Favourite Trilogy

[kdools]

Sludge trilogy, hands down.  Nothing puts me in a better mood than lysol. That's got to be my favorite melvins album, but it always seems so short!

Also, how about the ridiculous trilogy:

Prick/Honky/Colossus of Destiny

[Baacard0]

Houdini + Stoner Witch, Maggot + Crybaby, Senile Animal + Nude With Boots are all pretty much incontestable duos for me, so it's all down to the third record...
Stag beats both Crybaby and Bride for me... So I went with Atlantic.

[Dan_Halen]

As I'm waiting for all this cool new Melvins vinyls to come out suddenly I stopped and thought, fuck these last 3 were just like the Trilogy!!!!

Bulls & the Bees/ Maggot - Both heavy as fuck tripped out awesome Melvins records that smack you in the face!

Freak Puke/ Bootlicker- Both chiller laid back but still crazy, weird awesome records. Melvins pushed the envelope stylistically on both these efforts.

1983/ The Crybaby- ....to sum up both of these records would I would quote Monty Python by saying..."And now for something completely different"  Also, both releases seem to be the band having fun/ almost a side project sorta thing. Both records are totally fun.

There you have it, the new trilogy...Bulls & the Bees, Freak Puke,and 1983.

[musicismyradar]

Had to pick big business era, as it introduced me to the Melvs, But was tempted to sludge because Bullhead is my favorite of all time.

'Cause I forgot to take my pills, I gotta go downtown...
And find me a copy of Bullhead.

[amazonAMAZON]

There's great songs in all of them, but it really comes down to the recording quality to determine listenability for me. Here Senile-Nude-Bride takes the cake, unless I can take the Atlantic Trilogy and swap Gluttony for Houdini.

The one that best exemplifies my taste is Maggot-Bootlicker-Crybaby. I know that sounds like a contradiction, but it's not. I love those records and I get tingly looking at the art. It feels like they were recorded to be played privately and I love them. But I can't rank it strongest.

Bullhead-Lysol-Eggnog is probably the trilogy I am most likely to get to know better in the near future. The sonics are not as good, but songs like Your Blessened, Sacrifice, With Teeth, Boris, Antitoxidote seem to represent the crystalization of Melvins genius.

Songs-Gluey-Ozma has some good songs but relatively poor recordings. And they hadn't tapped into all the things I love about Melvins records of the last two decades.

Would you all count Bulls & Bees, Tres Cabrones, and This Machine as the latest trilogy? I am pretty sure Sausages was a compilation and Freak Puke was somehwat a diversion, but I think "We Are Doomed" and the seven originals on Tres represent a powerful phase of Buzz's songcraft leading toward his solo acoustic record.

Poor orphans I still love: Hostile Ambient Takeover, Honky, Prick, Buzz-Dale-Joe, Pigs of the Roman Empire.

[meezer]

Houdini + Stoner Witch, Maggot + Crybaby, Senile Animal + Nude With Boots are all pretty much incontestable duos for me, so it's all down to the third record...
Stag beats both Crybaby and Bride for me... So I went with Atlantic.

This sums up my feelings on this subject, exactly. Melvinmania, indeed!

[homeless_dad]

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