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  7567827042CD  £6.00

Label

Atlantic

Melvins

Stoner Witch

'stonerwitch' isn't a bad place to start for the melvins get the song 'cow' from bullhead and you can hear about 80 of the melvins thing in one song get 'gluey porch treatments' their first album because it is the birth of all grunge and one of the melvins' greatest my personal favorite is 'honky' an amazing difficult and fascinating thing but on to the album 'stonerwitch' starts with typical melvins a big thumpy peal of drums from dale easily one of the most underrated indie drummers and then a huge blast of buzz's fuzzed out guitar a spazzy guitar line works through all the noise and then buzz begins growlhowling his way through impossibletodecipher lyrics there's a jagged feedback guitar 'solo' some big crunchy chords and it's over 72 seconds the next song 'queen' justifies buying the disc a very heavy downtempo thing with buzz howling at his absolute best on vocals and guitar this is one of those songs that gives proof to nirvana's claim that they were heavily influenced by the melvins notwithstanding that dale played drums on some of nirvana's first album 'sweet willy rollbar' is an 88 second uptempo song that shows some of the thrash sensibility that is everpresent throughout the melvins as well as their commonly offmeter time signatures 'revolve' was probably meant as the single for this atlantic release the melvins managed to be major label for a bit befroe being dropped catchyheavy guitarbass midrange vocal growls and natty drumwork very satisfying all the way around