request for discussion - the melvins

Find Lysol if you can, more commonly known simply as Melvins. Half an hour of godhead, all one track, mostly. And some Alice Cooper as well.

Personally, I'd second the Ozma call.

I had asked about it here.

dudes this one is weird
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Iu3QYLD0w4M/SCJLC5LtaCI/AAAAAAAAAlM/_ZH_Um6OH68/s320/Melvins%2B-%2BElectroretard.jpg

http://www.ipecac.com/promo/minis/002mini.jpg
fucking blowing my fucking mind, man

too right. just glimpsing that cover means I have to listen to it.

NOW!

now i've listened to it 3x today and i am still like whoa dude

see how pretty, see how smart + the green manalishi (with 2 pronged crown)= holy fuckin shit, man

http://mediaportal.ru/uploads/posts/2008-04/1208159088_honky.jpg

whoa dudes this one will rule on halloween night

Listen to the Maggot on random for best results.

http://mediaportal.ru/uploads/posts/2009-04/1239644687_melvins-the-bootlicker.jpg
dudes is this a christmas album?
sleigh bells in "toy" and a track entitled "black santa"
hmmm

surely this is a christmas album dudes
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001BDO.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

this guy likes it

The straight up noise tracks on the Singles comp like "Pigtro" and "Spread Eagle" are incredible. Some of my favorite stuff of theirs.

'eggnog' is dope

we can go to church, and you're naked

eggnog is some of their top shits

yeah

http://mediaportal.ru/uploads/posts/2008-04/1208158677_melvins_stag_front_cover.jpg
wow this one is like a horror movie
i am not sure i will ever feel the same way about soup.

First track on that record is "one of the heaviest grooves of all time".

A lot of weirdness for a major label effort, would you say?

huh: Cult rock band Melvins hit U.S. chart after 26 years

that's kind of a backhanded compliment-ary article, dudes
although i prefer that to the melvins not being in the news

that is incredible, good for them. thanks for pointing it out, main part:

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The music industry's collapse is good news for the Melvins, the defiantly uncommercial "thud-rock" band that just cracked the U.S. pop album chart for the first time in its 26-year career.

The group, whose heavy guitar riffs and mumbled vocals paved the way for fellow Seattle-area bands such as Nirvana and Soundgarden, grabbed the last spot on Billboard's Top 200 chart published Wednesday.

It achieved this feat by selling just 2,809 copies of "The Bride Screamed Murder," its 19th album. With another 2,000 units, they would have breached the top half of the chart.

Exactly five years ago, the threshold for inclusion in the Top 200 was about 5,000 copies. Since then, U.S. album sales have halved, and the industry last month suffered its slowest week since the early 1970s, according to a Billboard estimate.

wtf is "thud-rock"?

NEW GENRE SWEEPING THE 90s ALTERNATIVE ROCK STATIONS: THUD ROCK
also does this mean that melvins fans are 'old school' actually buying cds/rekkids?

Melvins/Nora Jones package tour in the works!

Maybe this will pull 'Ozma' and 'Bullhead' up onto the charts! LOL

i'm kinda shocked that it only takes 3000 to breach the Top 200 these days. it will be interesting if Billboard sticks to physical sales as the mainstream goes all digital.

also wonder what happened in the early 1970s to cause the previous slowest week

I suppose the latest Melvins is their most mersh disc, but I can't understand why it would've broken the charts when 'Houdini' and 'Stoner Witch' didn't. Maybe its because the sales bar has gotten so low.

also does this mean that melvins fans are 'old school' actually buying cds/rekkids?

duh

right so all those mullets in anthrax tshirts i saw at the last melvins show i went to were really old school dudes and not aging hipsters being 'ironic'

i have no idea what you two are babbling about but melvins have always had a huuuuge record/CD nerd contigent, which I guess is "old school" compared to Wavves fans downloading their music through Green Label Sound website

http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m570.l1313&_nkw=melvins&_sacat=See-All-Categories

whiney setting us all straight imo

u should learn more abt 90s underground rock jd, sayin

so right, and i am TRYING

Um, anyway, finally got around to hearing the new one, its pretty fucking fantastic. Really don't understand the Pitchfork review and it makes me wonder if he's really heard much of their stuff before the previous two. I know he namechecks the singles comp, but, uh, his complaint about all the "digressions" doesn't hold much water for me.

xpost i recommend starting with freak*on*ica by girls against boys

see how pretty, see how smart + the green manalishi (with 2 pronged crown)= holy fuckin shit, man

― Don't hag me with your false green. (jdchurchill), Friday, September 18, 2009 9:16 PM (1 year ago)

the green manalishi was written by peter green from fleetwood mac once again with the melvins blowing my mind

No discussion on ILX about Freak Puke, with Trevor Dunn on upright bass. I realize it's easy to lose track of Melvins releases, as I have many times over the years, but just picked this up used and man is it good. Except the cover of "Let Me Roll It," that is (dude, if you can't hit the notes, don't sing the fucking song)

man i like the melvins in theory but in practice their albums past 1992 or so seem hugely uneven. i always hear people say there's good stuff on the albums but listening to a whole record of theirs generally leaves me feeling disappointed. what are some of their best songs from the past 20 years?

I loved them when they were creepy and sounded like a doom metal Captain Beefheart. I lost interest when the wacky dudebro "humor" started creeping in. I'd avoid the last 20 years and stick to Glue Porch Treatments-Lysol

Gluey rather

what are some of their best songs from the past 20 years?

― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Monday, September 19, 2016 7:24 AM (forty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I like the idea of a Melvins 1995-2015 S&D, I'd be curious myself about some diamonds in the rough I'm sure I've missed

Always tempted to buy the vinyl reissues of Houdini and Stoner Witch when I see them at the local store, but I think the fact that the CD versions of these (which I have) have been going for pennies for like two decades prevents me from making a $40+ investment

The obvious answer is "The Bit" but even that was in 1996.

i don't really follow Melvins stuff outside of the classics either but always make a point to see them live. still pretty great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oolwsWexSzQ

this song is the highpoint of their Ipecac era imo

The double-drummers albums are mostly great, except for the song "The Water Glass" from The Bride Screamed Murder, which I find annoying. (A) Senile Animal is the best of the three, but they're all good. So is the live album that lineup made.