Melvins - The Bootlicker
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Artist: MelvinsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-08-24
Music Label: Ipecac Recordings
Soundtracks:
- Toy
- Let It All Be
- Black Santa
- We We
- Up the Dumper
- Mary Lady Bobby Kins
- Jew Boy Flower Head
- Lone Rose Holding Now
- Prig
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Free Music Review: from start to finish
Hit: 5 Stars
i have to say, bullhead and stag aside, very few melvins albums are solid start to finish. this one however is the most consistanlty solid release. it's pure psychadelia. mellow for the most part. VERY catchy. rather simple for the most point. some noteworthy aspects of bootlicker begins with the slay bells used for rythym section in the openning track, toy! it's like some kind of trippy christmas song. i'm actually serious here. (there is actually a relation between santa type culture as we know it and magic mushrooms going waaaay back. research it!) anyway she's over before you know it. sad.
let it all be has an outstanding groove kind of like tipping the lion. this number is much more reserved. buzz tends to approach this song with a little more agression live. either way its just james dean cool. ultimate chill-out tune. it's almost 11 min long but around halfway through it starts up this schizophrenic whispering that leads into the second portion of let it all be which is another smooth grove that fades slowly in a rather sweetly haunting mantra. "dream of their fall. dream of their death." over n over.
black santa really has a unique sound with a estern vibe, even throwing in a little harmonica drone. the lyrics are some of my personal fav from these guys, not making a lick of sense as usual but just sounding so curious and playful with the song.
up the dumper is probably the catchiest tune melvins ever did. this upbeat little number about a taboo sex act should be on the radio!
mary lady bobbykins, like let it all be, has two parts to it and feel like polar opposites. the first is a mournful down tempo piece that i really love. i thinks it's about the death of his mother. the song turns into some kind of surf type music. lyrically it seems to show thanks to someone/something.
lone rose holding now is a song i enjoy playing myself. lyrically bewildering. the instruments seem to be in synch. the bridge is sweet. all over in couple min.
the closer, prig, was obviously fun for the band to mess around with and induldge in. for most, skipping past the eletronic meandering will probably be typical. if you get passed all the muck, you can kick back with a great acoustic tune that reminds one of pink floyd! it's a beautiful tune that is nice to have in the background while chilling with some buddies enjoying some cold ones. too bad the actual song portion of prig is over before you know it.
stag is my fav melvins. this is my second. i recomend this to any fan of rock music.
The Bootlicker Poster
The Melvins will never be satisfied to do things the way everybody else does them, and for this give thanks. Not only is this disc the second in a three-part CD extravaganza (which started with early 1999's unabashedly metallic Maggot and ends with 2000's The Crybaby), but the music is curiously unlike the Melvins. Bassist Kevin Rutmanis of Cows officially joins Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover, and the match appears heaven-made. From the slithery, sexy strains of the opener "Toy" to the meandering and many-faceted 11-minute "Let It All Be" to the beautiful, Sebadoh-ish ending of "Prig," some fans may be baffled and disappointed while others will be delighted and enchanted. If you've never really been a Melvins fan, but take secret delight in '70s psychedelia and prog-rock and cut your teeth on '80 and '90s alternative rock, then try the exotica of The Bootlicker. --Lorry FlemingAlternative Rock Music CDs
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