What Melvins album did you start with?

[steveybabes]

I first heard the Melvin's at a friends. He was a big Nirvana fan and had only bought the Houdini album because of the obvious connections.. anyway, he was going though his records one night, and put on this one track.. it blew me away. That track was Honey Bucket. He wouldn't play anymore because he didn't care for the album much (we are no longer friends..hee he), so I went out that very week looking for the album.
At this point I should point out that I live in the south of england and this was 1994 - before the internet was widely accessible.  BASICALLY it was vary rare to find an artist like the Melvin's down your local record store were I live.
Well it took me several weeks of persistant hunting till I finally came across one of their titles - it wasn't Houdini, but I thought I'd give it a go......

That album was Stoner Witch, and has remained my all time favorites of theirs. It has a little bit of everything they do best all neatly bundled up into one smooth bundle of smoothness. The first time I put it on my CD player.....well I'll never forget. 

Happy memories

[mhelmo]

For me, it was Houdini, waaay back in 93. A few months later, Stoner Witch came out. I had a cassette copy of GPT given to me by a "friend". She hated it, knew that I owned Houdini, and gave it to me. Then, I found out that there were SEVERAL albums, EPs between GPT and Houdini, was bowled over at the output these guys have had, and was hopelessly addicted after hearing Lysol....

Now, I'm in the process of procuring all those CDs I foolishly sold during college. But, in my defense, I was very, very poor.

Fuck Ramen noodles. Never again. Hahahaha....

[Cloud]

Stag. Then Houdini and The Crybaby.

[tinycorkscrew]

I bought Bullhead when it came out. I then saw them play in 1991 in a small Indian restaurant. I bought Ozma/GPT and Eggnog at the show.

I've picked up everything else since then.

[Tyuge]

i got that one with buzz and dale on the cover wearing backwards trousers.

[Verbalmasturbation]

GLUEy

[blag jesus himself]

i downloaded a few tracks (bar x, sweet willy rollbar, others) and was like 'shit'

so i went and bought houdini, stag, and honky at the same time.  if i remember correctly, that was all the store had, or else i might have bought some more.

[ninjabachelorparty]

Here i show my Melvins inexperience:

The first thing i actually bought was the Fantomas Melvins Big Band CD, which i purchased shortly after getting into Fantomas through Delirium Cordia. At the time i thought Buzz was the bassist for some stupid reason    After that i bought the first Jelvins CD, and then the collaboration with Lustmord.  The first 'Melvins-Only' CD i got was Eggnog, and since then ive bought pretty much every CD (Except Honky, which im having a bitch of a time finding).

[Hog log]

i started with their masterpiece

[blag jesus himself]

i started with their masterpiece

you bought all of their albums at the exact same time

!?!?

[Hog log]

i started with their masterpiece

you bought all of their albums at the exact same time

!?!?

i bought the finest extract of melvins noisework ... the ultimate concentrate of mankind's creation ...

[mopafeena]

i started with their masterpiece

you bought all of their albums at the exact same time

!?!?

i bought the finest extract of melvins noisework ... the ultimate concentrate of mankind's creation ...

[plain_and_boring]

i randomly bought The Maggot, not really knowing much of The Melvins aside from the Fantomas connection (which I was a fan of at the time)  The weird thing is at first I saw it as okay "background music"  What the hell was I smoking?!?!

Ive never looked at music the same since.

[jasonpc]

i first heard  a bit of lysol when a friend came over but i was going through a "i only listen to johnny cash" phase so i didnt pay it too much attention.

the first time i heard the melvins and actually liked it was when i worked in a death metal store and the girl i was working with put on "bullhead".
boris really had me intrigued... she almost got us fired for not playing death metal.

it did actually take a few albums for me to really get the bug though, to become the collecting geek forum poster i am today i guess.

[blackpeniskurva]

these were the first Melvins tunes that I heard:

NightGoatHOB092100.mp3
WeReachCM101400.mp3
WispyCM101400.mp3
WithTeethCM101400.mp3

It sounded like one continuous meat-house. The drums were the thing that got into me head. Catchy as fog!

Then: Houdini > 10 Songs.