- Hooch
- Night Goat
- Lizzy
- Goin' Blind
- Honey Bucket
- Hag Me
- Set Me Straight
- Sky Pup
- Joan of Arc
- Teet
- Copache
- Pearl Bomb
- Spread Eagle Beagle
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Kurt Cobain Guest Artist,Guitar,Percussion
Al Smith Percussion
Buzz Osborne Vocals
Mike Supple Percussion
Lori "Lorax" Black Bass
Bill Bartell Bass,Guitar,Lead Guitar,Guitar (Bass)
King Buzzo Guitar,Vocals
Billy Anderson Bass,Guitar (Bass)
Dale Crover Drums,Vocals
Buzz Osborne Composer
Garth Richardson Mixing,Producer
Wolf Kessler Engineer,Second Engineer,Assistant Engineer
Wild Don Lewis Photography
Lori "Lorax" Black Composer
Frank Kozik Artwork,Art Direction
Coronell Composer
Valerie Wagner Design,Art Direction
Lou Oribin Engineer
Stephen Marcussen Mastering
Steven Coronel Composer
Billy Anderson Mixing,Engineer,Mixing Engineer
Kurt Cobain Mixing,Producer,Mixing Engineer
Barrett Jones Mixing,Engineer,Mixing Engineer
Joe Marquez Engineer,Second Engineer,Assistant Engineer
GGGarth Mixing,Producer,Mixing Engineer
Gene Simmons Composer
Jonathan Burnside Engineer
Melvins Mixing,Composer,Engineer,Producer,Performer,Mixing Engineer
Dale Crover Composer


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Overview
To essay a concise, surefooted summation of the Melvins' catalog would be reductive at best, and laughable at worst. This is, of course, underground rock's trio of pranksters -- unpredictable and capable of complete musical about-faces in the turn of a measure. That said, Houdini is about as close as one gets to a representative Melvins album, and it vividly captures the band's unreconstructed power, vision, and musical strangeness. During the early-'90s purge of hair rock and candy-footed funk metal, the Melvins, as with many other acts, seemed fair game for a major label in search of another post-Nirvana gold mine. With Kurt Cobain's assistance, the band was snatched up -- and summarily dropped (after three brilliant albums, this being the first) -- by Atlantic. Though Houdini's immediate predecessors, Eggnog and Bullhead, pried open a few screwball chasms in the Melvins' syrupy distillation of Sabbath riffage and Flipper's noisy anti-punk, it was this album that displayed the full fruition of the outfit's sonic breadth, from the cough-syrup river drag of "Night Goat" to the revved-up "Honey Bucket," and from the creepy "Joan of Arc" to the glue-damaged "Sky Pup." Ringleader King Buzzo's riffs are stretched -- taffy-like -- to meltdown, and at other times they are razor sharp. Either way, they abound with a lumbering, lurching power. With their voluminous output and determination to continuously expand their sound regardless of musical trends, the Melvins oeuvre has begun to rival -- at least on paper -- the career arcs of Frank Zappa and Neil Young. ~ Patrick Kennedy
Product Details
Release Date: | 09/21/1993 |
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Label: | Atlantic |
UPC: | 0075678253225 |
Tracks
Album Credits
Performance Credits
Melvins Primary ArtistKurt Cobain Guest Artist,Guitar,Percussion
Al Smith Percussion
Buzz Osborne Vocals
Mike Supple Percussion
Lori "Lorax" Black Bass
Bill Bartell Bass,Guitar,Lead Guitar,Guitar (Bass)
King Buzzo Guitar,Vocals
Billy Anderson Bass,Guitar (Bass)
Dale Crover Drums,Vocals
Technical Credits
Tom Doty Second Engineer,Assistant Engineer,EngineerBuzz Osborne Composer
Garth Richardson Mixing,Producer
Wolf Kessler Engineer,Second Engineer,Assistant Engineer
Wild Don Lewis Photography
Lori "Lorax" Black Composer
Frank Kozik Artwork,Art Direction
Coronell Composer
Valerie Wagner Design,Art Direction
Lou Oribin Engineer
Stephen Marcussen Mastering
Steven Coronel Composer
Billy Anderson Mixing,Engineer,Mixing Engineer
Kurt Cobain Mixing,Producer,Mixing Engineer
Barrett Jones Mixing,Engineer,Mixing Engineer
Joe Marquez Engineer,Second Engineer,Assistant Engineer
GGGarth Mixing,Producer,Mixing Engineer
Gene Simmons Composer
Jonathan Burnside Engineer
Melvins Mixing,Composer,Engineer,Producer,Performer,Mixing Engineer
Dale Crover Composer
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