(A) Senile Animal

[Vcavallo]

here's a new one from decibel magazine. 
straight from the melvins-L about 2 minutes ago.  thanks mike!

The following was overheard in the dark alley known as the Melvins-L
Listserv List:



From Decibel Magazine, Nov. 2006:

MELVINS - A SENILE ANIMAL
Rated 9/10
"Salad of a thousand more delights"
       With Spinal Tap, it was drummers. For the Melvins, evidently, it's
bass players. If, like me, you've lost count of the number of Melvins
albums since they debuted waaaay back in 1986 with "Six Songs," then
take comfort that they have had approximately one-third as many
bassists as they have albums: eight. Except now they have two bass
players (only one of whom appears on the album.) And two drummers.
But only one guitarist. Except when the new bass player switches to
guitar.
       Confused? Well, you needn't be, because "A Senile Animal," the first
Melvins studio outing since 2002, is perhaps their best since the
heady days when they had major label cash behind them, circa
"Houdini." If nothing else, the doubled-up drumming invokes that
comparison, as the combination of Dale Crover and newbie Coady Willis
(Big Business) turns every song into what "Spread Eagle Beagle"
might've been had they bothered to write a song to go along with it.
       Better still, the Melvins keep it not only simple but short: Of the
10 songs, six clock in at under three minutes, the remaining four
stretching out past the six-minute mark. And they're all pretty much
awesome. By the second track in, "Blood Witch," the album has
cemented a level of quality it maintains for the rest of the disc,
through the mid-album trio of up-tempo blasters "Rat Faced," "The
Hawk" and "You've Never Been Right," and on to the closing trilogy of
slow slugfests topped off by the inimitable Buzz Osborne's yowling
vocals. It's pretty much moot whether "A History of Bad Men," "The
Mechanical Bride" or the closing "A Vast Filthy Prison" stands out
the most. So we'll leave that decision for the obsessives and instead
fall down on our knees and thank G_d that there is absolutely,
positively, guaranteed no farting around to be found on this album
whatsoever. --Nick Terry

--
Mike Coddington         mofo@fea.st
"I'll take you back to the pyramids. Don't yank me."

[Vcavallo]

two bass players?
i think he's confusing them with sonic youth

[OfficerButtcrack]

He probably means Trevor or DSS

[ManWithNoName]

"If nothing else, the doubled-up drumming invokes that
comparison, as the combination of Dale Crover and newbie Coady Willis
(Big Business) turns every song into what "Spread Eagle Beagle"
might've been had they bothered to write a song to go along with it."

I wonder if he's heard the newdini spread eagle beagle.


"So we'll leave that decision for the obsessives and instead
fall down on our knees and thank G_d that there is absolutely,
positively, guaranteed no farting around to be found on this album
whatsoever."

but I like the "farting around".

[Vcavallo]

but I like the "farting around".

as do i.  this guy is a meathead

[glen]

the dale/coady drum trade off to take out A History of Bad Men blows my mind.
...or so I've heard.

[Vcavallo]

i didn't know you

[Hog log]

*awakes*

... i didn't know there was a new melvins album ...

*yawns*

[mhelmo]

I have failed. I couldn't resist the live video footage posted. Damn, it sounds great. And the mirrored drummers... sweeeeeeet.

I can't wait til the Mr Small's show in Pittsburgh. My girl and I will probably be catatonic by the end of the show.

DubEMC, if you see two headless corpses at the back of the theater, propped against a wall with permanent metal-horns as hands, you know you've found us. But, for the love of God, Dub, please help us find our heads. They will come in handy for the trip back down 79.

[glen]

i didn't know you

[FartLips]

i didn't know you

[glen]

did she "inhale"?

don't know.  but she DID say something about waiting to exhale. 

(sorry, that was uncalled for)

[amm]

anyone know the details of the vinyl release? hopefully it's out by october 10th

[twoNUNpackMULE]

I am having a hard time keeping my semen from seeping out of my pee hole in shear joy from the upcoming release, let alone trying to wait for them to make their way to Orlando this November!

[DAYV]

i read a lot on here but don't post very often. i'm one of the rotten bastards who downloaded the entire thing on soulseek only because i read on this site that they were playing 8 out of the 10 songs on the cd live. i saw the show in lawrence, ks. last friday, had front row where i could look dale in the eyes, and noticed how he kept giving me weird looks as i was singing (yelling) along with the new tunes. i absolutely love the new cd and can't wait for oct.10 to get here to buy it and have the booklet, etc. this band deserves my $15. i have worshipped these guys since 1990, and think they are the definition of integrity. i've tried throughout the years to get my friends to think as i do but to no avail. their loss. the one person who i have converted is my 9 year old son who thinks the melvins and tool are the "coolest". love to all...