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hmmm, in 1993,im watching the Mtshit-V and i saw Honey Bucket video CLip,and i never stoped hear this.

In 1998, when reading the "Come as you are" book about Kurt Cobain.
It said The Melvins were the seminal grunge band. I just had to hear them for myself.

few years back on the radio! internet radio tho lol

what made me listen to them was nirvana, but i loved them because they were so damn good not cause kurt liked them.

I was never a big fan of Nirvana, I have all the Nirvana CDs and stuff (who doesn't), but I heard about Melvins after Kurt Cobain raved about them and then I checked to see if they were better then Nirvana and you guessed it, they were.

My brother was in town and he wanted to see the Melvins at the Breakroom in Capital Hill in Seattle, now the place is the Chop Suey.

The add for the show in either the Rocket or the Stranger was fucked-up. It said the show was Sunday night, we show up and there is no one there! The show happened the night before!

Anyway from that misfortune I started to hear the Melvins on KGRG once in a while. For a while I thought Helmit's Meantime was a Melvins song!

Then Bob Rivers had the Melvins cover Revolve on his Bob's Garage c/d and people requested to hear it all the time on KISW in Seattle. I went out and bought Stoner Witch and from then on I've been hooked.

I got all their stuff now.

wow i didn't know the honeybucket video has been shown on mtv

anyway i started listening to the melvins because of a nirvana interview. i had to check them out, the first song i heard was god of thunder, i didn't like it. then, a few months later i downloaded some other songs including going blind and after that i was hooked :)

i downloaded the melvins/tool song from crybaby

From the Brutal Truth cover of Zodiac.

Quote from: ziumwow i didn't know the honeybucket video has been shown on mtv:)

yes man, MTV has this video clip.do you never see?good video man!

I knew I would like them, but I couldn't find the "heavy" kind of tracks I was looking for. then via //www.lifeisabuse.com I downloaded 2 live mp3, saw them live etc etc...[/url]

All the books about grunge made me want to check them out so I grabbed Electrortetard. Liked it but didn't "get it" so it went back on the shelf. Anyhow, then I grabbed the Crybaby in Scotland. Their Hank Williams cover menat that I had to buy more! And thus, I did....

yeah i've seen the honeybucket video but i didn't know mtv aired it. It's so not the kind of video they would show on mtv  :lol:

well - when i was at art school there was a melvins tape being passed around - houdini it was - i thought it was alright - i didnt particularly like it.

I also remember reading in a major art magazine about them and how they had taken over from butthole surfers as the favorite arty farty type band. I liked the butthole surfers.

Then a friend of mine bought lysol and i thought it was very interesting and especially found sacrifice to be real cool. But still they were nothing particularly special to me.

Then a year after i first heard of them - i had the chance to see them live - the energy of thier live stuff just blew me away! - and perhaps made me 'understand' thier music better.

Since then i have collected most of thier cd's.

Shame that at thier live show i knew hardly any of thier material - i think it was after Honky - and the name of the show was something to do with laughing with lucifer... Dunno if i will get the chance to see them again.

1994-eighth grade
I asked somebody who the heaviest band they have ever heard was.
I went and bought Houdini on vinyl and have not looked back since.

i'm pretty sure i saw honeybucket on beavis and butthead. that means i like it.

Quote from: poyyukwhat made me listen to them was nirvana, but i loved them because they were so damn good not cause kurt liked them.

The first time I heard of them was on the Much Music Loud show.  It was pretty sweet.  It was right after Stag came out (1996), and they were showing some Melvins videos like "Bar X" and "Honey Bucket."  When Bar X played, that song was unlike anything I've ever heard before.  I was immediately hooked.  Buzz and Mark D were being interviewed too, and Buzz said something like "Stag will be a hit if we sell 50,000 copies".  Given the tone of his voice, he sounded like he knew that Atlantic was unfortunately gonna drop them soon.





Damn, I should have taped it.

heard about the melvins from Nirvana (of course...).  bought ozma / gluey porch treatments while I was in the states about 8 years ago when I was 17 (I'm Israeli btw). didn't like it at first, thought it all sounded the same. gave it a few more chances and really got into it. Every time I listened to it I loved it more. I think I listened to that cd every day for about 6 months. since then I got hooked and bought almost all their stuff (still missing a couple).

I remember hearing about the Melvins many years ago, but reading "Come As You Are" sparked my interest in actually getting around to listening to them.

Quote from: The ChalupaI remember hearing about the Melvins many years ago, but reading "Come As You Are" sparked my interest in actually getting around to listening to them.

Exactly! I'd seen their solo albums in stores and heard them on Beavis and Butthead, but i guess when your younger you go for the more popular bands, and when the scene died out I'd find out about other great music that is BETTER than the popular stuff, maybe because so few people know about them! :D

Man are you people young!  I was in about 9th grade (1990), when I was introduced to the " underground " music scene through skateboarding.  I saw the Melvins t-shirts and albums for sale in Sessions catalogs, and based on the artwork, figured they sounded like the Pixies.  I was in a record store , and bought a copy of 10 songs just to check it out.  I had heard everything from Ministry to Carcass, and always complained "they just aren't heavey enough".  The Melvins were heavey enough.  Since then the Melvins have gone all over the musical spectrum, and of all the bands, they still are fresh and original, and still my favorite.  I saw Melvins with Reverend Horton Heat and White Zombie in probably '94, and with Tool in '96.  Remember people, It's all about the music, no more, no less.
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Buzz is in the Primus video for "DMV" for a few seconds.  I just picked up the new Primus CD/DVD set (which rules by the way), and Les Claypool comments about it briefly in the commentary track.

I remember hanging out with an old buddy and a friend who was a drummer that I was jamming with sometime back in 94 when I heard Houdini for the first time.   Needless to say - I fell in love with Buzzos guitar playing.  

Stoner Witch is the album that hooked me to their sound though!

I heard that "Sweet Willy Rollbar" was actually played in the background in one of the old Jackass episodes (from the first season).

I was pretty surprised.  Someone in the production for Jackass must have really liked the Melvins!

YES! sweet willy rollbar was on jackass. i saw it a few times.  i think Bam is toboganing down a big grass hill as it chugs along in the background.  i was half asleep when i saw it for the first time.  i heard a noise that sounded familiar to me, and when i tuned my ears in i realized it was something from stoner witch, but i didn't know what.  when the song ended i expected to hear the first few riffs of revolve, you know the way albums melt together like that in the noggin.   :arrow:
righto.

Got houdini in 1993  because Kurt was raving about them in an interview. I hated the album first time I played it. Wrote graffiti all over the cover art and hid it away from view. Found it a couple of weeks later and played it again and got hooked. (sounds like heroin addiction)

Been loving *Buzzo* ever since.

-M

:wink:

i had always heard them mentioned by bands, and i always saw their name in random places whenever they were discussing sludge metal or anything like that. plus, i always saw The Bootlicker in cd stores, that weird cover with the fish. but i had never heard them, so they took on an aura of mystique in my mind; i was always very curious, but had never been exposed. so, one day, i finally just bought gluey porch treatments. that was that

I was getting a sloppy blowjob in a dark alley in San Fran, anyways when the guy finishes chomping my sausage, he spits out my man seed and says by the way I play guitar in a band called the Melvins. I've been a fan ever since. I bought Buzz his first dress even.

i was reading an interview with jimmy bower from eyehategod and he said he hopes his music turns some people on to stuff like the melvins.  needless to say it was eyehategod that did it for me.  and bullhead and glueyporch..

"the rejected mexican pope leaves the stage"-Piece Two

A good friend of mine in high school was in this band called Asbestos Death, they later went on to become Sleep, turned me on to the Melvins. I have been hooked ever since. His name was Al and I remember him slapping a sticker with a picture of Buzz on the street sign across from the highschool. I asked about it and went to go buy an album...the rst is history for me.

I had actually seen the video for "Honey Bucket" on "Headbanger's Ball". I think it may have been sandwiched between Warrant and Poison videos.

Quote from: Testicles of DoomI had actually seen the video for "Honey Bucket" on "Headbanger's Ball". I think it may have been sandwiched between Warrant and Poison videos.

hey testicles of doom - wots teabagging? I heard it is when the male dangles his testicles on the females forehead - i find this this hard to believe.

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Quote from: Testicles of DoomI had actually seen the video for "Honey Bucket" on "Headbanger's Ball". I think it may have been sandwiched between Warrant and Poison videos.

hey testicles of doom - wots teabagging? I heard it is when the male dangles his testicles on the females forehead - i find this this hard to believe.

its all true...thank god...watch "pecker", a john waters movie. its got a teabagging scene

cheesburg is from san fagcisco so he knows all about teabaggin! hahaha like frodo baggins teabagging a fag hag magnet ahha :shock:  :arrow:  8)

Quote from: AmboA good friend of mine in high school was in this band called Asbestos Death, they later went on to become Sleep, turned me on to the Melvins. I have been hooked ever since. His name was Al and I remember him slapping a sticker with a picture of Buzz on the street sign across from the highschool. I asked about it and went to go buy an album...the rst is history for me.

holy shit, al cisneros? sleep rules!

Quote from: grimmcheesburg is from san fagcisco so he knows all about teabaggin! hahaha like frodo baggins teabagging a fag hag magnet ahha :shock:  :arrow:  8)

ya, you got me.(insert emoticon here)

oh ya...first time i heard the melvins? i was a young stupid metalhead and bought "bullhead" shortly after it came out because one of the older metalheads said the melvins were cool, needless to say i've been hooked since.                                                                                                   "bullhead" was so influential on me at that age...it changed me...             anyone got a tissue?

hold me.  hahhaa  :wink:

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Quote from: Testicles of DoomI had actually seen the video for "Honey Bucket" on "Headbanger's Ball". I think it may have been sandwiched between Warrant and Poison videos.

hey testicles of doom - wots teabagging? I heard it is when the male dangles his testicles on the females forehead - i find this this hard to believe.

Sho' Nuff

I thought teabagging was when you put your balls inside someone's mouth.   :?

gee, i really wonder what teabagging i... can someone make a video to show me?

how bout i just come over there and put my big american balls on you in person? sound fun?  oh yeah are you a chick? cuz i don't know too many girls who are melvins fans.

Quote from: Anonymoushow bout i just come over there and put my big american balls on you in person?

Give this man the 12,000 dollars for producing quite simply the funniest thing I've ever read on the Net. Is that a rash on your neck or what...

Quotesound fun?  oh yeah are you a chick? cuz i don't know too many girls who are melvins fans.

I'm a hermaphrodite and it's soooooooo hard to find fellow Melvins loving all-sexuals.

:lol:  :lol:  :wink:

yeah, im klumps playing hole  :lol:

<nirvana - Came as you are ... :D

A friend of mine asked me if I wanted to hear the crunchiest guitar ever. He played "Queen" and changed me permanently.

I was really big into tool in 8th and 9th grade, and King Buzzo did alot with them. So I downloaded some music by them, Teet, Magic Pig Detective and Honey Bucket.

I got hooked on honey bucket and went out and bought the first melvins album i could find, Collosus of Destiny. Yeah, needless to say I wasn't too pleased with an album of noise, but I orderer Houdini off of the net and it was sub par. Honey Bucket and Night Goat were the only songs i liked on there.

But Honey Bucket was so awesome that i just kept to it, and I bought Ozma and Stag at my local 'local record store'. Yeah. I wasn't a huge stag fan, but Ozma kicked my ass like nothing else before. Just amazing. Then i bought all of their other shit and stuck to them.


Oh yeah, the weird thing is, I never knew there was a Melvins/Nirvana connection beyond the fact I liked both bands. It was only later i learned, and told countless Nirvana fans, that King Buzzo taight kurt cobain how to shoot up.

Oh yeah, here's a vintage NFC post of mine

QuoteMessage #1 posted by turnacus on 07-12-2001 (22:46)

Hey everyone. I gotta say, my two favorite bands are Nirvana and Tool. Now, I'm looking for another band that's good. Alot of people are telling me that the Melvins are a good band. What are they like? I've downloaded Honey Bucket, which is really, heavy, and Divorced, which is sludgy and whathaveyou. Anyone wanna tell me more about Melvins, or, like, what a good album from them is. Thanks.

I do remember downloading divorced now. Haha, sludgy my ass.

what the hell is going on here, so many people like the melvins.... fuck!
now their gonna be a mainstream band for everyone to listen to.

Quote from: garbage bagwhat the hell is going on here, so many people like the melvins.... fuck!
now their gonna be a mainstream band for everyone to listen to.

Shock! Horror! Oh, the humanity!

I can only hope you're being sarcastic. If not: you, sir, are simply as sad as those straightedge fucks who knock drinks out of people's hands...

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Quote from: garbage bagwhat the hell is going on here, so many people like the melvins.... fuck!
now their gonna be a mainstream band for everyone to listen to.

Shock! Horror! Oh, the humanity!

I can only hope you're being sarcastic. If not: you, sir, are simply as sad as those straightedge fucks who knock drinks out of people's hands...

my name is garbage bag for fuck sakes, what do you expect from me?

Quote from: cooterIn 1998, when reading the "Come as you are" book about Kurt Cobain.
It said The Melvins were the seminal grunge band. I just had to hear them for myself.

me too!

through this book, i discovered also the Butthole Surfers and others...

three years ago, i watched a german tv, and there was an Fantomas show.... i was fascinated, but i didnt understand it..... and there was an interview with them, and i saw some strange guy with an afro.... who looked very freaky...... i had no idea it was buzzo - cause i herd about melvins, i knew they must be good but i didnt herd them....

and when i found out that it was KING BUZZO from THE MELVINS... it blew my mind

Quotethree years ago, i watched a german tv

Yeah! That TV Station was "VIVA II" the best music television ever. It died nearly 2 Years ago and left only some shitty MainstreamStations in german TV. I'm still sad about that, I never had such an emotional connection to any other TV-thingy.

i DIDN'T find out about them through nirvana. (god DAMN that felt good).

anyway, i was on a plane reading that rock rag Revolver (i only picked it up cause i needed crap to keep me occupied) and there was a review for HAT in there. i don't remember what they said or what rating they gave it, but i got the impression that they were punk (as in black flag, dead kennedys, etc) and i'm not into that stuff at all so needless to say i didn't check them out. a few months later i met this dude and he kept going on about how i look like "king buzzo from the melvins" cause my hair is big or something retarded like that, and i thought it was kinda funny, so i asked him what they sounded like and he said "ultra heavy sludge" or something, so i downloaded the maggot just for the hell of it, and loved it. i now own most of their albums, and love them all.

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Quotethree years ago, i watched a german tv

Yeah! That TV Station was "VIVA II" the best music television ever. It died nearly 2 Years ago and left only some shitty MainstreamStations in german TV. I'm still sad about that, I never had such an emotional connection to any other TV-thingy.

yeah baby! VIVA ZWEI!

it was so motafokin cool.... so many great bands...... i also discovered Tool on Viva zwei....


.... culture

Quote from: turnacusI was really big into tool in 8th and 9th grade, and King Buzzo did alot with them. So I downloaded some music by them, Teet, Magic Pig Detective and Honey Bucket.

I got hooked on honey bucket and went out and bought the first melvins album i could find, Collosus of Destiny. Yeah, needless to say I wasn't too pleased with an album of noise, but I orderer Houdini off of the net and it was sub par. Honey Bucket and Night Goat were the only songs i liked on there.

But Honey Bucket was so awesome that i just kept to it, and I bought Ozma and Stag at my local 'local record store'. Yeah. I wasn't a huge stag fan, but Ozma kicked my ass like nothing else before. Just amazing. Then i bought all of their other shit and stuck to them.


Oh yeah, the weird thing is, I never knew there was a Melvins/Nirvana connection beyond the fact I liked both bands. It was only later i learned, and told countless Nirvana fans, that King Buzzo taight kurt cobain how to shoot up.

I thought that Buzz was never big into heroin? :?

Me neither, I think you maybe got guitar-playing and heroin-shooting mixed up there...
Anyway, how I first became aware of the Melvins... it's unclear, yet I do remember reading about them when "Prick" came out in such places as Kerrang! and hearing other random stuff elsewhere which really caught my interest in them - they sounded like my kind of people!
The first time I remember actually hearing them is when the "Hooch" video was on Beavis & Butt-Head in about 1993, when I was 12 - I took a big shine to it and felt eager to hear and learn  more about this interesting and unique band. Then I saw the video for "Queen" on a late night tv rock show a while later which I videotaped and watched nearly every day for a long time, until I finally got around to buying "Stoner Witch" on CD when I was 16. That record gave me the kind of music I could relate to in ways no others had before. Next I think I got "Lysol", followed by "Stag", "Honky", "Singles 1-12", etc, etc.  
I finally got to see them this year in July on the Geek tour, then in November for the first film-soundtrack show over here in Britain, where I met Kevin briefly before the most intense show I've ever seen!

Believe it or not. I found out about the Melvins in the most unlikely way:in an article in Newsweek magazine! Or was it Entertainment Weekly? I can't remember. I wish I still had the article. It was at the height of Nevermind and the whole "grunge revolution", and the article talked about the Melvins and how they were nothing like Nirvana musically for those who were interested in checking out Kurt's favorite band and influence. Ultra low guitar, pounding drums, growling vocals and distorted bass. It talked about Houdini and Kurt's involvement with its production.

After reading this I purchased Houdini on cassette and I have been hooked ever since. I also like Nirvana and appreciate their victory over the horrible hair band era I grew up listening to. I am 29 years old and back in 91, I was listening to heavy music anyway like Slayer and Sepultura, so I really liked Houdini's heaviness and appreciated the quirkiness of its other tracks. Now Its 2003/04 and I still enjoy the Melvins and Nirvana-especially all of their hard to find tracks.

word of mouth and just seeing there name a few times. Downloaded instant larry and divorced (clencher cuz im a tool fan and had to check out) and been a fan since.

I got interested in the Melvins through Soundgarden, not Nirvana.  And it was just last winter!  Of course from working in a record store I'd known they existed for years, but what it took was for me to read, in an interview of Kim Thayil, that it was Buzz who showed him dropped D tuning.  Stoner Witch was the first album I bought.  Then 26 Songs, HAT, Stag, and Eggnog (in that order).  I love finding out about bands that already have a nice back-catalog, but on the other hand it sure would have helped my sanity to have had them to listen to back in high school and college.  I had the luck of meeting Buzz after a Fantomas show earlier this month and it felt so bizarre being such a newbie yet feeling like I'd been loving this band all my life.  I haven't been this obsessed with a band since the Ramones.

1989 thru my bass player. get gluey baby!!

I was a teenager in Seattle during the grunge heyday. Got to see all the greats before they broke nationally at small all ages venues and colleges, Melvins included. Back when they were still a Seattle band.

Grunge exploding coincided with me getting married and having kids, so I basically gave up on music for years. It wasn't until I discovered Kyuss, QotSA and Fu Manchu a few years ago that I got back into heavy stuff, I thought all good music was gone. And I couldn't have been happier to discover the Melvins were still at it and as awesome as ever.

No one does it as good as the Melvins.

i got into them because they use my name in a song!  it's true.  it's not stee, it's steve.  and my full name is steven moenan ludlow.

What year was it?  93 or 94?  I had tickets to see L7 at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz and the Melvins were one of the opening bands.  I had only heard of them, not heard their music.  Houdini had just come out so I bought it a couple weeks before the show to check out their music.  I HATED it!

They blew me away at the show and I guess "got it" right away.  Never looked back.

Quote from: steve ludlowi got into them because they use my name in a song!  it's true.  it's not stee, it's steve.  and my full name is steven moenan ludlow.

you are joking. i don't believe you.  your name might be steve. or maaaybe even steve ludow, but moenan....come on. you think we are all as stupid as wiseshotgun??

moenan is a combination of my parent's favorite people-moe of 3 stooges fame and nan their old bud hookup.  i just figured they knew who i was. i guess you could say i felt an immediate connection.

would they know you? if so, how?

the only time i've seen buzz is in on stage and that one time back in 91 when he came home from san fransisco and i was mounting his mom.  i think he remembered and changed the lyric just enough to keep from paying me.  cheap bastard.

What can I say but  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

first time i HEARD em', when i bought the big band cd.
then stoner witch.
i heard OF them , as did a lot of us i guess, from reading nirvana stuff.
shit, i dumped nirvana so fast my head spun, and i haven't looked back, cause i've found the melvins and so many other treats along the way!  :D  :shock:  :shock:  :shock:  :D

I first heard of 'em in late '91 or early '92. I was pretty into the Seattle stuff in general, Mudhoney, Soundgarden, Nirvana, TAD, Screaming Trees, Alice In Chains, Green River, etc.. One of my roomates buddies came over wearin' a t-shirt that I remember sayin' MELVINS: Way Heavier Than Soundgarden (I've never seen that shirt again, but there's one in the book that says FUCK MELVINS LOUDER THAN SOUNDGARDEN, so maybe my memory's bad). Soundgarden was close to bein' my favorite band at the time ( Badmotorfinger was out but hadn't caught on at the time) so naturally I had to hear this band that was sellin' themselves as "heavier" (or "louder", whatever).  I looked, but didn't get a hold of anything until a year later when a friend of mine (I married her later) bought me Bullhead. It was in rotation for a while until one night I saw the video for "Honeybucket" on Headbanger's Ball. The nexet day I found a used copy of Houdini. Not long afterwords I caught a live show. Not long afterwords they took over from Sonic Youth as my official "favorite band".

That last one was me. I thought I was logged in...


Hi Sue!

Hey Ego!

Your wife's the coolest. :)

i got into the melvins about a yr and a half ago, i founf out about them through the kurt cobain bio, heavier than heaven, i downloaded the song easy as it was, and i was in love, as a bassist myself there songs are fun to play and a little bit tricky i like the variety of their music eg stoner witch and houdini, you have songs like goose freight train and sky pup there totally differnt to the rest of the songs on the album, for me it is a band that you cant copy or "try to be" there are no copy cats of this band, it is like the pixies and the cure, you cannot copy the cure due to rob smiths voice and the layering of the songs, so that is why i love the melvins because there unique unlike the clones today like good charlotte and simple plan....

I heard about The Melvins through Tool's tour of Australia (of which i was unable to attend), But it was not until i got into Fantomas last year that i really gave them a listen. I heard Creepy Smell on some compilation, and my friend hated (It was too short and didnt make sense.)it but i liked it, so i downloaded some more and looked for them in music stores and i found their cover art incredibly funny. Then someone gave me HAT and I was convinced of their brilliance. Houdini let me down a little but The Maggot and Stag convinced me they still rule... My favorite is probably Honky because it scares the shit out of me. Stag also tickles me fancy.

i saw new guys here and i dont see the guys talking about this topic...
any news guys? :wink:

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Quote from: Anonymoushow bout i just come over there and put my big american balls on you in person?

Give this man the 12,000 dollars for producing quite simply the funniest thing I've ever read on the Net. Is that a rash on your neck or what...

Quotesound fun?  oh yeah are you a chick? cuz i don't know too many girls who are melvins fans.

I'm a hermaphrodite and it's soooooooo hard to find fellow Melvins loving all-sexuals.

you made my day

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Quote from: cooterIn 1998, when reading the "Come as you are" book about Kurt Cobain.
It said The Melvins were the seminal grunge band. I just had to hear them for myself.

me too!

through this book, i discovered also the Butthole Surfers and others...

three years ago, i watched a german tv, and there was an Fantomas show.... i was fascinated, but i didnt understand it..... and there was an interview with them, and i saw some strange guy with an afro.... who looked very freaky...... i had no idea it was buzzo - cause i herd about melvins, i knew they must be good but i didnt herd them....

and when i found out that it was KING BUZZO from THE MELVINS... it blew my mind

They showed a fantomas concert too, didn't they?
Buzzo pushed his knee against his gibson les paul and I jumped out of my TV couch, fell on my knees right in front of the set and sobbed: "Oh please, sir don't hurt the guitar!"

Honestly, he used so much of his body wheight I couldn't believe that thing didn't break, or at least permanently detune.

I taped the radio-FM4 live broadcast of this:
Holzstock Festival Ebensee (Sa 02.09.95) featuring: Beck / Foo Fighters / Melvins / Babes in Toyland / Kurort / Orange Baboons / Texta
and loved it
Then I bought this:
"Instant Larry" (Tales of the crypt. The Demon Night - Soundtrack)
and hated it.
I bought the Crybaby, because Page Hamilton was on it (I also thought that "Oven" was the best song on "Born Annoying").

Quote from: Anonymoushow bout i just come over there and put my big american balls on you in person? sound fun?  oh yeah are you a chick? cuz i don't know too many girls who are melvins fans.

:lol:  8)  i can't believe i posted that


btw, eyehategod got me into the melvins around 99, specifically a jimmy bower interview, but i already said that in this thread about two years ago.

My relationship with the Melvins has been love/hate. The first CD of theirs I ever bought was Prick in 95 or so. I had heard of their name through a BMG catalog referenced as the "Godfathers of Grunge" and so I thought it would be cool to check them out. Obviously I was like "what the fuck" upon listening to it.

I eventually sold the disk and a year or so later was feeling frisky and bought Singles 1-12 when it came out in 96 or 97 (I think) and I was happy to hear atleast a couple of "songs" on two disks worth of material. Still turned off, but intrigued.

Later that year I bought Stag and it was all over....next came Houdini, Stoner Witch, 10 Songs, GPT/Ozma, Honky, Eggnog, Lysol, etc. and now I got all of em' (including Prick)

How do I know the Melvins?

Mutual friends.

Quote from: RichieGoodtimesHow do I know the Melvins?

Mutual friends.

\:D/  :cheers:

Quote from: Moebius05
I bought the Crybaby, because Page Hamilton was on it (I also thought that "Oven" was the best song on "Born Annoying").

I think you mean Henry Bogdan?

I think Oven by Helmet was probably the first Melvins song I ever heard as I was massively into Helmet before the Melvins.

I saw them open for Tool in 98 and hated them. Probably because I was  14 at the time and it was my first concert. And, apparently, a douche for not liking the mighty Melvins. That put me off the Melvins for a long time. I later got into Mike Patton projects by way of Buckethead. I picked up the first Fantomas album and Stoner Witch on the same day. I went back later that afternoon and got Hostile Ambient Takeover.  :toke:  I wish I could watch that show again and see if there was any reason to have disliked it. Because Melvins and Tool is a pretty sweet first concert to go to. I just wish I could've enjoyed it the first time around.

I can't believe that so many of you guys got into the Melvins after bad first experiences. If Prick were the first Melvins record I bought, I don't think I would have come back for more.

Anyway, I bought Bullhead shortly after it came out because it got great reviews in several magazines that I read. I saw the Melvins a few months later when they first began playing songs from Eggnog.

I've been a big fan ever since.

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I bought the Crybaby, because Page Hamilton was on it (I also thought that "Oven" was the best song on "Born Annoying").

I think you mean Henry Bogdan?

I think Oven by Helmet was probably the first Melvins song I ever heard as I was massively into Helmet before the Melvins.

Nah, Bogdan is the bass player, page hamilton is the singer/songwriter/guitarist.

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I think you mean Henry Bogdan?

I think Oven by Helmet was probably the first Melvins song I ever heard as I was massively into Helmet before the Melvins.

Nah, Bogdan is the bass player, page hamilton is the singer/songwriter/guitarist.

True. And Page's not on it :)

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I think you mean Henry Bogdan?

I think Oven by Helmet was probably the first Melvins song I ever heard as I was massively into Helmet before the Melvins.

Nah, Bogdan is the bass player, page hamilton is the singer/songwriter/guitarist.

True. And Page's not on it :)

You're right! Incredible! It's like someone just told my my name was steve!

Around 91 a friend of mine lent me Eggnog and Goat by the Jesus Lizard. I had nevre heard either band before and I don't think that any band I have heard of since can compare to either of them, although TITD comes purty damned close.

I was browsing through Amazon lists and saw the Melvins "Stoner Witch" on it, but didn't think too much about it at the time. About two weeks later, I found Stoner Witch and wondered what the hell it would sound like, mainly due to the Swan on the cover and the title made me raise my eyebrow. Life hasnt been the same since.

I saw the Melvins open one of the big Crescent Ballroom shows in Tacoma in like 1985 or '86... actually, they may have played second.  I don't clearly remember the detail as, during that point of my life, I was almost certainly on lots of acid.  I do know that I was hooked from that first time I saw them and have been coming back for more ever since.

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uh..... hooked on the melvins, I should say.  gave up the acid a few years back...

i started listening to the melvins because i thought their name was stupid

A buddy of mine had the Honky LP, I asked him what it was like and he said something like,"Dude, it's fuuuuuuuuckin' out there bro!!!!!" I listened to it and instantly had the feeling of a beautiful woman and I running to one another on a pristine beach.

bought the Kill Rock Stars compilation years ago.  heard "Ever Since My Accident" and fell in love.  gradually i became more and more obsessed...

In the early 90's some odd looking model (riding a skateboard, I think) was on MTV, and she said she listens to the Melvins. It seemed like such a ridiculous name for a band, and so I never forgot it.  On a whim 5 years ago I listened to samples of The Bootlicker on amazon.com, and I was hooked.

I had never even heard about them, until once when I was looking into more Doom Metal bands and albums, I came across a list of ten best doom albums by someone, and there was Bullhead on that list. I downloaded all of them, and when I listened Bullhead I was like WTF!?!?!?!?!? It was an instant kick in the head, and now I'm deeply in love with the Melvins, and have introduced them to several friends. All are like "whoa, man, what is this stuff??" :)

Quote from: BryanIn the early 90's some odd looking model (riding a skateboard, I think) was on MTV, and she said she listens to the Melvins. It seemed like such a ridiculous name for a band, and so I never forgot it.  On a whim 5 years ago I listened to samples of The Bootlicker on amazon.com, and I was hooked.

Very strange, I remember that show on MTV.  She picked up a copy of the Night Goat single, showed it to the camera, and said something like, 'When I want to listen to something heavy, I listen to this-.'

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I have no idea, I just remember I wanted to find like 5 new bands in a week so I could brag to my friends about these bands and they wouldnt know em.

And I came up with like Helmet, Hoods, The Melvins, and some others.

I just stuck with the melvins though.

Bullhead tour Portland Underground 1900's

in 1995 i saw them on a music show on the fx network playing songs off of stoner witch and i've been hooked ever since

I stole the Bullhead cassette from my older brother when he was away at college. I was 15 or 16 at the time.

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ok someones official like lost it and it aint me... hhaa

A few years ago, a friend of mine was lending me a bunch of jazz CDs to listen to.  For some reason, Hostile Ambient Takeover was misplaced along with the jazz.  At the time, it didn't grab me, but I came back for more the summer later and bought Stoner Witch.  Then Houdini.  The the Maggot.  Then Pigs of the Roman Empire.  
And it kept going like that.

I first heard of them in connection with the "grunge" bands coming out of Seattle.  I didn't actually hear any of their songs until a while later, however.  I was reading about Kurt Cobain and found out that he loved the Melvins.  I decided to download some of their music and fell in love immediately.

i had heard a lot about the melvins of course because of nirvana. but i never got into them until i read an interview with them in some free magazine they distribute in colorado about them playing a show in boulder with godheadsilo. also got into godheadsilo. missed the show but i went out and picked up houdini and stoner witch immediately, and the rest followed soon after. by the time stag came out i had everything and saw them for the first time in denver at the ogden theatre about a week after stag came out. i was going to see them open for white zombie the year previous to that but i couldnt find the mammoth events center. turns out it was right next to the ogden theatre which i had been too before. i felt kind of dumb.