MELVINS Ozma / Bullhead 2 x LP

MELVINS Ozma / Bullhead 2 x LP

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*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
   The other new Melvins vinyl reissue that just came out, Ozma / Bullhead pairs up two of the band's earliest albums and remasters them for vinyl, the first time they've appeared on the format in well over a decade. As with the Eggnog / Lice-all 2xLP we also picked up, this stuff is essential sludge from one of the most influential bands to come out of the American underground of the 1980s. Their reach has been immense, and so much of the ear-crushing music we listen to now has been directly informed by the slo-mo pummel of these early works. More than 20 years later, this is still some of the heaviest shit you'll ever hear.
    1989's Ozma is the second album from the Melvins, following up the landmark sludgepit revelations of Gluey Porch Treatments, and featured the King Buzzo / Dale Crover / Lori "Lorax" Black (daughter of Shirley Temple) lineup now relocated to San Francisco from Seattle. Totally classic angular/abstract sludge-rock, like Flipper, KISS, and My War-era Black Flag dragged through molasses, with spastic, complex riffs and crushing stop/start drum pummel that's so fucking flattening that the album generates immediate whiplash every time you toss it in. A bunch of Buzzo's lyrics are printed in the booklet, and it's drunken, demented lyricism at it's best. A bunch of covers on here, too: the Melvin's run through stomping versions of KISS' "Love Theme", the song "Creepy Smell" works in the intro to the song "Living In Sin" from Gene Simmons' solo album, "Candy-O" is a Cars tune that becomes absolutely crushing here, and "Leech" is a Green River cover. And there's the flirtations with feedback drones and guitar noise that the Melvins would explore in more depth with later albums.
    Another classic old-school dose of Melvins' sludge/punk heaviness, 1991's Bullhead came out on the Boner label and has become one of the harder Melvins titles to get your hands on. Of course, we're here to keep this shit documented, so we've finally got Bullhead in stock - and if you are even a casual fan of the Melvins, then this is an essential addition to the library: packaged in a bright blue case with bizarre covert art featuring a fruit basket, this is where the songs became longer, the riffs even heavier yet catchier....fuck, the album's crawling dronecrush of an opening track is called "Boris" and I'll give you three guesses what band saw this disc as an essential influence. All of the jams here are crushing - the mathy pummel and infectious hook of "Anaconda", "Ligature"'s doomed slow motion stomp, the rocking pre-grunge of "It's Shoved", the stuttering force of "Zodiac"....ugh, this album is just fucking killer from beginning to end. This is from when Lorax was on bass, and the lineup is thunderous. In my opinion this ranks as one of Melvins' best albums, completely crucial and most highly recommended.
   Includes a digital download with the bonus track “Candy-O”.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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