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Melvins

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I consider The Melvins to be the juggernauts of the music industry: nothing can stand in their way. From their beginnings in the mid eighties until today, they are probably the only band ever to have done exactly what they want throughout their career and constantly gotten away with it. Although they are most famous for their stoner/metal/grunge albums, it's not rare to be sometimes confronted with noise albums, cover albums and others that are well... simply indescribable. Many early fans have been tried and tested throughout the years by these odd albums, some have accused the group of arrogance and/or trying to piss off their fans and maybe some of that is true, but when you look back, The Melvins wouldn't have been The Melvins without these.

Regardless of these bizarre career choices, this band has went on to become one of the most veneered and influential rock musicians of the past twenty-five years. It would take me a whole page to enumerate all the bands that have spawned from the trail of goo this band has left behind; a few noteworthy artists would be: Nirvana, Boris (they even took they're name from one of their songs!), Steel Pole Bathtub, Sleep (and therefore High On Fire), Kyuss, Queens Of The Stone Age, and the list goes on... The Melvins themselves have obviously been influenced by Black Sabbath. They are one of the very first bands (along with Earth and the more obscure Winter) to give the slow, stoner metal riff back it's laurels during a time when speed and technical prowess were the style. They are also quite renowned for their Kiss fetish, they would sometimes cover the band on their own albums or on compilations. Where the band got their experimental influences however I don't know; but this odd mix of influences and a surreal sense of humor (just check out some of the track titles) make them unique. I believe they are the only band in history that could feel at home in either a greasy redneck trucker bar or some snotty downtown art gallery.

I remember first hearing about The Melvins in an article on grunge music back in the early nineties. Already then, they were considered "the godfathers of grunge" (possibly originating from the fact that Kurt Cobain was a proud fan). Of course I doubt they enjoyed being categorized as such and my little theory is that those weird and self-destructive albums were created as a means to disassociate themselves from the scene. Although I knew who they were, and curious, I wouldn't hear their music until that fateful day when me and my friends were off to see a Primus show in downtown Montreal. I was quite happy to finally get to hear them, but I was not expecting them to be like this. After a few short and heavy tracks, Buzz Osbourne drifts off into an EXTREMELY LONG one note guitar solo. Surely this lasted over ten minutes. Fans of Primus were getting impatient and began chanting for Primus, heckling the band and booing them. I regret to say I was among those chanting for Primus (for shame!). The recording of this live performance wound up on the infamous Prick album which I had found on tape in a used record store. I noticed the name of the track and was pretty sure this had to something to do with the Primus incident so I was pleasantly surprised to hear I was right. Prick wound up being my very first Melvins album and I can assure you it's not the right way to go about discovering this band. It would take another few years before my interest in the band would surface again. I finally purchased all the early albums and fell in love (finally). I had well over twenty albums when I sold them all to move back to Canada from Sweden after my first separation in 2000. I've regretted this ever since. I promised myself to get them back one day, so my Melvins collection got to grow again after finding a few lot sales on eBay and the occasional used record in shops in Montreal.

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Album Cover Ozma/Gluey Porch Treatment
Label: Boner Records
Release: 1989
Format: CD
Cat. no: BR16-2

Song list:

Ozma:
  1. Vile (3:47)
  2. Oven (1:28)
  3. At A Crawl (2:46)
  4. Let God Be Your Gardener (1:52)
  5. Creepy Smell (2:04)
  6. Kool Legged (2:48)
  7. Green Honey (1:14)
  8. Agonizer (1:40)
  9. Raise A Paw (1:11)
  10. Love Thing (1:17)
  11. Ever Since My Accident (1:30)
  12. Revulsion/We Reach (6:21)
  13. Dead Dressed (2:07)
  14. Cranky Messiah (1:25)
  15. Claude (1:15)
  16. My Small Percent Shows Most (0:58)
  17. Candy-O (1:27)
Gluey Porch Treatment:
  1. Eyes Flys (6:15)
  2. Echo Head/Don't Piece Me (2:49)
  3. Heater Moves And Eyes (3:54)
  4. Steve Instant Newman (1:31)
  5. Influence Of Atmosphere (1:51)
  6. Exact Paperbacks/Happy Grey Or Black (2:45)
  7. Leeech (2:32)
  8. Glow God (0:51)
  9. Big As A Mountain (0:57)
  10. Heaviness Of The Load (3:06)
  11. Flex With You (0:54)
  12. Bitten Into Sympathy (1:45)
  13. Gluey Porch Treatments (0:48)
  14. Clipping Roses (0:49)
  15. As Was It (2:51)
  16. Over From Under The Excrement (4:38)


Album Cover Bullhead
Label: Boner Records
Release: 1991
Format: CD
Cat. no: BR25-2

Song list:

  1. Boris (8:34)
  2. Anaconda (2:23)
  3. Ligature (3:49)
  4. It's Shoved (2:36)
  5. Zodiac (4:14)
  6. If I Had An Exorcism (3:07)
  7. Your Blessened (5:39)
  8. Cow (4:31)


Album Cover Eggnog
Label: Boner Records
Release: 1991
Format: CD
Cat. no: BR28-2

Song list:

  1. Wispy (1:45)
  2. Antioxidote (2:16)
  3. Hog Leg (3:24)
  4. Charmicarmicat (12:50)


Album Cover Your Choice Live Series
Label: Your Choice Records
Release: 1991
Format: CD
Cat. no: YCLS012

Song list:

  1. Heather Moves And Eyes (2:33)
  2. At A Crawl (3:05)
  3. Anaconda (2:53)
  4. Eye Flys (7:10)
  5. Koolegged (4:37)
  6. Tanked (0:44)
  7. Let God Be Your Gardener (1:59)
  8. Revulsion (7:13)


Album Cover King Buzzo
Label: Boner Records/Tupelo Recording Company
Release: 1992
Format: CD
Cat. no: BR32-2/TUP39-2/301.0039.2 41

Song list:

  1. Isabella (3:15)
  2. Porg (4:02)
  3. Annum (4:29)
  4. Skeeter (2:03)


Album Cover Dale Crover
Label: Boner Records/Tupelo Recording Company
Release: 1992
Format: CD
Cat. no: BR33-2/TUP40-2/301.0040.2 41

Song list:

  1. Hex Me (1:14)
  2. Dead Wipe (2:47)
  3. Respite (4:16)
  4. Hurter (4:22)


Album Cover Lysol
Label: Boner Records/Tupelo Recording Company
Release: 1992
Format: CD
Cat. no: BR35-2/TUP42-2/301.0042.2 41

Song list:

  1. Hung Bunny/Roman Dog BIrd/Sacrifice/Second Coming/The Ballad Of Dwight Fry/With Teeth (31:21)


Album Cover Houdini
Label: Atlantic Records
Release: 1993
Format: CD
Cat. no: 7 82532-2

Song list:

  1. Hooch (2:50)
  2. Night Goat (4:41)
  3. Lizzy (4:44)
  4. Goin' Blind (4:32)
  5. Honey Bucket (3:01)
  6. Hag Me (7:06)
  7. Set Me Straight (2:25)
  8. Sky Pup (3:50)
  9. Joan Of Arc (3:36)
  10. Teet (2:51)
  11. Copache (2:07)
  12. Pearl Bomb (2:45)
  13. Spread Eagle Beagle (10:13)


Album Cover Stoner Witch
Label: Atlantic Records
Release: 1994
Format: CD
Cat. no: CD 82704

Song list:

  1. Skweetis (1:12)
  2. Queen (3:07)
  3. Sweet Willy Rollbar (1:28)
  4. Revolve (4:44)
  5. Goose Freight Train (4:38)
  6. Roadbull (3:25)
  7. At The Stake (7:56)
  8. Magic Pig Detective (5:33)
  9. Shevil (6:29)
  10. June Bug (2:01)
  11. Lividity (9:16)


Album Cover Prick
Label: Amphetamine Reptile Records
Release: 1994
Format: CD
Cat. no: AMREP 031

Song list:

  1. How About (4:15)
  2. Rickets (1:20)
  3. Pick It N' Flick It (1:39)
  4. Montreal (4:09)
  5. Chief Ten Beers (6:28)
  6. Underground (2:19)
  7. Chalk People (1:16)
  8. Punch The Lion (3:14)
  9. Pure Digital Silence (1:32)
  10. Larry (2:59)
  11. Roll Another One (14:20)


Album Cover Stag
Label: Atlantic Records/Mammoth Records
Release: 1996
Format: CD
Cat. no: 82878-2

Song list:

  1. The Bit (4:43)
  2. Hide (0:49)
  3. Bar-X-The Rocking M (2:22)
  4. Yacob's Lab (1:15)
  5. The Bloat (3:40)
  6. Tipping The Lion (3:46)
  7. Black Bock (2:41)
  8. Goggles (6:28)
  9. Soup (2:37)
  10. Buck Owens (3:09)
  11. Sterilized (3:28)
  12. Lacrimosa (4:38)
  13. Skin Horse (5:14)
  14. Captain Pungent (2:19)
  15. Berthas (1:23)
  16. Cottonmouth (1:56)


Album Cover Singles 1-12
Label: Amphetamine Reptile Records
Release: 1997
Format: 2CD
Cat. no: AMREP 063

Song list:

CD 1:
  1. Lexicon Devil (1:42)
  2. Pigtro (3:55)
  3. In The Rain (1:30)
  4. Spread Eagle (4:18)
  5. Leech (3:09)
  6. Queen (3:13)
  7. Way Of The World (3:58)
  8. Theme (3:19)
  9. It's Shaved (3:16)
  10. Forgotten Principles (1:09)
  11. GGIIBBYY (3:09)
  12. Theresa Screams (4:13)
CD 2:
  1. Poison (3:33)
  2. Double Troubled (5:16)
  3. Specimen (6:45)
  4. All At Once (3:28)
  5. Jacksonville (7:36)
  6. Dallas (6:14)
  7. The Bloat (3:15)
  8. Fast Forward (4:03)
  9. Nasty Dogs And Funky Kings (2:34)
  10. HDYF (6:28)
  11. How-++-Harry Lauders Walking Stick Tree (3:29)
  12. Zodiac (by Brutal Truth) (3:36)


Album Cover Honky
Label: Amphetamine Reptile Records
Release: 1997
Format: CD
Cat. no: AM REP 064-2

Song list:

  1. They All Must Be Slaughtered (8:17)
  2. Mombius Hibachi (1:58)
  3. Lovely Butterfly (2:10)
  4. Pitfalls In Serving Warrants (3:36)
  5. Air Breather Deep In The Arms Of Morphius (12:12)
  6. Laughing With Lucifer At Satan's Sideshow (2:16)
  7. How --++-- (3:26)
  8. Harry Lauders Walking Stick Tree (3:17)
  9. Grin (4:12)
  10. In The Freaktose The Bugs Are Dying (29:23)


Album Cover Alive At The F*cker Club
Label: Amphetamine Reptile Records
Release: 1998
Format: CD
Cat. no: AM REP 072

Song list:

  1. Boris (6:06)
  2. It's Shoved (2:54)
  3. Bar-X-The Rocking M (1:58)
  4. Antitoxidote (2:06)
  5. The Bloat (3:28)
  6. Lizzy (3:13)
  7. Mombius Hibachi (1:56)


Album Cover The Crybaby
Label: Ipecac Recordings
Release: 2000
Format: CD
Cat. no: IPC-6

Song list:

  1. Smells Like Teen Spirit (5:02)
  2. Blockbuster (3:10)
  3. Ramblin' Man (3:14)
  4. G.I. Joe (4:00)
  5. Mine Is No Disgrace (8:22)
  6. Spineless (4:01)
  7. Divorced (14:43)
  8. Dry Drunk (4:03)
  9. Okie From Muskogee (2:10)
  10. The Man With The Laughing Hand Is Dead (11:27)
  11. Moon Pie (12:45)


Album Cover Colossus Of Destiny
Label: Ipecac Recordings
Release: 2001
Format: CD
Cat. no: IPC-14

Song list:

  1. Colossus Of Destiny (59:23)
  2. Untitled (0:05)


Album Cover Hostile Ambient Takeover
Label: Ipecac Recordings
Release: 2002
Format: CD
Cat. no: IPC-20

Song list:

  1. Black Stooges (0:31)
  2. Untitled (5:58)
  3. Dr. Geek (2:35)
  4. Little Judas Chongo (2:03)
  5. The Fool, The Meddling Idiot (7:50)
  6. The Brain Center At Whipples (3:50)
  7. Foaming (7:47)
  8. The Anti-Vermin Seed (15:52)


Album Cover 26 Songs
Label: Ipecac Recordings
Release: 2003
Format: CD
Cat. no: IPC-38

Song list:

  1. Easy As It Was (2:55)
  2. Now A Limo (0:55)
  3. Grinding Process (2:37)
  4. #2 Pencil (3:08)
  5. At A Crawl (3:04)
  6. Disinvite (1:22)
  7. Snake Appeal (1:39)
  8. Show Off Your Red Hands (2:57)
  9. Over From Underground (2:22)
  10. Cray Fish (3:06)
  11. Easy As It Was (2:39)
  12. Now A Limo (0:53)
  13. Grinding Process (2:44)
  14. At A Crawl (3:13)
  15. Disinvite (1:23)
  16. Snake Appeal (1:52)
  17. Set Me Straight (3:09)
  18. Show Off Your Red Hands (2:57)
  19. #2 Pencil (3:18)
  20. Grinding Process (2:17)
  21. Snake Appeal (1:43)
  22. At A Crawl (2:52)
  23. Operation Blessing (0:45)
  24. Breakfast On The Sly (1:51)
  25. Ever Since My Accident/"Hugh" (15:05)


Album Cover A Live History Of Gluttony And Lust (Houdini Live)
Label: Ipecac Recordings
Release: 2006
Format: CD
Cat. no: CD IPC-76

Song list:

  1. Pearl Bomb (1:39)
  2. Hooch (2:33)
  3. Night-Goat (7:36)
  4. Lizzie (4:49)
  5. Going Blind (4:34)
  6. Cop-Ache (1:54)
  7. Set Me Straight/DCH (2:51)
  8. Sky Pup (3:18)
  9. Teet (2:45)
  10. Joan Of Arc (4:19)
  11. Honey Bucket (2:21)
  12. Hag Me (8:05)
  13. Spread Eagle Beagle (12:30)


Album Cover (A) Senile Animal
Label: Ipecac Recordings
Release: 2006
Format: CD
Cat. no: IPC-82

Song list:

  1. The Talking Horse (2:40)
  2. Blood Witch (2:44)
  3. Civilized Worm (5:57)
  4. A History Of Drunks (2:19)
  5. Rat Faced Granny (2:40)
  6. The Hawk (2:34)
  7. You've Never Been Right (2:30)
  8. A History Of Bad Men (6:42)
  9. The Mechanical Bride (6:25)
  10. A Vast Filthy Prison (6:44)


Album Cover Nude With Boots
Label: Ipecac Recordings
Release: 2008
Format: CD
Cat. no: IPC-105

Song list:

  1. The Kicking Machine (2:42)
  2. Billy Fish (3:51)
  3. Dog Island (7:30)
  4. Dies Iraea (4:31)
  5. Suicide In Progress (4:45)
  6. The Smiling Cobra (3:41)
  7. Nude With Boots (3:34)
  8. Flush (1:05)
  9. The Stupid Creep (1:29)
  10. The Savage Hippy (3:32)
  11. It Tastes Better Than The Truth (5:20)