Best Melvins Record

dudes nude with boots pretty much rocks my socks off

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

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

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...

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.

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.

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.

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

I love Fudge Tunnel

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.

It's just not very good

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

fuuuuuck

all of them?

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.

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

plus colossus of destiny! :D

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

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

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

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.

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.