Quick Melvins lyrics question

[glen]

is there any potentially "offensive" material on the Jello/Melvins albums?  Were my speculations correct?

did you speculate that there was cursing?    I don't recall that there is any on either album. 

[al27]

I kinda thought there'd be some swearing.  Maybe I was wrong.

I guess the way I look at this kind of thing is as follows:  If this were a movie, what rating would it get, and why?

If you feel like answering that question, it'd be great.

-al27

[norecess]

It's a good album, and you should buy it. The Melvins are on it, and Jello sings great on it. I'm not being sarcastic here, I sincerely like that album. I doubt if I will ever buy that second one, I probably will, someday, but Never Breathe is a great punk rock album with the Melvins backing up Jello! Also, the lyrics are inside, so you can sing along as loud as you can. Wait, since I'm getting a bit tired of this, let me take a look at the lyrics..... Shit, I can't find it, and all my cd's are categorized, so a friend must have it. Shit. Who? Aaaargh...

[glen]

If this were a movie, what rating would it get, and why?

dude...  PG,    MAYBE PG-13.    the subject matter is for the most part political and/or social.   

[norecess]

Ok, forget it. Jello sings he likes child porn in the first song already.

[bUTTHOLEmAN]

I kinda thought there'd be some swearing.  Maybe I was wrong.

I guess the way I look at this kind of thing is as follows:  If this were a movie, what rating would it get, and why?

If you feel like answering that question, it'd be great.

-al27

I'm curious, why are you worried about offensive words in Melvins albums?  Are you going to be screening Melvins albums for second graders?
I'd be more offended that dale used to have a Nambla sticker on his drum set.  Or that Buzzo associates with pornographers.

[Mad Arab]

No one here in this thread has said anything about government restriction of freedom of speech. You are free to say what you want, but you must understand that there can be consequences about what you say whether saying it in anger or not. Ask Michael Richards. 

You all must understand that with freedom comes responsibility or if you think that freedom means you can do anything without fearing reprisal if it does harm whether physical or not within just societal norms, then you clearly do not deserve to be free.

But anyway, Melvins > Jelvins.

[norecess]

Shit, I can't find it, and all my cd's are categorized, so a friend must have it.

Mr. Recess,

This is going to sound like a dumb question, but how do you organize your CD's? Alphabetical? Group? Genre? Chronological? I've had people make fun of me for having my CD collection organized, but how else are you going to find one album in a pile of hundreds??

Exactly. I have three cd recks, they're all named Benno (http://www.ikea.com/PIAimages/51107_PE150553_S3.jpg), and I pretty much order every shelf by band, and by genre, which is defined by me of course. The entire upper shelf row is Melvins, then there's a lot of Earth, Sunn, Boris, Harvey Milk, Sleep etc. But I also have a shelf with 'older music', with Blue Cheer, MC5, Sabbath, Stooges, Velvet Underground. I think I also have Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Mark Lanegan, Daniel Johnston, Jeff Buckley and Charles Manson on one row. And then there's 'noisey' stuff, etc.

People can joke about it how it makes no sense, but it does. I was at MacBastards's place last Monday, and his father had THOUSANDS of records, vinyl. John, how much does he have? Insanely. And all of them ordered alphabetically. Pretty impressive. He had cool stuff too: Abba, Residents, Slayer. Who cares if their's a system in it, as you long as it makes sense to you. As you, I'd like to be able to grab my cd's really fast so I can blast them.

Oddly enoygh, on my computer everything is ordered alphabetically; there's a folder 'a-b-c', with all bands that start with these letters, and in those folders are the albums. But I put real artist names, like John Zorn and Jeff Buckley, both under J.

[Eponymous]

I have over a thousand CDs (even had my own cabinet built to house them).

I have them organised alphabetically, then by year for each artist.

And, yes, it's the only way to find what you're looking for. The drawback, though, is that if something has been put back in the wrong place, it takes a really long time to find something.

[mopafeena]

I just throw my CDs on random shelves in random positions. It can be annoying sometimes trying to find what i'm looking for.

[EGO the Living Planet]

I don't beleive that there is anything offensive on the Jelvins albums, but then again, I haven't the foggiest idea (other than two songs previously mentioned in this thread) what anyone would find offensive about Dead Kennedys either.

[norecess]

I don't beleive that there is anything offensive on the Jelvins albums, but then again, I haven't the foggiest idea (other than two songs previously mentioned in this thread) what anyone would find offensive about Dead Kennedys either.

Possibly to most people it's the name alone.  A Dead Kennedy, so horribly offensive.

[al27]

I kinda thought there'd be some swearing.  Maybe I was wrong.

I guess the way I look at this kind of thing is as follows:  If this were a movie, what rating would it get, and why?

If you feel like answering that question, it'd be great.

-al27

I'm curious, why are you worried about offensive words in Melvins albums?  Are you going to be screening Melvins albums for second graders?
I'd be more offended that dale used to have a Nambla sticker on his drum set.  Or that Buzzo associates with pornographers.

I try to live a fairly clean life, and that includes my entertainment.  So I screen lyrics for myself.  If I find out that it has stuff I don't want to hear in it, I don't buy it.

I know some of you might not get what the big deal is, and honestly I don't care if you do or not.  I don't try to force my views on life on other people, they have free will and can do what they please.  But so do I, and thats how I live.

-al27

[norecess]

I appreciate and respect that you don't try to force your views on others, but still I'm curious how you can listen to a band that put a big swastika on one of their vinyl records, and have done many other questionable stuff. I am just wondering if that is evidence, that you, as many others, care about the music mostly, and not the words they are using in the lyrics. There's a Melvins track on the Singles, Dallas or Jacksonville, on which Buzz repeatedly srceams 'F*** You!' to the audience. Doesn't that stop you from listening to the Melvins? And if (apparently) not, why?

[Lunica]

I kinda thought there'd be some swearing.  Maybe I was wrong.

I guess the way I look at this kind of thing is as follows:  If this were a movie, what rating would it get, and why?

If you feel like answering that question, it'd be great.

-al27

I'm curious, why are you worried about offensive words in Melvins albums?  Are you going to be screening Melvins albums for second graders?
I'd be more offended that dale used to have a Nambla sticker on his drum set.  Or that Buzzo associates with pornographers.

I try to live a fairly clean life, and that includes my entertainment.  So I screen lyrics for myself.  If I find out that it has stuff I don't want to hear in it, I don't buy it.

I know some of you might not get what the big deal is, and honestly I don't care if you do or not.  I don't try to force my views on life on other people, they have free will and can do what they please.  But so do I, and thats how I live.

-al27

And how on earth can reading the bad words be better than listening to them? They're still the same words..