, but I really hate liberals. Here's the thing. I have my own opinions about everything, and it's basically classic liberalism." In 2008, he told the magazine Alarm that he opposes what he sees as both modern socialist and fascist thought, stating that he's "into true liberalism, which means you mind your own goddamn business; you take care of yourself." In a 2014 interview with Tonedeaf, Osborne expressed that American economist, Thomas Sowell, has been a major influence on his career. "I consider Sowell the greatest philosopher of all time." Osborne explained. "He is a PhD economist and he's written more than 30 books about everything you can imagine, from social commentary to how economics works."In a 2008 interview with City Newspaper of Rochester, when asked about his collaboration with Jello Biafra on two albums, Osborne stated that "I don't relate at all to his politics. I believe in personal freedom, personal responsibility. And nobody tells you what to do more than the left wing. They're a bunch of fascists."In terms of issues covering copyright and illegal file-sharing of songs, Osborne's remarked, "The internet downloading—people need to get over it". He's also added, "Is it stealing? Sure, yeah—but it doesn't matter. It's over. Things have changed. We have to move on." In an earlier interview, he argued, "For me musically, I wish I woulda had something like YouTube when I was a kid so I could go, 'Oh, what's this Captain Beefheart?'"
In a 2008 interview with City Newspaper of Rochester, when asked about his collaboration with Jello Biafra on two albums, Osborne stated that "I don't relate at all to his politics. I believe in personal freedom, personal responsibility. And nobody tells you what to do more than the left wing. They're a bunch of fascists."
In terms of issues covering copyright and illegal file-sharing of songs, Osborne's remarked, "The internet downloading—people need to get over it". He's also added, "Is it stealing? Sure, yeah—but it doesn't matter. It's over. Things have changed. We have to move on." In an earlier interview, he argued, "For me musically, I wish I woulda had something like YouTube when I was a kid so I could go, 'Oh, what's this Captain Beefheart?'"
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:47 (three years ago) link
i hate it when people say that a racist is more authentically anti-social than they are .. what? some other racist that didn't make music that you like i guess. that their real politics is just being an asshole and the racism is like a symptom of that. such a trope in underground scenes. and just stupid, sorry.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:57 (three years ago) link
like yep as it turns out racists tend to have the attitude of "fuck you, leave me alone, and stop caring so much about stuff, you big pussy"
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:59 (three years ago) link
Buzz sounds like every asshole who watches SOUTH PARK and lets it completely inform their worldview.
"Well, conservatives aren't cool, but those fucking liberals and their anti-bigotry shit, man..."
― beamish13, Thursday, 6 August 2020 22:29 (three years ago) link
did frogbs get a new username?
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 6 August 2020 22:30 (three years ago) link
What is it with internet leftist message board posters and their weird obsession with how other people watch South Park?
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 6 August 2020 22:31 (three years ago) link
those darn internet leftists are at it again!!the bootlicker was the last thing of Melvins I really engaged with, I did dig that
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 6 August 2020 23:03 (three years ago) link
I know a couple of folks who have worked with Melvins, Inc. in the past couple of years and the recent developments come as no surprise nor as anything really recent. Fleecing collectors is capitalist job #1.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 7 August 2020 04:13 (three years ago) link
Weirdos being weird I suppose.
"A History of Bad Men" indeed. Whatever...that is a pretty wicked riff.
― earlnash, Friday, 7 August 2020 05:53 (three years ago) link
heard someone say this:
"oh, that’s what the melvins sound like!? for some reason i thought they were 90s ska or something…"
please somebody make a 90s ska cover of a melvins song, thanks
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 11 February 2024 18:35 (four months ago) link
Ever Skince My Skaccident #skozma
― I don't care where just fart (away) (Craig D.), Monday, 12 February 2024 02:56 (four months ago) link
Are they still doing the tour thing where the opening band fills in half the slots on stage in their line-up? They just need the right ska band....
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 12 February 2024 15:37 (four months ago) link