The Melvins: S/D

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

free EP download at Scion A/V

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new album Freak Puke out on Ipecac this summer!

http://loudwire.com/files/2012/02/melvinslitefreakpuke-300x300.jpg

hah! good title.

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.

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.

More just to showcase this bit of angry hilarity:

http://www.avclub.com/article/melvins-buzz-osborne-picks-songs-by-bands-that-wer-200741

I pre-ordered one of these in December
http://i.imgur.com/SqzRqLd.jpg

great article btw Ned, thank you!

so great

Buzzo OTM throughout

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 Teeth
2. Rough Democracy
3. Laid Back Walking
4. Drunken Baby
5. Vaulting Over A Microphone
6. New River
7. The Vulgar Joke
8. Everything's Easy For You
9. The Ripping Driving
10. How I Became Offensive
11. Instrument of God
12. The Spoiled Brat
13. Illegal Mona
14. Good and Hostile
15. The Blithering Idiot
16. Useless King of the Punks
17. The Hesitation Twist

lol i like this

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

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.

aw man :(

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.

Buzzo has always seemed like an asshole

he used to be on that "hip" Fox news show Red Eye

Yeah that was as big a warning sign as any.

Damien from Fucked Up was a fixture on there iirc, to the best of my knowledge he's not like this tho

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.

Wow I botched that sentence, I blame answering a work call in the middle of typing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zZFwUljowg

Enjoy!

^ Video where he breathlessly praises Thomas Sowell

malkmus has been on red eye

Malkmus once complained about leftism within indie

Malkmus prob. didn't praise Thomas Sowell for five minutes or call people weird lesbos, though.

That's for the next solo album uh wait.

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)

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.

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.

As part of that collector scum fanbase, this is a classic

https://www.discogs.com/Melvins-Shit-Sandwich/release/1120833

Lowest: $250.00
Median: $274.40
Highest: $300.00

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.

https://www.discogs.com/Melvins-The-Trilogy/release/1129351

Oh, thanks. Had no idea. I only had The Maggot on CD, so I wasn't aware of that vinyl version.

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 views
In 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?'"

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.

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"

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..."

did frogbs get a new username?

What is it with internet leftist message board posters and their weird obsession with how other people watch South Park?

those darn internet leftists are at it again!!

the bootlicker was the last thing of Melvins I really engaged with, I did dig that

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.

Weirdos being weird I suppose.

"A History of Bad Men" indeed. Whatever...that is a pretty wicked riff.

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

Ever Skince My Skaccident #skozma

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....