MELVINS – Stag LP

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It took me a while to get into this one. It was my pal – and ultra Melvins fan – Leckie’s favourite Melvins album, and my teenage self should’ve listened to him, paid more attention and not dismissed the “weird songs that aren’t music”, cos that’s what makes the Melvins GOOD. The idea that they joined a major label (it seems purely on the basis that they were pals with Kurt Cobain) and made music that was probably less viable than the already not-very-commercially-viable gear from before, is very cool indeed. This album was the final straw for Atlantic, and it’s pretty obvious why. It’s schizophrenic as fuck, with brass, sitar, heavy tunes, ambient tunes, white noise. It’s fucked! It rules! Side note: a Funeral Mongoloids album was recorded featuring Pasi from Bizarre Uproar, me, George Mutant Ape and Pekka Gelsomina. We recorded it on a tape machine but I couldn’t find any blank tapes in my house, so I just took my copy of Stag on cassette, recorded off a CD in the 90s. Dunno why, but it only recorded over one channel, so that album should be in mono. (might have been even better if the Melvins songs had been kept in one channel tbh!)