The one million dollar question:

[Stonergrunge]

Melvins or The Melvins?

Which one is the real name of the band?

[the crybaby]

snivlem

[norecess]

I'd say it's 'Melvins', but when I mention them, I referer to them as 'the Melvins'.

[anaconda]

Melvins

or

(the) Melvins like the cover of (A)SA

[norecess]

(the) Melvins like the cover of (A)SA

I've always considered that a typographic feature or something, that got taken way too seriously. I have never interpreted that as a different spelling, have you?

[anaconda]

i think that was melvins trying to be funny with the
whole Melvins or The melvins question.

[cara]

I'd say it's 'Melvins', but when I mention them, I referer to them as 'the Melvins'.

This.

[Uncle Fester]

I dont think its really one or the other... I consider both to be equally sufficient enough.

[Mad Arab]

Smellvins.

[Justafilthylurker]

Sunn O))))

[pinkyslim]

MELVINS...

just like COWS, SEAL, MULE.

Then there is THE JESUS LIZARD   

[bathroom creep]

It always depends on what sounds better in the respective situation.

I don't really think it matters though.   SNIVLEM is still my favorite spelling.   It sounds quite cryptic.

[GrimReaper]

This whole argument was hashed out in wikipedia. I'm convinced Buzz read this and got a kick out of it.

It was right around the same time as the Melvins Super Fans.

Next thing you know, (A)SA, and (The) Melvins.

Here it is:

It's the Melvins; not 'The Melvins'.

That's disputable as for wikipedia it's The Melvins, btw Moral support is not a musical instrument. 87.123.193.44 16:48, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
Brilliant. Check with the Melvins themselves; look at the albums, and then tell me where the 'The' is.
I have, and so had the wikipedia-guy who moved it from Melvins to The Melvins a while back. The truth is: the band is not clear about the name itself (26 Songs, Gluey Porch Treatments (Ipecac rerelease), Hostile Ambiente Takeover, Sieg Howdy!, Never Breath What You Can't See, The Maggot and Colossus of Destiny all carry the "The" after quick look over my collection here in fornt of me), by the way you are the vandal because you have edited the page removing the "the" from within the text where it should have been, the article here is pretty good (actually more accurate than most other biographies for this band even on serious or creditable sites) and it's been vandalized a lot, (partly by Nirvana fanboys who want to put the name Cobain in every paragraph and don't care about truth (just look at the Nirvana article) or fans of The Melvins who want to be funny (last think I remember is the recent "When Buzz was a little boy..."-edit, this is a encyclopedia that takes itself seriously not a humour fanside form the likes of "The Melvins Are Gay" run by Brian of themelvins.net. I don't think we should countinue to fight over the actual naming and just add some disclaimer that the name is disputed, even by the band itself.
You're right.
"The Melvins Are Gay" website is NOT run by Brian of themelvins.net - just wanted to clear that up. --70.50.180.66 July 31, 2006 07:15 (UTC)

Well he says he did, brain (themelivns.net): "I made the melvins is gay site, I thought that was common knowledge by now."
Are we sure that wasn't just sarcasm on his part??
No, but this is about the Melvins so we can't be sure about sarcasm on any part.
Brian of themelvins.net DEFINITELY created the Melvins is gay site. This is a fact.
What a bunch of fags!!!

And then it came up again:


Name, pt. 2
Even though the band uses Melvins and The Melvins somewhat interchangably, it's still OK to use the word the in running text either way. I plan on rewriting the article at some point to mention the inconsistency and adding in a few thes to make the whole thing a lot more readable. Anybody have any objections or articles they want to point out where they talk about this? Torc2 00:14, 16 October 2007 (UTC)



And then again in June of this year!


Why is the article called "The Melvins" now ?
Their MySpace and offical website show them as "Melvins" Gothbag (talk) 21:59, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

It was moved without consensus by User:Johan Rachmaninov, check the article history. ---Superfopp (talk) 22:33, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
You can always ask an admin to move it back.  Channel

[GrimReaper]

I've always loved this quote from Ipecac:

Melvins
(The) Melvins
Nude With Boots

It's 2008 and The Melvins are still called ?family entertainment on another level.? Almost 25 years, over 25 albums and still counting. Maybe they?re just too dumb to quit.

AND? Some people STILL think the Melvins should be called "The Fucks" because they're so fucked.

[(the) Razor]

Boris does it best because you know what  you're going to get.

BORIS = Loud album
boris = Quieter Album

So if they were to do the same naming for example:

MELVINS = Maggot
melvins = bootlicker
M3lV1NZ = COD