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  SPCD1147CD  £10.00

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  SP1147Long Player  £18.00

Label

Sub Pop

Mike & The Melvins

Three Men and a Baby

These are the facts we can be sure of in 1998, around the time his band godheadSilo went on hiatus, bassist/vocalist Mike Kunka busied himself by tagging along on a tour with his friends the Melvins. Somewhere along the way, Mike and the Melvins # King Buzzo (guitar/bass/vocals), Dale Crover (drums/vocals), and Kevin Rutmanis (bass/vocals), at the time # decided to make a record together, and gave the project the imaginative moniker Mike and the Melvins. Sub Pop, ever on the hunt for music#s Next Big Thing, enthusiastically agreed to fund and release the super-group#s debut, and recording commenced sometime in 1999. Whatever the reasons, the incomplete recording languished on a shelf from 1999 until 2015, when, much to everyone#s surprise, the involved parties reconvened, finished the damn thing, and delivered it post-haste to Sub Pop International Headquarters, where it was promptly scheduled for the coveted April 1st, 2016 release date. What a story, right? So, about the record It#s real good! Mike#s signature bass crunch and vocals are all over it, and the Melvins are in fine form. It has everything from hefty noise-rock churn to a Public Image Ltd. song to cough-syrup blues to deconstructed black metal. Neither Melvins nor godheadSilo fans will be disappointed, nor will detractors of either to paraphrase Mike, if you don#t like it, it probably wasn#t meant for you. Most of Three Men and a Baby was recorded in 1999 at Louder Studios by Tim Green (The Fucking Champs), and the rest was recorded and mixed in 2015 at Sound of Sirens by Toshi Kasai.

Tracklist

• 1. Chicken 'n' Dump
  2. Limited Teeth
  3. Bummer Conversation
  4. Annalisa
  5. A Dead Pile of Worthless Junk
  6. Read the Label (It's Chili)
  7. Dead Canaries
  8. Pound the Giants
  9. A Friend in Need Is a Friend You Don't Need
  10. Lifestyle Hammer
  11. Gravel
  12. Art School Fight Song