Your first Melvins record experience?

[Dan_Halen]

When I was 13 I was a huge Nirvana fan. This was 1992 so most kids my age were. As I obsessed I learned about the Melvins. I went to my local "Record Express" with my friend to see if they had anything by them. My friend is confused and buys a cassette by a band called "Those Melvins"...MAJOR DISAPPOINTMENT follows. A few months later we are in a much cooler independent record store that has a big rack of 45s. There we spot 2 copies of "With Yo Heart Not Yo Hands" He got the yellow and I got the Pink one. We were instantly blown away, especially by the b-side "4 letter woman" Shortly after I discovered a mail order company called vinyl inc. and begin getting all the albums through the mail. We make our guitar teacher transcribe "four letter woman", he calls me, holds the phone up to the record player and i hear..."Jon you are really being such a prick!" To this day that 45 still holds a very special place in my heart. (also it is one of the few records to survive the tag sales/trips to the dump my mother took when I was in college)

So now I ask, what was your first Melvins purchase? I want stories!

[SxPxDxCx]

I was at an midnight onsale for Pearl Jam's Vs record and I won a stack of CDs in a trivia contest.  What was that 92?  Anyway I was standing there and saw that the guy next to me had Houdini in his stack of CDs.  I offered him any of my CDs in traded for it.  He took the Mr. Big CD I had in my stack.  Been a fan ever since.

[Dan_Halen]

I was at an midnight onsale for Pearl Jam's Vs record and I won a stack of CDs in a trivia contest.  What was that 92?  Anyway I was standing there and saw that the guy next to me had Houdini in his stack of CDs.  I offered him any of my CDs in traded for it.  He took the Mr. Big CD I had in my stack.  Been a fan ever since.

Best trade EVER!!! (Also my favorite melvins album, a nice way to get introduced!!!)

[Mad Arab]

No records, but my first melvins on cassette was Houdini.

[pinkyslim]

read a Nirvana interview about MELVINS.
purchased OZMA/GLUEY on cassette.
Stayed in my car for 23 days straight.

Friends would complain that my MELVINS had a seance feel to it.
To this day, OZMA is my favorite.

[EvilNewWarGod]

in late 2005 I was with a woman who suggested I check out some Melvins stuff based on my love for doom/stoner/sludge-y music. When I went back to my hometown for x-mas that year, a friend of mine(who only listens to metal) played the Ozma/Gluey Porch Treatments cd for me and I was hooked from the opening notes of Eye Flys(he played GPT first). I begged him to burn me a copy of it, and it made me want to check out more of their stuff. Needless to say, when I returned to FL, I spent the next several months to a year scouring all the independent records stores looking for anything Melvins related. The more albums I listened to, the more obsessed I became to the point where they very quickly became my favorite band. Then when I saw them live in 2006, their status as my favorite band was instantly sealed.

[(the) flutter nuts]

i was in grade 9 and a guy in my class was wearing a Ministry filth pig t-shirt so i became friends with him, he was looking for rare Nirvana stuff and i had an old outcesticide vol 3 cassette that i copied for him and he got me a copy of some old rare Spooky Kids stuff (marilyn manson is a tard and his music for the last 12 years blows , but that old spooky kids shit is still fucking awesome!!!) anyway on that tape he put on Honey Bucket and Sky pup and from that moment i was blown away!!! soon after i had to hear more of these guys so i bought the first cd i could find and it was Stoner Witch and from the opening of skweetis i was hooked for life, ok so this had to have been around '99 because i found the Bootlicker soon after then went nuts on the Melvins ever since

[Pound4abrown]

My first ride was Stoner Witch, I was two years out of High School and a girl I was dating had it in her car stereo. I fell in love with it, and enjoyed that they weren't exactly a straight-forward band. At the time I was two years into my Zappa worship, so it took a lot to get me to listen to anything else during that time-frame. Stoner Witch is still in my top 4 or 5 Melvins albums.

[Mount Ambulance]

I'm sure I've waxed about this here before but ...

1987, 14yrs. old ... total hardcore/thrash kid. Start high school and meet this dude that is a total hardcore nut (pen pals/tape trades with all kinds of people/bands, roadied for DRI, CoC, Spermbirds, Raw Power, massive HC/Punk record/tape collection). He intros me to all kinds of shit I to that point had only heard of ... or not even heard at all.

We play in bands together, go see tons of shows ... somewhere over the year knowing my taste in bands he tells me that I should check out the Melvins and their debut "GPT" (I was already a fan of other Alchemy releases ... Clown Alley, RKL etc.) I had seen the ads in MMR, so I took his advice and picked it up. I bring it over to another pals' place for the virgin listen.

We prepare with way too many hot knives ... and then ... WTF!! We weren't even sure we had it on the right speed!!?? But once we figure it out ... we are blown to smithereens! And the Melvins become my favorite band to this day. It was like they heard what I imagined would be the perfect music ... and put it on record ... it was eerie how much sense it made, how much it connected, how much it moved me (not just me, the 5 of us that were there that day are all still big fans) ... it was absolutely perfect!!

I played that record out completely ... over and over. And the years of Melvins just kept coming and coming ... and still do.

Funny thing ... the two albums I remember listening to most that year were "GPT" and Napalm Death "Scum" ... I think I might even have bought them both on the same day? But they seemed polar opposites to one another ... but complimented each other so well.

Another funny thing ... where Buzz sings "Spoken like a dreamer ..." We always assumed he sang "Smoking like a freebird" ... like in reference to the silly Pig in "Fritz the Cat". We thought that was really cool ... 'cause we really dug "Fritz the Cat". And thought it was totally cool that this amazing band did too ...

[jules]

and then ... WTF!! We weren't even sure we had it on the right speed!!?? But once we figure it out ... we are blown to smithereens! And the Melvins become my favorite band to this day. It was like they heard what I imagined would be the perfect music ... and put it on record ... it was eerie how much sense it made, how much it connected, how much it moved me (not just me, the 5 of us that were there that day are all still big fans) ... it was absolutely perfect!!

I played that record out completely ... over and over. And the years of Melvins just kept coming and coming ... and still do.

Exactly that! (I was sure you were going to incorporate a cookery story with that wonderful memory, but I guess that came later as the hotknives wore off.)

[Mount Ambulance]

Yeah, I was 14yrs. old I didn't know shit about cooking ... maybe bacon, and crappy (kraft) dinner ... we probably gorged ourselves on Chubby's pizza (the best pizza joint of all time RIP. The owner sold it off to become a PI like Magnum ... though his mustache sucked in comparison ... so he probably was a shitty PI ... unlike Magnum!)

Oh man, that was easily the best "first record" exprience of my life ... almost 30yrs. later and I'm still hooked ... and even now I can hear that "special" thing everytime I throw "GTP" on ...

[Metalhead Cow]

I started listening to the Melvins when I was in sixth grade, around 2000. I must have been 11 or 12.  My two favorite bands were Metallica and Nirvana. I kind of worshipped Kurt Cobain at the time.  I read a lot about Nirvana from books and online, and of course the Melvins were always brought up and mentioned as Kurt's favorite band. So one day my parents took me to some CD store, and I bought Stoner Witch. I think I bought that one first because it was the only cd they carried. I went home and put the CD into my walkman. I liked it. My initial reaction was that the music was kind of wierd, but pretty good. One time I put on the CD when my mom was in the room. Skweetis started playing and she gave me a wierd look and said, "You PAID for this?!" The next album I got was Gluey Porch Treatments. I got that one in 6th grade too. I remember listening to that cd on my walkman for the first time, sitting on the carpet underneath the dining room table.  I was a wierd kid. I'm pretty sure the 3rd album I got was The Crybaby, and I had no idea what I was getting into. The 4th one I got was Collosus Of Destiny.  Again, I had no idea it would sound like that. It took me a long time to get into that cd. I don't think I even listened to it from start to finish until years later. Despite the wierdness and experimentation (which I didn't always "get"), I became very intrigued with the band and never looked back. I spent a lot of time reading about the Melvins on the internet. I do remember that there didn't seem to be a whole lot of extensive information about the band online. I was on the melvins.net a lot in it's early days, but I don't remember exactly when that was. I remember reading about all the albums the Melvins had out, and how excited I was when I finally saw what all the album covers looked like. By the time Hostile Ambient Takeover came out I was a really big fan. That was the first CD I bought after it had just been released. I remember buying Bullhead and The Bootlicker together. I got Ozma and Honky for Christmas in 2002. I think it was 2003 when I finally got Stag and Lysol (I had been dying to get Stag for a long time). Pigs Of The Roman Empire was the first new release I heavily anticipated, and I was on this board a lot, leading up to the release. There are still some Melvins albums I don't have-I just finally got Never Breathe What You Can't See and Sieg Howdy! and I'm currently waiting for Electroretard to come in the mail.

[FartLips]

1989 introduced to gluey on vinyl by my bassist, future bassist for his hero is gone. saw them the next year live. after that, i bought gluey on cassette and it stayed in my car for a year and a half! still my favorite cassette, the gluey/ozma being my favorite cd since they're both on there. fuck nirvana.

[Beard]

About two years ago I was looking for Nirvana's "Come As You Are" box set, because it had a bunch of their B-sides that I was really into... While looking around for it on the interwebs I stumbled across the Deep Six version of Grinding Process..... Needless to say I was pretty much flabbergasted, especially by the drum track, it just seems to mesh so well with the guitar. But maybe that's just me. Anyway, two days later I went to the record store and bought all the Melvins albums they had Which turned out to only be Bullhead, Nude With Boots, and TBSM... (CD versions only because I live in the middle of nowhere, Canada)..... Loved them ever since <3

[The Bloated Pope]

Many years ago, I was really into Faith no More and Mike Patton in general (I'm still a big fan btw) and I progressively discovered bands like Mr Bungle and Melvins. I had never heard bands like these two, I was really impressed, even intimidated by them 

So basically discovered Melvins with Houdini, and really became a fan with the complete Atlantic trilogy, Stoner Witch and Stag. Especially tracks like Sweet Willy Rollbar, Honey Bucket or Shevil (such an incredible song)