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This is a great ep. I was listening to it and I thought to myself that sounds like Gary Chester. Low and behold, in little tiny writing.... " additional guitars: Gary Chester" he is all over this recording, I think that's awesome. Gary Chester makes me want to quit playing guitar and keep playing guitar all at the same time.

"One Gary Chester....there's only one Gary Chester.....One Gary Cheeeeeeeeester, there's only one Gary Che-eeee-ster."

(to the tune of Guantanamera, in case you didn't know)

Now I know... 😂

So, wait a moment, just to confirm, Gary Chester is on the Helms Alee EP?

All over it....

This is a great ep. I was listening to it and I thought to myself that sounds like Gary Chester. Low and behold, in little tiny writing.... " additional guitars: Gary Chester" he is all over this recording, I think that's awesome. Gary Chester makes me want to quit playing guitar and keep playing guitar all at the same time.

Right before stag came out, I had a very vivid dream of seeing Melvins and buzzo  was wearing a royal robe mumu type thing and he was wearing a crown and his hair was all psychedelic, and that means it was like alive.... Kinda like snakes.... Anyways, when Stag came out I thought it was strange how the little drawings of him on it looked kind of similar to my dream, and I also think it's really weird that he was wearing a royal robe mumu because that was way before the mumu came in to play

I'm bummed the new eggnog reissue isn't on 45 rpm...I was hopin to listen to it slow...

I got my gluey porch treatments yesterday, the lime green one,I hadn't listened  to this record in a long time, it sounds fucking great, love it. Still waiting on my hat ones

Was peeping to see if the new album dropped on iTunes yet (even though I own the silver vinyl) and found some insider info from Buzz himself breaking down each of the tracks. Not sure if this has already been posted:

I F**k Around
"This came out of soundcheck. They'd go, 'Can you do your vocal check?' and I'd start in with 'Round, round, fuck around, I fuck around,' to the tune of the Beach Boys song. It always got a laugh out of people. And then we eventually thought we gotta record it. So I sat down and wrote lyrics for it. Melvins 1983 is where that kind of stuff really comes to light, because we all have the same kind of sense of humour, which my wife says is perpetually stuck in eighth grade. Which is true."

Negative No No
"I wrote these lyrics while driving around in the car, listening to the demo. What I'll do is I have my notebook with me and when I come upon something, I'll pull over and just write it out, right there on the side of the road. I do that all the time. You couldn't work that way on public transpo. Sitting on the bus singing out loud is not really going to work. You'd be beaten up or considered insane, which is probably not far from the truth."

Bouncing Rick
"This was the nickname we had for our high school biology teacher. Me and Dillard had all kinds of names for people at the high school. This guy bounced around when he talked—I think it was out of nervousness—so we called him Bouncing Rick. But we're the only ones who called him that. So as soon as I said, 'Bouncing Rick', Dillard knew who I was talking about. I don't know that the song is really about him, though. I think it would be more about the challenges of a second date."

Caddy Daddy
"People think this is a golf reference, but it's actually not. It's Cadillacs. I wouldn't write a song about a golf caddy—I've never had one. But I've never had a Cadillac, either. When I lived in San Francisco, I saw a guy walking through the Fillmore District with a baseball hat on that said 'Caddy Daddy' on it, and I wrote it down. That was probably 30 years ago, and I've had it ever since. But the song isn't about that. It's more about thinking you're smarter than you really are."

Brian, The Horse-Faced Goon
"The first part is a song that we came up with a long time ago. We used to sing it exactly like that—'Brian, The Horse-Faced Goon', trying to imitate Ethel Merman. So we've had that version for years and years. And then the second one is about a Florida kid shooting dope in a hurricane. Dale wrote the music for that one, which is the new song. The hardest part was figuring out how I was going to fit the phrase 'Brian, The Horse-Faced Goon' into the lyrics, which I did."

Boy Mike
"This might be one of my favourites. The way it started out and the way it ended up was tremendously different. And I really like the ending on that song—I think it's really fucking cool. I think it sounds really weird and creepy. I couldn't say exactly what that one's about, but Boy Mike is not a real person. At first I was thinking it could be about a microphone, but I don't think it is. It's one of those songs that ends up far surpassing your expectations. I love when that happens."

F**k You
"This is our Harry Nilsson cover, which was a no-brainer. His song was called 'You're Breakin' My Heart'. According to the documentary about him, he wrote it about his ex-wife. Nilsson was a strange cat—he never played live. This was a song that I've wanted to cover for a long time, and I changed the lyrics to be as offensive as possible. We really liked the beginning with us screaming, 'Fuck you!' so we decided to isolate that for the second song. If you take the two 'Brian' tracks, 'Boy Mike' and the two 'F**k Yous', it's like a nice little EP in the middle of the album."

The Great Good Place
"I think this is Dale's favourite song on the record. I might be wrong, but I think the title is a reference to the freaks at Andy Warhol's Factory who thought that they'd found a place where they could do whatever they wanted, but then Warhol ends up getting blasted. I might have had that in mind, but it's not directly about that. And then there's that saying along the lines of 'If you let everyone in, you let in madness, too.' So you've got to be more specific about your guest list."

Hot Fish
"The music for this one was written by Trevor Dunn, and I wrote the lyrics. We actually wrote this song for Flipper. We did a limited-edition EP with those guys playing on it, but we decided to redo the song and put it on this record. I can't think of a band that has had a bigger impact on us than Flipper. The title comes from seeing them at a club in San Francisco in the '80s called the Covered Wagon. In the back, there was a kitchen with a deep fryer. Those guys had this fish made out of metal that was about the size of a bowling ball. They'd drop it in the fryer until it was red hot and then throw water on it and carry it onstage screaming, 'Hot fish! Hot fish!' I never forgot that. The funny thing is, when I brought it up to those guys, they didn't remember it."

Hund
"This is a song that I wrote for [Buzz and Dale's side project] Crystal Fairy, but we never got to record it. So we revamped it and did it with Melvins 1983. It has some pretty hard guitar-playing on it, as far as the soloing goes—that's about as hard a guitar solo as I'll ever do. But the song is kind of a multifaceted nightmare—it's got a lot of parts to it. Mike and Dale did a really good job working this out."

Goodnight Sweet Heart
"We've been wanting to do this on an album forever. We used to do this song with the Big Business guys—we'd do it as the last song of the night. Then I met one of the guys from Sha Na Na when I was golfing at one of the little par-three courses I play. He was there all the time, so I got to be friends with him. He told me the reason they loved doing that song last is because it was the shortest song they did in their whole set. So we open the record with a Beach Boys song and close it with a '50s doo-wop song. It just seems right."

thanks for posting this, I love it

I got it in the mail yesterday, and I've listen to it five times, I fucking love it, it is so damn good. I'm gonna listen to it again....

I had a melvins dream the other night, all I can remember is Buzz coming up on stage but he was young, like 1983 Buzz with the oldschool lineup and the stage was small so was right there, not what you'd have called a crowd or anything, but I was like surprised to see buzz back in his youth.

sounds like a spiritual experience, well secretly, he is still that buzz, being in a band for a career or even a hobby demands eternal immaturity

 used to have that, but I guess I smoked it. I had no idea that it was dedicated to Charlie ondras, he was a rad drummer. I need to get a copy of the first unsane record

I think it was a rover who said it is like a children's record for adults.

that's right up my alley, doomed to eternal immaturity... I cannot wait to get weird with this one... this new song that Jules just posted is crazy, it trips me out, kind of scares me, man I am excited...

Man, I am so glad he is making this music and even these videos, because I'll never need to take acid again. Stoked. Thanks for finding this... i'm gonna curl up in a fetal position,grab my teddy bear and try to go to sleep...

I want to thank Jules for always hooking us up with the great info and scoops, but dang it, I have way too many mullets.... I guess that's what happens when you get greedy...

Yeah his voice is not really like that that's that vocoder thing, I am almost positive he's actually doing the high stuff too, because he has a very high voice, he's a weirdo dude, so this album is going to be weird, I know I actually listened  to it for two days straight and nothing else, at the time I was really relating to the song. I'm very interested to hear it too I've got a couple of the red vinyl copies coming, I will check it out and I will give you a review

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