LOS MELVINS
''TRES CABRONES''
NOVEMBER 5 2013
44:27
1/"Dr. Mule" /Osborne/4:19
2/"City Dump" /Osborne/3:30
3/"American Cow" /Osborne/3:42
4/"Tie My Pecker to a Tree" /Traditional/1:03
5/"Dogs and Cattle Prods" /Osborne/8:58
6/"Psycho-Delic Haze" /Osborne/4:11
7/"99 Bottles of Beer" /Traditional/1:18
8/"I Told You I Was Crazy" /Osborne/6:54
9/"Stump Farmer" /Osborne/2:22
10/"You're in the Army Now" /Traditional/1:10
11/"Walter's Lips" /The Lewd/3:12
12/"Stick em' Up Bitch" /Osborne/Pop-o-Pies/4:14
King Buzzo - Guitars, Vocals
Dale Crover - Bass, Vocals
Mike Dillard - Drums
REVIEW
By Wikipedia
Tres Cabrones is the nineteenth studio album by the American band Melvins, scheduled to be released on November 5, 2013.[1] It features their original drummer Mike Dillard, with current drummer Dale Crover playing bass.[1] It is the first official album to feature Mike Dillard, as his only previous appearance before the recordings of this album were on Mangled Demos From 1983 and a handful of compilation and bootleg releases.
Nine of the songs previously appeared on vinyl before the album was released. Psycho-Delic Haze (a different mix appears here than on the 1983 EP), Stump Farmer, Stick Em' Up Bitch and Walter's Lips all appeared on the 1983 EP, released on 10" vinyl and letterpress CD in 2012. City Dump, You're in the Army Now and 99 Bottles of Beer all appeared on the Gaylord single, released on 7" in the summer of 2013. American Cow was released on 10" and CD as part of the BASH 13 compilation with Mudhoney, Negative Approach, Die Kreuzen, Hepa-Titus and Gay Witch Abortion. Dr. Mule was previously issued on the 10 Years of Scion compilation along with a split 7" with Helmet.
Walter's Lips is a cover of The Lewd and is a re-recording of "Walter" from Mangled Demos From 1983. Stick Em' Up Bitch features original lyrics and rhythm throughout the first half of the song before going into "Fascists Eat Donuts" by The Pop-O-Pies.
BIOGRAPHY
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
The Melvins were the first post-punk band to revel in the slow, sludgy sounds of Black Sabbath. Their music is oppressively slow and heavy, only without any of the silly mystical lyrics or the indulgent guitar solos; it's just one massive, oozing pile of dark slime. The Melvins' first record was released in 1987; they've released many albums since then, but it wasn't until 1993 that they went to a major label, thanks to their protégé, Kurt Cobain. While some may find The Melvins dull and repetitious, their place in rock history is interesting, even if considered to be just a footnote.
The band formed in Aberdeen, Washington, the same town that produced Nirvana's Cobain and Krist Novoselic. For Nirvana and many other Seattle-area bands, The Melvins' sludge was inspirational; the younger bands took the Sabbath-styled heaviness of The Melvins, while adding an equally important pop song structure, which the group tended to lack. While all of their disciples became famous after Nirvana broke big in 1991 (including Mudhoney, which featured former Melvins bassist Matt Lukin), The Melvins only expanded their cult slightly. They did earn a major-label contract with Atlantic, but after releasing three records for the label, they were dropped in late 1996 and the group returned to indie status, landing with Amphetamine Reptile for 1998's Alive at the F*cker Club. The late '90s and early 2000s century saw a flurry of releases by the band: The Maggot, The Bootlicker, The Crybaby, Electroretard, The Colossus of Destiny, Hostile Ambient Takeover, Pigs of the Roman Empire, Houdini Live 2005: A Live History of Gluttony and Lust, all of which (except for the fourth one) were issued on Mike Patton's Ipecac label.
In addition to their Melvins activities, singer/guitarist Buzz Osborne joined Patton (and former Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo and Mr. Bungle bassist Trevor Dunn) for the experimental outfit Fantômas, resulting in a number of releases (1999's self-titled debut, 2001's The Director's Cut, 2002's Millennium Monsterwork by "the Fantômas Melvins Big Band" (recorded live in San Francisco on New Year's Eve 2000 but not released until two years later), 2004's Delirium Cordia, and 2005's Suspended Animation), while The Melvins' latest bassist, Kevin Rutmanis, joined Patton in another side project, Tomahawk. In 2006, Big Business bassist Jared Warren and drummer Coady Willis joined The Melvins, appearing on that year's Senile Animal album. The follow-ups, 2008's Nude with Boots, 2010's The Bride Screamed Murder, and a live album titled Sugar Daddy Live, were recorded with the same lineup and released by Ipecac. The band returned in 2012 with a stripped-down lineup, dubbed Melvins Lite, for Freak Puke, which found Crover and Osborne recording without the boys from Big Business, instead adding standup bassist Trevor Dunn to their roster to round out the band's already formidable bottom-end sound. Mixing things up even further, the band teamed up with a host of guests, including the likes of Jello Biafra and J.G. Thirlwell, for Everybody Loves Sausages, an album of covers that arrived in 2013. Another new album, Tres Cabrones, slated for November of that same year, saw them reunited with original drummer Mike Dillard -- who had previously appeared only on their early demo tapes -- while usual drummer Dale Crover took over on bass duties.
''TRES CABRONES''
NOVEMBER 5 2013
44:27
1/"Dr. Mule" /Osborne/4:19
2/"City Dump" /Osborne/3:30
3/"American Cow" /Osborne/3:42
4/"Tie My Pecker to a Tree" /Traditional/1:03
5/"Dogs and Cattle Prods" /Osborne/8:58
6/"Psycho-Delic Haze" /Osborne/4:11
7/"99 Bottles of Beer" /Traditional/1:18
8/"I Told You I Was Crazy" /Osborne/6:54
9/"Stump Farmer" /Osborne/2:22
10/"You're in the Army Now" /Traditional/1:10
11/"Walter's Lips" /The Lewd/3:12
12/"Stick em' Up Bitch" /Osborne/Pop-o-Pies/4:14
King Buzzo - Guitars, Vocals
Dale Crover - Bass, Vocals
Mike Dillard - Drums
REVIEW
By Wikipedia
Tres Cabrones is the nineteenth studio album by the American band Melvins, scheduled to be released on November 5, 2013.[1] It features their original drummer Mike Dillard, with current drummer Dale Crover playing bass.[1] It is the first official album to feature Mike Dillard, as his only previous appearance before the recordings of this album were on Mangled Demos From 1983 and a handful of compilation and bootleg releases.
Nine of the songs previously appeared on vinyl before the album was released. Psycho-Delic Haze (a different mix appears here than on the 1983 EP), Stump Farmer, Stick Em' Up Bitch and Walter's Lips all appeared on the 1983 EP, released on 10" vinyl and letterpress CD in 2012. City Dump, You're in the Army Now and 99 Bottles of Beer all appeared on the Gaylord single, released on 7" in the summer of 2013. American Cow was released on 10" and CD as part of the BASH 13 compilation with Mudhoney, Negative Approach, Die Kreuzen, Hepa-Titus and Gay Witch Abortion. Dr. Mule was previously issued on the 10 Years of Scion compilation along with a split 7" with Helmet.
Walter's Lips is a cover of The Lewd and is a re-recording of "Walter" from Mangled Demos From 1983. Stick Em' Up Bitch features original lyrics and rhythm throughout the first half of the song before going into "Fascists Eat Donuts" by The Pop-O-Pies.
BIOGRAPHY
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
The Melvins were the first post-punk band to revel in the slow, sludgy sounds of Black Sabbath. Their music is oppressively slow and heavy, only without any of the silly mystical lyrics or the indulgent guitar solos; it's just one massive, oozing pile of dark slime. The Melvins' first record was released in 1987; they've released many albums since then, but it wasn't until 1993 that they went to a major label, thanks to their protégé, Kurt Cobain. While some may find The Melvins dull and repetitious, their place in rock history is interesting, even if considered to be just a footnote.
The band formed in Aberdeen, Washington, the same town that produced Nirvana's Cobain and Krist Novoselic. For Nirvana and many other Seattle-area bands, The Melvins' sludge was inspirational; the younger bands took the Sabbath-styled heaviness of The Melvins, while adding an equally important pop song structure, which the group tended to lack. While all of their disciples became famous after Nirvana broke big in 1991 (including Mudhoney, which featured former Melvins bassist Matt Lukin), The Melvins only expanded their cult slightly. They did earn a major-label contract with Atlantic, but after releasing three records for the label, they were dropped in late 1996 and the group returned to indie status, landing with Amphetamine Reptile for 1998's Alive at the F*cker Club. The late '90s and early 2000s century saw a flurry of releases by the band: The Maggot, The Bootlicker, The Crybaby, Electroretard, The Colossus of Destiny, Hostile Ambient Takeover, Pigs of the Roman Empire, Houdini Live 2005: A Live History of Gluttony and Lust, all of which (except for the fourth one) were issued on Mike Patton's Ipecac label.
In addition to their Melvins activities, singer/guitarist Buzz Osborne joined Patton (and former Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo and Mr. Bungle bassist Trevor Dunn) for the experimental outfit Fantômas, resulting in a number of releases (1999's self-titled debut, 2001's The Director's Cut, 2002's Millennium Monsterwork by "the Fantômas Melvins Big Band" (recorded live in San Francisco on New Year's Eve 2000 but not released until two years later), 2004's Delirium Cordia, and 2005's Suspended Animation), while The Melvins' latest bassist, Kevin Rutmanis, joined Patton in another side project, Tomahawk. In 2006, Big Business bassist Jared Warren and drummer Coady Willis joined The Melvins, appearing on that year's Senile Animal album. The follow-ups, 2008's Nude with Boots, 2010's The Bride Screamed Murder, and a live album titled Sugar Daddy Live, were recorded with the same lineup and released by Ipecac. The band returned in 2012 with a stripped-down lineup, dubbed Melvins Lite, for Freak Puke, which found Crover and Osborne recording without the boys from Big Business, instead adding standup bassist Trevor Dunn to their roster to round out the band's already formidable bottom-end sound. Mixing things up even further, the band teamed up with a host of guests, including the likes of Jello Biafra and J.G. Thirlwell, for Everybody Loves Sausages, an album of covers that arrived in 2013. Another new album, Tres Cabrones, slated for November of that same year, saw them reunited with original drummer Mike Dillard -- who had previously appeared only on their early demo tapes -- while usual drummer Dale Crover took over on bass duties.