The Melvins Mangled Demos From 1983 2 X 10” Vinyl Sleep High On Fire

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The Melvins Mangled Demos From 1983 2 X 10” Vinyl Sleep High On Fire

The Melvins* – Mangled Demos From 1983

Label:

Alternative Tentacles – VIRUS 337

Format:

2 x Vinyl, 10", 33 ⅓ RPM, Limited Edition

Country:

US

Released:

2005

Genre:

Rock

Style:

Alternative Rock, Punk

TRACKLIST

A1 ELKS Lodge Christmas Broadcast

A2 If You Get Bored - Live Radio

A3 Forgotten Principles

A4 Snake Appeal

A5 Untitled (Flower Symbol)

B1 If You Get Bored

B2 Set Me Straight

B3 Untitled (Star Symbol)

B4 I'm Dry

B5 Forgotten Principles

C1 I Don't Know

C2 Matt-Alec

C3 The Real You

C4 Run Around

C5 Keep Away From Me

C6 Untitled (3 Leaf Clover Symbol)

D1 Biblious Confabulation During Rehearsal

D2 Untitled (Iron Cross Symbol)

D3 Untitled (Pencil Symbol)

D4 Matt-Alec

D5 "Walter"

D6 Untitled (Scissors Symbol)

D7 Untitled (Airplane Symbol)

Barcode (Printed): 7 21616 03371 7

Barcode (Scanned): 721616033717

This recording is the only document of the original line up of the Melvins. Recorded around 1983.

Limited to 1200 copies. Issued in a gatefold sleeve. Also released on CD by Ipecac (IPC-063).

©&℗ 2005 Alternative Tentacles Records

Pressing plant uncredited, identified by the matrix numbers.

The Melvins weren't the first band to acknowledge the heavy metal influences that most left-of-center bands had been trying to shake off since punk rock broke in 1977 (that honor would go to Black Flag on their polarizing 1984 album My War). But no other band to emerge from the punk/alternative underground would mine Black Sabbath's slow, monolithic roar with greater effect than the Melvins, and they would prove to be wildly influential despite barely breaking out of cult status. The drop-D tunings and brontosaurus stomp of grunge icons such as Tad, Mudhoney, and Soundgarden would be unthinkable without the trails the Melvins blazed, and Kurt Cobain often sang their praises, helping them land their first major-label recording deal in 1993. They became a bridge between the edges of the punk and metal communities, who would find greater common ground from the '90s onward. (Their debut EP, 1986's 6 Songs, found them wavering between speedier punk-oriented numbers and full-on heaviness, but by 1991's Bullhead, the Melvins' trademark gargantuan sound was firmly in place.) While the Melvins proved as recognizable as any band of their day, they were also more creatively flexible than nearly all their peers, willing to experiment with different styles (the massive suite on 1992's Melvins [aka Lysol], the ambitious studio experimentation of 1996's Stag, the noisy soundscapes in 2017's A Walk with Love and Death), and a variety of musical configurations (multiple guest vocalists on 2000's The Crybaby, using two drummers on 2006's A Senile Animal, a rotating team of bassists on 2016's Basses Loaded, and adding pop and groove accents on 2022's Bad Mood Rising), all of which helped them remain productive and prolific more than three decades after they launched.

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