Artist: Melvins: mp3 download Genre(s): Alternative ROck: Alternative Rock Pop: Pop-Rock Other Rock: Punk-Rock Rock: Hard-Rock Melvins's discography: Pigs Of The Roman Empire Year: 2004 Tracks: 9 26 Songs Year: 2003 Tracks: 26 Hostile Ambient Takeover Year: 2002 Tracks: 8 The Colossus Of Destiny Year: 2001 Tracks: 1 Electroretard Year: 2001 Tracks: 7 The Maggot Year: 1999 Tracks: 16 The Bootlicker Year: 1999 Tracks: 9 Maggot Year: 1999 Tracks: 16 Gluey Porch Treatments Year: 1999 Tracks: 29 Singles 1-12 (CD 2) Year: 1997 Tracks: 12 Singles 1-12 (CD 1) Year: 1997 Tracks: 12 Honky Year: 1997 Tracks: 10 Stag Year: 1996 Tracks: 15 Stoner Witch Year: 1994 Tracks: 11 Prick Year: 1994 Tracks: 11 Houdini Year: 1993 Tracks: 13 Ozma/Gluey Porch Treatments Year: 1992 Tracks: 33 Lysol Year: 1992 Tracks: 4 King Buzzo (To Dale and Joe) Year: 1992 Tracks: 4 King Buzzo Year: 1992 Tracks: 4 Joe Preston Year: 1992 Tracks: 3 Dale Crover Year: 1992 Tracks: 4 Eggnog Year: 1991 Tracks: 4 Bullhead Year: 1991 Tracks: 8 Ozma Year: 1989 Tracks: 17 10 Songs Year: 1986 Tracks: 10 The Melvins were the first base post-punk dance orchestra to make whoopie in the slow, sludgy sounds of Black Sabbath. Their music is oppressively sluggish and heavy, only when without any of the wacky mystic lyrics or the indulgent guitar solos -- it's simply one monumental, seepage hill of smuggled gook. The Melvins' number 1 base book was released in 1987; they've released several albums since and so, simply it wasn't until 1993 that they went to a major label, thanks to their protégé, Kurt Cobain. While the Melvins seat be dull and repetitive, their seat in rock euphony history is interesting, even if it is just a modest footer. The band formed in Aberdeen, WA, the same townspeople that produced Nirvana's Cobain and Krist Novoselic. For Nirvana and many former Seattle-area bands, the Melvins' muck was inspirational; the younger bands took the Sabbath-styled thickness of the Melvins, spell adding an every bit significant bug out song dynasty social organization, which the group tended to deficiency. While all of their disciples became noted after Nirvana skint big in 1991 (including Mudhoney, world Health Organization featured other Melvin bassist Matt Lukin), the Melvins only expanded their furor more or less. They did earn a major-label contract with Atlantic, just later on psychotherapeutic three records for the label, they were dropped in recent 1996 and the chemical group returned to indie status, landing place with Amphetamine Reptile for 1998's Alive at the F*cker Club. The late '90s/early 21st c saw a snow flurry of releases by the band: The Maggot, The Bootlicker, The Crybaby, Electroretard, The Colossus of Destiny, Hostile Ambient Takeover, Pigs of the Roman Empire, Erik Weisz Live 2005: A Live History of Gluttony and Lust and Senile Animal, all of which (except for the twenty-five percent one) were issued on Mike Patton's Ipecac label. In improver to their Melvin activities, singer/guitarist Buzz Osborne joined Patton (and former Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo and Mr. Bungle bassist Trevor Dunn) for the observational outfit Fantômas, resulting in a couple of releases (1999's self-titled debut and 2001's The Director's Cut), patch the Melvins' a la mode bassist, Kevin Rutmanis, united Patton in some former side project, Tomahawk. |