Melt Banana - Classic or Dud?

Yeah, I saw them a week or so ago and had a good time.

What's the best album to get? I've seen them a few times over the years but never got round to buying anything. I think maybe now... it is time.

Everyone will have a different answer, but I started with Teeny Shiny so that's what I'd recommend. It's the best mid-point between their current slicker sound and their earlier noisy stuff.

i saw them driving in a van smiling last week!

Teeny Shiny is a fine place to start. I like Cell Scape a lot also.

My brothers' band opened for them in '96 and they floored us. I've since seen them with Fantomas, and then one of my bands chanced to support them in Missoula a few years back.

They have never disappointed me. Cell Scape is my fave, but I certainly haven't heard them all.

If you like Cell Scape so much, Nate, you'll love Bambi's Dilemma.

And I just remembered, they had a record on Skin Graft as well back in the mid-90s, Scratch or Stitch. Steve Albini and Jim O'Rourke both had a hand in that one.

Teeny and Cell but personally I prefer the shows.

i saw them on my birthday a year or so ago. best show EVAH.

Now I'm a mother of two and can't attend gigs (for the moment). Boo.

new one doesn't quite top Cell-Scape for me but still great... obligatory SEE THEM LIVE!! I was like O_O :O !!!

Charlie is v.good too

I keep hoping this thread will be UK dates :( :(

this band can really rip it up.

whatever happened to lake of dracula?

skin graft...sniff, eagle tear....

I am proud to say that I put out a record on Skin Graft a few years back. Such a cool label.

Lake of Dracula featured Weasel Walter who's still in Flying Luttenbachers and more...

English Leg of European Tour:

Mon 16th June 2008
* ULU - London

Tue 17th June 2008
* Brudenell Social - Leeds

Sat 21st June 2008
* Thekla - Bristol

Sun 22nd June 2008
* The Hare & Hounds - Birmingham

Mon 23rd June 2008
* Rock City - Nottingham

Wed 25th June 2008
* ULU - London

Thu 26th June 2008
* Barfly - The Gloucester - Brighton

you appear to have forgotten the 24th, where they will be playing the Cambridge Barfly. see y'all there.

I'll be at the Dublin show on the 20th, somewhere near the front (I'd better get there early, as Crawdaddy is tiny).

gr8 g1g. would go again.

appetite = whetted

off to see them...NOW.

They were awesome in Dublin last night. Shame the support 'band' (some MySpace combo who clearly don't rehearse and treated the spot like they were playing to mates in their own living room) were so shite, though.

> you appear to have forgotten the 24th

i just c'n'p'd them from the official website, guess it was added in meantime. myspace page does show 24 cambridge but i can't check official pages as i don't have flash on this computer and all i get is boxes full of 'download plugin'...

classic

A big C.

How I managed to miss them in my home town beats me up

Tonight is now at the Cambridge Soul Tree. Hope to see some of you there! I'll be the dude in a Cardiacs shirt (although I'll probably buy a M-B shirt too and wear it over the top).

Anyone?

OK, the playing of punk should be BANNED unless you are THIS FUCKING AWESOME. Like, the most intense thrash-pop experience imaginable. And there are only four of them. And they're all really small. And that guitarist. Oh man.

I was at the front, in the middle, moshing my tits off, as you might imagine.

yay!

It must be added that the frontwoman is probably the hottest I've ever seen. And the bassist the smallest.

Also, the song I really wanted to hear them play was their ENCORE. :D

(that being "Shield For Your Eyes, A Beast In The Well Of Your Hand")

How come no one on the internet has found or talked about the Saturday Night Live sketch from like 2001 where Horatio Sanz was Iann Robinsonn there was a japanese band called Crush Papaya featuring Poehler and Maya and them? And they played really short loud abrasive songs and then said all quiet.. "thankyoo."

Shouldn't that be like LOL OMG Noize D00d supermeme 4 alltime? But there's no trace of it anywhere on the internet :/

So I find out completely by chance they're back in Hull on Thursday. YEEEEEHAAAAAAAA :D

saw these dudes in bozeman, montana (?????) and it was fucking amazing

why they played in a college town where no one's heard of them i'll never know, but i was intensely grateful----wanted to hug each one of those motherfuckers

esp the singer amirite

god she's hot

lol cool your jets hotshot this is more or less a purely musical love affair I got

haha i was just channelling gbx's post into manifest truths

as for the music, shit they're up there with the finest i've seen or could imagine seeing

i don't think gbx was being tumescencey, just affectionate.

last time was just overwhelming really. i spotted the poster in a shop window today from the top deck of the bus and our Joel couldn't understand why I was getting so excitable until we got home and I played him some Cellscape.

oh, the hugs would all be affectionate, but one would be laced with more than a twinge of outright adoration, were i the hugger, just sayin'

cellscape is massive but christ almighty it barely prepares you...even being told that they replicate EVERYTHING live isn't quite enough...they're like some sort of tidal wave

i have an awesome us maple/melt banana poster that says minneapolis is in michigan

That was better than last time, if anything. Dunno if the stage divers* added anything.

*Strictly speaking you can't dive from the Adelphi stage. It's more about clambering upward and booting people in the ear.

I hope I get to see them in Brighton on Monday.

How come no one on the internet has found or talked about the Saturday Night Live sketch from like 2001 where Horatio Sanz was Iann Robinsonn there was a japanese band called Crush Papaya featuring Poehler and Maya and them? And they played really short loud abrasive songs and then said all quiet.. "thankyoo."

Shouldn't that be like LOL OMG Noize D00d supermeme 4 alltime? But there's no trace of it anywhere on the internet :/

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, July 27, 2008 11:27 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark

THIS:

http://snl.jt.org/detail.php?i=2002040612

I hope I get to see them in Brighton on Monday.

Hey, I was there! So, so good. Too bad the guitar player has the swine flu.

New LP. "MELT BANANA - Lite Live Ver 0.0" . with added electronics.

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=236333

oh, it's old songs (based on my sample of 3), done live, with synths.

Just been added to spotify, I'll hopefully give it a go tonight

http://open.spotify.com/album/5wxbpJgu7YrHSQqXh8gqeq

played Monkey Man by the specials last time i saw them. ruled.

Why have I never gotten into this band before? They're just incredible, and on tour:

http://www.myspace.com/AZAP
http://www.songkick.com/artists/152850-meltbanana/calendar

SO GOOD live

Melt Banana/Daughters(not so much)/Lightning Bolt still ranks in the best shows I've ever seen. That was about 7 years ago too.

new lp

http://www.geocities.jp/azaplink/mb/mxbx.html

bah, frames

http://www.geocities.jp/azaplink/mb/i_az009.html