Best Melvins Record

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Poll Results

OptionVotes
Bullhead 9
Lysol 5
Gluey Porch Treatments 4
Ozma 4
A Senile Animal3
Stoner Witch 2
Houdini 2
Stag 1
Buzzo 1
Eggnog 1
Joe Preston 0
Electroretard 0
Colossus of Destiny 0
Millenium Monsterwork 0
Hostile Ambient Takeover 0
Pigs Of the Roman Empire 0
Mangled Demos 0
Crybaby 0
Bootlicker 0
Maggot 0
Alive at the Fucker Club 0
12 Singles 0
Honky 0
Your Choice Live 0
Prick 0
Dale Crover 0
10 Songs 0


sexyDancer, Friday, 20 April 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

Torn between Lysol and Bullhead but voted Bullhead because of "Zodiac," which features one of the most killer riffs of all time.

Manalishi, Friday, 20 April 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

Tough one. Will need to think.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 20 April 2007 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

that's too tricky. my gut instinct is to say senile animal, just because it's been on really heavy rotation lately.

but then maggot, lysol, gluey, ozma, bullhead...none of 'em far behind.

it's very possible melvins defy this kind of voting behaviour.

m the g, Friday, 20 April 2007 19:31 (eighteen years ago)

Houdini was great too. I love that album. I think i'll just listen to them all then decide.
A Senile Animal is brilliant too though. This really is a tough one.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 20 April 2007 19:32 (eighteen years ago)

i chose eggnog. always kicks my ass.

GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Saturday, 21 April 2007 04:48 (eighteen years ago)

Lysol

Alex in SF, Saturday, 21 April 2007 04:50 (eighteen years ago)

I voted A Senile Animal.

filthy dylan, Saturday, 21 April 2007 06:50 (eighteen years ago)

No none option, huh?

JN$OT, Saturday, 21 April 2007 07:24 (eighteen years ago)

get out

latebloomer, Saturday, 21 April 2007 07:27 (eighteen years ago)

Done.

JN$OT, Saturday, 21 April 2007 07:37 (eighteen years ago)

Toss-up for me between Lysol and A Senile Animal - I went with the latter.

unperson, Saturday, 21 April 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

Are you guys kidding? My pick is Gluey Porch Treatments, far and away. The only one that comes close is Ozma.

Reatards Unite, Saturday, 21 April 2007 13:30 (eighteen years ago)

Lysol is the only one I REALLY REALLY like.

MRZBW, Saturday, 21 April 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

This was really, really hard and I will celebrate my Bullhead choice by playing all Melvins records I own except that one to make me really feel like I've made a bad choice.

BlackIronPrison, Saturday, 21 April 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

I went for Bullhead as well. Gluey Porch Treaments & Ozma are also faves. But I like most of their albums.

Colonel Poo, Saturday, 21 April 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

I grew up loving the melvins, and I still like them a whole lot. As far as best "melvins" record, zodiac is probably the best one. But as far as a record that holds up today, genre be damned -- I'd say the maggot or stoner witch

UncleTomfly, Saturday, 21 April 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

doh I meant "bullhead" not zodiac, though zodiac is far and away the best cut on it.

UncleTomfly, Saturday, 21 April 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

What's the best album for a novice to start with?

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Saturday, 21 April 2007 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

Houdini.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 21 April 2007 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

Bullhead rules the roost at my house.

ian, Saturday, 21 April 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

Most of the ones you all named rule, but personally, I couldn't be without Stoner Witch. I can't explain why, it just reaches the parts the others almost do but ultimately don't.

StanM, Saturday, 21 April 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

dudes nude with boots pretty much rocks my socks off

a fool committed to a VISION of SOMETHING NO ONE ELSE UNDERSTANDS (jdchurchill), Thursday, 6 May 2010 00:34 (fifteen years ago)

Nude With Boots is really, really awesome, yes indeed.

International Harvester Of Eyes (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 6 May 2010 00:37 (fifteen years ago)

i thought this was gonna be about the new album that has surfaced in certain places

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 6 May 2010 00:40 (fifteen years ago)

That's a good list. I'm a bit dissapointed in the lack of love for EggNog, Bootlicker, Maggot, Crybaby, Hostile Ambient Takeover, and Honky. I'm an Ozma man myself, but Ozma, Bullhead & EggNog were practically from the same sessions, released very close together. Too bad there was no way to somehow get Prick into negative numbers...

ImprovSpirit, Thursday, 6 May 2010 17:09 (fifteen years ago)

The new one is damn good. But very weird in parts - they've clearly gotten too successful to suit their own tastes and have decided it's time to alienate some folks again.

Born In A Test Tube, Raised In A Cage (unperson), Thursday, 6 May 2010 17:10 (fifteen years ago)

Don't think I voted at the time, but yeah Lysol, with Bullhead and Houdini honourable mentions.

Weirdly I'm not a massive fan of the Big Business-era of the band. As much as I love seeing two drummers live, it feels played out now and straitjackets their sound a bit.

ears are wounds, Thursday, 6 May 2010 18:18 (fifteen years ago)

didnt like the 1st 4 tracks of the new album on 1st listen and hated the my generation cover. But liking it a lot more on 2nd listen, but I still hate the my generation cover.

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 6 May 2010 18:24 (fifteen years ago)

I like the cover a lot, but it depends how much you like Fudge Tunnel, I guess.

Born In A Test Tube, Raised In A Cage (unperson), Thursday, 6 May 2010 18:27 (fifteen years ago)

I love Fudge Tunnel

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 6 May 2010 18:32 (fifteen years ago)

Me too, and I think the Melvins version of "My Generation" is a straight ripoff of Fudge Tunnel's version of "Sunshine of Your Love." Not only the overall slow 'n' heavy vibe, but the way it breaks down into an almost ambient dub thing at the halfway mark. I swear it's gotta be deliberate on the Melvins' part.

Born In A Test Tube, Raised In A Cage (unperson), Thursday, 6 May 2010 19:02 (fifteen years ago)

It's just not very good

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 6 May 2010 19:19 (fifteen years ago)

so there's a new melvins thing? with a cover of my generation?
what's it suppose to be called this new thing?
i dunno i love every sound melvins makes. i love every single record they have put out. perhaps i am not being critical enough

a fool committed to a VISION of SOMETHING NO ONE ELSE UNDERSTANDS (jdchurchill), Thursday, 6 May 2010 19:36 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/reviewpics/melvinsbride.jpg

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 6 May 2010 19:49 (fifteen years ago)

ot only the overall slow 'n' heavy vibe, but the way it breaks down into an almost ambient dub thing at the halfway mark. I swear it's gotta be deliberate on the Melvins' part.

― Born In A Test Tube, Raised In A Cage (unperson)

second to last track on both albums, too. that said, the ambient bit in the middle of sunshine is really just a few seconds of near-silence. more a pause than the sort of psychedelic voyage the melvins go off on. still, gotta figure this for a tip of the hat.

contenderizer, Thursday, 6 May 2010 21:29 (fifteen years ago)

great record, though. resembles stag in a lot of ways, and though it never quite reaches the same heights of creative insanity, it's probably more satisfying overall.

contenderizer, Thursday, 6 May 2010 21:30 (fifteen years ago)

damn i'm gonna be outta town when they come to chi

a fool committed to a VISION of SOMETHING NO ONE ELSE UNDERSTANDS (jdchurchill), Friday, 7 May 2010 00:39 (fifteen years ago)

wow, another record --- just started getting into 'Nude With Boots' recently, as I picked up the vinyl version which was only just released a few months ago. I feel like I did when I watched the Sopranos entirely on DVD because I didn't have HBO. always one season behind everyone else. hopefully they do they vinyl and CD concurrently this time!! The new record sounds great from unperson's description of it...

and yeah, I echo the 'Nude With Boots' praise from jdchurchill and Jon Lewis above, it really kicked my ass. I hear lots of Led Zep in it

Stormy Davis, Friday, 7 May 2010 02:33 (fifteen years ago)

seven months pass...

So the Melvins have this month long residency at Spaceland and each night they're playing a different album (Bullhead, Stoner Witch, Houdini, Lysol) but I can't make up my mind which night(s) to go.

Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 11 December 2010 00:10 (fifteen years ago)

fuuuuuck

in my world of young puppies (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 11 December 2010 00:13 (fifteen years ago)

all of them?

in my world of young puppies (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 11 December 2010 00:14 (fifteen years ago)

First show (1/7) is:
Melvins set.
(Colossus of Destiny)
Lysol record
Eggnog record...

Second show (1/14):
Melvins 1983.
Melvins set.
Houdini record.

Third show (1/21):
Melvins Lite.
Melvins set.
Bullhead record.

Fourth show (1/28)
Melvins set.
Stoner Witch record.

in my world of young puppies (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 11 December 2010 00:14 (fifteen years ago)

1/7 easy. Lysol is their best record and Eggnog is pretty awesome esp "Charmicarmicat".

Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Saturday, 11 December 2010 00:23 (fifteen years ago)

plus colossus of destiny! :D

in my world of young puppies (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 11 December 2010 00:24 (fifteen years ago)

yeah i'd choose 1/7 first & foremost, but all look fabulous

i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Saturday, 11 December 2010 02:58 (fifteen years ago)

five months pass...

Ozma. I don't get how people choose Gluey over it.

i-i (teflon monkey), Thursday, 26 May 2011 00:56 (fourteen years ago)

totally would've voted Stag. Last year's Teeth of the Sea album kind of reminded me of Stag, except w/o the goofiness...

pax raggetta (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 26 May 2011 01:24 (fourteen years ago)

love stag. would have gone that way too.

surprised, in retrospect, that the houdini thru stag run of major label albums fared so poorly. they may not be as crushing as the bricklike indie albums that preceded them, but they're hardly watered down, and it's nice to hear the band indulge themselves so fully on atlantic's dime. don't think they've ever since managed such an ideal balance of heavy rocks, hooks, clever production and experimental oddity.

contenderizer, Thursday, 26 May 2011 01:41 (fourteen years ago)

The Melvins are a hard band to really pick one CD over the rest. I can pick out the ones that are really annoying (especially like Prick), but most of the rest of the stack is generally pretty cool shit. That said, I am overdue to get caught up with their last few cds.

earlnash, Thursday, 26 May 2011 03:50 (fourteen years ago)


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