The Melvins: S/D

"of course people said .. they're drunk!"

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.

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.

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."

Here's mine: Kurt Cobain of Nirvana used to be a Melvins roadie.

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

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....