Your first Melvins record experience?

[Thirsty Man]

I was fourteen years old and it was 1995. I was in the BMG or Columbia House record club and I ordered CD's from there time to time. I remeber seeing a Beavis and Butthead episode where they were watching the video for Hooch and I thought the look of the video and the sound of the song were interesting so I ordered Houdini. Stoner Witch was already out but I really wanted to hear Hooch again. I purchased that and Helmet-Betty and loved both albums. I kept up with them until Honkey which I douldn't get into at the time. In '99, the day after I graduated high school, I was record shopping with a friend and saw that they had a new album, The Maggot. I bought it, loved it, and have followed their discography ever since.

[MrLuck87]

In 2005 I bought Millennium Monsterwork because I loved Fantomas.  The Melvins tracks really stood out to me.  I was telling my brother about them and he hated their Honky album and basically gave it to me for free.  I got a few misc tracks from Kazaa (like Joan of Arc, Honey Bucket, Hooch, and a CMJ comp cd that had Brain Center at Whipples on it) and they've been my favorite band ever since.

I've had some weird introductions to bands.  I'm the probably only Tool fan who started with Salival.  Buzz was on that!

[Thirsty Man]

In 2005 I bought Millennium Monsterwork because I loved Fantomas.  The Melvins tracks really stood out to me.  I was telling my brother about them and he hated their Honky album and basically gave it to me for free.  I got a few misc tracks from Kazaa (like Joan of Arc, Honey Bucket, Hooch, and a CMJ comp cd that had Brain Center at Whipples on it) and they've been my favorite band ever since.

I've had some weird introductions to bands.  I'm the probably only Tool fan who started with Salival.  Buzz was on that!

That's funny because Honky was given to me for free too. I didn't actually go back to that album until after Millennium Monsterwork came out and I looked to see where Mombius Hibachi came from.

[TheSwingSet]

back in '92 i was playing music with some childhood friends and the bassist Alex had somehow through his love of Nirvana stumbled across Ozma/GPT cd at our local indie store in Wilmington,NC....i was 11 at the time and was fucking SOLD!....I can truly say that OZMA is the first album i tried to learn all the drum parts for...

[Dan_Halen]

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


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.

Awesome story, I love how the anticipation almost builds up as you guys were getting ready to listen. You guys almost knew subconsciously that you needed to be high for the religious experience that was and is gluey porch treatments!

@ Bloated Pope- Patton is God! Love him and most everything he's done! Of course someone like him would get the Melvins to start releasing shit tons of albums 

[the ether bunny]

i was obsessed with nirvana growing up, and new all too much of the melvins as a result. they never really hit me until much later when i had started listening to fantomas and mr bungle during my senior year of high school back in 2001. one day i went on a long, stoney, hot summer drive with a friend of mine who had gotten really into the melvins a good six months before. he put honkey on the car stereo, and i just remember "they all must be slaughtered: just droning my ears off. it drove me fucking wild. i caught them live a few months later and was since hooked.

[dead mike]

The Crybaby succeeded in its cynically obvious cross-marketing purposes. I've never been happier to be a consumer pawn.

[johnnyg]

I first became aware of the Melvins through the Jelvins release as I was (and still am) a big DK fan. At the time, to me, the Melvins were just a attribute-less band that happened to be playing with Jello, ala Nomeansno and Steel Pole Bathub.

But, I really liked both Jelvins albums and eventually picked up Houdini because I knew it was their most well known release. I HATED it. I thought it was boring.

A little later, I heard kicking machine, really liked it, so I picked up manchild 4 with the live melvins disc because it was only $8 and I figured it was a good way to give the Melvins a second shot.

I really liked it and then shortly afterwards, blindly picked up Pigs of the Roman empire and became a Melvins-maniac from then on.

[Satchel Paige]

It was waaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy back in 2007 when I bought my first Melvins album. I was at my first Melvs concert at the Granada Theater in Dallas. My cousin tagged along and none of us really knew much about them, except for Youtube videos. a Lot of people learn about them through the Nirvana connection, but we didn't know about that at all. The only way we found out they were playing was when we checked into Serj Tankian concert a couple of days before?/after? My cousin couldn't go to Serj show so I looked up the Melvins and decided to go see them.

I bought the GPT reissue and loved it. My cousin bought Senile Animal and I ended trading him my Metallica (Black Album) for it. Don't regret it. Melvins!

[Uncle Fester]

the melvins certainly did grow on me. I didn't really get it at first.

[Illusionator]

Very drunk... at a party... someone stuck Ozma on (this was around the time Houdini was released)... smitten 

[buddy holiday]

probably around '94, i was 14 and nirvana/grunge was my thing. so i bought houdini and thought it was shit, i did not understand it and focused again on the other grunge acts and bands like faith no more, rage against the machine, helmet, beastie boys etc.
then in '97 melvins had mombius hibachi on the sampler of the music magazine "visions". i loved the song but did not buy honkey because i still thought they were too weird for my tastes.
in the next 2 years i got more into stoner like kyuss, qotsa, fu manchu, electric wizard and in this environment the name melvins popped up quite often so i blindly bought the maggot probably in '99 and it finally clicked!

[williamblakestyger]

double dosing PRICK
remembering the shade
eggnog
then lysol
thanks alot
RIP claiburne
once a melvin always a gleam

[spliff(TONE)]

My first experience listening to a Melvins album was back around 1993 as a 7th grader. A few of my buddies and I where all learning to play guitar, writing songs together, hanging out with chicks and drinking beer for the first time, and really getting in to music. As we had a mutual appreciation for Nirvana, we ended up discovering bands like Sonic Youth, Tad, Mudhoney, and the Melvins. I can remember buying the Tad - Inhaler album and thinking it was pretty decent, but my friends bright yellow cassette tape of the Melvins - Houdini really grabbed my attention way more than any of those other bands I was just hearing for the first time. Everything from the first drum hits, to the palm-muted guitar intro, to Buzz' vocals just dripped pure heaviness, and I loved it.

Once we got our hands on a copy of Lysol, I was definitely hooked for life. That whole first 15 minutes or so was such a mind-blowing experience that was so worth the initial patience to really discover. We always made a habit of listening to that album in a dark room in it's entirety whenever we where getting especially faded off smoking weed and drinking 40's. All of our other friends didn't get it and probably thought we where mentally retarded.

[spliff(TONE)]

FASHO. Pleased to meet ya. Don't know how I wasn't more intimately familiar with this site already....