Search - Melvins :: Mangled Demos From 1983

Remember punk? It's back! In pog form.

D. K. Malone | earth | 06/07/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Up until now, the oldest stuff I've heard from the Melvins was their three or four tracks on the Deep Six compilation from 1985. Much of the content here is material uber fans have probably heard before in one form or another from various bootlegs, but maybe not these exact takes from these exact sessions. A few songs appear more than once, from different sessions. It's a mixed bag. The recording quality is usually surprisingly very good for 20+ year old demos, but there are a couple of live songs sprinkled in that sound like they were recorded on a walkman or ghetto blaster. There's also a couple of tracks of radio correspondent chatter and the guys in the band bickering over a hamburger or something. The final song is an instrumental that sounds ~exactly~ like Green Day circa 1990. I **** you not. If I had my copy of 39/Smooth with me right now, I could tell you which specific song it sounds like.



In any case, this is the Melvins when they were actually your average garden variety hardcore punk band, before Dale Crover joined. It's very cool to hear them before they found their niche and basically invented "grunge.""

Great CD

N. Lang | 12/30/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is my first Melvins CD, although I've heard Houdini and Stoner Witch, and Never Breathe What You Can't See by the Melvins and Jello Biafra. I really liked those CDs, but never bought them. When I was at a music store, I found this CD and thought it looked gnarly. So I bought it. I love it. BUY THIS CD"

MY FIRST MELVINS CD

Sean Slaughter | 06/21/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"THIS WAS MY FIRST MELVINS ALBUM, AND REALLY GOT ME INTO THEM. I HAD HEARD THEM BEFORE BECAUSE I'M A BIG FAN OF NIRVANA AND KURT COBAIN LOVED THEM, BUT I NEVER THOUGHT THEY WERE THAT GREAT. I BOUGHT THIS CD AT A RECORD STORE BECAUSE IT WAS THE ONLY MELVINS CD THEY HAD. I LOVED IT AND IT REALLY GOT ME INTO THEM."