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Houdini

Melvins Format: Audio CD
4.7 out of 5 stars 688 ratings
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  • Bee Bop Delicious
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Melvins Fiend Club
    Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2012
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    The Melvins have released a crap load of albums. This is one of the best places to start. Pure heavy dirge with a few experiments thrown in. I'm a big fan of all their work and they're a very addictive band but definetly required taste. This album might be famouse because it was their major label debut thanks to and produced by fan boy, Kurt Cobain but Nirvana sounds like New Kids On The Block compared to the Melvins.

    Here's a song by song description:

    1. Hooch - heavy as f-. A strange, driving rhythm with nonesensical lyrics. Like your brain on lots and lots hooch. Check out the video on youtube with Beavis and Butthead watching it.

    2. Night Goat - imagine if Flipper got all junked out and tried to play Filth Pig by Ministry. Only Buzz's voice sounds nothing like Ministry or Flipper's vocalists. He sounds relly deep and scruffy like Alice Cooper on steroids.

    3. Lizzy - a simple, dark country riff randomy bursting into a punky chorus. Redundant and hypnotic. The closest thing to ballad on Houdini.

    4. Going Blind - a remake of the Kiss ballad except played as a slow, heavy, punk rock song. Beautiful.

    5. Honey Bucket - og thrash metal. Sounds a lot like Metallica meets Black Flag. Mostly because of the vocals. Rules.

    6. Hag Me - sludge metal. The Melvins practically invented sludge and drone metal with their album, Lysol (that's pre-Earth, pre-Sunn 0)), ect). Here's 7 minutes of pure sludge.

    7. Set Me Straight - the weird thing is this one later turned up in demo form from the mid-80s. Its their most 70s rock sounding, catchy song on the album with a strong hint of the 90s grunge they inspired.

    8. Sky Pup - like Captain Beefheart if he was more influenced by lounge jazz then blues and if he mumbled more than he yelled. Don't know how else to describe this one.

    9. Joan Of Arc - more sludge rock. Alot like something that would be on Ozma or Bullhead. Really heavy and catchy in a strange way.

    10. Copache - an upbeat rocker featuring a surf rock solo.

    11. Teet - another heavy, driving song like only the Melvins do. Mostly bass driven with a punky chorus.

    12. Pearl Bomb - weird song. An extremely repetitive drumbeat (most likely a metronome set on fast) with a super catchy bass line and some beat sounding poem that barely makes sense.

    13. Spread Eagle Beagle - a 10 minute plus drum solo. Not ove indulgent. Just experimental.

    On a scale of 1 to 10 gets an 8 or 9. My favorite Melvins albums are their more experimental ones like Honky and Stag. That's not to say this isn't experimental compared to music in general. There's really no flaws. The album rules. Good for fans of metal, punk, grunge, noise, and avant-guarde. And a great place to start if you're just getting into the band. Buy it. Now.
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  • andy
    5.0 out of 5 stars High end quality
    Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2024
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    Comes with outer sleeve, poly lined inner sleeve, perfect sound. Best quality of any record I have.
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  • Tyree
    5.0 out of 5 stars Glad I found
    Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2024
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    Awesome to find and it was even a import of the cd
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  • Rubbertoe
    5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful pressing
    Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2024
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    Worth every penny. Loud, no background noise whatsoever, and is a beautiful looking record
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  • Metal Ecologist
    4.0 out of 5 stars Sludge Metal and Grunge
    Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2017
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    If you like some sludge with your grunge, then this is the album for you. This is a classic album of the early 90s and one the most commercially accessible album by the legendary band the Melvins. It has a very raw feel to it and is extremely heavy. This album contains many classic Melvins tunes including the great song "Honey Bucket". My only complaint is that, like many albums in the sludge genre, most of the songs kind of blend together and very few are memorable. Get this album if your getting some early 90s nostalgia or want something slow and heavy background music to jam out to.
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  • K Brennan
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Classic and Influential Melvins Album
    Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2010
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    As a music listener, I rarely dabble into anything resembling heavy metal/alternative metal/whatever or that sort of thing, but after first hearing the Melvins, as most of you would understand, it seemed only right to buy one of their albums. I ordered this one off of Amazon, without listening to the samples, because of all the great stuff that was written about it.

    I gave it a few listens at first, and didn't find myself especially intruiged, though I knew I Would like it if I only tried to get into it. Later on I took it on a trip with me, and having a limited number of CDs with me, and having listened to and grown tired of most of them, I moved onto this one and thus learned very much how to appreciate it.

    The small attempts at fitting in with the grudge genre are apparent in this album, and they do it with considerable succes. That being said the majority of their album is the original wacky and mind bending rock and roll. Most every song makes the bowels of your lungs massaged with pure noise.

    My favorite songs off the album are Night Goat and Hag Me. Both of which are extremely heavy songs.

    Anyone looking for a heavy album with a hell of a lot of diversity and give is gonna wanna get this one.
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  • Clay E.
    5.0 out of 5 stars A must-have for fans of the Melvins or grunge in general
    Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2019
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    I enjoyed this one every bit as much as Bullhead. Great heavy, sludgy, irreverent rock that's also kinda funny if you get King Buzzo's brand of humor. The only song on here I can do without is the last one- "Spread Eagle Beagle." It consists of about 10 minutes of occasional drumbeats (and even that may be a programmed drum machine) and not much else. But hey, these guys like to keep their fans guessing, so it kinda fits. The inner cover artwork consists of several different 2-headed yet happy-looking animals. Although the Melvins sound nothing like Primus, they are alike in one way- they both have a very odd take on life and find some of the weirdest ways of expressing it, which is really cool in itself.
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  • WHH
    5.0 out of 5 stars Cool. I can dig it.
    Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2023
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    Kurt produced three of these songs and you can tell. There are a couple of songs that feel like they are on the wrong album but they are excellent so I'm not even mad. 9.5/10. Also I love the design on the jacket.
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  • Amazon カスタマー
    5.0 out of 5 stars カートが好きになるのも良く分かるような気がする。
    Reviewed in Japan on August 18, 2016
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    個人的には５、１１がお気に入りＫＩＳＳのカバーもしているが、上手く消化してると思う。この音作りといい、曲作りのセンスといい、カートが好きになる理由が分かる一枚。
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  • Filippo
    5.0 out of 5 stars Ottimo qualità, tempi di spedizione lunghi
    Reviewed in Italy on November 1, 2023
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    Bellissimo disco, per gli amanti del genere è una pietra miliare immancabile
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  • Jason Parkes
    5.0 out of 5 stars 1993's major label debut
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 5, 2007
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    'Houdini' by Melvins is an album often cited as their best work, which is definitely something that divides the fans, it seems that like bands like The Dead, The Fall & Sonic Youth, everyone has their own Melvins' fave and it could be 'Houdini', just as often as it could be 'Hostile Ambient Takeover', 'Stag', 'Bullhead', 'Ozma', '(A) Senile Animal', or the 'Lysol/Melvins' album. I'm not sure 'Houdini' is the band's most mainstream release, it was on a major label, but in line with the band who released material before and after - I'd probably single out 'The Crybaby' as the most mainstream one as it had guests and cover versions people would know (the kind of record that would breakthrough due to the quirky version of 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' with Leif Garrett alongside other guests like Hank Williams III, Mike Patton, Adam Jones of Tool and J.G. Thirwell aka Foetus). 'Houdini' is an album singled out due to the association with the late Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, who is viewed as the producer - working on this between 'Nevermind' and 'In Utero.' However, as the credits show, Melvins produced part of it themselves and in collaboration with Cobain and Gggarth Richardson. In a recent interview in the Wire, King Buzzo dismisses 'Houdini', preferring the live version released last year, and points to Cobain's well recorded addictions. So, while Cobain has something to do with this record, he's no John Cale figure behind it all - we should remind ourselves that Nirvana's 'Bleach' was heavily influenced by Melvins, that Dale Crover briefly drummed for Nirvana, & that Cobain failed an audition to become Melvins' bassist (the bass-position in Melvins is not far from Spinal Tap's take on drummers!!).

    Recorded during the "Grunge Years", 'Houdini' was the first of a trilogy of albums recorded for Atlantic alongside 'Stoner Witch' (1994) and 'Stag' (1996)- though the band did find time for the usual array of side-projects and 1994's 'Prick' by Snivlem, released on Amphetamine Reptile records (where they would release the hard to find 'Honky' and a series of singles once dropped by Atlantic). It's probably the least interesting of the three Atlantic albums - 'Stoner Witch' is both poppier and stranger, while 'Stag' veers off into bizarre directions, with many an experimental piece and psychedelic/jazz inflected material like 'The Bit' and 'Bar-X' (the latter sounding like Sabbath playing something from 'Giant Steps' by the Boo Radleys!!!). Still...this is the Melvins and 'Houdini' is a fine collection of songs and like Screaming Trees' 'Sweet Oblivion' a better album than 'In Utero', 'Superunknown' or other releases from the more well known acts associated with the grunge phenemenon (it should be pointed out that Melvins, like Mudhoney and Screaming Trees, were around years before the 'G'-tag came into existence!). 'Houdini' has guests, including Billy Anderson (bass on 'Hag Me' and 'Teet'), Bill Bartell (bass/lead guitar on 'Goin' Blind')& Cobain, playing his trademark guitar on 'Sky Pup' and contributing percussion to 'Spread Eagle Beagle' alongside Al Smith, Mike Supple & Crover.

    Melvins constant duo of King Buzzo and Dale Crover parted company with Joe Preston (Earth, High on Fire, Thrones) and the lengendary Lorax rejoined on bass (having been in an earlier line-up that released the classic 'Bullhead' LP). The collection manages to fuse the 'My War'-Black Flag influences with Sabbath, but by now was a sound all of the Melvins' own - this was probably the LP Cobain wanted to make with 'In Utero', had he not had the obvious problems we read about in his published diaries...

    'Houdini' is a great collection, showcasing the sludgy metal sound in full, alongside the tight playing of all Melvins line-ups, no doubt influenced by their punk/hardcore origins. Check the opening of 'Honey Bucket' out, which sounds like a jazz-Meat Puppets, the opening of the lengthy 'Hag Me', or the epic closing piece 'Spread Eagle Beagle', which is a drum-lead piece that predicts the industrial directions the band have continued on albums like 'Colossus of Destiny' and 'Pigs of the Roman Empire.'

    There is the poppier side of the band, apparent in live favourite 'Set Me Straight', their cover of 'Goin' Blind' from Kiss's 'Hotter Than Hell', and the 70s rock chant 'Joan of Arc', which has some screaming that reminds me of the Sweet (probably wouldn't have worried the charts if released though!). 'Sky Pup' is kind of funky, though sounds like Nirvana chanelling Fishbone and TG at the same time - the recent live version is much better, as Crover's lead rap comes to the fore.

    Opener 'Hooch' takes no prisoners, a monster dirge riff coming straight in with Buzzo's howl, keeping the uncompromising riff-heavy material coming with the classic 'Night-Goat', though again, I'd point to the superior (& much longer) take on 'a live history of gluttony and lust', which is as great as the current epic take on 'The Bit' in Melvins' live shows. The band sometimes revisit their material and more often than not, improve on the original. The trilogy of 'Teet', 'Cop-Ache' and 'Pearl Bomb' are much more punk rock, though the one song that probably ranks as my favourite is 'Lizzy', which sounds like a psychedelic Nirvana and has that great point where the band/riff comes in...wonderful.

    'Houdini' is a great album, though probably far from the best of the Melvins' back catalogue - it is an album that the band revisited for the ATP-sponsored 'Don't Look Back' series of concerts, a tradition which continues this year with bands like The House of Love, Slint, and Sonic Youth playing one of their albums in a complete version. At an ATP festival in Spain, Melvins are due to revisit 'Houdini' once again, though I kind of love their current manic medley which includes several tracks from it alongside material from 'Honky' and 'Ozma' and a cover of Cream's 'Deserted Cities of the Heart' (DCH). The live version from 2005 is better, though with a change in the running order and some drastically reworked versions - heck, it's the Melvins and really, ye should own it all.
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  • Samuel
    5.0 out of 5 stars Gran disco, llego en buen estado
    Reviewed in Mexico on April 1, 2025
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  • Grava
    5.0 out of 5 stars Muy bueno
    Reviewed in Spain on June 21, 2023
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