Trevor Dunn

[Dan_Halen]

What I really  wanna know is who loves the Lovage baby!?!?!?

I've always loved Lovage! Very underrated album. Some really awesome songs on that, to me Peeping Tom was just a poorman's Lovage.

I like Lovage too and full-heartedly agree with the above statement.

Bigval wins!!!...I axed who LOVES the Lovage, and you only said you like it Judy!!! lol... seriously you have both made me happy. It is such an amazing album.  I feel lucky to own the vinyl, it goes for a pretty penny these days!!! I don't know why everyone hates on Peeping Tom but I will still defend that record to the death.

[Dan_Halen]

I like Lovage too and full-heartedly agree with the above statement.

so you are saying the regular Melvins stuff like Bulls and Bees just ain't heavy enough for ya? You want a super heavy album? Like some shit that makes "A History of Bad Men" seem like  easy listening?

That's not what I'm saying at all! Big Belvins are SUPER HEAVY and I LOVE THEM TO PIECES.
I can see how I contradicted myself there because the opposite of Melvins Lite (which is still heavy, imo) is Melvins Regular, which is really Melvins Heavy. Am I making sense here? Anyway, you really can't get much heavier than the heaviest of what they've already accomplished in the past: That being Bullhead, Ozma, Eggnog and Maggot...... again, my opinion.
I HOPE Melvins stay with The Biz for a long time, and I think they will. However, they still have their own band and they promised Dale and Buzz that they'd never quit or put their own thing aside for them.  Lite was a great opportunity for both bands to do their own thing for a bit. I think the joining of Dunn has the potential to open new doors for a lot of other "guest/magickal friend collaborations"... Melvins Heavy was just wordplay I was messing around with. Melvins is always heavy just like Melvins is always gay.

But yes A SUPER HEAVY RECORD is what I want. Like Charmicarmicat/See How Pretty, See How Smart times a million.

I think what you really meant is you dig the side projects and it gives Big Biz a chance to do their thing...and what you really want is the next side thing to be Melvins Xtra Heavy! Taking sludge to an all new crawl!!! lol

[MrLuck87]

I don't know why everyone hates on Peeping Tom but I will still defend that record to the death.

They're both great records.  I didn't fully appreciate Peeping Tom until I saw them live.

[(the) Razor]

I can't get past the bad lyrics on Peeping Tom - sounds like an 8 year old rhyming some of the time, that and how bad some of the songs are like 5 Seconds. Some of it should not be that standard quite simply, but the other half makes up for it though.

[MrLuck87]

I can't get past the bad lyrics on Peeping Tom - sounds like an 8 year old rhyming some of the time, that and how bad some of the songs are like 5 Seconds. Some of it should not be that standard quite simply, but the other half makes up for it though.

I've always loved the lyrics and thought they were subtly making fun of pop lyrics.

From AMG's Peeping Tom review:
"His lyrics mock the self-important coolness of the music industry and self-parody his own place in it. The last line of the chorus is a particularly smart addition, painting on still another layer of sarcasm in how it parallels Britney Spears' "Oops...I Did It Again" -- which he quotes directly at the very end of the track. Patton is self-aware: the Britney shout-out shows that he knows this is the closest he's been to writing anything near radio material in 15 years. Simply put, the man understands irony: he knows exactly what he's doing in convincing waify songbird Norah Jones to sing "The truth kinda hurts, don't it motherf*cker?" on "Sucker," and he knows just how faux-clever it comes off when he sings "I know that assholes grow on trees/But I'm here to trim the leaves" on "Don't Even Trip." Of course, all this smirking could be interpreted as Patton thinking he's better than everybody else, but it could just as easily be an acknowledgement that the prestige he's garnered in the rock world for being so experimental and arty is really no more meaningful than the vanilla-flavored teen pop stardom thought to be his antithesis."

[(the) Razor]

Ok, I guess that makes sense. The sarcasm obviously didn't carry through to me.

On every street corner, every bar
On every radio, and every car
On every club, every dance floor
Hot right behind every door
On every restaurant, every plane
On every ghetto blaster from here to Spain
On every elevator, every PA
The speakers pump, calling out my name

[dead mike]

Patton is self-aware: the Britney shout-out shows that he knows this is the closest he's been to writing anything near radio material in 15 years. Simply put, the man understands irony

So then his effort to get a major label to sign Peeping Tom was a six-year-long sustained work of post-modern performance art? The man is a genius.

[MrLuck87]

Patton is self-aware: the Britney shout-out shows that he knows this is the closest he's been to writing anything near radio material in 15 years. Simply put, the man understands irony

So then his effort to get a major label to sign Peeping Tom was a six-year-long sustained work of post-modern performance art? The man is a genius.

He tried getting Fantomas on a major label too and then decided to start Ipecac for his weirder work.  What's your point?

[dead mike]

Patton is self-aware: the Britney shout-out shows that he knows this is the closest he's been to writing anything near radio material in 15 years. Simply put, the man understands irony

So then his effort to get a major label to sign Peeping Tom was a six-year-long sustained work of post-modern performance art? The man is a genius.

He tried getting Fantomas on a major label too and then decided to start Ipecac for his weirder work.  What's your point?

But by the time he came up with the idea of Peeping Tom, he already had his own label but decided to spend a couple years trying to drum up major label interest. What was his point?

[bigjim]

Lemmy as a guest bass/singer on an album might be pretty cool.

[violent office]

Yet another mention of Dunn turns into a Patton fanboy-fest.

[black stallion]

Yet another mention of Dunn turns into a Patton fanboy-fest.

[Dan_Halen]

Yet another mention of Dunn turns into a Patton fanboy-fest.

Technically it's a fanboy/fangirl fest since some of the people having the discussion are female. Getting mad at Patton coming up in a Trevor Dunn conversation is like getting mad at someone mentioning John Lennon in a post about George Harrison.

[jonE5]

Trevor Dunn makes me want Sock Garters 





Seriously... I Want sock garters

[JUDY]

Yeah, the man sure knows how to bass in style. I streamed this album last night - not sure why I don't own it.
Must fix that soon....


Trevor Dunn's Trio Convulsant--The Single Petal of a Rose

His Mad Love stuff is awesome, too.