The Melvins: S/D

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.

no problem, faggot.

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

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.

i wish those recordings would surface.

I've seen them 8 times since and every damn time was different and amazing. One of the best being a 2001 gig at the HOB in new orleans with Lou Barlow playing guitar and wearing a cow print dress.

For newbies, start with Bullhead and the Maggot. Then Stoner Witch, Lysol (great cover of Flipper's "sacrifice") and Gluey Porch Treatments.
For die hards - make sure to grab the bootleg of their singles and the kill rock stars comp which has a killer speed core song entitled "Ever since My accident"

That was the first Melvins song I heard!

Gluey Porch Treatments is a great album. Ozma & Bullhead are good too. I'm not familiar with much of their later stuff.

Avoid Prick, it's terrible.

get ears.

thank you.

fwiw heres two tracks from "bullhead" so you can at least hear a record of theirs
Boris
Zodiac

as far as "spot the grunge band", as far as i know you've got it backasswards and you're probably hearing the melvins in those other bands. they started in '84 after all and nirvana, mudhoney, et al were big fans.

i have to say i'm not as hot on this band as i used to be so i can see them not sounding all that great to a new listener in '06.

The Melvins/Biafra collab is tops too. Very anthemic, kind of reminds me of the first Black Sabbath album on speed.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41LNP%2BE8lML._SS500_.jpg

thoughts on above?

excellent album

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.

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

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

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

The remix album is best avoided.

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.

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

As noted by Andy K elsewhere:

http://grungereport.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/buzzworldseries.jpg

buzz like the giants

Cuet panda hat girl too.

that's thalia zedek

lol

Anyone else going?

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

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

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....