The Melvins: S/D

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

going on the 14th i think

I wish I could go tomorrow.

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

whoa dude this sounds dope imo

anyone here go the the show last week??

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

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."

Melvins Poll

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.

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.