(A) Senile Animal

[Vcavallo]

stop talking about NIN plzy.

haha
i get it. ..i think

[Mad Arab]

I doubt Buzz is writing lyrics or having album covers designed to convey any kind political point or issue like global warming. Yes he was involved in the two "Jelvins" projects but aren't all the lyrics written by Jello? I find nothing in any previous Melvins albums that support this notion.

[Vcavallo]

goddamnit......i'm listening to Pigs Of The Roman Empire.  it is eons more creative than (A) Senile Animal.........this makes me a little sad.  i had really been enjoying (A)SA when i had it on real loud in my car driving around, but i doubt it has the sit-at-home-and-listen-slightly-quieter appeal that more adventurous albums like Pigs has..

sigh...i hope they don't lose their edge.

[glen]

sigh...i hope they don't lose their edge.

REPENT!!  REPENT!!   do you realize what you're saying?

you don't have the nastiest edge in the history of mankind for 20+ years and then just lose it.
thick and thin has proven the the melvins ARE edge.

like I have previously stated,   listen to rat-faced and the hawk and tell me there is no edge there.

[Clint Flick]

goddamnit......i'm listening to Pigs Of The Roman Empire.  it is eons more creative than (A) Senile Animal.........this makes me a little sad.  i had really been enjoying (A)SA when i had it on real loud in my car driving around, but i doubt it has the sit-at-home-and-listen-slightly-quieter appeal that more adventurous albums like Pigs has..

sigh...i hope they don't lose their edge.

I think you just perfectly explained why each album is great in its own right. It is a testament to the Melvins greatness that they can both "rock the house" on one album and create a mood of trippy introspection on another. Personally, I think this is one of the reasons why they fucking rule.

[Vcavallo]

ah, yes glen.

[Vcavallo]

I think you just perfectly explained why each album is great in its own right. It is a testament to the Melvins greatness that they can both "rock the house" on one album and create a mood of trippy introspection on another. Personally, I think this is one of the reasons why they fucking rule.

good point, of course.  you are right, i would be tedious if they did it on every album

[OfficerButtcrack]

IMO they have experimented enough on their recent albums (Electroretard, COD, HAT, Pigs). When you think of Melvins discography as a whole, it's time for straight-forward rock album.

[Mad Arab]

Who's to say they may not keep this line-up going for a few more albums? Who's to say that they will not expand experimentally musically speaking on future albums?

[bUTTHOLEmAN]

goddamnit......i'm listening to Pigs Of The Roman Empire.  it is eons more creative than (A) Senile Animal.........this makes me a little sad.  i had really been enjoying (A)SA when i had it on real loud in my car driving around, but i doubt it has the sit-at-home-and-listen-slightly-quieter appeal that more adventurous albums like Pigs has..

sigh...i hope they don't lose their edge.

V DARES SPEAK THE TROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTH!

[Rusty Shackleford]

i like the experimentation.  not only in song structure, note selection, etc. but with different types of sounds and approaches to what the idea of "music" is.  i got a lot of that on POTRE (and honky, crybaby, etc.) and would never be opposed to it.  maybe this just wasn't the album for that, but i'd like to see it again in the future.
they should use their senility and old age to their avant-garde advantage.  they can really go crazy and give up convention altogether.  for instance, why play in standard tuning, or tuning at all for that matter?  being in tune/time/coherency is the nastiest of all conventions.  RESIST! RESIST!

after reading what some people write about the records they put out, especially this one(which hasn't even came out yet!) I can understand why buzz would say something like, "tell us what YOU'RE doing, not what you think WE should do." 

just because they have made music in the past that defies normal rock and roll convention does not mean that they are not a rock and roll band anymore.  nor does it mean that they should continue on a path towards complete musical deconstruction.  like alot of musicians, buzz and dale have changed their sound and playing style since their younger days, and no doubt their personal taste has changed.  but even though they've evolved to such a point that they can make a record like PIGS or COD does not mean that they shouldn't play "conventional" rock and roll anymore.

"being in tune/time/coherency is the nastiest of all conventions."
where's the vomit emoticon?

I love ya vin(you and your goldmine), but come on.  you know as well as anyone that buzz and co. are never going to do what you expect.   

[didlisquat]

Word to the mutha, officerbuttcrack. (the was strange to say)
I have not heared the album yet, but am happy it's a rock fest  (from what i hear).
After Pigs a H.A.T. type album is needed up in my dome. A full on crunch.

[Vcavallo]

"being in tune/time/coherency is the nastiest of all conventions."
where's the vomit emoticon?

I love ya vin(you and your goldmine), but come on.

[bUTTHOLEmAN]

Word to the mutha, officerbuttcrack. (the was strange to say)
I have not heared the album yet, but am happy it's a rock fest  (from what i hear).
After Pigs a H.A.T. type album is needed up in my dome. A full on crunch.

"Ice ice baby vanilla
Ice ice baby (oh-oh) vanilla
Ice ice baby vanilla
Ice ice baby vanilla ice
Yo man let's get out of here
Word to your mother "

That would be bad ass, a vanilla ice melvins collab o ration!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[glen]

That would be bad ass, a vanilla ice melvins collab o ration!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

don't make me smite you.