Crybaby

Melvins | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 7, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ipecac Records
• ASIN: B00003XA6G
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
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Track Listings

1. Smells Like Teen Spirit

2. Blockbuster

3. Ramblin' Man

4. G I Joe

5. Mine Is No Disgrace

6. Spineless

7. Divorced

8. Dry Drunk

9. Okie From Muskogee

10. The Man With The Laughing Hand Is Dead

11. Moon Pie

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Worthy Release for Melvins Fans, March 8, 2000

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This review is from: Crybaby (Audio CD)

What can I say about the Crybaby? First, whatever it is you're expecting, forget it. This is not your standard Melvins record, if there is such a thing. This record is just wack. I think I really like it, though. It's a mish-mash of crazy stuff. Each song is totally different than the rest of the songs. All of them feature one guest or another. King Buzzo does not sing any of the songs.

Leif Garrett signing "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is hillarious. It's almost as if The Melvins deliberately played the song straight-up so that Leif Garrett would in turn sing it straight up. You can tell that old Leif took his task very seriously, and I find the results pretty funny. Regardless, this cover is a nice nod to the unsung, yet crucial, influence that The Melvins had on Nirvana, and by proxy the whole grunge "movement."

David Yow sings a couple (including a great cover of an early Jesus Lizard song).

Hank Williams III sings a couple. I think these worked really well. Hank III sounds just like his grandfather.

Mike Patton does some crazy stuff with one of the songs, G.I. Joe.

The song they collaborated with Tool on is the most strange on the whole record. I like it. It's equal parts Melvins and Tool, but 100% obnoxious and ridiculous. I listened to it twice last night and decided that I like it.

The Crybaby is the Melvins having fun, and they invite a bunch of other people to have fun with them. They took some big artistic risks, and

pulled it off. This would not a a good place for a prospective Melvins fan to start off, however. But for someone who understands and appreciate's the Melvin's twisted view of the universe, it's great. If you want to get started with The Melvins, I recommend the following: The Maggot, Houdini, Stoner Witch, Ozma/Gluey Porch Treatments, Bullhead, and Stag. There are plenty of other great Melvins records, but those are a good place to start.

I now have all three of the Ipecac trilogy (The Maggot, The Bootlicker, and The Crybaby), and I must declare the whole thing a success. The Maggot may be my favorite Melvins record of all that they've done.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars the final chapter, March 7, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Crybaby (Audio CD)

the third part of their three-albums-in-one-year ipecac trilogy, the crybaby is a frantic, scattered mess filled with special guest artists making more noise than the melvins themselves usually do. this is definitely NOT the place to start a melvins collection from (try "stoner witch" or "bullhead"), as much of the 73-minute album is comprised of the aforementioned special guests piling bleeps, bloops, and lyrics on top of the rather repetitive and simplistic bases the melvins provide for them. jim thirlwell's overlong and uninteresting "mine is no disgrace" suffers from a lack of invention on the melvins' part, as does bliss blood's contribution, "the man with the laughing hand is dead." hank williams III's two tracks are straight-forward country music, and mike patton's "g.i. joe" will not surprise fans of his recent "vocal stylings." the bright spots are tool's contribution, "divorced," a 14-minute journey on which heavy riffs, drum solos, and underwater keyboards share DNA, and the two david yow tracks, "dry drunk" being the better of the two, mostly because our melvins just decide to plain old ROCK, "maggot" style. yow's famous "drunken bum" vocal fits very well on top of the heavy metal thunder conjured by the melvins.

and as for "teen spirit;" you can just guess how THAT sounds. hint: think drunken karaoke.

this album is pretty much for completists and fans of the various guest artists. the melvins are one of THE most underrated and creative hard bands of the last decade, but this album won't to much to convince people of that. try the first album in the trilogy, "the maggot," and hear where heavy music SHOULD be, instead of where it IS, which is nowhere, hanging out with limp bizkit.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Music to drink coffee to, April 16, 2000

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This review is from: Crybaby (Audio CD)

OK, so the only Melvins CD I owned prior to this was Ozma which I thought was OK, but this blew me away! Something for even the most fussy listener - Grunge for the Nirvana-heads, C&W for the Jerry Reeds, add in noise, ambient, rock, punk, all genres present and correct. Just check out the Patton track "GI Joe", or the Tool collaboration, or the Skeleton Key track....I could go on. Buy this now cuz I'm off to buy the other two in the trilogy...