The first Melvins release you heard?

Started by Captain CoryCory, March 16, 2009, 11:42:37 AM

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Captain CoryCory

I'm sure this has been done a million times before, but that Salad topic kinda inspired me. What's the first few releases of the Melvins you've heard?  When you got really sold on them? Do tell!

For me I found a used copy of Houdini (Who hasn't?) a handful of years back and listened to it fairly well. Then I got the Salad DVD wanting to hear those Bullhead and Eggnog songs badly, but I settled on finding Lysol, Stoner Witch, and the original 10 songs. Since then, I've heard a good handful and I love it. I'd feel fantastic if I could see them live.

kdools

I found gluey porch treatments used in a store and really didnt like it.
A year later I found Stoner Which used and only liked half of it (revolve/queen/etc).
about a year after that I decided to try em one more time and got bullhead and houdini and i was sold.

it took a while to get here, but im glad i did.

violent office

Someone played "Gluey porch Treatments" and while I found it interesting, I wasn't totally sold.  About a year later I was in a record store and the dude there was playing "Ozma".  After asking, he informed me that it was the new Melvins record.  I bought it on cassette and probably listened to it 50 times that week.  I got to see them a few months later and came to the decision that slow was my new fast. 

FartLips

"Mess with the best, trolled like the rest." - Jacket Man.

Komar

someone taped a tv show for me in 1997 ("the church of melvins" at viva tv) because i was interested in melvins from reading and always wanted to hear them. it had mark d talking nonsense and all the video clips in it. the first clip was mombious hibachi and i remember being sold right away from the drumming. then i found gluey at a used record store and that was it.

EVILSTACK

Yep im a realitve noobie! Purchased High On Fire's 'Blessed Black Wings' album upon its release in '05 and it had a little sticker on there saying for fans of The Melvins. Being the inquistive type, i went on Allmusicguide and decided after a bit of research that 'The Bootlicker' and 'Stoner Witch' would be a good starting point. Purchased both on line and Bootlicker arrived first in the post. I kinda liked it, it was a bit strange sounding but good and the vocals reminded me of indie darlings - The Charlatans.  A couple of weeks or so later and Stoner Witch turned up and totally shocked me. "Is this even the same band???" i thought to myself. "What gives with all this heavyness???". Soon after i became a Melvins obsessive and purchased everything i could get me old mits on!  :P

jlamour

The first time I heard them was when they opened for Tool in Omaha, I think 97.  I was too busy studying classical music in college I let my rock music slide for a few years.  Tool was the only band I followed or listened to from 94-2001 and I barely listened to them.  I loved the show but I think I actually missed the first half of their set.  I was reunited with their sound in 2003 when I was stoned off my ass and drinking at a bar that had a stoner rock dj that night that played Hooch and Night Goat and ever since then I've been attending every Chicago concert and buying everything from the Melvins I can find/afford.  I love this band.  My only regret is that I didn't attend anymore of their shows throughout the 90s.  So I guess the first album I bought was Houdini.

jlamour

And as far as being relatively new to the band, Kevin is by far my favorite bass player.  This just goes from seeing bootlegs from 80s, 90, 00s, etc and heard every album from this band so there's my endorsement again for this dude.  I love him.  Sorry for hijacking this thread.  That's it.

booby_mcvooch

I read this board religiously yet barely ever post. First time I heard Melvins was Hostile Ambient Takeover, downloaded shortly after it came out because I was getting into Mike Patton obsessively and his endorsement/Buzz being in Fant

cara

Quote from: booby_mcvooch on March 16, 2009, 03:28:32 PM
I read this board religiously yet barely ever post. First time I heard Melvins was Hostile Ambient Takeover, downloaded shortly after it came out because I was getting into Mike Patton obsessively and his endorsement/Buzz being in Fant

Rev. Mike

First release I heard was the With Yo' heart 7 inch, wasn't impressed.  Then got Ozma on cassette from a friend and was hooked until they released Houdini and I decided they had sold out.  Continued to listen to the early stuff throughout but never gave Houdini, Stoner Witch or Stag a chance.  Came back to the fold when I heard The Maggot was a return to form, then realized that I should have given them more of a chance in the mid 90's.  My mistake.

Dr.Benway

I had seen Melvin's records/ t-shirts for sale in skateboarding magazines, but never heard the music.  I figured based on artwork and song/ album titles they would sound like the Pixies.  Took a chance on 10 Songs and loved it.  Probably '91.  Next I found a used copy of Ozma/ GPT, I literally spent the whole summer trying to figure out why this sounded so different from other music I'd heard. Then Houdini. 

nothintothenotice

mt first was stonerwitch when i was in 9th grade, like 96....fell in love with that record, then came houdini, then i got lysol...and so on....then i seen them live....i've never been the same.....ask anyone i know....i get alot of shit about my melvins addiction/obsession

cara

mine was Houdini.. then Stoner Witch i think?

one of my coworkers recently got his first Melvins album - Stag. He came into work yesterday and was like "what the hell is up with that song with the trumpets?" I think he liked it.

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