The B-side of Pure has no known equivalent.
Sit down, boyfriend.
Street Cleaner, Selfless, Songs Of Love And Hate and Us And Them are much better albums!! As i said before though…Baby Blue Eyes is the most DEVASTATING song ever!!!
On a side note…have you checked out Ice yet Jizz??
BREED…LIKE RATS!!![mad][mad][mad][cool]
Need we say anything more?
BREED…LIKE RATS!!![mad][mad][mad][cool]
Need we say anything more?
THIS
I like the more mainstreamy mid-period stuff like Houdini, Stoner Witch and Stag. I really enjoyed the Melvins/Lustmord collaboration Pigs of the Roman Empire.
The Jello/Melvins stuff is great too.
“What kinda douche ranks Streetcleaner over Pure?”
Deny. Your disease. Isolate.
PURE!!
Pure would be even more awesome if Brian Mantia was on the skins for it…well for every song except Baby Blue Eyes anyway…Street Cleaner would still kick it’s ass though!!
MELVINS RULE!!!
It’s a simple fact: The Melvins kick ass backwards and forwards, six sides from Wednesday! Can’t wait for the new album!
I’ve been dying to go to another show - first time I saw them was opening up for Primus at the Hollywood Paladium in like '93. I was in high school and “experimenting” with altering my conscious at the time. I’ll never forget the moment when it started to hit me as I stood at the urinal and could hear the Melvins start boiling up their wonderfully brutal music - I almost fell over.
And just a side note the Ministry debacle- that idiot from Static X should have gotten his ass kicked (I damn near jumped the stage myself) for blowing So What in Hollywood during the April 4th show - and apparently he did it again the next night! Didn’t even sing - just stood there grinning like a retarded clown as the crown sang the verses!
first time I saw them was opening up for Primus at the Hollywood Paladium in like '93.
I was at that same tour. I saw them in Montreal, and although I was rather unsober at the time, I am pretty sure the Melvins got booed off the stage. Or made fun of and they walked off, or something.
Primus kicked ass though.
six sides from Wednesday!
anyone else get really shitted off when people say
“eight ways from sunday!!”
…some explain how that makes sense?
[reply] first time I saw them was opening up for Primus at the Hollywood Paladium in like '93.
I was at that same tour. I saw them in Montreal, and although I was rather unsober at the time, I am pretty sure the Melvins got booed off the stage. Or made fun of and they walked off, or something.
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Actually it was the other way around…the Melvins made fun of the crowd and booed them as they left the stage.
Primus SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!
The essence of Pure has a ineluctable pull on the senses of the listener. A pull that manages to capture the quality of a living furnace from the deepest smoking hell of hells.
It has NO rival.
Yes, PURE is indeed a brilliant slab o’ noise - it must be said.
However, why we are discussing the merits of a Godflesh album in a Melvins thread is beyond me!!
“Air Breather Deep In The Arms Of Morphius”…total fucking genius. The album Honky is out of this world and an absolute masterpiece!
Honky is a great album - but you’ve really got to be in the mood to listen to it.
I’ve had my copy ten years (and I’ve had it signed) and I can honestly say that in that time I’ve probably listened to it from start to finish maybe twenty times. Which isn’t really alot when you think about it.
Some of the tracks on Honky are maybe a bit silly and throwaway (such as ‘How --±-’’) which lessens the impact a bit. In a way it kinda sounds like maybe the Melvins own take on Mr Bungle’s ‘Disco Volante’. It has the same kind of feel to it.
And to any new Melvins fans who have been asking for the best place to start…depends on how you like yr metal. I’d recommend ‘Bullhead’ (1991) as quintessential Melvins. It’s very stripped back and…to the point. Some of their later albums strayed from the path a bit in terms of experimentation. The last two, ‘A Senile Animal’ and ‘Hostile Ambient Takeover’ are fairly approachable though - still ‘weird’ but nothing that’ll make yr hair curl!
LOVE LOVE LOVE the Melvins… seen them 3x… each time a totally different experience.
1st time in Olympia was just an all out noise jam at an all ages club.
2nd time in Oly was their 25th anniversary with Mudhoney opening. Played lots of their “hits” and went into a noise jam towards the end, playing with bass frequencies that seemed to literally shake the historic Capitol Theater.
3rd time in Seattle for the Senile Animal tour - New Years Eve - Never got to experience Rieflin and Atkins doing the dual drumkit thing in the “Mind” tour, this was the next best thing. Dale Crover is such a bad ass drummer to begin with! Rockin show, don’t remember lots of it though, it being New Years and all…
Melvins put Ministry to shame with how they constantly push the boundaries of experimentation and their limits!