Prick (Melvins album)

Prick
Studio album by Melvins
Released August 5, 1994
Recorded April 1994
Genre Experimental rock, musique concrète
Length 43:31
Label Amphetamine Reptile
Producer Melvins
Melvins chronology
Houdini
(1993)
Prick
(1994)
Stoner Witch
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Prick is the sixth studio album by the Melvins, which was released in 1994 through Amphetamine Reptile Records. Because at the time the Melvins already had a contract with Atlantic, Prick was released with the band name in mirror writing. The album displays a distinctly experimental quality; Buzz Osborne has stated that Prick is "a total noise crap record we did strictly for the weirdness factor. Complete and utter nonsense, a total joke."[2] The band wanted to call the album Kurt Kobain but changed it after Cobain's death to eliminate the possibility of people mistaking it for a tribute record. They implied that Cobain was actually the titular "prick", because he died and therefore forced them to change the album's name.[3]

Track listing

All songs written by The Melvins.

No. Title Length
1. "How About"   4:15
2. "Rickets"   1:20
3. "Pick It n' Flick It"   1:39
4. "Montreal"   4:09
5. "Chief Ten Beers"   6:28
6. "Underground"   2:19
7. "Chalk People"   1:16
8. "Punch the Lion"   3:14
9. "Pure Digital Silence"   1:32
10. "Larry"   2:59
11. "Roll Another One"   14:20

Personnel

Additional personnel

References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Guitar World (1995). "The Father the Son and the Holy Grunge". Interview. Retrieved 2012-12-05.
  3. Brian Walsby (1994). "MASSIVE MELVINS INTERVIEW FROM THE PRE-"STONER WITCH" ERA.". Interview. Retrieved 2010-09-02.


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