Sugar Daddy Live

[Leroy]

What's better?  Sugar Daddy or the Pick Your Battles live disc?

[jonE5]

I'm really happy with it. The version of Boris is amazing.. and I really dig the version of Tipping The Lion.

[EvilNewWarGod]

Got my copy today from my local record store so I can finally stop listening to the streaming version on my laptop. I love it and am really looking forward to a new studio album. Not to mention hopefilly seeing them live again sometime in the near future...if they would ever come down to Florida again.

[blacksanta]

Just picked this up today. I think the first sentence of the Prindle review is apt:" It's about time the Melvins recorded a live album." He was being sarcastic. I'm not.

Officially the Melvins have 9 million live albums. 899,999 million of them are limited edition/comic book/ am rep specials/8 tracks etc etc etc.

Let's list the wide-release live albums and discuss their flaws:

1991/1994 (NO ONE REALLY KNOWS FOR SURE) Your Choice Live Series 012 - Officially sanctioned half-hour German club show on a charity record label that don't make pelvises move. The band said ok knowing it was just ok.

1998 Alive at the Fucker Club - Bootleg quality live ep

2001 Colossus of Destiny - Avant-garde electro-acoustic live noise into Eye Flies

2002 - Millennium Monsterwork 2000 - Fantomas/Melvins BigBand BS

2006 - Houdini Live 2005: A Live History of Gluttony and Lust - Houdini recorded in an empty warehouse in front of Tool and their kids.

Sugar Daddy Live - Thank you for releasing a live album. It rules and the Melvins are a great band.

Thank You.

[(((O)))]

Im with you on that except for the little detail that Houdini Live is totally great too despite the seemingly none live sound.

[MrLuck87]

I also like they got a "Facebook review contest" for an autographed Melvins t-shirt.

OHhhhhhhhh thanks so much for telling me!  Here's my submission:

"I was depressed and borderline suicidal until I heard the Melvins so I could go as far as saying that they saved my life.  6 years later Sugar Daddy gives me that euphoric feeling that I got the first time I heard them.  All of these songs sound better than the original studio versions and the lack of older tracks remind me that they are a very contemporary band. They are always looking forward while the older tracks sound as fresh as ever.  The Melvins haven't peaked and I look forward to hearing their best album in the future!"

I hope I win. 

[jules]

 

[MrLuck87]

[MrLuck87]

Just picked this up today. I think the first sentence of the Prindle review is apt:" It's about time the Melvins recorded a live album." He was being sarcastic. I'm not.

Officially the Melvins have 9 million live albums. 899,999 million of them are limited edition/comic book/ am rep specials/8 tracks etc etc etc.

Let's list the wide-release live albums and discuss their flaws:

1991/1994 (NO ONE REALLY KNOWS FOR SURE) Your Choice Live Series 012 - Officially sanctioned half-hour German club show on a charity record label that don't make pelvises move. The band said ok knowing it was just ok.

1998 Alive at the Fucker Club - Bootleg quality live ep

2001 Colossus of Destiny - Avant-garde electro-acoustic live noise into Eye Flies

2002 - Millennium Monsterwork 2000 - Fantomas/Melvins BigBand BS

2006 - Houdini Live 2005: A Live History of Gluttony and Lust - Houdini recorded in an empty warehouse in front of Tool and their kids.

Sugar Daddy Live - Thank you for releasing a live album. It rules and the Melvins are a great band.

Thank You.

The great thing about Mark Prindle is that he'll gladly post your opinion under his review.  You have pretty solid opinions so you should send him an email asking him to post them.

[Chief Ten Beers]

Mark Prindle's review :  http://www.markprindle.com/melvinsa.htm#sugar

I think it's a great rockin' set for a regular CD release.  I agree with Mark that some songs sound better in the studio like Dog Island, & Dies Iraea, but they still deliver. Boris is great up until the end where they drag it out, with the noises and shit.

I still think a show from the '09 tour w/ Down would have made a better album. You had the awesome Devo cover (Mr. DNA), Zodiac, and The Smiling Cobra all in there.

[jonE5]

Mark Prindle's review :  http://www.markprindle.com/melvinsa.htm#sugar

I think it's a great rockin' set for a regular CD release.  I agree with Mark that some songs sound better in the studio like Dog Island, & Dies Iraea, but they still deliver. Boris is great up until the end where they drag it out, with the noises and shit.

I still think a show from the '09 tour w/ Down would have made a better album. You had the awesome Devo cover (Mr. DNA), Zodiac, and The Smiling Cobra all in there.

They were really killing it on the Down tour.. Funny you mention it cause I was listening to this today thinking how the version of Dies Iraea was better when I saw them open for Down.. Maybe they felt the need to blow Down off the stage every night.. Cause they sure did the night I saw them!

[EvilNewWarGod]

Mark Prindle's review :  http://www.markprindle.com/melvinsa.htm#sugar

I think it's a great rockin' set for a regular CD release.  I agree with Mark that some songs sound better in the studio like Dog Island, & Dies Iraea, but they still deliver. Boris is great up until the end where they drag it out, with the noises and shit.

I still think a show from the '09 tour w/ Down would have made a better album. You had the awesome Devo cover (Mr. DNA), Zodiac, and The Smiling Cobra all in there.

They were really killing it on the Down tour.. Funny you mention it cause I was listening to this today thinking how the version of Dies Iraea was better when I saw them open for Down.. Maybe they felt the need to blow Down off the stage every night.. Cause they sure did the night I saw them!

I agree. When I saw them open for Down they completely blew them off the stage. In regards to the version of Boris on Sugar Daddy. I personally love that version with all the noise and weirdness they brought to it. It is one of my favorite Melvins songs but it was nice to see them change it up a bit.

[black stallion]

having to hear crover from your right speaker is always cruel,besides that sugar daddy is a solid live album which gives a good picture of the melvins/bb incarnation.

[JungleJunk]

Anyone know what the sales figures are on this release?  I'm guessing they are like sun-dried shit.  Could this be the last commercial CD realease from the Melvins?

[MrLuck87]

Anyone know what the sales figures are on this release?

I was wondering that too.