BastardofYoung

Yeah, I can not agree with the above. Melvins had some amazing stuff.

"Lysol" and "Houdini" are among my favorite albums of all-time.

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‎"I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people." - Jack Handey.

hip hop bunny hop

The melvins have the same problem as the entire "alt metal" (which, really, is just another name for nu-metal but hey) sound. It's boring at its highpoint whereas it's midpoint is filled with terrible songs and groups who've conflated novelty with quality. The best songs from The Melvins sound like b-sides from Load.

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BastardofYoung

That last line makes baby Jesus cry.

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‎"I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people." - Jack Handey.

The Batlord

Been really listening to a lot of this band over the past few days, and they're becoming a new fav. I don't love everything I hear, like Flood, but even when I don't they're too interesting for me to turn them off. And when they stoner it up (Heavy Rocks and Pink like a mother****er), with that heavy dose of Boris, ADD experimentalism, they're ****ing heaven. A journal post I made about Pink pretty much sums up my feelings on that side of their sound.

Even their dronier stuff intrigues me though. I don't think I'd be able to just sit and listen to to Flood, but I've used it to fall asleep to the last two nights, and when I have nothing to do but let my brain run away with me my mind just can't ignore what I'm hearing. The first fifteen minutes should bore the **** out of me, but they're too strange and unique for it to matter how much I'm actually enjoying what I'm listening to. I'm just waiting for what happens next.

And Amplifier Worship is currently growing on me as well. The breaks from standard drone make those songs much more palatable, and everything inbetween is just cool. I was dubious about Altar as well, but the first track was possibly the coolest drone metal song I've ever heard, and then to switch it into laidback indie folk (I guess) was crazy as **** in a good way.

Gotta respect the balls on this band as well. What metal/avant garde rock band in their right mind would release New Album? It'd been cool if they'd released it a bit earlier in their career, when they were still at the very peak of their powers, but it's a pop album I'd love to sneakily slip into rotation if I ever get the chance when I'm around people bumping top forty pop songs.

I just love the fact that, besides a tendency towards stoner, they really don't have a sound. So many bands I love, even the most creative, I could survive on a desert island with one or two of their albums and be good, just cause they sound enough alike that I really wouldn't be missing out too much. If I wanted to take some Boris albums to the island, I just wouldn't know where to start. I'd take Pink over Flood certainly, but the thought of only having one aspect of their sound to sustain me would feel so wrong.

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Frownland

It's all about Black: Implication Flooding

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The Batlord

Boris are one of the only groups out there where after having listened to probably around ten of their albums, I still have no idea if I have a handle on their sound. They're like the anti-Slayer. It's disheartening.

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Raime

Listening to this album a lot. When I saw them this year they played a bunch of stuff off their recent Heavy Rocks album, and Atsuo wasn't on the drum kit at all. Very glam, but I feel like that's a typical Boris show, you don't ever know what you're going to get.

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Choice Club Music Journal

Awful trash that I listen to

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LEGALISE DRUGS AND MURDER

Tbf basically all sludge bands worship Melvins