I'm sure this has been done a million times before, but that Salad topic kinda inspired me. What's the first few releases of the Melvins you've heard? When you got really sold on them? Do tell!
For me I found a used copy of Houdini (Who hasn't?) a handful of years back and listened to it fairly well. Then I got the Salad DVD wanting to hear those Bullhead and Eggnog songs badly, but I settled on finding Lysol, Stoner Witch, and the original 10 songs. Since then, I've heard a good handful and I love it. I'd feel fantastic if I could see them live.
I found gluey porch treatments used in a store and really didnt like it.
A year later I found Stoner Which used and only liked half of it (revolve/queen/etc).
about a year after that I decided to try em one more time and got bullhead and houdini and i was sold.
it took a while to get here, but im glad i did.
Someone played "Gluey porch Treatments" and while I found it interesting, I wasn't totally sold. About a year later I was in a record store and the dude there was playing "Ozma". After asking, he informed me that it was the new Melvins record. I bought it on cassette and probably listened to it 50 times that week. I got to see them a few months later and came to the decision that slow was my new fast.
gluey. 1989. sold.
someone taped a tv show for me in 1997 ("the church of melvins" at viva tv) because i was interested in melvins from reading and always wanted to hear them. it had mark d talking nonsense and all the video clips in it. the first clip was mombious hibachi and i remember being sold right away from the drumming. then i found gluey at a used record store and that was it.
Yep im a realitve noobie! Purchased High On Fire's 'Blessed Black Wings' album upon its release in '05 and it had a little sticker on there saying for fans of The Melvins. Being the inquistive type, i went on Allmusicguide and decided after a bit of research that 'The Bootlicker' and 'Stoner Witch' would be a good starting point. Purchased both on line and Bootlicker arrived first in the post. I kinda liked it, it was a bit strange sounding but good and the vocals reminded me of indie darlings - The Charlatans. A couple of weeks or so later and Stoner Witch turned up and totally shocked me. "Is this even the same band???" i thought to myself. "What gives with all this heavyness???". Soon after i became a Melvins obsessive and purchased everything i could get me old mits on! :P
The first time I heard them was when they opened for Tool in Omaha, I think 97. I was too busy studying classical music in college I let my rock music slide for a few years. Tool was the only band I followed or listened to from 94-2001 and I barely listened to them. I loved the show but I think I actually missed the first half of their set. I was reunited with their sound in 2003 when I was stoned off my ass and drinking at a bar that had a stoner rock dj that night that played Hooch and Night Goat and ever since then I've been attending every Chicago concert and buying everything from the Melvins I can find/afford. I love this band. My only regret is that I didn't attend anymore of their shows throughout the 90s. So I guess the first album I bought was Houdini.
And as far as being relatively new to the band, Kevin is by far my favorite bass player. This just goes from seeing bootlegs from 80s, 90, 00s, etc and heard every album from this band so there's my endorsement again for this dude. I love him. Sorry for hijacking this thread. That's it.
I read this board religiously yet barely ever post. First time I heard Melvins was Hostile Ambient Takeover, downloaded shortly after it came out because I was getting into Mike Patton obsessively and his endorsement/Buzz being in Fant
Quote from: booby_mcvooch on March 16, 2009, 03:28:32 PM
I read this board religiously yet barely ever post. First time I heard Melvins was Hostile Ambient Takeover, downloaded shortly after it came out because I was getting into Mike Patton obsessively and his endorsement/Buzz being in Fant
First release I heard was the With Yo' heart 7 inch, wasn't impressed. Then got Ozma on cassette from a friend and was hooked until they released Houdini and I decided they had sold out. Continued to listen to the early stuff throughout but never gave Houdini, Stoner Witch or Stag a chance. Came back to the fold when I heard The Maggot was a return to form, then realized that I should have given them more of a chance in the mid 90's. My mistake.
I had seen Melvin's records/ t-shirts for sale in skateboarding magazines, but never heard the music. I figured based on artwork and song/ album titles they would sound like the Pixies. Took a chance on 10 Songs and loved it. Probably '91. Next I found a used copy of Ozma/ GPT, I literally spent the whole summer trying to figure out why this sounded so different from other music I'd heard. Then Houdini.
mt first was stonerwitch when i was in 9th grade, like 96....fell in love with that record, then came houdini, then i got lysol...and so on....then i seen them live....i've never been the same.....ask anyone i know....i get alot of shit about my melvins addiction/obsession
mine was Houdini.. then Stoner Witch i think?
one of my coworkers recently got his first Melvins album - Stag. He came into work yesterday and was like "what the hell is up with that song with the trumpets?" I think he liked it.
It's Shoved on Green River Community College Radio KGRG.
Houdini on cassette when it first came out. Based on an article in Newsweek.
Omza on cassette in 1991.
My jaw hit the ground.
SOLD.
8)Best band ever
Gluey just before Bullhead was released. Then saw them play. Then Bullhead was released.
Then I wiped the tears from my eyes and realized in that moment I totally and completely understood the term Godhead. In fact this was God and Jesus and Buddah and Krishna and Muhammad and all the Native American shamans and ET all wrapped up into one giant orgy fest and I've never looked back since...
The first one I heard was H.A.T. I loved the whole album but it was The Anti-Vermin Seed that really sold me on the Melvins experience
Before I listened to them I remember my friend Steve telling me about this awesome band he heard called the Melvins. He got into them because of the Nirvana connection. Anyways, he was telling me how good their album Stoner Witch was, so I ordered it from BMG ( :lol: ), and when it turned up and I listened to the first song Skweetis I was just amazed. I was immediately hooked by the heavy songs, but the quieter and weirder songs took a little longer for me to get into. Anyways, I heard about a new album coming out called Stag and I was sort of putting off buying it because I was worried that it wouldn't match Stoner Witch in terms of awesomeness and how much I built it up in my mind. So I finally took the plunge and went to Best Buy to purchase it, when I noticed that there was a newer album for sale, called Honky. So I purchased both albums, immediately took to Honky and slowly grew on Stag. Then I just dug in and got everything I could and been a huge fan ever since.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/SubPop200.jpg)
dirt turned me on to this vinyl box set in early '89.
I soon was introduced to Mr. Flynn and BR16-2 during the same year.
Fuck Yes!
Houdini when it first came out. I heard alot about the Melvins and everytime I went to a record store their CDs were imports and priced at $25-$30 each. I always turned them down. Then Houdini came out and being brand new was like $15. I bought it and loved it. Wish I had taken the chance and forked out the dough for the older albums.
Ozma in 1989. I had seen them live a few months before in S.F. and really liked them. Been a diehard fan ever since.
Actually the first time I heard them was on the Maximum Rock n Roll radio show a few years before, I believe it was a song from "GPT". I remember that it kind of reminded me of the slow songs from Black Flag's "My War" (go figure).
Lysol in the spring of '93, by the end of the summer i was hooked on Bullhead as well
The Crybaby. Bought it for the Tool collaboration and was intrigued by the allure of the Melvins.
My first Melvins experience was Eggnog. I was at a record store, picked up the 10" and asked the guy behind the counter to play it loud. He put it on, and right away this slow, heavy music started comming out of the speakers. We listened to it for a couple of minutes in total awe when he realized he had put it on at wrong speed. It was supposed to run on 33 rpm! Of course I bought it right away.
Eggnog: The only true path to Melvins consciousness.
Prick in 1994!knew the Melvins only by name,i thought the cover artwork was epic so i bought a copy.after the first listen i felt a bit confused though :?
The first thing I ever heard was an incomplete mp3 album, it contained Smells Like Teen Spirit, but also some Bootlicker stuff. I didn't know what to think.
Then Tomahawk came to Amsterdam, and they brought the Melvins with them. I missed the opening act that night, Kaada, but was right on time for the Melvins, I was entranced for an hour, and it was the heaviest thing I had ever witnessed, I felt disillusioned - the best feeling after a concert.
Some time after that experience I picked up a copy of the re-issue of GPT, later also Houdini, and soon I purchased anything Melvins related I could get my hands on, but only a couple of months later, I felt the snap: the click moment that you realize everything they do carries a certain quality, and they're doing it ALL the time.
Also, ever since I saw this picture, before I had heard their music, I knew there was something special about them.
(http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/pic200/drp100/p174/p17483snm66.jpg)
saw fantomas, melvins were also playing. id never heard of them at the time
as they walked out on stage i sensed immediately they were somthing special
not just the fact that dale came out in a nightie
kev looked like a complete mentalist
and buzz, well buzz looked liked buzz
they just had this presence, and proceeded to play what i thought at the time was the most obnoxious yet original and loud music (and still do). and kev with that dance. i was stunned, didnt know quite what to make of it, but i knew i saw somthing special.
i bought HAT but it wasnt until a few weeks later after i had a few pints in town with a housmate, stumbled into a cd store bought lysol, went back to ours where we still had a powerful pa that we had borrowed for a party a few weeks earlier....
well, i dont really need to explain what listening to lysol for the first time at ridiculous level whilst drunk can do to a man.
there started my obsession.
Yes, I remember being completely overwhelmed by their stage presence. During the show I couldn't see Dale, but I could sure hear him, just two arms above his some drumkit sometimes before he wuld crush down in furious anger!!!! They look good too on stage, choreographically I mean. Watch this video of Night Goat and see how Buzz sneaks up to the mic before he starts singing, awsum-sum-up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFft-_63SXw
Gluey Porch Treatments on cassette. The tape was given to me by a friend and when I bought the Ozma/G.P.T. on cd I passed the tape on to someone who hadn't heard them before. I have to admit, it took a few listens before I 'got it' . After that I was hooked.
I've only been a Melvins fan for like, six years. :( I got Stoner Witch used at a record store for about five bucks. I didn't take to it immediately of course because I didn't listen to metal alot at that time (more punk). That album changed my whole outlook on music and I then collected everything starting with Ozma/GPT. The Melvins proceeded to get me through middle and high school, and now college. :P
Houdini or Stonerwitch. It didn't click until I picked up HAT a year or so later, even then, it took a few months and some shelf life for the light to come to me.
Quote from: erin on March 17, 2009, 09:50:09 AM
I've only been a Melvins fan for like, six years. :(
You wanna talk about it?
Quote from: norecess on March 17, 2009, 10:08:36 AM
Quote from: erin on March 17, 2009, 09:50:09 AM
I've only been a Melvins fan for like, six years. :(
You wanna talk about it?
When you're talking about it with norecess, and he says either 'come here, lets hug' or 'come here, sit on my lap', it's time to leave.
86 mabey 87??? Kinda foggy. Total thrash/hard-core kid. A buddy of mine was real into the whole scene: letter writing, tape trading, promoting gigs, going on road trips w/ DRI. He said ya gotta hear this band and lent me "THE" album: GTP . . . red eyed & in a cloud we were all floored. After we listened on '45 thinking mabey we were too stoned & got it wrong. But that sounded a little weird an' off too. I played out my first copy . . . Never been the same . . .
http://www.themelvins.net/forum/index.php?topic=4835.msg61132#msg61132
Quote from: bUTTHOLEmAN on March 17, 2009, 10:14:01 AM
Quote from: norecess on March 17, 2009, 10:08:36 AM
Quote from: erin on March 17, 2009, 09:50:09 AM
I've only been a Melvins fan for like, six years. :(
You wanna talk about it?
When you're talking about it with norecess, and he says either 'come here, lets hug' or 'come here, sit on my lap', it's time to leave.
maybe i shouldn't talk with him about it at all. :lol: that's how he suckered in lunica. :P
houdini
Quote from: erin on March 17, 2009, 11:09:55 AM
maybe i shouldn't talk with him about it at all. :lol: that's how he suckered in lunica. :P
No, it were my eyes.
THE EYE FLIES IN MY EYES
Quote from: erin on March 17, 2009, 11:09:55 AM
Quote from: bUTTHOLEmAN on March 17, 2009, 10:14:01 AM
Quote from: norecess on March 17, 2009, 10:08:36 AM
Quote from: erin on March 17, 2009, 09:50:09 AM
I've only been a Melvins fan for like, six years. :(
You wanna talk about it?
When you're talking about it with norecess, and he says either 'come here, lets hug' or 'come here, sit on my lap', it's time to leave.
maybe i shouldn't talk with him about it at all. :lol: that's how he suckered in lunica. :P
lun loves sitting on his shoulders.
Quote from: rimb on March 17, 2009, 02:29:31 AM
The Crybaby. Bought it for the Tool collaboration and was intrigued by the allure of the Melvins.
I kept hearing about the Melvins and so I decided to randomly pick up a copy at a cd store. I think this was about three years ago. I didn't know anything about them or their records so I just went with Houdini and 26 Songs. I remember that I really liked the Houdini cover. When I first heard Houdini I was blown away.. really, I listened to it over and over again. I instantly liked 26 Songs as well. It was unbelievably heavy. Drums. After a while I got Bullhead which I loved right away, and Stoner Witch. It took me a while to get into Stoner Witch but then I loved it as well. When I got Stag I remember being bewildered and unsatisfied... but seeing as it's one of my all time favorites now it didn't take very long to grow on me. After that I just bought everything. And this was the beginning of my Melvins obsession...
Quote from: A Resident of Buzz's Afro on March 16, 2009, 07:36:18 PM
Houdini on cassette when it first came out. Based on an article in Newsweek.
What was the article? I tried searching this forum and this post was the only thing that came up. I'll try searching for it on Google.
Found this but it doesn't say much:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/103051/page/1 (http://www.newsweek.com/id/103051/page/1)
Quote from: norecess on March 17, 2009, 03:45:25 PM
Quote from: erin on March 17, 2009, 11:09:55 AM
maybe i shouldn't talk with him about it at all. :lol: that's how he suckered in lunica. :P
No, it were my eyes.
THE EYE FLIES IN MY EYES
=D>
Oh yeah? well I stand all alone like a tree.... all alone I stand. :P
The first Melvins purchase I ever made ws definitely Salad of a Thousand Delights. BUT I had already heard various songs from various albums from downloading via various methods like Soulseek and originally KAZAA! So this was around maybe 2000-02..I then got Bullhead. That was it for a long time. This band was the most amazing thing ever and I had a live DVD and Bullhead. This is how big of a fan I am. Since then, how well do you think I've gotten to feel about this band?
So probably like four years later through smoke and haze and after using and abusing many live downloads and the bootleg videos (not THAT many) and Bullhead and SOATD. I bought The Crybaby..because of the Tool connection. Then I got Houdini and started to realize. Saw them live a bunch over a few years...A Senile Animal :twisted: ..Maggot, Bootlicker..Nude with Boots...Stoner Witch, HAT...remember I already had Bullhead so I thought I didn't really NEED the earlier stuff...not until recently (in the past few months) I picked up GPT, Ozma, Eggnog, Lysol...then Stag..
Eggnog=masterpiece
Gluey on cassette, a couple months after it came out.
Eggnog, '92 I would guess.
honky. what a weird stoney day that was....
Eggnog. Played on the radio by Kurt Cobain and purchased by me the next day.
seen them play live a in 89 or 90 and a few more times over the years due to opening bands or friends going. i thought they were good. did not actually buy anything until stag came out (a friend gave it to me and i kept it...he had to buy a new one because i would not give it back) and then revisited bullhead. I was hooked from there.