This sounds GREAT!!! Melvins have always been brilliant at strange and ass kickin covers…now we have an album dropping in the near future of covers. Some interesting choices!
Created on Friday, 08 February 2013 14:30
Written by brian
Today the Melvins announced a 13-track covers album titled “Everybody Loves Sausages,” which is set for an Apr. 30 release via Ipecac Recordings.
“This record will give people a peak into the kind of things that influence us musically,” explains Buzz Osborne. “We REALLY like all of these songs along with the bands who actually wrote this stuff because first and foremost we are HUGE music fans.”
In a decidedly Melvins approach to a covers album, the band not only selected a unique assortment of songs to cover, ranging from Roxy Music’s “In Every Dream Home A Heartache” to Queen’s “Best Friend,” they also enlisted several friends to take part including Mudhoney’s Mark Arm joining them for The Scientists’ “Set It On Fire” and Neurosis’ Scott Kelly pitching in on a cover of Venom’s “Warhead.”
While the release is billed as a proper Melvins’ album (featuring the line-up of Osborne, Dale Crover, Jared Warren and Coady Willis), there are a handful of songs recorded as the Melvins Lite incarnation of the band (Osborne, Crover and Trevor Dunn): “Female Trouble” (Divine a.k.a. John Waters), “Timothy Leary Lives” (Pop-O-Pies) and “Romance By Tales of Terror” (Tales of Terror).
The complete track listing with original artist and guest player notation:
1.Warhead (Venom; Guest: Scott Kelly of Neurosis)
2.Best Friend (Queen; Guest: Caleb Benjamin of Tweak Bird)
3.Black Betty (Original artist unknown)
4.Set It On Fire (The Scientists; Guest: Mark Arm)
5.Station To Station (David Bowie; Guest: JG Thirlwell)
6.Attitude (The Kinks: Guest: Clem Burke of Blondie)
7.Female Trouble (Divine a.k.a. John Waters)
8.Carpe Diem (The Fugs)
9.Timothy Leary Lives (Pop-O-Pies)
10.In Every Dream Home A Heartache (Roxy Music; Guests: Jello Biafra and Kevin Rutmanis)
11.Romance (Tales of Terror)
12.Art School (The Jam; Guest: Tom Hazelmeyer)
13.Heathen Earth (Throbbing Gristle)
Read about this the other day…they picked a great Bowie track to cover,even cooler that Foetus is on it…interested to hear how they cover Venom and TG also…and naturally Divine!!!
Sweet! This looks interesting. I’ll have to go back and listen to that TG track. Is it the typical noise/drone sound or one of their actual song songs?
Although their cover of “Black Betty” will never equal the brilliance of the Ministry version… lol …
EDIT actually just listened to the Ministry one. it’s not too terrible. Mainly because the song is fun and stupid to begin with so that ridiculous nuMinistry style works there.
It isn’t a covers album if it doesn’t have a cover of tghe tune no one knows who did originally! hahaha Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds did a pretty bad-ass cover of it.
Heathen Earth by TG is an album that was recorded live in the studio in 1980…not sure if it will just be some snippets or what…interested to see how they cover it…
Um… Divine and John Waters are two very different people (in every sense of the phrase). Plus Divine is dead. Is this like Natalie Cole and her dad singing together or what?
Um… Divine and John Waters are two very different people (in every sense of the phrase). Plus Divine is dead. Is this like Natalie Cole and her dad singing together or what?
I was confused by that as well. I guess it’s implying that “Divine”, and the song itself, were ultimately John Waters’ creation.
It isn’t a covers album if it doesn’t have a cover of tghe tune no one knows who did originally! hahaha Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds did a pretty bad-ass cover of it.
I’m looking forward to hearing the Queen cover![/reply]
Well, nobody did it originally. It’s a folk song from the 19th century. I suppose it was made famous by Lead Belly, though.
Putting this down on “highly anticipated” if only for the Bowie cover. Who doesn’t want to hear Jim warble his way through a terrific song about the white stuff? Melvins seem to have an unbroken track record with covers, “Sacrifice” and “Youth of America” being infamous. The recent “Let Me Roll It” being a standout of the FREAK PUKE album it came from. As for guests, The Crybaby had a strong hit-miss ratio, so I’m not expecting everything to be superb. It is, at the end of the day a cover album, but the best of them have the potential to introduce and enlighten listeners like myself to whole backcatalogs of music.
As for the Divine aka John Waters dispute, NO idea, though if I had to guess Waters is probably the songwriter?
