Origins of Melvins Song Titles Thread

[Rusty Shackleford]

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no man it's dick oh ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Who knows? 

The buzzing sounds to start it off, and then the "my batteries are low, please change my AAA batteries" stuff, there are things throughout the whole song that has always made me think - VIBRATOR!  ORGASM!

Gaddamn - GREATEST BAND ON EARTH!

[MrLuck87]

III is 3min.

[Dumpster D]

Vile Vermillion Vacancy can only be one thing.

[anaconda]

menstruation?

[Dumpster D]

 

[homeless_dad]

In an interview with Tom Snyder, John Lydon (then of PIL) uses the phrase "a senile animal".  I believe he was referring to the mass media.  I saw it years ago.  I'll look for it.

[homeless_dad]

@ about 3:20.  Even better , he was referring to the majority of the public.  Great responses from John, BTW.

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?v=_BZ2UoBZzEI

I understand ASA is an album not a song but this is still relateable.

[Dumpster D]

Thats almost like Mexican Butt-hash.

[WGB]

Billy Fish is the translator from The Man who would be King, a film that was shown at the Melvins/Patton ATP.

[Leroy]

"My Small % Shows Most" was influenced by an old Pink Floyd song that had a very similar title.

"Harry Lauder Walking Stick Tree" - there really was a guy named Harry Lauder with branch-like walking sticks

PG X 3 = Peggy Gordon times three.  They play 3 different versions of the melody in the track.

Most of the other song titles are pretty much random.

[Mount Ambulance]

Although not really a Melvins song ... a cover so cherished they basically own it at this point ... "The Ballad of Dwight Fry" ... Dwight Fry(e) was the actor who played Renfield (the real estate agent who the Count reduces to utter lunacy) in Tod Browning's classic 1931 Dracula. Frye was a natural (typecast) at playing these types of mentally unbalanced characters and freaks ... another great turn was as Dr. Frankenstien's hunchback assistant Fritz (not Igor as the character was renamed in subsequent adaptations) in the orginal 1931 Frankenstien film.

Supposedly the Coop wrote it from the vantage of the type of character that Frye not simply played ... but all too naturally inhabited. And dropped the e from his last name to avoid lawsuits or worse.

[Euthanasia]

zodiac from bullhead:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer

[Mount Ambulance]

Memory escapes, but read somewhere Buzz wrote 'Tipping The Lion' in reference to the book "A History of Orgies" by Burgo Partridge ... not sure if the song title is a direct reference (haven't read it ... thou it's in the mail) or just the subject matter ... which is as obvious as the title states.

[dead mike]

"We All Love Judy"
Some time around the trilogy era, Buzz and Dale did a college radio interview -- it was posted here not too long ago -- where they get to talking about Judas Priest. Buzz remarked, "We all love Judy." Not sure whether that's where the song title comes from, but I have yet to see an alternative explanation.

[Mount Ambulance]

"We All Love Judy"
Some time around the trilogy era, Buzz and Dale did a college radio interview -- it was posted here not too long ago -- where they get to talking about Judas Priest. Buzz remarked, "We all love Judy." Not sure whether that's where the song title comes from, but I have yet to see an alternative explanation.

Fuckin' A We All Love Judy!!!