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| Melvins | 
 enlarge | Artist: Melvins
Label: Boner Records
Category: Music
List Price: $14.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (20 reviews)
Sales Rank: 25071
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 35
UPC: 038161003523
EAN: 0038161003523
ASIN: B000001BE1
Release Date: April 30, 1993
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| Tracks:
| • | Hung Bunny | | • | Roman Dog Bird | | • | Sacrifice | | • | Second Coming | | • | The Ballad of Dwight Fry | | • | With Teeth |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 15 more reviews...
 Aural Bliss January 6, 2009
I have listened to many a Melvins CD but this one is one of the best sounding I have found so far (Houdini comes close). I'm not talking about the song writing per se so much as the actual dynamics on the CD. From start to finish your ears will be so pleased with the depth displayed on this CD. It's a shame that newer Melvins releases (and many other bands for that matter) have succumbed to over compression and a lack of fidelity and depth. These guys make killer albums and have amazing ideas but it's hard for those ideas to be realized on some of the newer stuff, by no fault in their songwriting ability I should add, but by the smashing of the sounds all together.
As for the songwriting it is pretty stellar. The CD itself is a little over 30 minutes long and every time I listen to it I just wish there was so much more. Each song is great and the instruments on this album have so much impact. Music producers, if you're reading, pay attention. This is how you make an album with impact, with sound you feel pulsing through you. Not your wimpy loud sound of today that sounds so weak when turned up. This is an album you can listen to loud!
 Flipper + Alice Cooper June 24, 2008
2 huge parts of the Melvins sound are paid tribute on this record. Most of you know this was originally put out under the title "Lysol." It's a great record, all the songs are banded together as 1 long track.
Don't blame the Melvins for all the inredibly mediocre ultra slow stoner doom crap clogging up young brains these days. Blame Killdozer! They did it first and with a better sense of humor.
If you like the punk leanings of the Melvins check out Mighty High...In Drug City.
Among the greatest..... OF ALL TIME!!! February 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Originally titled Lysol, this might be their finest (half) hour. I hold this up there with Exile On Main Street, Volume IV, and A Love Supreme as one of the greatest albums of all time.
It makes me smile, EVERY time.
gotta love it August 2, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i first heard the melvins in the early 90's and was instantly attracted to the slow, creepy sound and i thought buzzo's voice was all time. he could outscream anyone! this particular album i used to own on tape when it was called lysol and i wore it out. then of course, tapes became obsolete and i just haven't gotten around to buying it again on some other format. however, i do own about 7 or 8 melvins discs and i must disagree with anyone who thinks they went downhill after this album. the crybaby, bootlicker, and the maggot series were a lot better than the credit they've been given. houdini, also really good. stoner witch...fantastic, and bluesy! and like any true melvins fan knows...it's always a gamble buying a melvins cd. you might end up with an hour of noise with a song hidden somewhere in there or you might get something like (a) senile animal, which is some of the heaviest and grooviest melvins ever produced. i mean...two drummers! dale crover always had that off beat heavy sound, and this new guy keeps right up with him. then again, it is cody from the murder city devils. so right there you gotta think...hmm...this could be really good! which it is. but it's always hard for bands to top their early material.
Amazing May 1, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you are going to buy one melvins album make it this one. It is truly their best. It starts off with about ten minutes of very earth inspired droneing feedback. I realize that this may initially sound like kind of a turn off but its really not at all, its almost soothing. Then it bursts into what is probably the most epic of all melvins tracks. ever. Next is a cover of the flipper track sacrifice, which sound incredible sung by buzz.The only let down from this album is the fairly mediocre With Teeth. This is the only melvins song that I would really concider grunge. But fortunatly it ends before it gets annoying.
p.s. Beware of any melvins album after this if you dont like generic hard rock
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