Melvins
The Melvins are an American band that formed in 1983. They usually perform as a trio, but in recent years have performed as a four piece with two drummers. Since 1984, singer and guitarist Buzz Osborne (also known as King Buzzo) and drummer Dale Crover have been the band's ongoing members. The band was named after a supervisor at a Thriftway in Montesano, Washington, where Osborne also worked as a clerk. "Melvin" was despised by other employees, and the band's members felt it to be an appropriately ridiculous name.
History
Early days
The Melvins were formed in early 1983 by Buzz Osborne (guitar/vocals), Matt Lukin (bass) and Mike Dillard (drums) who all went to Montesano Jr./Sr. High School in Montesano, Washington. In the beginning they played Cream and Jimi Hendrix covers, and also began playing fast hardcore punk. When Dillard left the band, Dale Crover took his place, and the band's rehearsals moved to a back room of Crover's parents house in Aberdeen, Washington. Soon afterward, they started to play songs slower and "heavier" than nearly anyone else at the time.
Lysol (album)
Lysol (aka Melvins aka Untitled aka Lice-all) is the fourth album by the Melvins, released in 1992 on Boner Records.
The album cover is a painting based on a sculpture by Cyrus Edwin Dallin named "Appeal to the Great Spirit." The image also appears on The Beach Boys in Concert, on the logo for Brother Records, and on the cover of The Time Is Near by the Keef Hartley Band.
The album was recorded in less than a week, according to the band's official website.
Release
Boner Records was unaware that Lysol was a registered trademark until after the first batch of record jackets and CD booklets/back cards had already been printed. Lysol sent a staff member to go undercover as an interviewer for a magazine to find out information about the record, as they did not want their name on the album. Boner officially retitled the record Melvins and covered the word Lysol with black tape on the front of the jackets and booklets and with black ink on the spines. Early after the initial release, the tape and ink were easily removed, and many fans did so. Later, attempting to remove the tape would result in severe damage. Subsequent printings omitted the word Lysol entirely.
Melvins! (album)
Melvins is an album by Melvins, released in 1986 through C/Z Records. The album has been released as Six Songs (1986, vinyl), Eight Songs (1991, vinyl), 10 Songs (1991, CD) and 26 Songs (2003, CD). The songs are taken from two sessions in 1986.
Tracks 1-10 are taken from the 1991 eight/ten song, LP/CD version rerelease of this album. Tracks 11-16 are taken from the original six song vinyl release. Tracks 17-19 were taken from the 1986 Outtakes From First 7 inch vinyl single. Track 20-24 are garage demos. Track 20 is taken from the Northwest Hardcore compilation tape. Track 22 is taken from the Let's Kiss compilation tape from K Records. "Ever Since My Accident" is available on the Kill Rock Stars compilation (KRS-201) in superior quality. Track "26", "Hugh", is a field recording put as the b-side of the demo cassettes the band would give away to venues and labels to promote the band.
The track listing on the booklet of the CD lists 26 tracks but for unknown reasons the CD only has 25 tracks as "Ever Since My Accident" and "Hugh" are together on track 25 and not individual tracks as credited.
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ALBUMS
- Hold It In released: 2014
- Live at Third Man Records released: 2013
- Tres cabrones released: 2013
- Everybody Loves Sausages released: 2013
- Freak Puke released: 2012
- Endless Residency released: 2011
- Sugar Daddy Live released: 2011
- The Satellite Residency released: 2011
- The Bride Screamed Murder released: 2010
- Chicken Switch released: 2009
- Pick Your Battles released: 2009
- Melvins vs. Minneapolis released: 2008
- The End released: 2008
- Nude With Boots released: 2008
- The Making Love Demos released: 2007
- (A) Senile Animal released: 2006
- Houdini Live 2005: A Live History of Gluttony and Lust released: 2006
- Sieg Howdy! released: 2005
- Mangled Demos From 1983 released: 2005
- Neither Here nor There released: 2004
- Never Breathe What You Can’t See released: 2004
- Pigs of the Roman Empire released: 2004
- Melvinmania: The Best of the Atlantic Years 1993-1996 released: 2003
- 26 Songs released: 2003
- Hostile Ambient Takeover released: 2002
- Electroretard released: 2001
- Alive at the F*cker Club released: 2001
- Colossus of Destiny released: 2001
- Live at Slim's released: 2000
- Gluey Porch Treatments released: 2000
- The Maggot released: 2000
- The Crybaby released: 2000
- The Bootlicker released: 1999
- Singles 1-12 released: 1997
- Honky released: 1997
- Stag released: 1996
- Stoner Witch released: 1994
- Prick released: 1994
- Houdini released: 1993
- Lysol released: 1992
- Your Choice Live Series 012 released: 1991
- Bullhead released: 1991
- Ozma released: 1989
- Ozma / Gluey Porch Treatments released: 1989
- 10 Songs released: 1986
- 2008-07-26: The Showbox at the Market, Seattle, WA, USA released:
- 20th Anniversary Tour: Portland, OR released:
- Mangled Demos from 1983 released:
- Leech released:
Chicken Switch
Released 2009- Washmachine Sk8tronics
- Emperor Twaddle Remix
- She Chokes Her Dying Breath and Does It in My Face
- AAHHH…
- Linkshänder
- EggNog Trilogy: i) She’s Ivanhoe ii) Cancer iii) Inebriated
- SNOW REM REM IBVZ
- Prick Concrète/Revolution M
- Queen (Electroclash remix)
- The Silky Apple Butter of Youth
- 4th Floor Hellcopter
- disp_tx_skel_mach_murx
- Overgoat
- Over From Under the Dog, Girl & Boy Treatment
- Hard Revenge Milly Bloody Battle vs. the Melvins Ozmatized Gore Police
Pick Your Battles
Released 2009- Koolegged (live, 1989-02-04: 924 Gilman Street Project, Berkeley, CA, USA)
- Oven (live, 1989-02-04: 924 Gilman Street Project, Berkeley, CA, USA)
- Cranky Messiah (live, 1989-02-04: 924 Gilman Street Project, Berkeley, CA, USA)
- Raise a Paw (live, 1989-02-04: 924 Gilman Street Project, Berkeley, CA, USA)
- Ever Since My Accident (live, 1989-02-04: 924 Gilman Street Project, Berkeley, CA, USA)
- Green Honey (live, 1989-02-04: 924 Gilman Street Project, Berkeley, CA, USA)
- Claude (live, 1989-02-04: 924 Gilman Street Project, Berkeley, CA, USA)
- Your Blessened (live, 1989-02-04: 924 Gilman Street Project, Berkeley, CA, USA)
- Nude With Boots (live, 2008-08-09: Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA, USA)
- The Kicking Machine (live, 2008-08-09: Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA, USA)
- Eye Flys (live, 2008-08-09: Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA, USA)
- Rat Faced Granny (live, 2008-08-09: Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA, USA)
- The Hawk (live, 2008-08-09: Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA, USA)
- You've Never Been Right (live, 2008-08-09: Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA, USA)
- Boris (live, 2008-08-09: Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA, USA)
Sieg Howdy!
Released 2005- Halo of Flies
- The Lighter Side of Global Terrorism (extended Space‐melt version)
- Lesson in What Not to Become
- Those Dumb Punk Kids (Will Buy Anything)
- Wholly Buy Bull
- Voted Off the Island
- Kali‐fornia Uber Alles 21st Century (live)
- Dawn of the Locusts (March of the Locusts Deadverse remix by Dalek)
- Enchanted Thoughtfist (Enchanted Al remix)
Mangled Demos From 1983
Released 2005- Elks Lodge Christmas Broadcast
- If You Get Bored (live radio)
- Forgotten Principles
- Snake Appeal
- [flower]
- If You Get Bored
- Set Me Straight
- ✪
- I'm Dry
- Forgotten Principles
- I Don't Know
- Matt-Alec
- The Real You
- Run Around
- Keep Away From Me
- ☘
- Bibulous Confabulation During Rehearsal
- ✠
- ✏
- Matt-Alec
- "Walter"
- ✁
- ✈
26 Songs
Released 2003- Easy as It Was
- Now a Limo
- Grinding Process
- #2 Pencil
- At a Crawl
- Disinvite
- Snake Appeal
- Show Off Your Red Hands
- Over From Underground
- Cray Fish
- Easy as It Was
- Now a Limo
- Grinding Process
- At a Crawl
- Disinvite
- Snake Appeal
- Set Me Straight
- Show Off Your Red Hands
- #2 Pencil
- Grinding Process
- Snake Appeal
- At a Crawl
- Operation Blessing
- Breakfast on the Sly
- Ever Since My Accident/Hugh
Gluey Porch Treatments
Released 2000- Eye Flys
- Echo / Don't Piece Me
- Heater Moves and Eyes
- Steve Instant Neuman
- Influence of Atmosphere
- Exact Paperbacks
- Happy Gray or Black
- Leeech
- Glow God
- Big as Mountain
- Heaviness of the Load
- Flex With You
- Bitten Into Sympathy
- Gluey Porch Treatments
- Clipping Roses
- As It Was
- Over From Under the Excrement
- Echohead
- Flex With You
- Don't Piece Me
- Bitten Into Sympathy
- Exact Paperbacks
- Glow God / Big as a Mountain
- Heaviness of the Load
- Happy Gray or Black
- Heater Moves and Eyes
- Gluey Porch Treatments
- Eye Flys
- Clipping Roses
Ozma / Gluey Porch Treatments
Released 1989- Vile
- Oven
- At a Crawl
- Let God Be Your Gardner
- Creepy Smell
- Kool Legged
- Green Honey
- Agonizer
- Raise a Paw
- Love Thing
- Ever Since My Accident
- Revulsion/We Reach
- Dead Dressed
- Cranky Messiah
- Claude
- My Small Percent Shows Most
- Candy-O
- Eye Flys
- Echo Head / Don't Piece Me
- Heater Moves and Eyes
- Steve Instant Newman
- Influence of Atmosphere
- Exact Paperbacks / Happy Grey or Black
- Leeech
- Glow God
- Big as a Mountain
- Heaviness of the Load
- Flex With You
- Bitten Into Sympathy
- Gluey Porch Treatments
- Clipping Roses
- As Was It
- Over From Under the Excrement
Leech
- Leech
- Way of the World
- Theme
- Forgotten Principles
- GGIIBBYY
- With Yo' Heart, Not Yo' Hands
- Four Letter Woman
- Anal Satan
- Venus in Furs
- Sweet Young Thing Aint Sweet No More
- [untitled]
- Your Blessened
- Pronoun Piece Me
- Someday
- Love Canal
- God of Thunder
- Ever Since My Accident
- Rocket Reducer #62
- Lexicon Devel
- Instant Larry
- Adolescent Wet Dream
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