Melvins - Gluey Porch Treatments 5/5
Reissue of the Melvins first album- a blue print for heaviness as we now know and enjoy it.

Though it is now rightfully enshrined in the metal , experimental and noise collective consciousness, Gluey Porch Treatments was not acclaimed upon its 1987 release: far from it. As King Buzzo mentions in the liner notes to this reissue, "We were all feeling like lepers when we recorded this." The Melvins penchant for the drop tuned exercises in stretching a riff to its breaking point was not welcomed by most punk rockers , metal heads or wayward rock warriors. But the Melvins have endured , and in many ways triumphed over the critics and naysayers, having outlasted and outshined most of their contemporaries in ability and craft. To ice the cake , the Melvins' voluminous output and detremination to continously expand their sound- irrespective of musical trends- are beggining to rival the career of Frank Zappa and Neil Young. In 1987 , Treatments may have sounded like side two of Black Flag's "My War" blended with the first Black Sabbath , then played on the wrong speed. Now like Butthole Surfers' "Locust Abortion Technician" - it resonates with genuis , even if genuis on a tight budget. Dale Crover's drums sound positively earth moving and Buzzo's vocals are suprisingly mature, liek David Thomas (Pere Ubu) in a metal mood. The slow, repetitious, off-kilter. syrupy riffing on this album casr an indelible mark on today's rock. This reissue also contains 12 garage demos of album tracks.

By Anonymous on Thursday, April 12, 2001 - 08:31 pm: Edit

gluey is one hell of an album but it still remains thier biggest dissopointment to me.but it was thier first album

By misterWombat on Thursday, May 31, 2001 - 02:34 pm: Edit

gpt was incredible and started EVERYTHING eye flys is the greatest song know to man. buzzo has stated more than once it is his favorite melvins song.