Purdy, ain't it?
I love everything about this record. Sonically it’s the granddaddy of all that sludgy metal stuff the kids are eating up these days. The minimalist and pretty much info-less layout is just lovely and fits the sparse, creepy sounds perfectly. No tracklisting anywhere. I only know the names of the two covers on the record. Buzzo and co. lay down amazing versions of Alice Cooper’s Ballad of Dwight Fry and Flipper’s Sacrifice. The album cover features that famous painting of an Indian atop a horse with his arms spread out and head to the sky that you record nerds will no doubt recognize from the Beach Boys’ Brother Records label logo. The painting is flanked on both sides by black bars with ‘Melvins’ to the left, and until they found out it was trademarked and were forced to cover it with a piece of black tape, ‘Lysol’ down the right side. The back cover simply lists the band members, King Buzzo, Joe, and Dale in pink letters on a black background, and the inner sleeve features the same roses from the label I posted.
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