melvins, thine enemy

[glen]

heres a few quotes I found from other message boards of people discussing their opinions of melvins.

[ElGrampo]

thanks for that, especially for the last one!

[OfficerButtcrack]

No shame being compared to Spinal Tap.

[glen]

No shame being compared to Spinal Tap.

agreed.

but me thinks they are refering to the revolving door @ bass.

[OfficerButtcrack]

That's cos they dont understand Spinal Tap's music.

[OfficerButtcrack]

I mean, how someone who doesnt like Melvins could possibly understand something about something cool?

[anaconda]

"When will they finally realize they can't play their instruments..."

That's probably some guy who bought Prick as his first Melvins purchase,
listened to it once, then based the rest of his life's opinion of the Melvins on it,
because as we all know, these motherfuckers can defintely play their instruments

[Mad Arab]

Let's face it, the Melvins are no good. No good reason to keep deluding ourselves. They haven't had a good album since Appetite For Destruction.

[The Fool]

 

very amusing! i've heard buzz say 'there's no accounting for taste' before.
...how right he is! 

[bUTTHOLEmAN]

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/BlabberMouth.Net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=38470

One of the most annoying live bands period. When they toured with Helmet in '97, they played a song for about 20+ minutes of just distortion and no one was on the same page. To top it off, the drummer was wearing a speedo and they had the Energizer Bunny hopping around on the stage in a big pink outfit. It was humorous but at the same time, just ridiculous. I know they have been around for years and have a huge following but they gave me a headache and people were throwing shit at them.


rutmanis always sucked, standing there smacked out in a gown doing his cerebral palsy spin. mark d. was the best but he was a fuckin dork too. they just can't seem to get the right guy. since day one. but, they are the melvins and they are fucking gnarly live.

[Kessel]

How can anyone hate the Melvins, it's.... it's....    IT'S WRONG!

[Clint Flick]

standing there smacked out in a gown doing his cerebral palsy spin.

This is actually the most eloquent description of exactly why I LIKED Rutmanis (His bass palying was alright, too).

[(PAUL)]

This guy's talking about Gluey Porch Treatments:

Zzzz...yeah right, part of the old times heavy slow slow slow sludgefeast and then what ? nada. You know I used to be into all this stuff,and all you needed to gain my attention was to tune down the guitars,get a thick heavy bass and voila, you got good music...however I never really fell for this one although there were some songs I digged, hard to remember the titles 'cause it's all on my Ozma/GPT version..but it was the first one,then "Don't Piece Me" and "Leeech". But don't you ever get tired of that shit...I mean what else does it offer than heaviness ? I'd take a chance and say that if you actually asked Melvins,they'd say the album pretty much sucks and that's part of their attitude that's really amusing at times while very annoying at others...I can't say anything about the mid-period releases of the band because I haven't heard them but the first two parts of that trilogy are way better than this piece. Oh,so they have wierd tempo changes...big fuckin' deal...it's just such nonsence..and that drummer..Dale Crover-can he do anything more interesting than BANG BANG BANG BANG..oh yeah let's hit the drumset the hardest we can...what a brilliant masterpiece.I supose I shouldn't be so negative and relate to all the praise you people give it but I just can't help it- you know I really hate it when people don't understand slow heavy shit, when they can't handle anything that's not GO GO GO! but I've been part of this and I know what the hell I'm talking about. 4/10 (would have been a lot less if it wasn't A BIT distinctive from traditional rock).

[(PAUL)]

Not me

"i havent heard the melvins houdini record in a few years but i remember that THE worst song ever recorded in the entire history of recorded sound is on this album--the last track spread eagle beagle...my god why oh why would you write a 13 minute long "song" with nothing but the exact same drumbeat the ENTIRE TIME?!?!??!?!?!"

[(PAUL)]

Here's another one, these are from Prindle's website.

Dont give these fuckers your money for this album cos you will probably regret it. When they made this album i reckon they probably laughed to themselves at the thought of people buyin it and convincing themselves that it is actually good, but it is infact a piece of crap. It's a bit like that story,.."The Emperors New Clothes" (or whatever it was called)

These designers (in this case the Melvins) made a new suit (album-honky) for the king (you) and at first the king (you) was extremely dissapointed because the suit (album-honky) was such a piece of shit........infact it was so crap that it was supposed to be invisible...(only smart rich people could see it) so the king (you) said "ohh thats a fantastic suit........so he goes about naked wearing nothin cos he WAS A FUCKIN IDIOT.

I hope you see what im trying to say here......... Honky=the Suit and the Suit=Crap. Dont be like the emperor ......see the suit for what it is.