What do I need to get next?

[musefreek]

Okay so I'm still a Melvins newbie (lovin' them hard already of course) and now got all the Atlantic albums.

What album do I need to get next? I thought of definitely something earlier. Like Bullhead.

Come on boardmembers, you are the experienced people and can definitely let me know what the next logical Melvin step would be!

Cheers.

[Rembrandt Pussyhorse]

Sell  your Muse albums and get ALL of them!!!!

Bullhead is a good choice, though dont forget to check HAT.

[Vcavallo]

get Gluey Porch Treatments/Ozma, the double CD.  i say this to all the newbies because it is packed with so many songs!  they aren't TOO different from eachother, but that is some of my favorite melvins stuff.  i have listened to that album more than most of the others combined.  if you think you could get into a big wall of sludge pounding at you relentlessly, pick up this fine disc.

[TosT]

You really can't go wrong...
Bullhead is classic, you'll be happy with it. Did you have a favourite Atlantic release? Which other albums you'd prefer depends on which elements you liked in those...
They're all awesome though.
Gluey Porch Treatments and Ozma represent well with the consistent heavy (and they come together on CD as one release), great albums IMO (as well as 10 songs/rereleased 26 songs). Lysol is slow and sludgy for the most part, one wicked track (30 minutes and change long). Eggnog is a kickass EP. The solo releases are good too, but I'd save them for later. Prick is generally disdained as it's mostly just screwing around, don't buy this one until you have the rest, but it's ok. Honky is a more experimental and ambient in parts (KIND of similar to stag, but less catchy) and rockin in others, excellent mood album, more trippy. The Maggot is all amazing "heavy metal" melvins. Bootlicker is more laid back, kind of tripped out lounge rock, no heavy. Crybaby is the album with a mix of guest artists, it's a little less consistent than other albums, but worth picking up after you have some more of the other ones. Colossus of Destiny is kind of a noise album, one hour long, samples, effects, etc. and then it ends with a version of Eye Flys off of Gluey, it's good, but not rocking at all, and mood specific, get it later as not everyone loves it... Electroretard is an album of covers and reworkings of older Melvins tunes, also an excellent album and it includes a killer cover of "Youth of America" by the wipers, it's less cohesive than their standard albums though. Hostile Ambient Takeover is kind of like an album from the Atlantic years, except it's a little dirtier and the songs are unique of course, it's just got a similar feel to Stoner Witch, Stag, etc. There's a couple live ones (Alive at the fucker club, and Your Choice Live), don't get those right away.
I hope that this helps in some way...

[Reverend Ebeneezer]

You can't get the live ones anyhow, unless you're very lucky...

IMO, stave off the urge to buy Gluey for now and grab Bullhead. It's the most accessible of the old Melvins stuff and will ease you in gently. If you like what you hear, snag Eggnog and Lysol and then work backwards.

Or, in fact, grab Hostile Ambient Takeover. I don't know what it is, but it has the closest feel to the Atlantic stuff in recent years. Yeah, either HAT or Bullhead, in my considered opinion...

[The Chalupa]

bullhead and ozma/ gluey porch treatments. lysol would also be good to check out

[turnacuss]

Get Stoner Witch, Hostile Ambient Takeover and Ozma.

The first two will let you careen into the melvins, and ozma will grant you total understanding.

[anaconda]

Get Stoner Witch...

hey sleepy head!! hahaha she said;

and now got all the Atlantic albums...

i'm high too

[lord of heaviness]

I started with Gluey, and was obsessed with it. But because I started with that, nothing else was quite the same ( in terms of sheer heaviness.)

[anaconda]

I'm just going on a whim here but u know what musefreek...
i'm gonna say save up your cash and go see them live next!!!
Thats what it's all about!! oh ya motherfuckker!!!

[lord of heaviness]

Most definetly!

[anaconda]

..and after that go buy the much overlooked;
EGGNOG!

[Jess]

Something i love to do while me and my friends ride and chief is to put eggnog on.  as this is a very noisy album they absolutely hate it.  but i can't get enough.  i listen to charmacarmacat like it's a 3 min pop diddy.  to see their faces you'd think i was torturing em.  go figure.  


BASTARDS TAKIN MY LOAD!  TO TAKE AWAY!

[testicles of doom]

great!!

[Aemon]

Am i the only person who doesn't think much of HAT?

Sure, the first three songs are ok but it kinda loses it after that. Like the crap parts of Stag that i skip.