Bad Mood Rising

[black stallion]

sickness of course being subjective, one could argue that bmr has more sickness than other recent releases

yeah sure

a friend of mine, huge fan, after listening to BMR just told me he misses the "sickness" in Melvins recent music.what do you think?

or maybe the music sounding a bit more unhinged and menacing?

yes, he means this

[amazonAMAZON]

I agree with Stallion. I immediately thought of that kind of sexual frustration of Ozma that permuted into a seething volatility in the Mark D years and the weirdness in the Kevin years. IMHO they have rarely had that 'sickness' since. Bits and pieces with Pinkus or Jared but I just think it's been replaced by a generally cloistered energy.

[the bloat]

We are now squarely in the Melvins "rock" phase. I think the vitriol of youth, the sonic experimentation, the pummeling metal riffage with odd time signatures are all in the past. You can't expect a band to keep repeating themselves over and over for 40 years. They just do meat n'potatoes, heavy rock and roll now. What's wrong with that?

[Stonergrunge]

Call me crazy but I don't believe the band has lost things like the pummeling metal riffage with odd time signatures nor the sonic experimentation, maybe they're not that obvious nowadays but if you listen to the very beginning of Mister Dog, Never Say You're Sorry or even the two King Dunn EPs you can clearly hear that kind of stuff.

[immoraliste]

You guys are asking men in their 50's with mortgages to write the same albums they did when they were in their 20's and broke af. It's not happening.

[amazonAMAZON]

Don't get me wrong. I love the latest ten studio albums. I think BMR is going ne of the most vital releases in the band's later catalog. I just haven't really heard an 'unhinged' Buzz original since maybe "I Told You I Was Crazy." And that's fine. I would welcome more of it, but what they are doing now is rich and interesting and a bunch of other positive adjectives.

[))))((((]

You guys are asking men in their 50's with mortgages to write the same albums they did when they were in their 20's and broke af. It's not happening.

Hell, i'll take their 30's or even their 40's!

[the bloat]

I just haven't really heard an 'unhinged' Buzz original since maybe "I Told You I Was Crazy."

Agreed! Love this song. Classic Buzzo

[black stallion]

We are now squarely in the Melvins "rock" phase. I think the vitriol of youth, the sonic experimentation, the pummeling metal riffage with odd time signatures are all in the past. You can't expect a band to keep repeating themselves over and over for 40 years. They just do meat n'potatoes, heavy rock and roll now. What's wrong with that?

i totally agree with your point, sure..nothing wrong with them playing heavy rock n roll. i still think most of the songs on BMR sound a bit generic though, especially for Melvins standards. if i think to best stuff released by the guys in recent years probably the Buzzo acoustic albums come first than Melvins material

[the bloat]

the other thing that's interesting to note about BMR is all the comments posted here about it. Compare it to other threads in the Melvin's Album Discussion board and you'll find that this one has fueled quite a healthy discussion amongst Melvins fans! Seems like a very polarizing record.

[))))((((]

the other thing that's interesting to note about BMR is all the comments posted here about it. Compare it to other threads in the rate the records section and you'll find that this one has fueled quite a healthy discussion amongst Melvins fans! Seems like a very polarizing record.

I think some of that discussion perhaps stems from the way it was released with Haze and the vinyl coming before the "proper" release. I think that got us talking more about it than some Melvins albums of recent memory.

[black stallion]

i think this is one of the less discussed albums (i mean musically), i'd have been  curious to hear more opinions about it by some old school fans from this board . it seems this album has been kinda ignored, probably some people didn't hear it or simply they weren't impressed

[FartLips]

You guys are asking men in their 50's with mortgages to write the same albums they did when they were in their 20's and broke af. It's not happening.

im not asking, im telling!

[Bigval]

It's a dark, rainy morning here but look what just arrived!

I didn't need to get it direct from AmRep either!

How long until the booklet ends up in the bin?

[vince furnier]

It's a dark, rainy morning here but look what just arrived!

I didn't need to get it direct from AmRep either!

where did you find it?