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Album: Houdini
# Song Title   Time
1)    Hooch More Info... 0:03
2)    Night Goat More Info... 0:04
3)    Lizzy More Info... 0:04
4)    Going Blind More Info... 0:04
5)    Honey Bucket More Info... 0:03
6)    Hag Me More Info... 0:07
7)    Set Me Straight More Info... 0:02
8)    Sky Pup More Info... 0:04
9)    Joan of Arc More Info... 0:03
10)    Teet More Info... 0:03
11)    Copache More Info... 0:02
12)    Pearl Bomb More Info... 0:02
13)    Spread Eagle Beagle More Info... 0:10
 
Album: Houdini
# Song Title   Time
1)    Hooch More Info... 0:03
2)    Night Goat More Info... 0:04
3)    Lizzy More Info... 0:04
4)    Going Blind More Info... 0:04
5)    Honey Bucket More Info... 0:03
6)    Hag Me More Info... 0:07
7)    Set Me Straight More Info... 0:02
8)    Sky Pup More Info... 0:04
9)    Joan of Arc More Info... 0:03
10)    Teet More Info... 0:03
11)    Copache More Info... 0:02
12)    Pearl Bomb More Info... 0:02
13)    Spread Eagle Beagle More Info... 0:10
 
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Performer Notes
  • Melvins: King Buzzo (vocals, guitar); Dale (vocals, drums); Lorax (bass).
  • Additional personnel: Kurt Cobain (guitar, percussion); Bill Bartell (guitar, bass); Billy Anderson (bass); Al Smith, Mike Supple (percussion).
  • Recorded at Brilliant Studios and Razor's Edge, San Francisco, California; Laundry Room, Seattle, Washington.
  • Personnel: King Buzzo (vocals, guitar); Dale Crover (vocals, drums); Kurt Cobain (guitar, percussion); Mike Supple, Al Smith (percussion).
  • Audio Mixers: Garth Richardson; Kurt Cobain; Melvins; Billy Anderson .
  • Recording information: Brilliant Studios, San Francisco, CA; Laundry Room, Seattle, WA; Razor's Edge, San Francisco, CA.
  • Photographer: Wild Don Lewis .
  • 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
Professional Reviews
Spin (11/93, p.133) - Highly Recommended - "...A few sections on [HOUDINI] are recorded so hot that the guitar distortion literally breaks up into white noise in your speakers: the hits are classic Melvins tuneage, which means they'll make you wonder if the batteries are going dead in your radio..."

Musician (11/93, p.13) - "...[HOUDINI] is a slow-motion barrage of buzzsaw noize apocalypso, with tracks like "Pearl Bomb" achieving a formal brilliance that slams together the Ramones, Stooges, Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham...."
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