when first getting into the melvins.

[CaptainPungent]

that's an awesome story mount, seriously. + for the coolnessity.
in 8th grade i was really into slipknot...
i guess we all have bad music periods.
9th grade i really got into tool and they kinda pulled me out of the slump.
but who totally did it were the melvins.

i'm jealous of the best of the atlantic years thing you have anon, even though i have those 3 albums.
my sis is going to europe this summer, i'm going to make her look for it.

i'm going to an orthrelm show tonight and tomorrow night, it's gonna rock.

[ManWithNoName]

I got Houdini and Stonerwich for 8$ each. I had downloaded a few songs by them and thought I'd check them out. I loved some of the songs but others I just couldn't get. The albums just sat there for some time. One of the dudes who worked at the store was really into them so that pushed me to get some more. So I started ordering some albums through them. Got the Crybaby and that threw me off completely. I wasn't into it at all and it was a horrible "starting" point. Finally, I convinced myself to keep trying and ordered HAT. At first I was little thrown back I wasn't too sure what to think so I just let it sit on my shelf. Picked it up a few weeks later and the same reaction but the songs were starting to grow on me. Finally, I decide to order yet another one The Maggot. As soon as I got it I spinned it and the first track Amazon was like a slap in the face I didn't lke it at all and I was starting to think the melvins just weren't for me. I decided to shelf them all. At the time I was really into Tool and that's basicly all I spinned in high school. Fast forward to last year, first year of uni. Out of the blue I decide to spin HAT. From that point on there was no looking back. I was fucking blown away. I finally got it. Since then I've been spinning the Melvins' regularly.

[norecess]

Out of the blue I decide to spin HAT. From that point on there was no looking back. I was fucking blown away. I finally got it.

That's funny since for me, HAT was the hardest album to get into.

[ManWithNoName]

It took me a few months/spins before I really got into it. But once I did get into it it blew me away.

[CaptainPungent]

what pumped my cock to orgasm was 'at the stake'
probably one of my most favorite melvins song of that era.

it's good to look around in slow motion to that song.
while probably high.
heh.

[rhett E rock]

i first got Stag and Honky.  i gotta admit i was one of those fans that didn't know what to think of the more experimental stuff...long story short i got some more albums, downloaded stuff on the internet and it all grew on me.  now i don't know what i would do without the Melvins.     

[Anonymous]

i'm jealous of the best of the atlantic years thing you have anon, even though i have those 3 albums.

I could burn you a copy.

[klump]

I think downloading and bootlegs has helped the melvins  lot

[glen]

[ManWithNoName]

I am forced to agree with the glen here. All my fav albums have taken me a certain amount of time to really get into. Only a small minority have blown me away right from the get go.

[glen]

I am forced to agree with the glen here.

forced?         is it that bad?      maybe I should rethink my persona around here.   

[ManWithNoName]

Well, you know, with married men you never who's talking. Is it the man or the wife behind the man? 

[meanclown]

funny how you remember/associate record-buying experiences...some that have remained with me....buying Eno's "Another Green World" when it came out (vinyl days) @ Alexander's Department store...the price was $ 6.12 & all I had to my name was $ 6.10...the sales person let me slide the two cents....buying Pere Ubu's "The Modern Dance" LP @ E.J. Korvettes, and picking up "Stag" when it came out, after coming from  a free out-door concert  by Tommy James! This might me an interesting side thread...your most memorable record-buying experiences! Yee-ooww!

[rhett E rock]

  now i don't know what i would do without the Melvins.     

damn rhett,  your getting me all emotional.     

on the "getting into discs" subject:  (in my opinion) the best releases of all time take about 4 or 5 listens to settle into.   I think you have to hear a disc in its entirety, and then a few more times till you anticipate the next song before you can form an opinion.  I have (I don't think) NEVER bought a disc, popped it in and thought it was fucking AMAZING before the end of the second song, and had it last the test of time.   
MELVINS releases always take about 3 listens to be appreciated fully. (now get to APPRECIATING!  got it bub?)

hey, i really don't know what i'd do!  i owe almost my whole approach to drumming to Dale!  and yeah, i'll agree with you onthis one too. gl;en knows what it's allabout. 

[norecess]

Albums that I think of as "timeless classics" have always taken a number of listens to fully sink in. Gluey Porch Treatments took me a while to "get," even though now I can't believe there was ever a time when I didn't think it was the cat's pajamas.

The re-issue of Gluey was my first Melvins purchase. I even remember it was a sunny day and I had been shopping in Amsterdam. Later that day there was an outside festival really near to my house so a friend of mine dropped by first before we went to see some bands. I had written about the Melvins through Nirvana but... Fuck, I don't even know if this is true. I think I had downloaded the Bootlicker first and didn't know what to think, I thought they were a grunge band - how dumb - and only knew that gay photo from the Ipecac website. Then I saw them in Amsterdam and they blew me away. Yeah, I think I bought Gluey after that. Weird, I really have no idea how the process of this addiction orginiated.