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so haze has got a whole thing about clowns, right?

the play it slower! these guys know what they're doing

Sabbath are both overrated and underrated IMO. I think the best album is the first one where they have no idea what they're doing and its just weird & dark extremely heavy white man blues. Even the proggy 10 minute guitar solo is kind of good!

https://youtu.be/lMQQmlXZe_c

goddam this is good

No idea if it's real and I'm sure uberharcores have already heard it if it is but some dude uploaded the Melvin's 1985 demo tape.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUI3JoCwCXs

always surprising to see how many fans are into the line up with BB, at the time it seemed people couldn't wait for that era to finish, even though they released some decent stuff and a great album

Generally in life you hate the new asshole until there's a new new asshole and then you reminisce fondly about the old new asshole.

Isn't this that obscure "cowboy" split they did? I'm going totally off Mark Prindle's description, never heard it

just keep playing soup over and over until everybody leaves

It has the same relation to the actual movie soundtrack as a soundtrack album does to that of an actual movie in that you might only hear snippets of tracks and there might well be stuff on the soundtrack that's not on the album. Is my understanding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_l0vYDT2Us

Big Biz have started playing "another beautiful day in the pacific northwest" live. It has lyrics now.

That CAN'T be the real cover, right? It's pretty awful. Any of the graphics guys on the board have to be appalled. I thought The Bride Screamed Murder cover art was a joke when I first saw it too. But that one was very, very real. And I have grown to accept it.

Did you even see the ASA cover art? Melvins are not afraid to get ugly. I know I'm old fashioned in only caring about the songs, but fuck all cover art. It is pointless.

The trebly sound is good. It makes it different from GPT, which I imagine was the point.

Skin Horse: Really don't like playing the first part "properly." Maybe they think it's too obvious or something.

Pigs of the Roman Empire: Its like a highlight reel of the album version. They miss out all the ambient stuff and that interesting riff that comes between the two "main" riffs. Still tears, though.

Jew Bow Flower Head: Buzz sings it like he can't sing

Queen: Faster. I think they're trying to make it more exiting. Honestly, I this is just a shitty, boring song. The riffs nice, but after they've played it 3 or 4 times you get the idea.

Collosus of Destiny: More of a conceptual sibling than an attempt to recreate the recorded version.

Pearl Bomb: Sinister, incessant menace becomes TOTAL ROCK FURY.

Generally they don't fuck around with texture as much live. Or rather, Buzz sees what weird noises he can get out his guitar & amp rather than what weird noises he can make with effects pedals, other instruments & a recording studio.

Holy Barbarians blew me away.

Sooo good.

Loving this new album, a step above the Big Business stuff in my opinion.  Feels like it has more emotion.

Nude with Boots
The War on Wisdom
PG x 3
Hospital Up
We Are Doomed
The Kicking Machine
The Star Spangled Banner
Billy Fish
I'll Finish You Off
Climax of Civilized Worm

Have you no soul man? Were you not moved?

EDIT:

A REALLY LONG WAIT?
FRIENDS BEFORE LARRY?

The fact they've relereased this and the Bulls & the Bees in the same year is pretty incredible. Melvins band best band.