So I know I've seen this discussed, debated, and investigated with various song titles by various members over the years ... Brain Center springs to mind. Not sure if there was an actual thread or just discussion about this in others ... last night I came across one ... and so now, volia! Origin of Melvins Song Titles Thread.
Rat Faced Granny - In Drugstore Cowboy David (Max Perlich's character) is at the door of Bob's (Matt Dillon) place. Bob asks him if he's alone ... David replies "No, I brought my Ratfaced Granny along".
The Fool, The Meddling Idiot--Walter Pigeon says this line in Forbidden Planet after finding the doctor tried to use the brain enhancer on himself and died as a result.
The Brain Center at Whipples is an episode of The Twilight Zone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brain_Center_at_Whipple's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brain_Center_at_Whipple's)
Billy Fish Is a Character in the movie "the man who would be king" starring Sean Connery and Micheal Cain!
(althrough It may have more than one meaning)
In Toy Story 2 (i think) there's a red book on the boy's shelf called Dog Island.
Quote from: Dumpster D on September 20, 2011, 01:48:11 PM
Billy Fish Is a Character in the movie "the man who would be king" starring Sean Connery and Micheal Cain!
(althrough It may have more than one meaning)
I remember hearing that
Billy Fish was a comic strip character in Britian. In
Viz I think it was ... maybe Jules or )))((( could confirm that one?
Steve Instant Newman - about that Nirvana guitarist who cut-off his finger by accident on a bench-saw
Quote from: Mount Ambulance on September 20, 2011, 04:55:06 PM
Quote from: Dumpster D on September 20, 2011, 01:48:11 PM
Billy Fish Is a Character in the movie "the man who would be king" starring Sean Connery and Micheal Cain!
(althrough It may have more than one meaning)
I remember hearing that Billy Fish was a comic strip character in Britian. In Viz I think it was ... maybe Jules or )))((( could confirm that one?
Indeed, Billy the Fish is a long-running half man, half fish goalkeeper in Viz.
(http://i925.photobucket.com/albums/ad93/AKV126C/billy-the-fish.jpg)
Sir Henry Lauder (4 August 1870
from catch 22....... "how can he see he's got flies in his eyes if he's got flies in his eyes?"
the green manalishi - they forgot to change the title.
zzzzzzz best: zz top hommage?
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from disneyland.
Pink Bat is baseball related.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_bat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_bat)
Although not exactly song related I remember one time Buzz called Ozzy a "buck toothed mummy". I thought that was not only hilarious but would be a great Melvins song title. Later on I saw Homer call Mr Burns that on an episode of the Simpsons. The episode was from Season 2, "Blood Feud".
Dear Mr. Burns... I'm so glad you enjoyed my son's blood and your card was just great. In case you can't tell, I'm being sarcastic. You stink! You are a senile, buck-toothed old mummy with bony girl-arms, and you smell like an elephant's butt.
Quote from: anaconda on September 20, 2011, 05:45:20 PM
Pink Bat is baseball related.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_bat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_bat)
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In baseball, pink bats are limited-supply baseball bats manufactured by Louisville Slugger for use by select Major League Baseball players on Mother's Day, first introduced in 2006 in association with the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization. " (Wiki)
POTRE came out in 2004 ... I always thought it was in reference to female genitalia ... a snatch, a pussy ... a pink bat.
Quote from: Mount Ambulance on September 20, 2011, 10:04:14 PM
Quote from: anaconda on September 20, 2011, 05:45:20 PM
Pink Bat is baseball related.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_bat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_bat)
In baseball, pink bats are limited-supply baseball bats manufactured by Louisville Slugger for use by select Major League Baseball players on Mother's Day, first introduced in 2006 in association with the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization.
POTRE came out in 2004 ... I always thought it was in reference to female genitalia ... a snatch, a pussy ... a pink bat.
I've thought that maybe pink bat = vibrator/dildo
Quote from: EvilNewWarGod on September 20, 2011, 09:24:01 AM
The Fool, The Meddling Idiot--Walter Pigeon says this line in Forbidden Planet after finding the doctor tried to use the brain enhancer on himself and died as a result.
I was just watching FORBIDDEN PLANET the other night, and yelled out loud (to myself) : AHHHH! MELVINS!!!
Billy the Fish was the original title and I always though it was about a guy named Billy who drank like a fish.
The melvins changed it from Billy the Fish to Billy Fish?
Billy the Fish on a set list before the release of NWB.
Quote from: Mount Ambulance on September 20, 2011, 10:04:14 PM
POTRE came out in 2004 ... I always thought it was in reference to female genitalia ... a snatch, a pussy ... a pink bat.
or perhaps?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_challenges_in_Takeshi%27s_Castle#D (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_challenges_in_Takeshi%27s_Castle#D)
"Dino Ride: Riding a mechanical bull dressed as a giant dinosaur, contestants try to shoot a pink bat supported by toilet paper with a water gun, but if they fail or fall, they are eliminated (and sometimes sprayed with white powder). Called Buck Off! on MXC, with the sprayer nicknamed Herby the Steamy Pile."
Buzz said -- on no less a cultural authority than Fox News' RedEye -- that "The Kicking Machine" is an episode of The Rockford Files. Still can't find this episode. :?
What was the song about courtney love?
Quote from: dead mike on September 21, 2011, 08:49:21 PM
Buzz said -- on no less a cultural authority than Fox News' RedEye -- that "The Kicking Machine" is an episode of The Rockford Files. Still can't find this episode. :?
I have a book somewhere about the Rockford files series, I will check it out. Wikipedia'a list of episodes does not include one named "The Kicking Machine". Maybe Buzz is leading us on a wild goose chase.
Quote from: Dumpster D on September 22, 2011, 01:13:54 AM
What was the song about courtney love?
Isnt it 'You've Never Been Right' from ASA? It's a play on the title of the Nirvana song 'You Know You're Right'.
Quote from: GrimReaper on September 22, 2011, 04:37:14 AM
Quote from: dead mike on September 21, 2011, 08:49:21 PM
Buzz said -- on no less a cultural authority than Fox News' RedEye -- that "The Kicking Machine" is an episode of The Rockford Files. Still can't find this episode. :?
I have a book somewhere about the Rockford files series, I will check it out. Wikipedia'a list of episodes does not include one named "The Kicking Machine". Maybe Buzz is leading us on a wild goose chase.
I just thumbed through my copy of Ed Robertson's 20th Anniversary tribute to the Rockford Files, "This is Jim Rockford..." There is no episode titled "The Kicking Machine". There are several Rockford Files shows with alternate titles. Under the title is "AKA, and the alternate name". No Kicking Machine anywhere.
The Kicking Machine was a cartoon by Rube Goldberg featuring one of
his fantastic contraptions that can kick someone in the ass repeatedly.
Quote from: Pringles on September 20, 2011, 05:02:34 PM
Steve Instant Newman - about that Nirvana guitarist who cut-off his finger by accident on a bench-saw
cool
The Rube Goldberg inventions are the coolest!
the most complicated process to do the simplest of tasks!
gives a new meaning to that track title...heh, it always DID remind me of exactly that 'Conda!
a big wheel with Boots on it that spins around and kicks you in the butt.
kinda goes with the whole nude with boots in another meaning.
I can't find the original cartoon, but here's a replica some college kids made:
(http://thesickos.free.fr/kicking_machine.jpg)
:lol:
That's EXACTLY what I had in mind when I first read that track title!!!
Quote from: Rusty Shackleford on September 20, 2011, 10:09:15 PM
Quote from: Mount Ambulance on September 20, 2011, 10:04:14 PM
Quote from: anaconda on September 20, 2011, 05:45:20 PM
Pink Bat is baseball related.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_bat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_bat)
In baseball, pink bats are limited-supply baseball bats manufactured by Louisville Slugger for use by select Major League Baseball players on Mother's Day, first introduced in 2006 in association with the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization.
POTRE came out in 2004 ... I always thought it was in reference to female genitalia ... a snatch, a pussy ... a pink bat.
I've thought that maybe pink bat = vibrator/dildo
no man it's dick oh ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Quote from: suck poppet on September 24, 2011, 09:30:35 PM
Quote from: Rusty Shackleford
I've thought that maybe pink bat = vibrator/dildo
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no man it's dick oh ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
:-k
Who knows?
The buzzing sounds to start it off, and then the "my batteries are low, please change my AAA batteries" stuff, there are things throughout the whole song that has always made me think - VIBRATOR! ORGASM!
Gaddamn - GREATEST BAND ON EARTH!
III is 3min.
Vile Vermillion Vacancy can only be one thing.
menstruation?
:lol:
In an interview with Tom Snyder, John Lydon (then of PIL) uses the phrase "a senile animal". I believe he was referring to the mass media. I saw it years ago. I'll look for it.
@ about 3:20. Even better , he was referring to the majority of the public. Great responses from John, BTW.
http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?v=_BZ2UoBZzEI (http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?v=_BZ2UoBZzEI)
I understand ASA is an album not a song but this is still relateable.
Thats almost like Mexican Butt-hash.
Billy Fish is the translator from The Man who would be King, a film that was shown at the Melvins/Patton ATP.
"My Small % Shows Most" was influenced by an old Pink Floyd song that had a very similar title.
"Harry Lauder Walking Stick Tree" - there really was a guy named Harry Lauder with branch-like walking sticks
PG X 3 = Peggy Gordon times three. They play 3 different versions of the melody in the track.
Most of the other song titles are pretty much random.
Although not really a Melvins song ... a cover so cherished they basically own it at this point ... "The Ballad of Dwight Fry" ... Dwight Fry(e) was the actor who played Renfield (the real estate agent who the Count reduces to utter lunacy) in Tod Browning's classic 1931 Dracula. Frye was a natural (typecast) at playing these types of mentally unbalanced characters and freaks ... another great turn was as Dr. Frankenstien's hunchback assistant Fritz (not Igor as the character was renamed in subsequent adaptations) in the orginal 1931 Frankenstien film.
Supposedly the Coop wrote it from the vantage of the type of character that Frye not simply played ... but all too naturally inhabited. And dropped the e from his last name to avoid lawsuits or worse.
zodiac from bullhead:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer)
Memory escapes, but read somewhere Buzz wrote 'Tipping The Lion' in reference to the book "A History of Orgies" by Burgo Partridge ... not sure if the song title is a direct reference (haven't read it ... thou it's in the mail) or just the subject matter ... which is as obvious as the title states.
"We All Love Judy"
Some time around the trilogy era, Buzz and Dale did a college radio interview -- it was posted here not too long ago -- where they get to talking about Judas Priest. Buzz remarked, "We all love Judy." Not sure whether that's where the song title comes from, but I have yet to see an alternative explanation.
Quote from: dead mike on January 05, 2012, 10:11:15 AM
"We All Love Judy"
Some time around the trilogy era, Buzz and Dale did a college radio interview -- it was posted here not too long ago -- where they get to talking about Judas Priest. Buzz remarked, "We all love Judy." Not sure whether that's where the song title comes from, but I have yet to see an alternative explanation.
Fuckin' A We All Love Judy!!!
melvins - 08 - we all love judy - wmpg radio 99 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqIz3L1ELQY#)
It is mentioned at 1:10
"Colossus of Destiny" is from a John Fante book. Poor misguided Arturo Bandini plans it for the title of his first novel.
So I'm watching The Man Who Would Be King based on Buzz's recommendation and the interpreter's name is Billy Fish :)
Quote from: (PAUL) on April 28, 2012, 05:50:01 PM
So I'm watching The Man Who Would Be King based on Buzz's recommendation and the interpreter's name is Billy Fish :)
How's the movie?
Good! Everyone thinks Sean Connery is a god.
I think honey is described as the color green in Homer's Odyssey (Green Honey). At least according to Radiolab.
This is a cool thread. Ive learned something today.
cool avatar jackie!
Was reading wiki about Jim Jones of the People's Temple, and I read
'though the FBI did recover a 45 minute audio recording of the suicide in progress.'
Maybe. I'm on my phone, so link maybe weird.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones#section_4 (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones#section_4)
Quote from: (PAUL) on April 28, 2012, 05:50:01 PM
So I'm watching The Man Who Would Be King based on Buzz's recommendation and the interpreter's name is Billy Fish :)
So I guess Billy Fish is NOT named after the Rick Moranis character from Walter Hill's Streets of Fire??
We Are Doomed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_Doomed:_Reclaiming_Conservative_Pessimism)
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:shock:
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http://forums.finegardening.com/over-fence/general-gardening/henry-lauder-walking-stick (http://forums.finegardening.com/over-fence/general-gardening/henry-lauder-walking-stick)