The first Melvins release you heard?

[Mad Arab]

Houdini on cassette when it first came out. Based on an article in Newsweek.

[pinkyslim]

Omza on cassette in 1991.

My jaw hit the ground.

SOLD.

  8)Best band ever

[perusha]

Gluey just before Bullhead was released.  Then saw them play.  Then Bullhead was released.
Then I wiped the tears from my eyes and realized in that moment I totally and completely understood the term Godhead.  In fact this was God and Jesus and Buddah and Krishna and Muhammad and all the Native American shamans and ET all wrapped up into one giant orgy fest and I've never looked back since...

[I am the Sun]

The first one I heard was H.A.T. I loved the whole album but it was The Anti-Vermin Seed that really sold me on the Melvins experience

[(PAUL)]

Before I listened to them I remember my friend Steve telling me about this awesome band he heard called the Melvins. He got into them because of the Nirvana connection. Anyways, he was telling me how good their album Stoner Witch was, so I ordered it from BMG ( ), and when it turned up and I listened to the first song Skweetis I was just amazed. I was immediately hooked by the heavy songs, but the quieter and weirder songs took a little longer for me to get into. Anyways, I heard about a new album coming out called Stag and I was sort of putting off buying it because I was worried that it wouldn't match Stoner Witch in terms of awesomeness and how much I built it up in my mind. So I finally took the plunge and went to Best Buy to purchase it, when I noticed that there was a newer album for sale, called Honky. So I purchased both albums, immediately took to Honky and slowly grew on Stag. Then I just dug in and got everything I could and been a huge fan ever since.

[Buick GN]

dirt turned me on to this vinyl box set in early '89.

I soon was introduced to Mr. Flynn and BR16-2 during the same year.

Fuck Yes!

[bigjim]

Houdini when it first came out. I heard alot about the Melvins and everytime I went to a record store their CDs were imports and priced at $25-$30 each. I always turned them down. Then Houdini came out and being brand new was like $15. I bought it and loved it.  Wish I had taken the chance and forked out the dough for the older albums.

[HogLegged]

Ozma in 1989. I had seen them live a few months before in S.F. and really liked them. Been a diehard fan ever since.
Actually the first time I heard them was on the Maximum Rock n Roll radio show a few years before, I believe it was a song from "GPT". I remember that it kind of reminded me of the slow songs from Black Flag's "My War" (go figure).

[didlisquat]

Lysol in the spring of '93, by the end of the summer i was hooked on Bullhead as well

[rimb]

The Crybaby.   Bought it for the Tool collaboration and was intrigued by the allure of the Melvins.

[Mesteren]

My first Melvins experience was Eggnog. I was at a record store, picked up the 10" and asked the guy behind the counter to play it loud. He put it on, and right away this slow, heavy music started comming out of the speakers. We listened to it for a couple of minutes in total awe when he realized he had put it on at wrong speed. It was supposed to run on 33 rpm! Of course I bought it right away.

Eggnog: The only true path to Melvins consciousness.

[black stallion]

Prick in 1994!knew the Melvins only by name,i thought the cover artwork was epic so i bought a copy.after the first listen i felt a bit confused though

[norecess]

The first thing I ever heard was an incomplete mp3 album, it contained Smells Like Teen Spirit, but also some Bootlicker stuff. I didn't know what to think.

Then Tomahawk came to Amsterdam, and they brought the Melvins with them. I missed the opening act that night, Kaada, but was right on time for the Melvins, I was entranced for an hour, and it was the heaviest thing I had ever witnessed, I felt disillusioned - the best feeling after a concert.

Some time after that experience I picked up a copy of the re-issue of GPT, later also Houdini, and soon I purchased anything Melvins related I could get my hands on, but only a couple of months later, I felt the snap: the click moment that you realize everything they do carries a certain quality, and they're doing it ALL the time.

Also, ever since I saw this picture, before I had heard their music, I knew there was something special about them.

[dijk cheese]

saw fantomas, melvins were also playing. id never heard of them at the time
as they walked out on stage i sensed immediately they were somthing special
not just the fact that dale came out in a nightie
kev looked like a complete mentalist
and buzz, well buzz looked liked buzz
they just had  this presence, and proceeded to play what i thought at the time was the most obnoxious yet original and loud music (and still do). and kev with that dance. i was stunned, didnt know quite what to make of it, but i knew i saw somthing special.
i bought HAT but it wasnt until a few weeks later after i had a few pints in town with a housmate, stumbled into a cd store bought lysol, went back to ours where we still had a powerful pa that we had borrowed for a party a few weeks earlier....
well, i dont really need to explain what listening to lysol for the first time at ridiculous level whilst drunk can do to a man.
there started my obsession.

[norecess]

Yes, I remember being completely overwhelmed by their stage presence. During the show I couldn't see Dale, but I could sure hear him, just two arms above his some drumkit sometimes before he wuld crush down in furious anger!!!! They look good too on stage, choreographically I mean. Watch this video of Night Goat and see how Buzz sneaks up to the mic before he starts singing, awsum-sum-up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFft-_63SXw