Melvins - Nude With Boots Pages in Thread: 2     Current Page: 1 FIRST   << PREVIOUS     NEXT >>   LAST dinger007 ( SuperAdmin ) 14,897 posts since 10/24/2000 Posted on 7/19/2008 at 7:45:30 AM Melvins - Nude With Boots Reviewed by Andy "Dinger" Beresky (StonerRock.com) Ipecac Records Available Now Okay, first things first. The opening track of Nude With Boots does bear a certain resemblance to another opening track on an album that's a rock and roll staple, and also to an anthemic romp saluting the joys of the drink from a certain seminal band with a phenomenal drummer. Despite their punk roots, the Mevlins have always endlessly confessed an unhealthy obsession with all things classic rock (and all things KISS), so a song that sounds like Led Zep's "Out On The Tiles" and "Good Times Bad Times" got into a bar fight is hardly out of character for them. That opener, "The Kicking Machine," sets the stage nicely for the album, with its double drum propelled onslaught. I mean, if you've got TWO phenomenal drummers, why not let them take center stage? Similarly, if you've got two great singers, why not also utilize both of them to their fullest? This melding with the minds of Big Business is really coming into fruition. Rather than sounding like a mere collaboration, they sound like a unit that has honed their once jagged edges to into gleaming points. The songs have solid riffs with just enough angularity to keep you guessing, and plenty of catchy hooks to keep you coming back for more. You want heavy? Check out the doom-laden cover of the theme from The Shining, proving once again that the Melvins are capable of some of the most inspired covers of any band out there slugging away today. This is a Melvins record though, so the tomfuckery of the closing track, "It Tastes Better Than The Truth," really should come as no surprise. Since it's proceeded by ten veritable rockers, a small instance of the Melvins being the Melvins is entirely forgivable. So how does this one stand against 2006's A Senile Animal? Pretty damned well actually. Some of that album's dark, raw intensity is missing, but overall Nude With Boots is a bit more fluid and consistent, plus the drums take on an even larger roll. If I even need to go into who this album should appeal to, you're on the wrong fucking site, bucko. Edited 0 Times If you`re hungry, why not try a piece of your friend?   Mcbakkos ( Regular Member ) 1,374 posts since 1/22/2003 Posted on 4/13/2008 at 4:55:09 PM Wow. Buy many copies of this and let no child be left behind. Like (A) Senile Animal plus some Houdini with a kind of seventies robustness. Like a spider in your beer because you put it there. Like barbiturate hitchhiking on the jalepeno demon train on firework night. Like dog eat toad eat frog eat fly eat shit. Like mental cockroaches and like the mental pestcontrol man all in one. Like a sideburned pineapple in a leather jacket setting hotfoots at a midnight mass. Out July 8, mark it. Edited 0 Times Lifeless law or lawless life?   altarsofradness ( Regular Member ) 28 posts since 3/29/2008 Posted on 4/13/2008 at 5:40:26 PM ridiculously excited to hear this. avoiding temptation and not downloading is going to be a long, hard road. honestly, the Big Biz/Melvins marriage really set the bar high with Senile Animal but i'll be happy if it's half the record that thing is. Edited 0 Times   MasterSheik ( Regular Member ) 196 posts since 2/11/2008 Posted on 4/13/2008 at 7:27:51 PM It's really good. I loved (a) Senile Animal, but I think this is a better record. I find myself playing "Billy Fish" and "The Smiling Cobra" over and over. Edited 0 Times   $killit ( Community Supporter ) 2,343 posts since 11/28/2006 Posted on 4/14/2008 at 1:16:47 AM agreed, its like ASA chopped up and sewed together with previous crazier records. Like ASA on steroids, MELVINS STEROIDS! ASA is still in my car, I've seen the Melvins 4 times since it came out, I will be buying this the day it comes out. ON MELVINS STEROIDS! Edited 0 Times full time wage slave and part time internet coward   Stone Prophet ( Regular Member ) 103 posts since 1/2/2005 Posted on 4/14/2008 at 4:51:17 AM This is really good, better than ASA in my opinion. Edited 0 Times   altarsofradness ( Regular Member ) 28 posts since 3/29/2008 Posted on 4/14/2008 at 8:34:24 AM this is all good news. hopefully the Big Biz dudes stick around a little longer than the average Melvins bass player. everyone involved seems on their A game. Edited 0 Times   MF ( Community Supporter ) 20,373 posts since 7/7/2003 Posted on 4/14/2008 at 6:54:20 PM I was going nuts trying to figure out where I'd heard the main riff in the song "Dies Iraea" before. Finally it hit me - The Shining! I put on my copy of The Shining soundtrack (Hell yeah I own it - on vinyl no less). Yep, The Melvins do a total doom cover of the main theme in The Shining by Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkins. It's a shame the Melvins track is only 4:33, but then the original is even shorter. Still, it's the kind of thing that could have been fantastic to really stretch out on. It was a stroke of genius picking that title theme to cover though, and they recreated all the creepy atmospherics too. Edited 0 Times   altarsofradness ( Regular Member ) 28 posts since 3/29/2008 Posted on 4/14/2008 at 7:07:17 PM wow, i would love to own the Shining soundtrack LP. where did you find that? Edited 0 Times   MF ( Community Supporter ) 20,373 posts since 7/7/2003 Posted on 4/14/2008 at 8:06:15 PM In a box at a swap meet. It's not the rarest thing on earth but a nice vinyl copy will probably set you back about $30.00. Edited 0 Times   Onslow ( Regular Member ) 5,174 posts since 5/13/2007 Posted on 4/14/2008 at 8:09:15 PM I didn't like ASA and I don't like Big Business and I think that this new record will be a big dollop of cow feces. Buy it! Edited 0 Times Look, from now on when you take a chip, just take one dip and end it.   MH8 ( Community Supporter ) 4,260 posts since 11/2/2005 Posted on 4/14/2008 at 8:28:20 PM " Like a sideburned pineapple in a leather jacket setting hotfoots at a midnight mass. " " Fuck, i'm in. Now if they'd only cpver the Scorps, "animal magnetism". MF! cool call will have to do the old compare/ contrast. Edited 0 Times "some thrash to remember, some thrash to forget".- Kant   Stickman ( Community Supporter ) 17,362 posts since 9/30/2006 Posted on 4/14/2008 at 10:38:22 PM It lacks the double percussive pouding that I loved so much on ASA and it's a less accessible album to the average rock fan, but I am seriously loving the leak (it's a must buy anyways). It's very much a return to the core quirkyness of the Melvins, more of a Stoner Witch heavy rock with some weirdness going on feel. Perhaps if I had drunk less tequila I could be more precise in my des c r i p tion, but all I can say is another stellar Melvins original. I say fuck it, take the leak, buy the album, buy the B-sides, see 'em live, get the merch - because is there any band that deserves undying SR.com support more than the Melvins? Edited 0 Times The real in us is silent; the acquired is talkative. - Gibran   MF ( Community Supporter ) 20,373 posts since 7/7/2003 Posted on 4/14/2008 at 11:00:02 PM I agree - you can't hear the double drumming as much. The album doesn't seem to cohere very well as an album. Some fairly big stylistic leaps from one song to the next. I miss the Melvins that made all killer, no filler albums like Bullhead that worked well the whole way through. This definitely has some filler and I'm hard-pressed to say, after about 5 listens, that any one song is a masterpiece. Still, it's solid. If it comes out on vinyl, I'll buy it. And I'll always see 'em live. That's there the double drumming thing really is amazing. Edited 0 Times   suffer2ascend ( Community Supporter ) 10,895 posts since 7/23/2006 Posted on 4/14/2008 at 11:06:35 PM the Melvins are allowed to have "filler", and they are allowed to make an album comprised of songs that are very un-cohesive. they're the fucking Melvins for christ sakes. Edited 0 Times I can feel the soil falling over my head   MF ( Community Supporter ) 20,373 posts since 7/7/2003 Posted on 4/14/2008 at 11:13:57 PM Sorry, no one is above criticism in my book. I have gobs of respect for the Melvins and am glad when they try new things but I mostly think their best records are behind them. They've made a lot of records - it's not surprising that they are gonna repeat themselves or do things that are good, but not so groundbreaking within their body of music. That said, the last time I saw them live in 2007 was perhaps the best I've seen them. Probably better than with Joe Preston circa 1990 even. While it was uneven, the album with Lustmord had some of the most satisfying experiments on it that I think they've done in years. Sonically, that was a much better recorded album than this one too - though that's not surprising with Lustmord involved. Few people know sound like that. Edited 1 Times   EGO the LP ( Community Supporter ) 7,653 posts since 7/8/2000 Posted on 4/15/2008 at 2:21:18 AM I surprised about the double drumming comments. I was thinkin' it's all over this record. The last track is driven by it. I won't comment on the production/recording yet. What I have sounds like badly encoded mp3s, which is what I expect from a leak. I don't feel like this lacks for cohesiveness at all. It's a bit too early for me to go on record about how I feel about the songs, but at this point I think the material is quite strong. The last MELVINS record to grab me this fast was The Maggot. I might agree that their best stuff is behind them, but that's a tough standard. They're still the best band in world. Edited 0 Times you gotta live until you`re dead. you gotta rock `til you see red   Stickman ( Community Supporter ) 17,362 posts since 9/30/2006 Posted on 4/15/2008 at 2:59:40 AM C'mon Ego, you can't seriously be saying that the drums on It Tastes Better Than the Truth drives the song in the same way they do on The Talking Horse or You've Never Been Right on ASA? I don't see any comparison. Edited 0 Times The real in us is silent; the acquired is talkative. - Gibran   rapingjesus ( Regular Member ) 5,230 posts since 1/11/2005 Posted on 4/15/2008 at 9:20:54 AM nude with boots is like alice cooper band w/the melvins. i like it. Edited 2 Times ^something special   rayinreverse ( Regular Member ) 998 posts since 3/15/2007 Posted on 4/15/2008 at 1:47:45 PM just got some tracks off this! its great! billy fish is so fucking great. Edited 0 Times the answer to the world`s problems is cannibalism. and drug use.   Pages in Thread: 2     Current Page: 1   FIRST   << PREVIOUS     NEXT >>   LAST     ( Post a Reply to This Thread ) ( Back to Album Reviews )