Track Listings (11) - Disc #1| All Artists: Melvins Title: Crybaby Members Wishing: 3 Total Copies: 0 Label: Ipecac Recordings Release Date: 3/7/2000 Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock, Metal Styles: Hardcore & Punk, Indie & Lo-Fi, American Alternative, Alternative Metal Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 689230000624 |
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 | Melvins Crybaby Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock, Metal
2000 release from Aberdeen, Wa punk legends who inspired Kurt Cobain. Featuring a plethora of guest stars including VH1 Behind the Music star Leif Garrett (on 'Smells Like Teen Spirit!), David Yow (Jesus Lizard), Hank Will... more » |
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Album Description 2000 release from Aberdeen, Wa punk legends who inspired Kurt Cobain. Featuring a plethora of guest stars including VH1 Behind the Music star Leif Garrett (on 'Smells Like Teen Spirit!), David Yow (Jesus Lizard), Hank Williams III, Jim Foetus, Skeleton Key and Tool. 11 tracks. Standard jewel case. Similar CDsSimilarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsA Worthy Release for Melvins Fans Daniel Read | Atlanta, GA USA | 03/09/2000 (4 out of 5 stars) "What can I say about the Crybaby? First, whatever it is you're expecting, forget it. This is not your standard Melvins record, if there is such a thing. This record is just wack. I think I really like it, though. It's a mish-mash of crazy stuff. Each song is totally different than the rest of the songs. All of them feature one guest or another. King Buzzo does not sing any of the songs.Leif Garrett signing "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is hillarious. It's almost as if The Melvins deliberately played the song straight-up so that Leif Garrett would in turn sing it straight up. You can tell that old Leif took his task very seriously, and I find the results pretty funny. Regardless, this cover is a nice nod to the unsung, yet crucial, influence that The Melvins had on Nirvana, and by proxy the whole grunge "movement."David Yow sings a couple (including a great cover of an early Jesus Lizard song).Hank Williams III sings a couple. I think these worked really well. Hank III sounds just like his grandfather.Mike Patton does some crazy stuff with one of the songs, G.I. Joe.The song they collaborated with Tool on is the most strange on the whole record. I like it. It's equal parts Melvins and Tool, but 100% obnoxious and ridiculous. I listened to it twice last night and decided that I like it.The Crybaby is the Melvins having fun, and they invite a bunch of other people to have fun with them. They took some big artistic risks, andpulled it off. This would not a a good place for a prospective Melvins fan to start off, however. But for someone who understands and appreciate's the Melvin's twisted view of the universe, it's great. If you want to get started with The Melvins, I recommend the following: The Maggot, Houdini, Stoner Witch, Ozma/Gluey Porch Treatments, Bullhead, and Stag. There are plenty of other great Melvins records, but those are a good place to start.I now have all three of the Ipecac trilogy (The Maggot, The Bootlicker, and The Crybaby), and I must declare the whole thing a success. The Maggot may be my favorite Melvins record of all that they've done." The final chapter Daniel Read | 03/07/2000 (3 out of 5 stars) "the third part of their three-albums-in-one-year ipecac trilogy, the crybaby is a frantic, scattered mess filled with special guest artists making more noise than the melvins themselves usually do. this is definitely NOT the place to start a melvins collection from (try "stoner witch" or "bullhead"), as much of the 73-minute album is comprised of the aforementioned special guests piling bleeps, bloops, and lyrics on top of the rather repetitive and simplistic bases the melvins provide for them. jim thirlwell's overlong and uninteresting "mine is no disgrace" suffers from a lack of invention on the melvins' part, as does bliss blood's contribution, "the man with the laughing hand is dead." hank williams III's two tracks are straight-forward country music, and mike patton's "g.i. joe" will not surprise fans of his recent "vocal stylings." the bright spots are tool's contribution, "divorced," a 14-minute journey on which heavy riffs, drum solos, and underwater keyboards share DNA, and the two david yow tracks, "dry drunk" being the better of the two, mostly because our melvins just decide to plain old ROCK, "maggot" style. yow's famous "drunken bum" vocal fits very well on top of the heavy metal thunder conjured by the melvins.and as for "teen spirit;" you can just guess how THAT sounds. hint: think drunken karaoke.this album is pretty much for completists and fans of the various guest artists. the melvins are one of THE most underrated and creative hard bands of the last decade, but this album won't to much to convince people of that. try the first album in the trilogy, "the maggot," and hear where heavy music SHOULD be, instead of where it IS, which is nowhere, hanging out with limp bizkit." Collaborative rock Stargrazer | deep in the heart of Michigan | 11/03/2005 (4 out of 5 stars) "Crybaby puts an interesting spin on the collaborative approach. Working with a slew of musicians from the wider metal and punk world, the Melvins hold an invitational to their thick sludgy freak rock fest. The results are a rollercoaster of songs that run through tempos from slow to savage. "Dry Drunk" is one of the more unhinged things I've heard recently. What is going on in the background with that lamb? And what just happened in the middle with that dialog and saxophone snippet!? It's a recent favorite.
Not to be missed is the inspired "Smell's Like Teen Spirit" duet. But there's much more to this album than a great cover. The Melvins give experimental metal a good name." |
