i just got Houdini by the Melvins and i fucking love it
 

wow. this is such a great album. "Hag Me" is so good that i want to kill myself. "Hooch" is one of the best album openers i've ever heard.

I got it because of the Kurt Cobain connection (hey I'm not the only one) and yeah it's pretty good. I haven't listened to it in quite awhile.

"Houdini" is an excellent album. It's interesting to hear the 1983 demos of them playing "Set Me Straight". It just shows you that good bands can always pull something old out of the hat, & still have it sound relevent.

-Suggestion-
If you don't already have it, get "Pigs Of The Roman Empire",
by The Melvins+Lustmord. It features Adam Jones on guitar.
& of course Buzz playing every instrument he can get his hands on.

Good Album. My favorite song on it is Pearl Bomb. The first time I heard it I thought there was something wrong with the CD.

Hell yeah man, that is some serious milk.

yeah i have to agree its a gret album, love the cover too very innocent until you put it on! you should get "stoner witch" next

i'm still super stuck on bullhead because that's the perfect album. i mean, i can't move forward with the melvins because bullhead is so fucking good!!!

i mean boris, c'mon!!!!!!

"houdini" is great
"stoner witch" broke my headphones.

Right on!, Boris is some tune

BULLHEAD RULES!!!!!
OZMA RULES!!!


I'm crawling! On my belly crawling!!!!


and off of bullhead
OH NO I forgot to get my pills
I got to go downtown!

Pick up Stag if you can ever find it. It's pure gold from start to finish.

I was obsessed with that album when I first bought it.

Houdini is the only thing I've heard by the Melvins and I don't think that much of it. I listened to iti maybe once or twice through and I was never impressed...or really that entertained.

if you want the REAL DEAL melvins

get

OZMA



BULLHEAD



KING BUZZO

i dont know why. but i really wasn't into this cd. it's all ive heard by the melvins. i guess it left a bad impression. but i'm gonna try and listen to houdini

i used to be like that too. i used to listen to melvins' songs and i was always like "what's the big deal, they are just boring"; any era melvins, they all sounded lame. then i downloaded bullhead (i know, shame on me) and thought it was meh, then listened to it for like three times and it finally sunk in. and by "sunk in" i mean getting hit by a steel baseball bat on the back of my head. the melvins are a grower band, you have to be patient; at least that's how it happened to me.

i also have mangled demos and stoner witch and, while i liked the demos a lot because i like punk like what they played there, i can't seem to get into stoner witch because i always get an urge to listen to bullhead instead.

Houdini is a great album!

I just bought Ozma and I like it so far but I'm sure I'll like it a lot more after a couple more spins. Also check out Gluey Porch Treatments, another bitchin album. I read in a Dale Crover interview from a while back where he said something about how playing the songs on G.P.T. is similar to doing calculus equations. I can see what he means. Or hear what he means. tarhahrhrharharharhahrrhahrahrar. etc.

OZMA, BuLLHEAD, LYSOL, HOUDINI and STONER WITCH is a great selection of Melvins records (the early ones released on Boner records:D ). But those will satisfy your ears for some time.

i was hooked the first time i listened to stoner witch. that album is fucking brilliant. so much low end...

that album rocks, as much as bullhead !
get Gluey Porch Treatments, thats just wild. Plus points for their Green River cover "Leech" !

i love some melvins! (read my name backwards)

my fav melvin records are Gluey Porch treatments, Bullhead, and Hostile Ambient takeover. The last record pigs of the roman empire was fucking great as well. The melvins are getting more and more experimental, better with age

"Pigs Of The Roman Empire" is one of my favorite experimental records in my collection. Adam Jones did a great job on guitar. & of course King Buzzo was a master of instrumentation on that record. But, isn't he always.

Hail King Buzzo! HAIL!

I bought this album like 5 minutes ago. Better be good.

i assure you, 'tis excellent.

speaking of houdini, do you guys know about this?



what's this? to answer the question, let me quote his majesty, king buzzo:

Well of course it's 2006 and as usual the seemingly tireless Melvins have yet another brand "new" CD. Big surprise. This time, as a result of their strange work last year in Europe they've recorded a full length Houdini Live record entitled "A Live History of Gluttony and Lust", which is ready for a May release so put down your beer bongs and your crack pipes and get ready to dash out and buy two or three copies…or maybe twenty copies just in case. Amazingly the Melvins recruited the amazing bass master Trevor Dunn best known for his amazing work in the Trevor Dunn trio-convulsant, Mr. Bungle, Fantômas and a whole lot of headache inducing "music" with John Zorn. This is a thoroughly modernized live version of the 1993 "classic" Houdini record along with a few surprises tossed in for shits and giggles. Why not? Remember it's the nuts, it's effortless and it's just like the oil on Arrons beard and God forbid you forget this isn't bullshit, so don't worry.


comes out may 16.

Just listened to it. Sweet. My ears are ringing.

Houdini Live 2005
Melvins

Welcome to the “Melvins Live History of Gluttony and Lust”. This is the entire Houdini record plus a few changes and some extras...
The whole concept originated from an invitation by the delightful “All Tomorrows Parties” people in England to perform the entire Houdini album live as part of their “Don’t Look Back” series. It included The Stooges, The Gang of Four, Dinosaur Jr., Mudhoney, The Lemonheads, The Dirty Three and... well... I don’t know who else but I know they all had to play one album in it’s entirety.
It sounded like a brilliant idea and we thanked God that they hadn’t ask us to do the Ozma record. The only problem was The Melvins were once again without a bass player.
Fortunately I’d been playing in the stupidly complicated Fantômas with the stinkingly talented Trevor Dunn since 1998 and I knew if he could pull off playing those nightmarish songs he could handle learning the Houdini record with practically no rehearsal. It was perfect. Trevor’s a charming cat, besides we felt sorry for the little fella because he’s really only been involved in the drowsy, headache-inducing, goose-honking New York “jazz” scene. We thought he should finally get a chance to participate in a first-class outfit like ours. Happily for us, he agreed.
We figured it was our duty to put this out as a live record since we went to the trouble of RE-LEARNING all of the songs, a third of which we never ever intended to play live. Figuring out HOW to play some of them was problematic but it worked out beautifully. The shows in London and Dublin went great. Unfortunately we didn’t hit upon the idea of the live record until after the shows were over. This was a dilemma that could only be remedied by recording another show, and that wasn’t easily done. Not only did we have a limited amount of time, locating a suitable venue and assembling the recording equipment was a BITCH. In the end, we couldn’t find a venue that would work on such short notice so we rented a warehouse in Vernon, just south of LA, set up the gear and rehearsed all afternoon for our “invitation only” performance that evening. Then after running through the show twice, we took the tapes to the studio, picked out the best songs of the two sets, mixed them and mastered them onto this CD. DONE! In the exact same order we played them.
- Buzz Osborne 2006

Track listing

Disc 1:
1. Pearl Bomb
2. Hooch
3. Night Goat
4. Lizzy
5. Going Blind
6. Cop-Ache
7. Set Me Straight/DCH
8. Sky Pup
9. Teet
10. Joan Of Arc
11. Honey Bucket
12. Hag Me
13. Spread Eagle Beagle


thats gonna be so sweet !

hehe


Yeah it's gonna be awesome! I wanna listen to it now!!

LOL ! :D