Houdini

The Melvins have released a crap load of albums. This is one of the best places to start. Pure heavy dirge with a few experiments thrown in. I'm a big fan of all their work and they're a very addictive band but definetly required taste. This album might be famouse because it was their major label debut thanks to and produced by fan boy, Kurt Cobain but Nirvana sounds like New Kids On The Block compared to the Melvins.Here's a song by song description:1. Hooch - heavy as f-. A strange, driving rhythm with nonesensical lyrics. Like your brain on lots and lots hooch. Check out the video on youtube with Beavis and Butthead watching it.2. Night Goat - imagine if Flipper got all junked out and tried to play Filth Pig by Ministry. Only Buzz's voice sounds nothing like Ministry or Flipper's vocalists. He sounds relly deep and scruffy like Alice Cooper on steroids.3. Lizzy - a simple, dark country riff randomy bursting into a punky chorus. Redundant and hypnotic. The closest thing to ballad on Houdini.4. Going Blind - a remake of the Kiss ballad except played as a slow, heavy, punk rock song. Beautiful.5. Honey Bucket - og thrash metal. Sounds a lot like Metallica meets Black Flag. Mostly because of the vocals. Rules.6. Hag Me - sludge metal. The Melvins practically invented sludge and drone metal with their album, Lysol (that's pre-Earth, pre-Sunn 0)), ect). Here's 7 minutes of pure sludge.7. Set Me Straight - the weird thing is this one later turned up in demo form from the mid-80s. Its their most 70s rock sounding, catchy song on the album with a strong hint of the 90s grunge they inspired.8. Sky Pup - like Captain Beefheart if he was more influenced by lounge jazz then blues and if he mumbled more than he yelled. Don't know how else to describe this one.9. Joan Of Arc - more sludge rock. Alot like something that would be on Ozma or Bullhead. Really heavy and catchy in a strange way.10. Copache - an upbeat rocker featuring a surf rock solo.11. Teet - another heavy, driving song like only the Melvins do. Mostly bass driven with a punky chorus.12. Pearl Bomb - weird song. An extremely repetitive drumbeat (most likely a metronome set on fast) with a super catchy bass line and some beat sounding poem that barely makes sense.13. Spread Eagle Beagle - a 10 minute plus drum solo. Not ove indulgent. Just experimental.On a scale of 1 to 10 gets an 8 or 9. My favorite Melvins albums are their more experimental ones like Honky and Stag. That's not to say this isn't experimental compared to music in general. There's really no flaws. The album rules. Good for fans of metal, punk, grunge, noise, and avant-guarde. And a great place to start if you're just getting into the band. Buy it. Now.

Comes with outer sleeve, poly lined inner sleeve, perfect sound. Best quality of any record I have.

Awesome to find and it was even a import of the cd

Worth every penny. Loud, no background noise whatsoever, and is a beautiful looking record

If you like some sludge with your grunge, then this is the album for you. This is a classic album of the early 90s and one the most commercially accessible album by the legendary band the Melvins. It has a very raw feel to it and is extremely heavy. This album contains many classic Melvins tunes including the great song "Honey Bucket". My only complaint is that, like many albums in the sludge genre, most of the songs kind of blend together and very few are memorable. Get this album if your getting some early 90s nostalgia or want something slow and heavy background music to jam out to.

As a music listener, I rarely dabble into anything resembling heavy metal/alternative metal/whatever or that sort of thing, but after first hearing the Melvins, as most of you would understand, it seemed only right to buy one of their albums. I ordered this one off of Amazon, without listening to the samples, because of all the great stuff that was written about it.I gave it a few listens at first, and didn't find myself especially intruiged, though I knew I Would like it if I only tried to get into it. Later on I took it on a trip with me, and having a limited number of CDs with me, and having listened to and grown tired of most of them, I moved onto this one and thus learned very much how to appreciate it.The small attempts at fitting in with the grudge genre are apparent in this album, and they do it with considerable succes. That being said the majority of their album is the original wacky and mind bending rock and roll. Most every song makes the bowels of your lungs massaged with pure noise.My favorite songs off the album are Night Goat and Hag Me. Both of which are extremely heavy songs.Anyone looking for a heavy album with a hell of a lot of diversity and give is gonna wanna get this one.

I enjoyed this one every bit as much as Bullhead. Great heavy, sludgy, irreverent rock that's also kinda funny if you get King Buzzo's brand of humor. The only song on here I can do without is the last one- "Spread Eagle Beagle." It consists of about 10 minutes of occasional drumbeats (and even that may be a programmed drum machine) and not much else. But hey, these guys like to keep their fans guessing, so it kinda fits. The inner cover artwork consists of several different 2-headed yet happy-looking animals. Although the Melvins sound nothing like Primus, they are alike in one way- they both have a very odd take on life and find some of the weirdest ways of expressing it, which is really cool in itself.

Kurt produced three of these songs and you can tell. There are a couple of songs that feel like they are on the wrong album but they are excellent so I'm not even mad. 9.5/10. Also I love the design on the jacket.