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Just remember, its all about the bass.

-al27

see how pretty, see how smart. hands down.

The song just keeps building and building and then finally just fucking rips your face off. No matter how often I listen to this song I'm always surprised by the end. You never know when it's coming. "oh here it comes... wait no... now... no..."

Hag Me is like that for me too, I can't use it 'cause its under 10 mintues, but every time I hear that intro, I can never tell when the song is going to start.  Every time I think it is, I'm early or late in guessing.

Brilliant.

-al27

charmicarmacat.

Ditto.

-al27

Do you mean 49 seconds or .49 seconds, as in less than a half a second.

I remember hearing about a one second song, I don't remember who exactly (Napalm Death is popping up, but I don't recall), but that sounds crazy.

I wonder if anyone's ever downloaded a 1 second or less song on iTunes for 99 cents.

-al27

I have a burned copy featuring most of the songs on Never Mind The Bollocks (10 of the 12, I think "New York" and "Bodies" are missing), and I have the queens jubilee bootleg or something (I can't keep track) by the Pistols that has the demos with Glen Mattlock playing on them, as well as a couple of live songs including "No Fun."

I'm not one of those guys who takes the "Pistols totally rule" stance, because I do acknowledge that they were a manufactured band, and were out to make money.

And I can also totally see why people would hate the Sex Pistols for those reasons.

And Rottens vocals are definitely an aquired taste (though the same can be said for HR's in the Bad Brains).

But I love the Sex Pistols mostly for the music.  They wrote some cool punk riffs.  I play guitar, and I love Steve Jone's stuff!  He played a lot of cool lines in his songs, and it makes for some pretty cool guitar work.  He was like Johnny Ramone crossed with Johnny Thunders.  I mean, "EMI" "God Save The Queen" "No Feelings" "Pretty Vacant"... Great songs, all of them!

There's so much mythos around the Pistols, it seems like people either love them or hate them based on who they were, not what music they put out.

Me, I just like their music.  Thats all, nothing more complicated than that.

And I like PiL's Second Edition because the bass lines are really cool.  And what other band has ever put out dance music like that?  It sounds so cold and depressing.  Its unique, and the bass grooves are so catchy that I do truly enjoy it.  I don't ever crave a PiL album, but its something I bring out every once and a while.

As far as how much I listen to the Pistols, well, "God Save The Queen" has 48 plays on my iPod, "EMI" has 33.  Like I said, I like their music, I couldn't give two craps about who they were or what "messages" they were trying to push.

-al27

The Sex Pistols album is a classic, even if you don't like that kind of music, its an important record.

I never really thought the Pistols played "punk" music, though, it was too slow.

Some fantastically great songs though (I love "God Save The Queen" and "No Feelings"), excellent rock 'n' roll, in my opinion.


I don't have a ton of PiL stuff, but Album and Second Edition are both great.


Here I am, weighing in on a post thats 3+ years old.
-al27

If the first two parts of Amazon count as a song, then thats a pretty awesome one too.

I'd also like to nominate tracks 4 through 7 on (A) Senile Animal, as the longest one is 2:40.  Thats Ramones length.

-al27

Sweet Willy Rollbar

It kinda got me into the Melvins, so I'm a bit biased for it.

-al27

[love]

I pretty much have half of ASA on it, don't I?

Its probaby too much, and perhaps the still fresh novelty of that "new, awesome album" feeling, but I think those 5 tracks from ASA are some of the coolest stuff the Melvins have ever done.  Especially the fast 4, they blend into a very outstanding 10 minutes of awesome.  And "A History Of Bad Men?"  I love the sludge music contrasting the fairly fast paced vocals, its great.

But we already knew ASA was great, right?

As to why I didn't include some tracks, I just couldn't.  "At The Stake" is great, but I have half of Stoner Witch on there already.

The Melvins, like the Ramones, just have too much great music that you can't possibly fit everything you want into an 80 minute frame.

With my current Melvins catalogue, I'm thinking two discs would do it (that second disc would be mostly GPT, Ozma Bullhead and ALL of Lysol),  and I'm sure if you had everything they've done, you'd need about a 4 disc box set to really get a good picture.

The Ramones I could do with three discs, and I do have all their studio albums.


Isn't it awesome that there are bands out there that manage to stick around long enough to put out a TON of great music? 

Hooray for the Melvins!


And you folks who are trying my comp out, let me know your opinion, please.  Does it feel nice and coheisive like a good comp should?


-al27

Alright, I know this took long enough, but here's my final track listing:

1. June Bug      
2. Roadbull      
3. Amazon
4. Amazon   
5. AMAZON   
6. AMAZON   
7. Honey Bucket
8. Hag Me
9. Black Santa
10. Oven
11. Sweet Willy Rollbar
12. Revolve
13. Zodiac
14. The Green Manalishi (With The Two Pronged Crown)
15. The Green Manalishi (With The Two Pronged Crown)
16. A History Of Drunks
17. Rat Faced Granny
18. The Hawk   
19. You've Never Been Right
20. A History Of Bad Men
21. Over From Under The Excrement
22. Charmicarmicat

I really should make a 2 disk best of for the Melvins, it was really hard cutting some tracks for others.

But I guess these are my cream of the Melvins crop.

-al27

Oh, I forgot to mention "Roadbull," that has to go on there (how cool is that whistling part at the end?), and I think Charmicarmicat would be a good way to end it (I totally forgot about that one), so I think thats what I'll do with that.

I have to look at those songs you guys suggested from GPT, Ozma, and Bullhead again.  Maybe make a few playlists on my iPod and see how they feel before I burn the final product.

I should probably throw another track or two from Houdini on there, I like the Going Blind cover.

Thanks, and keep going!  I'm already getting ideas.

-al27

is this the movie w/ jessica simpson and that dane cook dude?   

I don't know....   maybe I'll let this little glimpse of the melvins poster be enough for me.

my thoughts exactly.

You're right.

I saw it out of boredom about a week ago, its not very good.

In fact, I'd say it downright sucked.

The Melvins poster was the best part of the film.



Its not the worst comedy I've ever seen though, that would go to Date Movie, where every single joke failed miserably, as though the writers and the director took careful consideration to make the film that unfunny on purpose.

-al27

I'm making a "best of the Melvins" CD and I'm wondering if you guys have any suggestions as to what you think I should put on it.


I have the following albums:

A Senile Animal
Bullhead
Eggnog
Gluey Porch Treatments
Houdini
Lysol (forget about Lysol, though, I'm not going to put the whole album on my best of CD)
Ozma
Stoner Witch
The Bootlicker
The Maggot


And I know some of what I'm going to put on it already, I know I want "Honey Bucket" and "Hag Me" together.   I want "Sweet Willy Rollbar" together with "Revolve" and probably "June Bug" for the first track of the CD.  I also am going to put all 4 parts of "Amazon" as well as "The Green Manalishi" on there too.  Oh, and "A History Of Drunks" all the way through "A History Of Bad Men" from A Senile Animal in order because all those songs are awesome and lead into one another really well.

And "Black Santa."  Thats a cool one too.

My problem comes in when I'm picking tracks from GPT, Ozma and Bullhead.  They're all fantastic albums, but its harder for me to pick individual tracks since I always listen to those three as albums, and I don't always pick out the individual songs when I'm listening to them.  I think thats what makes Melvins compilations hard anyway, they're albums always work so well as complete works, its hard to break them up into parts.

So, with the albums listed above, what additional songs would you pick?  I've got 80 minutes available.

Also, any suggestions on the track listing, how I should sequence it?  Not that its a big deal, just curious how you guys would do it.

-al27

Yeah, there's got to be a better term for it than "click song."

Whats funny though, is that Houdini was the third album by the Melvins that I bought.  I went through Stoner Witch and Bullhead before I really got it.

But I think Stoner Witch has a more immediate accessability that kept me coming back.  I mean, my dad loves Revolve, and he doesn't like/get the sludgier stuff.

-al27

"Hag Me" was my click song, so I'd have to say that one.

By click song, I mean "Hag Me" was the exact point where my brain had that click moment and I realized what the Melvins were doing and how brilliant they were.  The click moment where I was converted into a Melvins fan.

I love the Sweet Willy Rollbar-into-Revolve combo though, but those are two songs that I can't seem to listen to separate from each other, so that doesn't count.

-al27