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Houdini and Stoner Witch practically sound like Metallica, so I suppose one could say without Metallica there would be no Melvins. But, I still say Melvins. And yes, I know that Melvins are all about Sabbath and Kiss. Still sounds like Metallica quite a bit at times. Metallica can take their 4 classic albums and stick 'em up their ass.

― Now I'm on a Melvins kick, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 01:57 (twenty years ago)

Melvins made more incredible changes between 1986 and 1997 than metallica did in an entire career of spooky trapped under ice bullshit.

Personal note: The melvins are my favoritest band in the whole wide world.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 02:57 (twenty years ago)

metallica made 3 & a half phenomenal albums. i have never heard melvins. surely, if they had made 3 & a half phenomenal albums i would have.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

scott's right (except for that 'half' bullshit)... the whole 'phenomenal' thing kind of puts them over the edge. even without giant blue hair and a crazy-ass drummer.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

my half was for the garage days ep cuz i loved it so much.and it was an ep, so i only give it a half. i didn't love ...and justice for all as much. but i will stand behind anyone who loves it. and i will try not to tickle them.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

melvins are great but did they record master of puppets?

NO.

― latebloomer: Pain Don't Hurt (latebloomer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

If you will accept me for my love of And Justice I will accept you for your obliviousness to the Melvins. I have undying love for And Justice. Although I didn't really like "Dyer's Eve", that was a bad way to end an album, almost as bad a track as "Dyer Maker". Hey I should make you a Melvins mix sometime. After I make the 500 other things I've promised people! haha. whoops. Um, anyway both bands rule but I'll go with Metallica. I was just thinking of them tonite in fact, as I was listening to that incredible NWOBHM comp that I've been rediscovering and listening to pretty much constantly for the last month or so. but anyway, the original "Helpless" came on and man, it sounded good, but I SO longed for James Hetfield to be barking out the vocals. God that "Garage Days" ep was so great.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)

(that was to Skotrokrotandrule)

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)

Bullhead, Ozma, the one usually known as 'Lysol', Houdini, Stoner Witch, Stag, The Bootlicker, The Crybaby and Hostile Ambient Takeover are all phenomenal Melvins albums, and their worst album is better than anything Metallica's done in ten years. So there.
Should also mention that the Melvins formed in 1983, same year that Kill Em All came out, so one really shouldn't say "without Metallica there would be no Melvins". And, unlike Metallica, the Melvins are hilariously funny on purpose.

xpost: Check out this awesome list of songs the Melvins have covered.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

Scott — Melvins were underpublicized and part of a genre they didn't belong to, really, at a point when music was changing radically. Had Metallica released Master of Puppets when grunge was big (which is impossible, true), it would have seemed silly. To me, at least. It sounds ridiculous to me now! But, Melvins sounds better than ever. And not corny.

― Now I'm On A Melvins Kick, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

stormy, i still wanna send you a copy of that morning megamix.

this one:Island Scott's Morning Megamix

e-mail me yer addy. i am dubbing frank kogan one and then that is it. i wash my hands of it. and i was just talking about one of the songs on it on another thread!

i owned a melvins album once! i never played it! i don't know why! i will hear them someday.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 03:32 (twenty years ago)

Scott, I'm okay with you standing behind my love for ...And Justice as long as you PROMISE no tickling. And no sneezing on the back of my neck cus that's gross.

I'll accept the Garage Days EP half though...I just automatically assumed you were opting for half of Justice.

Sure, Metallica have far more failings than the Melvins, and somewhere along the way they certainly torched their sense of humor, BUT...the Melvins don't hold water against Metallica's first 3 albums, no matter how much I can't stand Metallica now.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

yoo are crazy, sweatyguy. master of puppets still sounds great. i think my problem with ...and justice (other than i thought it was too long) was the drum sound. i hated it. but it had great songs. i certainly listened to it a ton back then.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)

ok Skot, it's a deal! I will make it worth your while, I promise. I will dub you something hot. I gotta try to remember which of the nine million things I've promised to you over the years. Maybe when the search function is fixed I will search under my name for "burn" or "mix" or "copy" or something. Or maybe I'll just wing it. You have to hear the Thundermother tho, so I will include that for sure.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

Both bands moved to the bay area.

The Melvins are all about the unexpected curves and they definitely still have fuel in the tanks, but that being said I don't think they can really compete with Metallica with Cliff.

I'd take The Melvins over Slayer.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 03:53 (twenty years ago)

"I'd take The Melvins over Slayer."

i have never heard melvins, but you are certifiably insane.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

Isn't Metallica that band that goes to therapy with dave mustane and holds his hand and gives him hand jobs and stuff?

Metallica is fun and awesome and master of puppets and all; but there's really no comparison. Now I will prove it to you.

Turn the lights off then lie on your back and listen to Lysol. Turn the lights back on and draw a picture using crayon and marker.

See.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 04:05 (twenty years ago)

do you write for pitchfork?

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

The fact that you've never heard the Melvins is amazing to me, Scott.

I'll take prime period Metallica, but the Melvins have some pretty awesome records.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

Melvins do win in the drumming dept., but Ride the Lightning rocks so much ass it's not even funny. I had a friend who'd try to win me over to rockabilly and fifties r&b by playing it over the phone to me in high school and then I'd turn around and play "Creeping Death" in his ear. It was probably the only time before or since he'd listened to Metallica.

― p.j. (Henry), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

I think the key thing is Metallica's output in the 80s is essential, incredibly influential and all around mindblowing. But everything after "...And Justice For All" is merely good for a laugh.

The Melvins have had moments of brillance throughout their 20+ year career. My personal favorites are Bullhead, Eggnog and Lysol, but I've definitely heard some awesome stuff in their eighties, and late-nineties output, like that AmRep singles comp.

But Metallica wins by virtue of their string of vital releases in the 80s.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

EGGNOG, bitches.

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I haven't heard much newer Melvins material...I didn't like Stoner Witch all that much. Didn't they return to longer, dirgier songs?

― p.j. (Henry), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

yeah, check out "The Maggot"

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

or the Lustmord collabo
after "Stoner Witch" the Melvins went on a mad genre-fuck mission for a string of lps: "Stag" "Honky" "Electroretard" "Bootlicker"
"Hostile Ambient Takeover" is kinda the "return to form" as it were

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

"The fact that you've never heard the Melvins is amazing to me, Scott."

sad, isn't it? i have never heard the manic street preachers either. even more impressive, i heard royal trux for the first time last year! i owned one of their records forever and only just played it in 2004. and i was a huge pussy galore fan! i never claimed to be normal.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

Hm. I'll burn you some stuff, Mr. Seward.

I had most everything by both bands for a long time. Then I realized one day I wasn't actually listening to Metallica any more and hadn't for years, which was not the case with the Melvins. Sell back time!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

i have never heard the divine comedy either. are melvins better than the divine comedy?

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

apples/oranges, but yeah.

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

i take that back, they both share a luxurious, over-the-top sensibility.

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

i have never heard melvins. surely, if they had made 3 & a half phenomenal albums i would have

I thought I was the only person who'd never heard the Melvins. I have heard Metallica though. I used to own "Master of Puppets" on CD actually. Not sure what happened to it. I probably sold it in a fit of madness when I started getting too indie. I wish I still had it though. So I say Metallica wins.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

i also wanna hear...what's that band with stephen tintin duffy in it? i wanna hear them.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

The Lilac Time? Eh.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

do they suck? i almost said idlewild. i get all those bands mixed up.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

ned, don't tell jack rabid this, but i have never heard leatherface.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

Some people swear by them but I was never that taken, a certain 'classic English guitar pop' style that was for me just merely nicely formal at best.

I haven't talked to Jack in a long while. ;-) Leatherface were great for "I Want the Moon" and the Police cover, and that's about all you really need.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

Dude, the Melvins have stayed consistently awesome for 20 years...

The only loud rock bands that can boast the same have recorded the same album over and over and over again (eg, Slayer, Motorhead, AC/DC)

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

I owned a colored vinyl version of Stoner Witch that I won from WSOU. I don't even know why I called in to win it, because I didn't own a turntable. Consequently, I never played it.

Metallica: don't like the first album much, except for "Jump In The Fire," but the second, third and fourth are pretty much unassailable (except for "To Live Is To Die" and "Dyers Eve"), the Garage Days Re-Revisited EP is fantastic (almost made me like Killing Joke for a minute there), and even the "Black Album" has three or four good songs, though I don't own it anymore so I can't tell you which ones they were except for "Sad But True."

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

(almost made me like Killing Joke for a minute there)

*idly notes the looming figure shaped like an Alex in NYC rising above midtown in wrath*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Hey, I've tried, believe me I have. I've bought four different Killing Joke CDs over the years - Extremities..., the Laugh? I Nearly Bought One! comp (from which I did actually like the song "Turn To Red"), the recent one with Grohl (which I guess gave me an aneurysm or something, since it actually made my Pazz 'n' Jop Top Ten, though looking back now I can think of a ton of other records that should have had its slot) and For Beginners. I even went to one of their shows in the early 90s. They just don't do it for me, and it's because they're just not fast and/or hard enough. They're hard/heavy music for non-metalheads. But they don't hold up to Slayer, or Discordance Axis, or Napalm Death (any era), or even the first five songs on the first Slipknot album.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

do you write for pitchfork?

No, I write for your mother. Please post your drawing whenever you're done.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Here I was, innocently opening this thread wherein to opine about how shitty the Melvins were, are and always will be and WHAT'S THIS? SOMEONE TALKIN' SMACK ABOUT THE JOKE!!!

Why on God's Cursed Earth would you compare Killing Joke to the slackjawed likes of Napalm Death? They're apples and oranges, man, apples and orages.

And Slipknot are just a big fucking pathetic laugh, so you are no longer saddled with the burden of credibility.

Killing Joke ---> Not a metal band. Not a Goth band either.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

The war begins.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

This is going to be the ILX metalhead equivalent of a Subway Series.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

But anyway, back to the question.

I don't really hear a lot of similarities between the Melvins and Metallica (apart from, y'know, volume -- in which case the Melvins positively bury Metallica). My problem with the Melvins -- though I've liked select tracks -- is that I get very bored by them in very short order. They were a fun band to see live (I saw them at the Roxy in L.A. in the mid-90's....they practically blew a hole in my sternum with that bass amp). But overall, I just don't get into their dynamic (in much the same way, I suspect, PDF fails to get into the `Joke). Metallica -- though they've irreversibly launched into a trajectory of lamentable suckitude -- at least kept things moving and interesting.

Also, King Buzzo's hair bugs me.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, and FUCK SEATTLE!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

One thing that really makes Melvins great: BOOTLICKER! And it didn't suck like when Metallica got all soft. Some bands could make a whole career off that Bootlicker sound! So quiet yet so heavy. And without the corny shit. I can't believe anyone would still feel something for the subject matter and vocal delivery of classic-era James Hetfield. It sounded great at the time, but now? Trapped Under Ice? Ride The Lightning? Sanitarium? Give me a break already. Such over the top drama about such lame can't-relate-to-it subject matter. Get one sense of humor.

― Sweaty, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

The Holy Bible by the Manic Street Preachers was a huge disappointment for me....I was all ready for some awesome hot rockin' craziness, and then it was like...uh...i GUESS this rocks...if yr English. Sounded like a regular rock record to me.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

There's one Melvins disc I always meant to check out that featured Erik Sanko of Skeleton Key (who foookin' rock.....they're not a metal band either, it should be noted, but they rock wicked hard). I ferget the title, tho'.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

Such over the top drama about such lame can't-relate-to-it subject matter.

B-b-b-b-but haven't you ever been trapped under ice, Sweaty?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

"Trapped Under Ice? Ride The Lightning? Sanitarium? Give me a break already. Such over the top drama about such lame can't-relate-to-it subject matter. Get one sense of humor."

Oh, COME ON! We're talking about METAL here.

― latebloomer: We kissy kiss in the rear view (latebloomer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

The Crybaby is the Melvins album of collaborations with, among others, Skeleton Key, Leif Garrett, David Yow, Foetus...
It's Part 3 of the trilogy of The Maggot, The Bootlicker, The Crybaby.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

That's the one. Thanks, Mike. How is it?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Metal is best without a sense of humor.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

whatever, tell that to ac/dc

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

whatever, tell that to ac/dc

Well, technically, some might argue that AC/DC are -- WAIT FOR IT -- not an orthodox metal band.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

xpost to answer Alex:
The Crybaby's okay, but spotty. It seems real spur of the moment, and it's at least half covers. Not essential, and not one of their best. I think people who don't necessarily like the Melvins might get into it, though, since most if not all the tracks feature guest vocalists, and mostly veer from the Melvins signature style(s).
The Skeleton Key track, which I've always thought was a collab. between both full bands, is called 'Spineless', which I think is an SK song? I haven't heard the original, if it is, but it's one of the best songs on the album.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

2nd time i saw melvins live was when they were touring w/ leif garrett in their entourage. apparently his job was to come onstage to sing their cover of 'smells like teen spirit' heheheh. also they rule, eggnog, bullhead, blahblah,etc..

― Am0n, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

whatever, tell that to ac/dc
Well, technically, some might argue that AC/DC are -- WAIT FOR IT -- not an orthodox metal band.

yep, AC/DC is hard rock not metal.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

Hmmmm. "Spineless" isn't an SK track that I'm aware of (it's not on either Fantastic Spikes... nor Obtanium nor their first e.p.). Sounds promising, though, I'll check that out. Thanks.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

fine, tell that to black sabbath (are you going to seriously tell me they didn't have a sense of humor?)

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

I don't hear it...they seem pretty serious to me.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

fairies wear boots?

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, and FUCK SEATTLE!

What does Seattle have to do with anything?
Melvins are from Aberdeen, moved to SF, then LA.
But, of course, that wouldn't give ANGRY in NYC much to get worked up over now would it?

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

they sound more than a bit knowingly over-the-top and exaggerated to me (though no less and probably even more awesome for it), especially when you watch video of them where ozzy's runnin around all over the place with a big goofy smile on his face.

then ya got all your stoner metal (sleep, kyuss etc.) which certainly has a pronounced sense of humor - though of course they might not be your particular cup of tea.

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

metallica.

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

I think Metallica had a sense of humor. I mean, yeah, they took themselves pretty seriously, but whaddya want? They were an intense metal band with a chip on their shoulder trying to make it in a world ruled by puffy-haired glam rock poodles.

What does Seattle have to do with anything?

heh. I knew that would piss someone off. And yeah, I know the `vins aren't from Seattle, but y'know -- they were from the Pacific Northwest (which might as well mean Seattle) and were certainly part of the whole Seattle grunge scene (wasn't Matt Lukin a Melvin at one point?). And, if I'm not mistaken, I believe ol' dead K___ C_____ continually cited the Melvins as a primary influence.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

I'd suggest that Slayer have less of a sense of humor than Metallica.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

I dunno, maybe I'm wrong, but when I was a metal youth I took EVERYTHING about metal deadly serious and so maybe that's the lense I view it through....In any case, I don't think lacking a sense of humor in metal is bad.....tho maybe Sabbath did have one...

re: Metallica, if any of those dudes had a sense of humor, it didn't come across in Some Kind of Monster, that's fer sure...tho it was a hilarious film...

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

metal fans not having a sense of humor != metal bands not having a sense of humor

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

"part of the scene"

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Are Judas Priest, Motorhead and Alice Cooper hard rock as well? They all have a sense of humor. Isn't later Metallica hard rock? That fuckin' black album and the Loads weren't any more metal to me than AC/DC. Kind of like cowboy hard rock.

But, if metal has to be humorless, please don't make it about being trapped under ice. :-| Make it about Satan. Or killing. Or hating. At least it doesn't paint a picture from a lamer Stephen King movie. Ride The Lightning, For Whom The Bell Tolls and Fade To Black were cool songs, though.

The weird thing about Hetfield's delivery is he sounds fake and passionless. I know he's screaming and raging, but it just sounds like the did a new take for every line so he could get the coolest vocal delivery, not remotely an authentic delivery. With other metal singers, you can hear them having fun or taking on the personalities of their characters.

― Sweaty Balls, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

I have an mp3 of Metallica dicking around in the studio playing both the Peanuts theme and the theme to the Empire Strikes Back. A friend of mine saw Metallica a few years back when they played some crazy outdoor show in Alaska, and James came onstage wearing a furry viking helmet.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Venom -- for whom there is no other label than metal (albeit maybe Black Metal, or a myriad variations thereof) -- had a hell (pardon the pun) of a sense of humor. I think large swathes of their fan base, however (those Scandiweigans who burn churchs), didn't quite get the joke.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/pic200/drp000/p091/p09198k5683.jpg

the hair I was discussing earlier.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

but that hair is awesome!

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

When the $5.98 EP came out, I had internal struggle because I sort of liked these "halfass" cover songs almost better than the real deal. "Could it be?! No, no, no... these cover tunes only sounded this great because Metallica is playing them," I thought. Now, I realize the reason why is because there was some fun and some humor in those 5 or 6 songs. In fact, some of my favorite moments were the trailing off guitar bits or little "behind the scenes" chatter. I remember being really excited about the next album with Jason Newstead. Then "And Justice" came out and it was all downhill from there.

As for hair who gives a flying fuck? Wasn't that the whole deal with Metallica is not being concerned about image? Oh wait, that was all bullshit, I forgot. Compare Buzz's hair to Cliff Burton's bellbottoms and general greasiness. Fair enough trade, I say.

― Sweatloaf, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Compare Buzz's hair to Cliff Burton's bellbottoms and general greasiness. Fair enough trade, I say.

Bahahahahahahaha. Ya got me. I give, I give.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

I think the Melvins are maybe a little too pretty myself!

http://www.themelvins.net/newsimages/melvins_promo_2004.jpg

Uh...

― Sweatstuff, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.deanguitars.com/userpics/lib/Cliff%20Burton%20On%20Stage.jpg http://photos5.flickr.com/8589094_31ddf06a49_m.jpg

One of these men looks sillier than the other, though.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

Separated at birth?

ihttp://www.musicclub.it/marzo2001/images/melvins.jpg http://www.pararadio.hu/id/robertsmith.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

http://www.musicclub.it/marzo2001/images/melvins.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

yeah, this guy:
http://1.im.cz/n/photo/01/27/34btkfj-topvyska.jpg

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

http://www.metallicaworld.co.uk/early21.jpg

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

http://guitargeek.com/rigs/img/m/melvins_buzzo_2001.gif

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

Jaz looks silly, but he doesn't look like Buzzo or Robert, thank Christ.

Jesus, look at Lars' bumfluff moustache.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

One is like, "Take us very seriously."

The other is like, "Don't take me too seriously."

Does anyone think Robert Smith and Buzzo have remotely similar hair care routines? I think Buzzo rolls out of bed with his clothes on and smokes a bowl to achieve his look. But, Mr. Cure is all dyeing it black and spraying it up all just so.

― Don't Sweat The Small Stuff, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

Robert's `do does look very specific, yes.

Buzzo seems to just let it sprout from his head as if he were a portly black palm tree.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

I just can't fault a band that doesn't bother to do a single sit-up. I don't know why. Perhaps I should be more concerned with people being so truly apathetic about how they present themselves.

― 1 foot in the shower, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

... a portly GRAY palm tree!

― whoops, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

buzzo = sideshow bob

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

working class guy caught in being stout shockah

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

http://www.themelvins.net/pics/melvins/images/melvins16_jpg.jpg
http://www.themelvins.net/pics/melvins/images/melvins14_jpg.jpg

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

THIS IS THE WORST THREAD EVER.

― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

that one with lorax holding the cat is my favorite melvins photo

― Amon (eman), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

she speaks for the trees

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

that one with lorax holding the cat is my favorite melvins photo

They look like a Dan Clowes illustration come to life!

― Sweatload, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)

buzz at a red sox game!

― latebloomer: We kissy kiss in the rear view (latebloomer), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

http://www.musicclub.it/marzo2001/images/melvins.jpg

http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/bootsy/96/messiah.gif

― Pangolino 2, Wednesday, 15 June 2005 02:38 (twenty years ago)

In the cat picture, Lorax looks like she has a man hand (in the shadow), Buzzo looks like Billie Joe from Greenday and you-know-who looks exactly like a Dan Clowes illustration from "The Party" strip in Eightball comics. The shoulders, the stance, the shirt, the expression. Just exact.

― Humidifier, Wednesday, 15 June 2005 03:28 (twenty years ago)

eighteen years pass...

I didn't see a Melvins-only thread but this Throbbing Gristle cover is great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfS8HiK3gcs

― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 21:06 (two years ago)

This was a strange thread.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 02:55 (two years ago)

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