i searched "melvins suck", just to see what i could find and thought there should be a thread for it. anything from reviews, internet comments, peoples in realities comments or stories (e.g. audience reaction while they were opening for someone else, like jacksonville).
i came across this in my brief search.
QuoteThe Melvins do suck, and I refuse to take your flame bait.
Death Metal IS better because it's substantive, technical and actually takes skill to play, unlike Grunge which was led by college dropout fartknockers that strummed guitars and moaned about how "alternative" their music was to the rest of Billboard. Death Metal won't EVER be Billboard, nor mainstream, because society won't accept it. That's why it's superior in every single way to Grunge, a dead music movement championed by a loser that killed himself at the height of his success.
Go trash me on the Shitlist with everybody else.
Quote
I CAN PLY 1000BPM DOUBLE PEDALZ!! I R AMZINGLYY SKILLIED!! OOOOO LOOK AT ME I SLAP MY BASSS LIKE IM JERKING OFF MY DOGG!ONE!!1! OMG!!! I SOLO THE ENTIRE SONG WITHOUT ANY REGARD TO WHAT MY BAND IS PLAYYIN! lET ME SHOW YOU SOME LYRIKS OF MINEZ. SOCIETYES DONT ACCEPT ME CUZ I DRESS LIKE KISS! I R FAR SUPRERORR TO GRUNGE CUZ INOT FAMOUS.
RAWWRRRRR, GRRRRR, BREEEEE, GRAWL, GROWLLL, AHHHHGROWWWWHHHHL.
I R SO LYRICALS.
From various forums and a quick google search:
i cant believe you brought them up, they fucking suck. end of thread
I'm sure I'll get all kinds of crap for this...but, am I in the minority of the people that really can't stand the Melvins? Seriously, I really, really don't like them. If you do though...I'm glad you enjoy. At least they liked Kiss at one point...ha.
Q: Who else think the Melvins are awful?
A: People with any taste in music
The Melvins suck big time. They opened up for RUSH on one of RUSH's tours and people didn't know what to make of them.
I have never heard their music. So I can't comment on it. However the band name is awful. I guess The Jack-Offs was already taken?
i'm not into Nirvana, but the Melvins are terrible.
melvins fans are people who literally hate music.
i think a lot of their fans are the type that desperately care what other people think of them
I have to say the melvins have some awesome songs you just have to sift through the vast amount of shit they have put out there.
Quote from: (PAUL) on August 15, 2011, 11:59:22 PM
melvins fans are people who literally hate music.
I find this to be the funniest thing I've read in a long time. Do you remember where you found it?
Quote from: rhyme orange on August 15, 2011, 10:47:32 PM
i searched "melvins suck", just to see what i could find and thought there should be a thread for it. anything from reviews, internet comments, peoples in realities comments or stories (e.g. audience reaction while they were opening for someone else, like jacksonville).
Hey! I grew up in Jacksonville. But yeah, I think I have an idea what you're talking about.
This whole thread so far is chock-full of comedic gold. Especially the "Melvins fans = music haters" part. It's not like just anyone could write the type of stuff they were playing on "Ozma" anyways.
hahaha... more of this please!
Most of the people who say they like the Melvins have never heard the Melvins.
There's maybe 7 decent songs in their entire catalog, and one is a Kiss cover
Big name band that I could never get into in the slightest.
Their music bores me to tears. I have never felt any of the things that their fans claim to feel upon listening to them. Crap.
I`m pretty sure you can find tons on any other artist or band. Are there any artist or band out there, dead or alive, who hasn`t got haters?
Anyhow, it`s better that people have an opinion, than no opinion.
there is very little in the world that makes me happier than hearing/reading the phrase "melvins suck".
it means they're still the MELVINS.
lately i noticed most of the people say melvins rules,they're godfather of sludge etc..not sure if it's a good thing
Quote from: Idlehanz on August 16, 2011, 12:06:12 AM
Quote from: (PAUL) on August 15, 2011, 11:59:22 PM
melvins fans are people who literally hate music.
I find this to be the funniest thing I've read in a long time. Do you remember where you found it?
It was in a Howard Stern forum after Dale was on. The topic was "Who else think the Melvins are awful?"
Great idea for a thread.
Its not really a suck moment but the level of disappointment i feel after the initial kickass intro to The Water Glass leads to what follows deflates me everytime. Colossus too. Still, not a bad return on a 30 year, multi release career now is it?
Quote from: Schnabster on August 16, 2011, 06:01:19 AM
Are there any artist or band out there, dead or alive, who hasn`t got haters?
Apparently no one dislikes Henry Mancini. I've yet to be proven wrong on this. *waits for bigfil*
Quote from: MrLuck87 on August 16, 2011, 11:46:12 AM
Apparently no one dislikes Henry Mancini.
:-k
(http://www.footballfancast.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/balotelli.jpg)
Quote from: )))((( on August 16, 2011, 11:48:35 AM
Quote from: MrLuck87 on August 16, 2011, 11:46:12 AM
Apparently no one dislikes Henry Mancini.
:-k
(http://www.footballfancast.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/balotelli.jpg)
i think 90% of the people on this forum will not understand why you posted that pic :lol:
Quote from: black stallion on August 16, 2011, 12:01:05 PM
i think 90% of the people on this forum will not understand why you posted that pic :lol:
Thank heaven for the other 10% then.
Quote from: black stallion on August 16, 2011, 12:01:05 PM
Quote from: )))((( on August 16, 2011, 11:48:35 AM
Quote from: MrLuck87 on August 16, 2011, 11:46:12 AM
Apparently no one dislikes Henry Mancini.
:-k
(http://www.footballfancast.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/balotelli.jpg)
i think 90% of the people on this forum will not understand why you posted that pic :lol:
I'm in that 90%. Please explain.
the guy on the right is a football coach and his name is Roberto Mancini,still interested? :lol:
Quote from: MrLuck87 on August 16, 2011, 12:46:13 PM
Quote from: black stallion on August 16, 2011, 12:01:05 PM
Quote from: )))((( on August 16, 2011, 11:48:35 AM
Quote from: MrLuck87 on August 16, 2011, 11:46:12 AM
Apparently no one dislikes Henry Mancini.
:-k
(http://www.footballfancast.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/balotelli.jpg)
i think 90% of the people on this forum will not understand why you posted that pic :lol:
I'm in that 90%. Please explain.
The chap to the right is manager of Manchester City, an english footballteam, and his name is Roberto Mancini.
echoes schnab.
:lol:
Quote from: black stallion on August 16, 2011, 01:10:28 PM
the guy on the right is a football coach and his name is Roberto Mancini,still interested? :lol:
Haha nah I don't pay attention to sports.
Okay, so 44 people disliked this video. My question is who?
Henry Mancini, "Pink Panther Theme" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBupII3LH_Q#noexternalembed)
well, i know who the 45th one is.
Taken from a discussion on which cover of 'Symptom of the Universe' is the best (Sepultura, Melvins, or Helmet)
"Melvins = not a fan of the band, saw them one time and they may have been about the 2nd worst opening band I ever saw. They aren't too bad on this. Better than probably anything else I've ever heard from them. Similar to the Helmet version, the production quality here sucks."
best suck opinion i ever heard concerning melvins:
we were late to see melvins open for white zombie and they were on what ended up being the last song of the set. i turned to a guy sitting a couple seats away from where we were taking ours and asked "how long have they been playing?"
his answer? "too long."
the guy looked like he'd been forced to watch an amateur women's golf tournament for 12 hours. :lol:
The Melvins are old farts! They are so over! Get day jobs Melvins
Isis smoked MEHlvins off the stage! no doubt!
-True. Isis were the better band, but I still like Melvins, even though they are old farts who cant rock out anymore.
Both of you nerds need to chillax!
ISIS = RULES.
MELVINS = OLD FARTS.
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06-17-2002, 05:37 AM
I went to a spot to chill one night and The Melvins were playing. I really tried to be open-minded and get into the music but damn if they didn't make me want to start killing random Melvins fans and eating their fucking intestines in front of their families while horrified spectators cried out in disgust
I got stuck in a bathroom line at the Emerald Theater listening to two clueless turds piss and moan about how terrible the Melvins were when they opened for Down here. "Even the first band(Weedeater)was better than this shit." "They suck." I didn't even know what to say.
Let me guess, they were wearing Down t-shirts?
Quote from: (PAUL) on August 17, 2011, 07:31:25 PM
Let me guess, they were wearing Down t-shirts?
Can't remember what they were wearing. I just do not know how someone can hear them open with Pigs and say "this sucks". Maybe I am retarded.
probably wearing black label society shirts...
Oh yea, when they were opening for Down the people behind me said, "This is why they are the opening band" during the Pigs intro. Damn people are extremely impatient.
What??? POTRE is fucking amazing too. :x I feel somewhat sorry for them if they cant see that.
7-11-1993
"...the opening band was (the) Melvins. After their set I did not feel quite right, but thought nothing of it. As days passed the feeling continued to intensify. It sould be noted at this time that I had always been the picture of perfect health prior to my exposure to 'this band'. I went to my PCP and after extensive testing, the diagnois was grim. I was rendered impotent by (the) Melvins. That band killed my sperm forever, and now I will never know the joys of fatherhood. Fuck (the) Melvins. Damn those evil sperm-killing-bastards to hell!!!"
Coolest review of anything ever. Period.
wow, hilarious and yet, so so righteously ironic.
I don't know if it totally figures, sometimes I ponder for sighns of intelligent life here on this little planet.
let's put it this way, do the melvins play death metal?
death metal needs to learn from the melvins like Ben Aflick needs acting school.
the melvins changed my whole perception on life in general where death metal has only succeeded in boring me to death.
Quote from: rhyme orange on August 16, 2011, 10:08:39 PM
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...don't forget fatest, smelliest & creepiest. :lol: ....and fewest female fans. :(
Quote from: >>>JZS<<< on August 25, 2011, 10:56:49 PM
....and fewest female fans. :(
No that's probably Gwar or something.
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Quote from: )))((( on August 26, 2011, 06:28:22 AM
Quote from: >>>JZS<<< on August 25, 2011, 10:56:49 PM
....and fewest female fans. :(
No that's probably Gwar or something.
more like any tough guy bro core band...
Quote from: Ramone1 on August 19, 2011, 07:08:52 PM
7-11-1993
"...the opening band was (the) Melvins. After their set I did not feel quite right, but thought nothing of it. As days passed the feeling continued to intensify. It sould be noted at this time that I had always been the picture of perfect health prior to my exposure to 'this band'. I went to my PCP and after extensive testing, the diagnois was grim. I was rendered impotent by (the) Melvins. That band killed my sperm forever, and now I will never know the joys of fatherhood. Fuck (the) Melvins. Damn those evil sperm-killing-bastards to hell!!!"
This should be posted like a testimonial on their web page or maybe inside of an album sleeve.
Can't beat this one! :lol:
http://www.ancestry.com/1940-census/usa/North-Carolina/Melvin-Suck_5kt092 (http://www.ancestry.com/1940-census/usa/North-Carolina/Melvin-Suck_5kt092)
Here's a recounting of how a punk band (Black Milk for Dead Virginz) has a song entitled "Melvins Suck" #-o
http://www.buddyhead.com/2011/11/25/bmfdv-dont-like-the-melvins/ (http://www.buddyhead.com/2011/11/25/bmfdv-dont-like-the-melvins/)
dude that song is bumpin
Even if you aren't a fan of the Melvin's you still have to give credit where credit is due
Just tried the search. Good news, this thread beats those lame kids with the "song".
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/melvins_frontman_bashes_kurt_cobain_hes_a_major_loser.html (http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/melvins_frontman_bashes_kurt_cobain_hes_a_major_loser.html)
"Wow what a douche. He's just mad because articles he is in has to be titled "Melvin's frontman" instead of his actual name. What a loser!"
Mostly good responses on that thread.
Really good thread idea!
I have a reaaally wide choice of melvins haters in my surroundings. Like every single friend and family member hates them.
My brother for example: "can this dude play some interesting riffs too? Or just these shit ones"
My dad: "i hate this bands that play like one chord and let it ring out for several minutes. As if there'd be some thought behind it"
Side note; we have at least 1000 ambient albums at home
Several friends of mine: "i dont like em because I just dont get it"
"Well my favourite band CAN play their instruments"
Buzz continued his rant, "No, no, no. I win. I win. He doesn't win. He loses. He's a major loser. His f--king loss. He left a baby at the mercy of that woman [Courtney Love]. And, it couldn't be worse. There's nothing good about any of that."
http://news.yahoo.com/frances-bean-cobain-gets-married-but-fails-to-120648693.html
Quote from: glen on September 24, 2015, 09:34:46 AM
Buzz continued his rant, "No, no, no. I win. I win. He doesn't win. He loses. He's a major loser. His f--king loss. He left a baby at the mercy of that woman [Courtney Love]. And, it couldn't be worse. There's nothing good about any of that."
http://news.yahoo.com/frances-bean-cobain-gets-married-but-fails-to-120648693.html
"Courtney and Kurt had a similarly low-key wedding inviting just eight friends - the groom wore his pyjamas because he was 'too lazy' to put on a tux."
I like how they quoted "lazy". :lol:
QuoteThe Melvins do suck, and I refuse to take your flame bait.
Death Metal IS better because it's substantive, technical and actually takes skill to play, unlike Grunge which was led by college dropout fartknockers that strummed guitars and moaned about how "alternative" their music was to the rest of Billboard. Death Metal won't EVER be Billboard, nor mainstream, because society won't accept it. That's why it's superior in every single way to Grunge, a dead music movement championed by a loser that killed himself at the height of his success.
Go trash me on the Shitlist with everybody else.
Hahah :D Metalhead puts down other music, so typical. :lol:
Quote from: meezer on September 24, 2015, 08:50:53 AM
Just tried the search. Good news, this thread beats those lame kids with the "song".
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/melvins_frontman_bashes_kurt_cobain_hes_a_major_loser.html (http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/melvins_frontman_bashes_kurt_cobain_hes_a_major_loser.html)
"Wow what a douche. He's just mad because articles he is in has to be titled "Melvin's frontman" instead of his actual name. What a loser!"
Mostly good responses on that thread.
Different strokes but I'll never understand why so many people think Houdini is anywhere close to being The Melvins best album.
Quote from: LuckMach3 on September 25, 2015, 04:14:53 AM
I'll never understand why so many people think Houdini is anywhere close to being The Melvins best album.
simply because its the most well known, first major label release and the all time most heavily marketed. its the ONLY melvins some folks have heard.
My boyfriend's best friend - who's actually seen the Melvins live twice by accident while going to see whatever other bands were on the bill (which I really resent because every time I've tried to see them I've had to cancel) but has never actually listened to any of their albums - complains whenever I try to play Melvins tracks around him, and is always saying stuff like "they suck, all their songs sound identical, they never do anything different or interesting". This is especially ridiculous and ironic considering his all-time favorite band who he never stops going on about the brilliance of and getting hyped over new stuff from and making people listen to is fucking Bad Religion.
Quote from: glen on September 25, 2015, 09:00:26 AM
Quote from: LuckMach3 on September 25, 2015, 04:14:53 AM
I'll never understand why so many people think Houdini is anywhere close to being The Melvins best album.
simply because its the most well known, first major label release and the all time most heavily marketed. its the ONLY melvins some folks have heard.
This is 100% correct. I have heard numerous times from people that they "Like Houdini" and "Those guys are still around?"
Quote from: DToxico on September 25, 2015, 11:52:36 AM
complains whenever I try to play Melvins tracks around him, and is always saying stuff like "they suck, all their songs sound identical, they never do anything different or interesting". This is especially ridiculous and ironic considering his all-time favorite band who he never stops going on about the brilliance of and getting hyped over new stuff from and making people listen to is fucking Bad Religion.
This made me lol.
Says Melvins "never do anything different or interesting" yet Bad Religion has always been on the for front of cutting edge music! :lol:
I love it. I will always love Suffer and No Control but Bad Religion has been on the cutting edge of how NOT to make music for the last 25/30 years?
Great first post DToxico.
Yes. bad Religion is basically a notch above Social Distortion (whom I still love). Really basic punk moozik. :lol:
Quote from: ))))(((( on September 27, 2015, 01:29:37 PM
Quote from: meezer on September 27, 2015, 01:24:28 PM
Really basic punk moozik.
Does that make it bad?? As im sure you'll agree, complexity doesn't always result in better music or bands.
I used to love this a decade ago. Listened to it recently. It's just so bleh. Every stanza rhymes. Everything is so sterile and nonthreatening. Compare that to OFF! . Does that make sense?
https://youtu.be/fzWSlcuJOoY (https://youtu.be/fzWSlcuJOoY)
*Ian says "I see what you mean" then deleted* :lol:
Quote from: bonzo on August 15, 2011, 10:47:32 PM
i searched "melvins suck", just to see what i could find and thought there should be a thread for it. anything from reviews, internet comments, peoples in realities comments or stories (e.g. audience reaction while they were opening for someone else, like jacksonville).
i came across this in my brief search.
QuoteThe Melvins do suck, and I refuse to take your flame bait.
Death Metal IS better because it's substantive, technical and actually takes skill to play, unlike Grunge which was led by college dropout fartknockers that strummed guitars and moaned about how "alternative" their music was to the rest of Billboard. Death Metal won't EVER be Billboard, nor mainstream, because society won't accept it. That's why it's superior in every single way to Grunge, a dead music movement championed by a loser that killed himself at the height of his success.
Go trash me on the Shitlist with everybody else.
Quote
I CAN PLY 1000BPM DOUBLE PEDALZ!! I R AMZINGLYY SKILLIED!! OOOOO LOOK AT ME I SLAP MY BASSS LIKE IM JERKING OFF MY DOGG!ONE!!1! OMG!!! I SOLO THE ENTIRE SONG WITHOUT ANY REGARD TO WHAT MY BAND IS PLAYYIN! lET ME SHOW YOU SOME LYRIKS OF MINEZ. SOCIETYES DONT ACCEPT ME CUZ I DRESS LIKE KISS! I R FAR SUPRERORR TO GRUNGE CUZ INOT FAMOUS.
RAWWRRRRR, GRRRRR, BREEEEE, GRAWL, GROWLLL, AHHHHGROWWWWHHHHL.
I R SO LYRICALS.
Buzz is a genius, probably the most gifted man alive, in my opinion. He just spews out a ridiculous quantity of amazing punk rock, maybe you don't want to call it punk rock, but that what it is when you break it down. He creates art like nobody else does, there isn't even anyone in his league. There's no one. Not a soul on his level. Technical music is bullshit, there are a lot of fucking smart people, a hell of a lot of them. But to be original is something else entirely. To be original as time goes on becomes harder, for everyone, everyone in the world. Buzz is above everyone. He probably made a song yesterday that is better than any guitar based song that was written this year by anyone. His acoustic album was sublime, and it was a like a whole new genre that no one else even thought about. Fuck your death metal.
Quote from: meezer on September 27, 2015, 01:24:28 PM
Yes. bad Religion is basically a notch above Social Distortion (whom I still love). Really basic punk moozik. :lol:
Prison Bound is a great record and I do like the Under the Influences Mike Ness solo album.
Quote from: homeless_dad on September 27, 2015, 11:02:08 PM
Quote from: meezer on September 27, 2015, 01:24:28 PM
Yes. bad Religion is basically a notch above Social Distortion (whom I still love). Really basic punk moozik. :lol:
Prison Bound is a great record and I do like the Under the Influences Mike Ness solo album.
I like the whole catalogue, but they are what they are. I bought the last one I saw , Hard Times & Nursery Rhymes, totally candy ass.
It started with an instrumental, but the rest.....
Mainliner, Mommy's Little Monster and Prison Bound are great.
Quote from: Bro Hammer on September 27, 2015, 12:31:09 PM
Quote from: DToxico on September 25, 2015, 11:52:36 AM
complains whenever I try to play Melvins tracks around him, and is always saying stuff like "they suck, all their songs sound identical, they never do anything different or interesting". This is especially ridiculous and ironic considering his all-time favorite band who he never stops going on about the brilliance of and getting hyped over new stuff from and making people listen to is fucking Bad Religion.
This made me lol.
Says Melvins "never do anything different or interesting" yet Bad Religion has always been on the for front of cutting edge music! :lol:
I love it. I will always love Suffer and No Control but Bad Religion has been on the cutting edge of how NOT to make music for the last 25/30 years?
Great first post DToxico.
Thanks!
Lol, yeah, it baffles me how he keeps talking about having seen them live twice and therefore "knowing" what he's talking about and "knowing" enough about their catalogue to completely dismiss them, but then things will happen like me playing "Honey Bucket" (IE something that, if they didn't play live when he saw them, they probably at least played something similar to) while he's in the car, him saying it's awesome and asking if it's Metallica or Mastodon, me telling him it's the Melvins, and his jaw dropping and going "wow, this is really creative and outside-the-box by the Melvins' standards!" Though it's always back to bitching when I try to play anything by them where he knows that's what's coming. I've gotten him to like several of their songs by not saying who played them, apparently it's just being by the Melvins that makes them suck. Who knew?
He's just a weird guy. He's incredibly averse to ever hearing so much as a note of Faith No More or Mr. Bungle's music because he read an interview with his other all-time favorite band, Dillinger Escape Plan, stating that they were influenced by those bands. He had never even heard of them and now he constantly shits on and avoids both of those like the plague still without ever having heard either because, in his words, "why taint my brain with inferior similar-sounding bands when I could just be listening to the greatest band in the world themselves? They're obviously less-evolved and not going to be anywhere near as good as Dillinger so why bother giving a chance to what are basically weak imitations that just happened to come first?" I seriously don't understand that logic. But I digress.
Man, most of the kids in my hometown who were into any punk albums released prior to the 00's usually had Social Distortion as their old-school-punk-band-of-choice and I never knew why. They were up there with the Pantera/Slipknot kids with acting like their music was the most rebellious thing out there and that you should be terrified of them for liking it but most SD songs I've heard sounds like Mike Ness took a whole bottle of downers before writing or recording anything. Not to say it's awful, it's just so
safe.
@ DToxico, sometimes life just hands you a gift like this, where someone lets you know up front that they have total shit for brains and you should cut them loose. Unless you live in a tiny town and this cat is the slim pickins you have to hang out with, cut the dead weight loose already! :D
Quote from: DToxico on October 20, 2015, 09:49:56 AM
Though it's always back to bitching when I try to play anything by them where he knows that's what's coming. I've gotten him to like several of their songs by not saying who played them, apparently it's just being by the Melvins that makes them suck. Who knew?
I have a friend that's kind of like this. When I first got into The Melvins it was almost like he refused to like them because he wasn't the one who discovered them. I sent him Queen and Mombius Hibachi. He hated both because the drums didn't make sense to him.
A few years later I was blaring Yuppie Cadillac and he loved it. He looked awkwardly embarrassed when I told him it was the Melvins. Fast forward another 7-8 years and I'm blaring City Dump and he's like,
"woah this is cool! Is this Rob Zombie?"
"No...it's The Melvins"
"Oh....."
That guy's a keeper! =D>
For whatever reason it seems the Melvins have developed a reputation for playing a single reverb drenched note for their entire concerts.
I can't even remember how many people I've talked to that say this to me when mentioning the Melvins live.
I'm thinking maybe they leave before the first song ends, as I've noticed they usually start their shows with slow burners.
Quote from: deatheats on October 22, 2015, 06:39:05 PM
For whatever reason it seems the Melvins have developed a reputation for playing a single reverb drenched note for their entire concerts.
I can't even remember how many people I've talked to that say this to me when mentioning the Melvins live.
I'm thinking maybe they leave before the first song ends, as I've noticed they usually start their shows with slow burners.
Well, they did do some tours in the 90's opening for bands where it seemed they were purposefully fucking with the audiences.
Good point, now that i think of it I've never seen the Melvins open for another band (except for Jelvins)
I saw them open for Down and they were on point that night, but they seemed to actually want to do that tour, as opposed to opening for White Zombie.
Quote from: deatheats on October 22, 2015, 06:39:05 PM
For whatever reason it seems the Melvins have developed a reputation for playing a single reverb drenched note for their entire concerts.
I can't even remember how many people I've talked to that say this to me when mentioning the Melvins live.
I'm thinking maybe they leave before the first song ends, as I've noticed they usually start their shows with slow burners.
Same here! I actually would have gotten into The Melvins a lot sooner if my brother didn't talk me out of listening to them. It's a long story but to this day I still have trouble getting him to talk about their set opening for Tool in 1998. At worst, "it was just awful noise the entire time!" and at best it's, "oh I arrived at the end of their set and wasn't really paying attention." I got a free copy of Honky from him though so I can't complain too much! :D
I remember finding the setlist from the show he saw and saw that they closed with Boris that night. Maybe they played extended intros and/or outros that turned off a lot of people who weren't really paying attention. It's the best I can figure.
Quote from: meezer on October 20, 2015, 05:14:29 PM
That guy's a keeper! =D>
Yea he's a huge douche bag and I barely talk to him anymore. He used to hate the Back to the Future movies and I could never figure out why. After arguing with him for years about why they were good movies do you know what finally changed his mind?
...actually watching the movies.....he's a fucking idiot.
This all hilarious!
Quote from: LuckMach3 on October 20, 2015, 12:32:10 PM
I sent him Queen and Mombius Hibachi. He hated both because the drums didn't make sense to him.
Quote from: (PAUL) on October 22, 2015, 08:11:56 PM
Quote from: deatheats on October 22, 2015, 06:39:05 PM
For whatever reason it seems the Melvins have developed a reputation for playing a single reverb drenched note for their entire concerts.
I can't even remember how many people I've talked to that say this to me when mentioning the Melvins live.
I'm thinking maybe they leave before the first song ends, as I've noticed they usually start their shows with slow burners.
Well, they did do some tours in the 90's opening for bands where it seemed they were purposefully fucking with the audiences.
The very first time I saw the Melvins was opening for NIN. I was really worried because I heard the stories of them getting booed off stage opening for Primus. The concert was in Topeka Kansas of all places so I was sure they were going to get fucked with. Much to my surprise they got a really good response from the audience and it was great! Part of me had wished they did get fucked with just to watch them torture the crowed but it was my first time so I'm glad it went smoothly and to this very day I'm still shocked that it went so smoothly!
Quote from: Bro Hammer on October 23, 2015, 07:44:31 AM
This all hilarious!
Quote from: LuckMach3 on October 20, 2015, 12:32:10 PM
I sent him Queen and Mombius Hibachi. He hated both because the drums didn't make sense to him.
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Quote from: deatheats on October 22, 2015, 06:39:05 PM
For whatever reason it seems the Melvins have developed a reputation for playing a single reverb drenched note for their entire concerts.
I can't even remember how many people I've talked to that say this to me when mentioning the Melvins live.
I'm thinking maybe they leave before the first song ends, as I've noticed they usually start their shows with slow burners.
Well, they did do some tours in the 90's opening for bands where it seemed they were purposefully fucking with the audiences.
The very first time I saw the Melvins was opening for NIN. I was really worried because I heard the stories of them getting booed off stage opening for Primus. The concert was in Topeka Kansas of all places so I was sure they were going to get fucked with. Much to my surprise they got a really good response from the audience and it was great! Part of me had wished they did get fucked with just to watch them torture the crowed but it was my first time so I'm glad it went smoothly and to this very day I'm still shocked that it went so smoothly!
Did Fred Phelps picket that one? GOD HATES MELVINS would make a funny shirt, come to think of it.
I lived in Topeka during the spring/summer of '99. Saw Fred's minions on occasion.
Quote from: homeless_dad on October 23, 2015, 09:56:20 AM
Quote from: Bro Hammer on October 23, 2015, 07:44:31 AM
This all hilarious!
Quote from: LuckMach3 on October 20, 2015, 12:32:10 PM
I sent him Queen and Mombius Hibachi. He hated both because the drums didn't make sense to him.
Quote from: (PAUL) on October 22, 2015, 08:11:56 PM
Quote from: deatheats on October 22, 2015, 06:39:05 PM
For whatever reason it seems the Melvins have developed a reputation for playing a single reverb drenched note for their entire concerts.
I can't even remember how many people I've talked to that say this to me when mentioning the Melvins live.
I'm thinking maybe they leave before the first song ends, as I've noticed they usually start their shows with slow burners.
Well, they did do some tours in the 90's opening for bands where it seemed they were purposefully fucking with the audiences.
The very first time I saw the Melvins was opening for NIN. I was really worried because I heard the stories of them getting booed off stage opening for Primus. The concert was in Topeka Kansas of all places so I was sure they were going to get fucked with. Much to my surprise they got a really good response from the audience and it was great! Part of me had wished they did get fucked with just to watch them torture the crowed but it was my first time so I'm glad it went smoothly and to this very day I'm still shocked that it went so smoothly!
Did Fred Phelps picket that one? GOD HATES MELVINS would make a funny shirt, come to think of it.
I lived in Topeka during the spring/summer of '99. Saw Fred's minions on occasion.
But of course! I remember Trent saying something about it during NIN. I grew up in Topeka (I was NOT born there though) So I remember him from about as far back as I can remember. he and his family would always picket Gage Park on the weekends because that was were gay fellers would cruise. Eventually he started to get national the first time he picketed a funeral. I guess you could say I remember them before they became stars! I went to high school with two of his grand kids, one of them being in my class. Ole' Ben Phelps. He kept to himself and we would fuck with him in the later years of school. He grew up to be the one to make www.godhatesfags.com.
Actually Thanksgiving this year I'm going back to see my family, which usually takes place in Manhattan which is were I was born and where I say I'm from, because fuck Topeka, but anyway this year we're going to my uncles parents for T Day and they live in Topeka. This will be the first time I've set foot in Topeka inn well over a decade. Ugh fuck Topeka. I don't want to go on a tirade but I'm really sad to see what my home state has become. Brownback is pure evil and he's destroying the place but they voted for him so whaddya do?
I think I might just have a shirt made to say GOD HATES MELVINS in the horrible bright coloring they use. That would be awesome.
*edit- oh shit I just put a link up to WSB website. Whoops!
Just put a space between . and com.
Quote from: meezer on October 23, 2015, 11:11:38 AM
Just put a space between . and com.
Meh. It's fine. I just thought it was funny because I was too dense to even think about it. :lol:
Quote from: Bro Hammer on October 23, 2015, 12:24:14 PM
Quote from: meezer on October 23, 2015, 11:11:38 AM
Just put a space between . and com.
Meh. It's fine. I just thought it was funny because I was too dense to even think about it. :lol:
You ever click on a live link by mistake, like DC's globe under his av? :shock:
Quote from: meezer on October 23, 2015, 03:33:50 PM
Quote from: Bro Hammer on October 23, 2015, 12:24:14 PM
Quote from: meezer on October 23, 2015, 11:11:38 AM
Just put a space between . and com.
Meh. It's fine. I just thought it was funny because I was too dense to even think about it. :lol:
You ever click on a live link by mistake, like DC's globe under his av? :shock:
No. but thanks for the fore warning!
Quote from: Bro Hammer on October 23, 2015, 08:14:28 PM
Quote from: meezer on October 23, 2015, 03:33:50 PM
Quote from: Bro Hammer on October 23, 2015, 12:24:14 PM
Quote from: meezer on October 23, 2015, 11:11:38 AM
Just put a space between . and com.
Meh. It's fine. I just thought it was funny because I was too dense to even think about it. :lol:
You ever click on a live link by mistake, like DC's globe under his av? :shock:
No. but thanks for the fore warning!
Can't wait for rictus to hit it by mistake at work. :evil:
The people who hate the Melvins the most, in my experience, are the coffee shop hipster types who can't stand it that the Melvins somehow infiltrated "their" world. The Melvins have some of the workings of a hipster band - poor production, no "technical" skill, playing small venues - but they also are unabashedly heavy, they don't take themselves seriously, and they don't have a single song about crying because your girl dumped you or crying because your mom made you clean your room. So a lot of hipsters seem offended that the Melvins are essentially a hard rock or metal band that has the hipster/punk elitist work ethic and somehow gathered up enough street cred to be enjoyed by fans of Pavement and Sonic Youth.
A lot of the "technicality is all that matters"-type fans of metal and prog rock would hate the Melvins if they heard them, and they do hate the Melvins if they hear them, but most of these guys seem pretty indifferent because they're rarely around people who enjoy Melvins anyway. If you post on the Dream Theater forum or some shit, you probably never encounter Melvins fans and the Melvins would be about as important in your mind as Nickelback. But if you post on a Dinosaur Jr forum, you will have a split fanbase - people who cry to The Smiths and Arcade Fire, as well as the people who are attracted to Dino Jr's noisier side who appreciate the Melvins. And many hipster-types get really offended when a heavy band like Melvins or St Vitus or even Black Sabbath gets a little street cred.
I used to post on a forum that no longer exists. Anyway, run by a guy named Kris Fischer. This dude loved Blink-182, he would post detailed accounts of crying to various 90s and 2000s pop punk records, and he was also obsessed with Pavement, The Smiths, Sonic Youth's unlistenable early noise stuff, basically anything that a hip person was supposed to like. Very predictable taste in music. Songs longer than 3 minutes were "pretentious dad rock."
Anyway, he had a pretty vehement dislike for the Melvins because they were one of the only loud, heavy bands that managed to infiltrate "his" world. This guy made fun of me for liking Rush and Led Zeppelin while he listened to Fall Out Boy and cried to beatnik poetry. :/
Quote from: DToxico on October 20, 2015, 09:49:56 AM
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Quote from: DToxico on September 25, 2015, 11:52:36 AM
complains whenever I try to play Melvins tracks around him, and is always saying stuff like "they suck, all their songs sound identical, they never do anything different or interesting". This is especially ridiculous and ironic considering his all-time favorite band who he never stops going on about the brilliance of and getting hyped over new stuff from and making people listen to is fucking Bad Religion.
This made me lol.
Says Melvins "never do anything different or interesting" yet Bad Religion has always been on the for front of cutting edge music! :lol:
I love it. I will always love Suffer and No Control but Bad Religion has been on the cutting edge of how NOT to make music for the last 25/30 years?
Great first post DToxico.
Thanks!
Lol, yeah, it baffles me how he keeps talking about having seen them live twice and therefore "knowing" what he's talking about and "knowing" enough about their catalogue to completely dismiss them, but then things will happen like me playing "Honey Bucket" (IE something that, if they didn't play live when he saw them, they probably at least played something similar to) while he's in the car, him saying it's awesome and asking if it's Metallica or Mastodon, me telling him it's the Melvins, and his jaw dropping and going "wow, this is really creative and outside-the-box by the Melvins' standards!" Though it's always back to bitching when I try to play anything by them where he knows that's what's coming. I've gotten him to like several of their songs by not saying who played them, apparently it's just being by the Melvins that makes them suck. Who knew?
He's just a weird guy. He's incredibly averse to ever hearing so much as a note of Faith No More or Mr. Bungle's music because he read an interview with his other all-time favorite band, Dillinger Escape Plan, stating that they were influenced by those bands. He had never even heard of them and now he constantly shits on and avoids both of those like the plague still without ever having heard either because, in his words, "why taint my brain with inferior similar-sounding bands when I could just be listening to the greatest band in the world themselves? They're obviously less-evolved and not going to be anywhere near as good as Dillinger so why bother giving a chance to what are basically weak imitations that just happened to come first?" I seriously don't understand that logic. But I digress.
Man, most of the kids in my hometown who were into any punk albums released prior to the 00's usually had Social Distortion as their old-school-punk-band-of-choice and I never knew why. They were up there with the Pantera/Slipknot kids with acting like their music was the most rebellious thing out there and that you should be terrified of them for liking it but most SD songs I've heard sounds like Mike Ness took a whole bottle of downers before writing or recording anything. Not to say it's awful, it's just so safe.
Sorry to bump such an old thread but I thought it was too hilarious not to share that I just found out that the third band in this dude's holy-trinity of all-time greatest bands is... Social Distortion. Heh.
Quote from: DToxico on January 14, 2016, 08:28:39 AM
hometown who were into any punk albums released prior to the 00's usually had Social
Sorry to bump such an old thread but I thought it was too hilarious not to share that I just found out that the third band in this dude's holy-trinity of all-time greatest bands is... Social Distortion. Heh.
:lol:
Bump anything. At anytime. Ever.
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