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.
― DOQQUN (donut), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:46 (eighteen years ago) link
no problem, faggot.
― nervous.gif (eman), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― nervous.gif (eman), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link
pssshh. i've known that since, oh, 1935.
― nervous.gif (eman), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:57 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 23 April 2006 00:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― nervous.gif (eman), Sunday, 23 April 2006 00:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 23 April 2006 05:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Sunday, 23 April 2006 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Sunday, 23 April 2006 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― ng-unit, Sunday, 23 April 2006 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link
i wish those recordings would surface.
― ddb (ddb), Sunday, 23 April 2006 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link
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"
― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Monday, 24 April 2006 05:43 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 24 April 2006 06:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link
get ears.
thank you.
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lee is Free (Lee is Free), Saturday, 27 May 2006 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link
fwiw heres two tracks from "bullhead" so you can at least hear a record of theirsBorisZodiac
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.
― Q('.'Q) (eman), Saturday, 27 May 2006 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link
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― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 27 May 2006 23:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 27 May 2006 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Q('.'Q) (eman), Sunday, 28 May 2006 00:04 (seventeen years ago) link
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― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 28 May 2006 00:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― klump, Thursday, 1 June 2006 09:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmotdeth (marmotwolof), Thursday, 1 June 2006 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Harpal (harpal), Sunday, 10 September 2006 23:54 (seventeen years ago) link
The Melvins/Biafra collab is tops too. Very anthemic, kind of reminds me of the first Black Sabbath album on speed.
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Monday, 11 September 2006 00:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Monday, 11 September 2006 00:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― edde (edde), Monday, 11 September 2006 01:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Nigel (Nigel), Friday, 29 September 2006 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41LNP%2BE8lML._SS500_.jpg
― stephen, Saturday, 23 August 2008 08:57 (fifteen years ago) link
thoughts on above?
excellent album
― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 23 August 2008 14:43 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― REIGN IN FUDGE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 08:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Hostile Ambient Takeover: SO underrated. so much interesting stuff going on throughout. kicks ass also.
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Is the remixes album worth checking out? I generally hate remixes
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link
The remix album is best avoided.
― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 23:26 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Mike Crandle, Financial Analyst, Bear Stearns, New York, NY 10185 (res), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 02:26 (fourteen years ago) link
the remix album has its moments of brilliance and its moments of bleh, but none of it is better than unadulterated melvins.
― m the g, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 07:43 (fourteen years ago) link
As noted by Andy K elsewhere:
http://grungereport.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/buzzworldseries.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 October 2010 13:56 (thirteen years ago) link
buzz like the giants
― social-media-compost Circle of Life (jdchurchill), Friday, 29 October 2010 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Cuet panda hat girl too.
― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 29 October 2010 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link
that's thalia zedek
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 29 October 2010 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 29 October 2010 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyone else going?
http://blowthescene.com/bands/melvins-bands/the-melvins-spaceland-residency-this-january.html
― puff pastry hangman (admrl), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 7 August 2020 04:13 (three years ago) link
Weirdos being weird I suppose.
"A History of Bad Men" indeed. Whatever...that is a pretty wicked riff.
― earlnash, Friday, 7 August 2020 05:53 (three years ago) link
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
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 11 February 2024 18:35 (two months ago) link
Ever Skince My Skaccident #skozma
― I don't care where just fart (away) (Craig D.), Monday, 12 February 2024 02:56 (two months ago) link
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....
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 12 February 2024 15:37 (two months ago) link