[insert your pick]
Easy criteria being, if the Melvins announced they were doing a tour playing this album in full, you'd be ecstatic.
Senile Animal
Chicken Switch.
Bulls & Bees. I'm a broken record about this one.
Difficult to say. Im tempted to say it is '(A) Senile Animal'. Quite a few of the releases since then could be considered classic too though. 'Freak Puke' for instance would be a close call for me also. I mean, in a way i personally see each release as something notable and worthy of it's position in the grand scheme of their output. Something that reflects that particular era of the band and therefore "classic" in that sense too. Not strictly Melvins of course, but if including other things, i would say 'This Machine Kills Artists' is probably the most recent true classic.
Prick, or Colossus of Destiny...DuH =;
Before the Basses Loaded album, so Three Men And a Baby.
I'd they could actually play LOVE front to back I'd pay inflated prices. No joke. I love that record, in a somewhat masochistic way.
Upvote for TMKA. If the Melvins trio played it front to back that would be a true event.
HAT with B-Sides as encore
Or
Gluey Porch Treatments with 10 Songs as encore and the songs from Deep Six as encore 2
I want to see a tour with all new songs. Aside from that, I wouldn't mind a pigs otre tour.
The correct answer is Freak Puke. It's the last full-on classic Melvins album start to finish, not just Melvins w/ Trevor Dunn. Hold It In is great, but it feels like Melvins "w/ special guest Paul Leary" to me.
B&B is an EP
Love/Death is the current lineup, so classic? not yet.
PAT is half covers
Basses Loaded is all over the place.
Melvins83/Tres Cabrones is not a definitive lineup. Love the album, but seems almost like a side project, since it was never a touring band.
I would say A Senile Animal as well.
The Golden Age = Six Songs through Honky
The Silver Age = The Maggot through (A) Senile Animal
Those are the two classic eras for me.
Quote from: sadcorps on May 08, 2021, 10:11:58 PM
The Golden Age = Six Songs through Honky
The Silver Age = The Maggot through (A) Senile Animal
Those are the two classic eras for me.
Yeah, I'd put it similarly.
But to be honest, I hardly ever listen to any album past H.A.T.
Any live recording from any era will work though!
Pinkus Abortion Technician but prior to that Hostile Ambient Takeover was the best since the Atlantic days.
Quote from: sadcorps on May 08, 2021, 10:11:58 PM
The Golden Age = Six Songs through Honky
The Silver Age = The Maggot through (A) Senile Animal
Personally, i'd reverse the ages there. The Kevin period was the greatest Melvins era ever!
Quote from: surfling on May 09, 2021, 03:55:20 AM
Quote from: sadcorps on May 08, 2021, 10:11:58 PM
The Golden Age = Six Songs through Honky
The Silver Age = The Maggot through (A) Senile Animal
Those are the two classic eras for me.
Yeah, I'd put it similarly.
But to be honest, I hardly ever listen to any album past H.A.T.
Any live recording from any era will work though!
Yeah, for me from Nude with Boots on I tend to revisit less. That is not me saying the albums are not great - I mean, it's the MELVINS! It's just there is almost 40 years of recordings to pick from! I think there have been some standout records since ASA, such as Freak Puke (a true gem!). That being said, I will continue to worship Melvins until the day I die.
nearly everything thru nude with boots is pure gold imo.
for me things get a bit hit or miss after that. but mostly hit.
The question here is about album, so it's more about the lowest low than the highest high (and every record pretty much has a standout even in later years.)
Anything Melvins 1983 including Basses you've got the novelty songs. Not classic.
Freak Puke is a contender but Inner Ear Rupture, Holy Barbarians and part of Worm Farm would be wallpaper moments in a live setting.
Death, Hold It In and PAT have some non Buzz tunes that detract, no need to harp on them here. Also Death is just slow overall.
Sausages is pretty stinkless, but hard to take it as a classic album.
If Bulls and Bees doesn't count, then ASA for sure.
Nude and Bride both should have been two songs shorter (or better) to be truly classic.
Quote from: amazonAMAZON on May 09, 2021, 03:14:52 PM
If Bulls and Bees doesn't count
I always wish the EP had been fleshed out to a proper album. Stick another 15-20 minutes of material (3/4 songs lets say) and have it be the fourth Big Melvins release!