MELVINS > BEATLES
Friday, September 11th, 2009 at 11:00am by Gary Suarez
Down, Melvins, and Weedeater are playing a show in New York City tonight. Holy crap in my pants, I cannot recall the last time I was this excited about a metal show. Three of my favorite stoner metal artists on one bill! The tour continues throughout September, wrapping up in Louisville, KY on the 28th. Perhaps the most surprising thing about this incredible tour is that none of these bands have new albums out. So basically, this one is for the fans. And the money. WIN-WIN!
In related news, those darned Melvins will be releasing a remix album called Chicken Switch via Mike Patton’s Ipecac imprint the day after the Down tour ends. Of course, ever the contrarians, the band has opted to provide entire albums as source material, as opposed to single songs. Participants include a whole mess of freaks, including Merzbow, Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo, and David Scott Stone, the latter of these boasting an impressive resume recording and playing with Big Business, Fantomas, and The Locust (as well as the Melvins). Drummer Dale Crover is also a member of the doom colossus known as Shrinebuilder, which finally revealed its FUCKING AMAZING first song to the public and is playing a handful of live gigs.
-GS
[Gary Suarez is erecting a pillamyd. He usually manages the consistently off-topic No Yoko No. Say, why don't you follow him on Twitter?]
Dude, greater than The Beatles? No, you can’t have it.
However, I DO envy you your entertainment for the evening. THAT you CAN have.
Sorry… no one was or is greater than the Beatles. Nice try, though.
Anything > Beatles
fuck yourself
love yourself.
relieve yourself
Saw this tour in Portland last month. Great show. A band from Portland called Danava is also opening and they are very good if you like stoner rock/early black sabbath. Pepper and Phil came out and played a song with them.
Danava kicks ass
No Danava on the NY date. We get Evil Army.
I hate The Beatles, Metallica, and every other band/musician that pioneered a particular sound. Can I be cool now?
Only if you type your posts IN ALL CAPS.
Caps Lock is cruise control for cool.
See you the 28th!
Maybe better than The Beatles, Rock Band….but The Beatles? Really? Either put down the weed, or pick it up and listen to Revolver for the first time, because you obviously have failed as musical journalists at this very moment. Let’s try this again shall we?
Wow. Even on a metal blog The Beatles can’t be touched.
I’d rather go to Revolver’s website and listen to BDM’s new album than listen to the album Revolver. GS would rather see Melvins than Beatles. Because that’s, like, a matter of preference. And people argue? Weird.
Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.
I have never liked the Beatles (though both Coroner and Eddie Hazel have recorded excellent versions of “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”). And I will be at the Down/Melvins show tonight. Hope Anselmo is more interested in singing, and less interested in delivering five-minute between-song monologues, than he was when I saw Superjoint Ritual on Ozzfest back in ‘04. Though being in NYC on 9/11 may be too much for him to resist.
MELVINS>ALL
+1
Are “The Beatles” a new crabcore band?
No that’s a different British invasion group…Herman’s Hermit Crabs
The crab people will kill us all.
I saw Melvins a couple nights ago near Albany, NY. They ruled. They floored me. I saw them about a year ago, too. Since then they’ve put in a couple older songs as opposed to playing a best of new albums and then Boris. The Bit crushed. Soooo doomy. Hooch was way fast. Great set.
Melvins Song Revolver > Beatles Album Revolver
bow at the cock of dumb
Melvins fucking rock. If you proclaim to like “Crack the Skye” and don’t like the Melvins, then you suck. The Locust is the shit, too. Some Girls are bad ass.
HOLY FUCK I WONT FUCKING BE THERE FUCK
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if any band in the world is better than the beatles it is definitly the melvins