Mangled Demos from 1983

Mangled Demos from 1983

Track Listings

1. Elks Lodge Christmas Broadcast

2. If You Get Bored [Radio Version][Live]

3. Forgotten Principles

4. Snake Appeal

5. If You Get Bored

6. Set Me Straight

7. I'm Dry

8. Forgotten Principles

9. I Don't Know

10. Matt-Alec

11. Real You

12. Run Around

13. Keep Away from Me

14. Bibulous Confabulation [During Rehearsal]

15. Matt-Alec

16. Walter

Tracks:

Elks Lodge Christmas Broadcast
If You Get Bored-Live Radio
Forgotten Principles
Snake Appeal
Symbol (Flower)
If You Get Bored
Set Me Straight
Symbol (Star)
I'm Dry
Forgotten Principles
I Don't Know
Matt-Alec
The Real You
Run Around
Keep Away From Me
Symbol (3 Leaf Clover)
Bibulous Confabulation During Rehearsal
Symbol (Iron Cross)
Symbol (Pencil)
Matt-Alec
"Walter"
Symbol (Scissors)
Symbol (Airplane)

Customer Reviews:

Do you want to hear the most sophistocated, well laid music ever?.......2006-12-04

Well, you probably won't get that with this album. But, what you will get is the Melvins truly rawest material to date. Entailed are 23 tracks of fast, imperfect, sometimes tribal, yet always enjoyable punk rock.
It starts off with a broadcast from what sounds like a local family broadcast, hosted by two old, out of touch men. They supply us with their witty banter, they also interview the Melvins. It's great when the Melvins kick in with "If you Get Bored" a minute and a half of thrashin' punk. It was beautiful.
All of the tracks are relatively short. But that's what I'm lead to believe classic punk was about: short songs that got to the point, with mediocre production quality. I say that not as a cut, but as a kudos, because all of that over produced, tight studio sound rock ballads really started to p*ss me off. This album is very refreshing.
It's fast, kick a**, to the point, and then some. I'm very glad I purchased it.

MY FIRST MELVINS CD.......2006-06-21

THIS WAS MY FIRST MELVINS ALBUM, AND REALLY GOT ME INTO THEM. I HAD HEARD THEM BEFORE BECAUSE I'M A BIG FAN OF NIRVANA AND KURT COBAIN LOVED THEM, BUT I NEVER THOUGHT THEY WERE THAT GREAT. I BOUGHT THIS CD AT A RECORD STORE BECAUSE IT WAS THE ONLY MELVINS CD THEY HAD. I LOVED IT AND IT REALLY GOT ME INTO THEM.

Great CD.......2005-12-30

This is my first Melvins CD, although I've heard Houdini and Stoner Witch, and Never Breathe What You Can't See by the Melvins and Jello Biafra. I really liked those CDs, but never bought them. When I was at a music store, I found this CD and thought it looked gnarly. So I bought it. I love it. BUY THIS CD

Remember punk? It's back! In pog form. .......2005-06-08

Up until now, the oldest stuff I've heard from the Melvins was their three or four tracks on the Deep Six compilation from 1985. Much of the content here is material uber fans have probably heard before in one form or another from various bootlegs, but maybe not these exact takes from these exact sessions. A few songs appear more than once, from different sessions. It's a mixed bag. The recording quality is usually surprisingly very good for 20+ year old demos, but there are a couple of live songs sprinkled in that sound like they were recorded on a walkman or ghetto blaster. There's also a couple of tracks of radio correspondent chatter and the guys in the band bickering over a hamburger or something. The final song is an instrumental that sounds ~exactly~ like Green Day circa 1990. I **** you not. If I had my copy of 39/Smooth with me right now, I could tell you which specific song it sounds like.

In any case, this is the Melvins when they were actually your average garden variety hardcore punk band, before Dale Crover joined. It's very cool to hear them before they found their niche and basically invented "grunge."

Good but not for everybody.......2005-06-06

i just got this cd 3 days after my b-day on june 3rd. When i first popped it into my cd player i thought the first 2 tracks were real cool b/c u get 2 hear the melvins warm up, and they give short little interviews which i thought were real cool. But now 2 the negatives. When i first listned 2 track 3 and beyound i new it would b raw and unfinished sounding, but boy was i suprised. it was way more raw than i was expecting, and this isnt always a bad thing, but sometimes the vocals are inaudible, and the drums kinda get droned out. Its really cool 2 hear what the melvins first sounded like, but to a new fan or someone intrested in checking the melvins out i say u get ozma or gluey porch. i think the melvins should actually put some new realeases out instead of doing this ipeacac garage demos, like the recently did with gluey porch. so all in all this cd is good but very raw and you can smell this piss and cobwebs of garage rock in this one!:-P

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