no. bad melvins. bad

[Bro Hammer]

Just put a space between . and com.

Meh. It's fine. I just thought it was funny because I was too dense to even think about it.

You ever click on a live link by mistake, like DC's globe under his av? 

No. but thanks for the fore warning!

[meezer]

Just put a space between . and com.

Meh. It's fine. I just thought it was funny because I was too dense to even think about it.

You ever click on a live link by mistake, like DC's globe under his av? 

No. but thanks for the fore warning!

Can't wait for rictus to hit it by mistake at work. 

[hemispheres]

The people who hate the Melvins the most, in my experience, are the coffee shop hipster types who can't stand it that the Melvins somehow infiltrated "their" world. The Melvins have some of the workings of a hipster band - poor production, no "technical" skill, playing small venues - but they also are unabashedly heavy, they don't take themselves seriously, and they don't have a single song about crying because your girl dumped you or crying because your mom made you clean your room. So a lot of hipsters seem offended that the Melvins are essentially a hard rock or metal band that has the hipster/punk elitist work ethic and somehow gathered up enough street cred to be enjoyed by fans of Pavement and Sonic Youth.

A lot of the "technicality is all that matters"-type fans of metal and prog rock would hate the Melvins if they heard them, and they do hate the Melvins if they hear them, but most of these guys seem pretty indifferent because they're rarely around people who enjoy Melvins anyway. If you post on the Dream Theater forum or some shit, you probably never encounter Melvins fans and the Melvins would be about as important in your mind as Nickelback. But if you post on a Dinosaur Jr forum, you will have a split fanbase - people who cry to The Smiths and Arcade Fire, as well as the people who are attracted to Dino Jr's noisier side who appreciate the Melvins. And many hipster-types get really offended when a heavy band like Melvins or St Vitus or even Black Sabbath gets a little street cred.

[hemispheres]

I used to post on a forum that no longer exists. Anyway, run by a guy named Kris Fischer. This dude loved Blink-182, he would post detailed accounts of crying to various 90s and 2000s pop punk records, and he was also obsessed with Pavement, The Smiths, Sonic Youth's unlistenable early noise stuff, basically anything that a hip person was supposed to like. Very predictable taste in music. Songs longer than 3 minutes were "pretentious dad rock."

Anyway, he had a pretty vehement dislike for the Melvins because they were one of the only loud, heavy bands that managed to infiltrate "his" world. This guy made fun of me for liking Rush and Led Zeppelin while he listened to Fall Out Boy and cried to beatnik poetry. :/

[DToxico]

complains whenever I try to play Melvins tracks around him, and is always saying stuff like "they suck, all their songs sound identical, they never do anything different or interesting". This is especially ridiculous and ironic considering his all-time favorite band who he never stops going on about the brilliance of and getting hyped over new stuff from and making people listen to is fucking Bad Religion.

This made me lol.
Says Melvins "never do anything different or interesting" yet Bad Religion has always been on the for front of cutting edge music!
I love it. I will always love Suffer and No Control but Bad Religion has been on the cutting edge of how NOT to make music for the last 25/30 years?

Great first post DToxico.

Thanks!

Lol, yeah, it baffles me how he keeps talking about having seen them live twice and therefore "knowing" what he's talking about and "knowing" enough about their catalogue to completely dismiss them, but then things will happen like me playing "Honey Bucket" (IE something that, if they didn't play live when he saw them, they probably at least played something similar to) while he's in the car, him saying it's awesome and asking if it's Metallica or Mastodon, me telling him it's the Melvins, and his jaw dropping and going "wow, this is really creative and outside-the-box by the Melvins' standards!" Though it's always back to bitching when I try to play anything by them where he knows that's what's coming. I've gotten him to like several of their songs by not saying who played them, apparently it's just being by the Melvins that makes them suck. Who knew?

He's just a weird guy. He's incredibly averse to ever hearing so much as a note of Faith No More or Mr. Bungle's music because he read an interview with his other all-time favorite band, Dillinger Escape Plan, stating that they were influenced by those bands. He had never even heard of them and now he constantly shits on and avoids both of those like the plague still without ever having heard either because, in his words, "why taint my brain with inferior similar-sounding bands when I could just be listening to the greatest band in the world themselves? They're obviously less-evolved and not going to be anywhere near as good as Dillinger so why bother giving a chance to what are basically weak imitations that just happened to come first?" I seriously don't understand that logic. But I digress.

Man, most of the kids in my hometown who were into any punk albums released prior to the 00's usually had Social Distortion as their old-school-punk-band-of-choice and I never knew why. They were up there with the Pantera/Slipknot kids with acting like their music was the most rebellious thing out there and that you should be terrified of them for liking it but most SD songs I've heard sounds like Mike Ness took a whole bottle of downers before writing or recording anything. Not to say it's awful, it's just so safe.

Sorry to bump such an old thread but I thought it was too hilarious not to share that I just found out that the third band in this dude's holy-trinity of all-time greatest bands is... Social Distortion. Heh.

[meezer]

hometown who were into any punk albums released prior to the 00's usually had Social
Sorry to bump such an old thread but I thought it was too hilarious not to share that I just found out that the third band in this dude's holy-trinity of all-time greatest bands is... Social Distortion. Heh.

Bump anything. At anytime. Ever.

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