Melvins song of the week.

[JUDY]

Real airy and spacious
... nice an' drunk sounding. Those bends are all slurring and stumbling.

Right on. Bootlicker is all around a weirdly-atmospheric-super-sexy album from start to finish.
The track is super slow and isn't afraid to take its time....

What's Buzz singin' bout ???

I ask myself that all the time. I came to the conclusion a while ago that he probably tears words out of newspapers, throws them into a hat and and randomly pulls them out to perfectly make sense with everything else that is going on.
Or not. Either way... I don't really care. The man sure knows how to write a song.


melvins lite "jew boy flower head" - detroit bar - costa mesa CA 7-12-11

[homeless_dad]

No one licks a boot like the melvins.  And nobody flowers the head of a young male non-gentile either.

Great song, great album!  I love the blunted pace of kevin's playing.  I actually feel like its a bit of a generic bass progression, but its the timing and delivery that melvinizes it and makes it completely original. 

The bootlicker and this song inparticular proves that a quieter melvins does not mean a less-intense melvins.  Melvins Lite will prove the same.  I'm really looking forward to it!

[Idlehanz]

melvins lite "jew boy flower head" - detroit bar - costa mesa CA 7-12-11

Great video except for the fucking assholes talking throughout the song.  I have no bigger pet peeve than people going to shows to fucking talk throughout the whole thing.

[pinkyslim]

melvins lite "jew boy flower head" - detroit bar - costa mesa CA 7-12-11

Great video except for the fucking assholes talking throughout the song.  I have no bigger pet peeve than people going to shows to fucking talk throughout the whole thing.

pet peeve I have is your lameness not to step up and do something about the problem.
too bad your not a board monitor in the outside world.
too bad you can't delete posts out there.
Idelhanz /mr. hall monitor

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The bootlicker and this song inparticular proves that a quieter melvins does not mean a less-intense melvins.

Definitely. Jew Boy is my favourite Bootlicker tune too. Long, slow and full of swingin' groove. If Freak Puke is up to this standard we have a winner on our hands!

[Illusionator]

Niiiice.

Threatening, sexy, calculated and calculating. 

[Mad Arab]

Sorry I slacked off. Life happens. So with that I am posting two Melvins songs of the week. The first one is quite possibly the best song they have done in recent years. Its an epic song that I think sums up what the team up of Melvins and Big Business can accomplish. Its from A Senile Animal.


Melvins - (A) Senile Animal - 03 - Civilized Worm

The second song of the week is from the early years of the Melvins. An excellent example of the true grunge sound before it was co-opted and exploited with overt pop gloss to make it more palatable for mass consumption. Its officially on Mangled Demos from 1983


Matt-Alec - Melvins

[Mount Ambulance]

Civilized Worm is in fact my least favorite song on ASA ... and the amount they played it live for a few years there made me fear it was gonna become "the staple" that "Let It All Be" had become. I'm glad this never actually happened.

ASA is my favorite record this line up has done ... and while Civilized isn't my least favorite song they've done ... it's certainly in the running.

[Uncle Fester]

i feel this way too. asa has much more to offer.

[Hortense]

Melvins - Ozma - 04 - Let God Be Your Gardener

Makes me want to sharpen my butcher knife and cut up some meat

[MrLuck87]

I love A Civilized Worm.  Everything about it just has a "perfect" feel to it.

[homeless_dad]

Matt-Alec...wonder what the story is behind that name? 
I like the song.  A good early effort.  Like Civilized Worm I think there are better songs on both releases. 

[homeless_dad]

Melvins - Ozma - 04 - Let God Be Your Gardener

Makes me want to sharpen my butcher knife and cut up some meat

Now were talking.  One of the first song I had ever heard by 'em.  Learned the opening riff shortly there after.  Total killer song!

[The Bloated Pope]

I love A Civilized Worm.  Everything about it just has a "perfect" feel to it.

Me too !

It's even one of my favorites songs of the band, I especially love this live version :


Melvins

[(((O)))]

It's even one of my favorites songs of the band

It seems quite a few on here hold up Civilised Worm to be one of their best. I think it's a cool song of course but it never jumps out of (A)SA when im listening to it as one of the high points.