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"A Live History of Gluttony and Lust" is yet another Melvins album. Also released in 2006, just like "A Senile Animal," for Ipecac, it is a reworking of "Houdini", a superb album from '93 partly produced by Cobain, this time recorded live in the studio.
Given these premises, this album may seem like a sad commercial operation... I mean, something done just to rake in a few (so to speak) dollars... but damn it, that's not the case. The tracks are played at a faster speed compared to the studio album, and they are appreciated more for their fury than for any sophistication. Spectacular sounds, Dale Crover hammering like a madman, feedbacks chasing each other beautifully. The result is that the songs that are usually overlooked when listening to Houdini take on a new shape here... in short, they can be greatly appreciated... for example, "Pearl Bomb".
This song opens the album and surprises you greatly... the annoying sampling of "Houdini" is replaced with the hi-hat and bass with Buzzo's highly distorted guitar, and it really sounds like a song. "Hooch" opens as always with the drums (a little overuse of the double bass) and immediately after, powerful guitars and vocals... that is, in full Melvins style. "Night-Goat" is introduced with a long feedback abruptly interrupted by the highly distorted bass of (the bassist of the moment) Trevor Dunn. Still, with the various chaos they create, the song ends up lasting 7 minutes and 36 seconds. "Lizzie" appears surreal, intangible, softer (almost impossible for a tank called Melvins) than the album... the chorus, in fact, is not blasted in your face but placed gently. "Going Blind", a famous Kiss cover, shows a bit of people how to play since it's the same as the album (and the others too, to be clear) despite that annoying riff for just one guitar live.
"Cop-Ache" is another example of how the Melvins enjoy ruining their songs. Here it is beautiful on "Houdini", it has to be searched for amid the noise.
"Set Me Straight/Deserted Cities Of The Heart" two songs, their own and the Cream cover, perfectly rendered in Melvins style, which in 2 minutes and 51 seconds (together eh) are born and die in full style... ihihih.
"Sky Pup", a strange piece it was, a strange piece it remains, just much more brutal. "Teet" travels the same as the album and for twenty seconds almost gives your ears a rest... oops the chorus... it starts again! "Joan of Arc" my favorite song from Houdini... I don't know what to say... it seems perfect from every point of view... highlight Buzzo's scream that chills your blood. "Honey Bucket": pure violence, total depravity... people put down your crack pipes. Open your ears wide. You are in the presence of the best drummer on earth who takes you down at will. This is the most violent peak. "Hag Me" slow, martial, funereal... in short, the best Black Sabbath played at half speed... sounds like Boris from Bullhead.
The album closes with "Spread Eagle Beagle" but this time there's no Kurt causing a ruckus in the background but Lustomord... I know, I know: the world is cowardly, life is shit, etc.
In short, it would certainly be a great metal album... too bad that the B-side of "My War", the second Black Flag album, exists, which explains a few things to us!
In any case, this is an album that will leave everyone who listened to "Houdini" on their ass!!!
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 Pearl Bomb (01:39)
PEARL BOMB
Croak radio gives me the shakes. That's no surprise
Cuz I can feel both barrels of your eyes. Understand
what I'm sayin just like a hole beat red. You think
I'm bine. You take a leg. You feel a nice teen tone
bime-b-b-bye. Left dog. See big, boy, after your
dirty little tee bits all in seein my meat. I took a
team of you. Your bo-dy. For left-ov-er your sane.
Green water like a sugarback I bet your bine. Read
both bladder steps of foamy decline. Limbo. Lacky.
Sucker. Yes her limbo baba's at home and they cry
like half-dead dog bug.
02 Hooch (02:33)
Los ticka toe rest. Might likea sender doe ree. Your make a doll a ray day sender bright like a penelty.
Exi-tease my ray day member half lost a beat away. Purst in like a one way sender war give a heart like a fay. Cuz I can ford a red eed only street a wide a ree land. Die-mond make a mid-evil bike a sake a like a ree caste. Cuz I can ford a red eed only street a wide a ree land. On a ree land. Find a ree land.
You sink a my swan. Rolly a get a worst in. Maybe minus way far central poor forty duck a pin.
Milk maid dud bean. Master a load a head. Pill pop a dope a well run general hash pump a gonna led.
03 Night Goat (07:36)
NIGHT GOAT
She walk my way to fee
And I grut my teeth
It's more like hundred milo
And I know more me
But you can make my teeth growl
You can make my underwell
It's a big dark world now
It's a big dark Hell
Los sitar watch out for your tails
Like of course a timely man
Like a hog dance
Like a pig dare
Mind warp deceptor wan
Wait a minute I caught defouled
And I felt it groan
She meant to hold the bar down
And she cleaned my nose
I look so peaceful
And I look so underwell
I ain't got no mouthfull
I ain't got no tail
You look like such a worldy man
Like a sinner tossed on the wind
Like a hotel
Like a piston
Like a well old man a wan
Rock sides supports them would you wail
Like a tosser timely man
Like a hard descend
Like a cyst stone
Like a well worn dance stone why
04 Lizzy (04:49)
LIZZY
I'm sin done in water
You might be over hill
He's somebody's daughter
As far as Liz well knows
Sin me a black one
Bubbled in a big sun
Open with a cast ray
A mystery mind
He sits her with father
We seem so in a two
Open up a C.A.T. scan
White leather free land
Wishy little be scar
Half-made mind
Elvis had a daughter
Not half-boned siksura
Heavy Betty big bone
Little kitty fig bomb
I'm no feet less
Keep me one
Eat more with your collar
Call egg mig mig me in May
Time is a big one
Only have to free us all
Misery to hope laid
Have them with the bong hit
Exit measured one seev
And I'm break and kickin Gary
I'm riggin with the clothes bend
I hang my bong
05 Going Blind (04:34)
And I know how it's to be
There is nothing more for you and I
Some are young and some are free
But I think I'm goin' blind
Cause, I think I'm goin' blind
And I know how it's to beeee
Little lady cancha see?
You are so young and so much different than I
And I know how it's to be
Can't you see I'm going blind?
Cause, I think I'm going blind
And I know how it's to be
Cause, I think I'm going blind
And I know how it's to be, yeah
Little lady can't you see
You're so young and so much different than I
I'm ninety thre-ee-ee-ee, you're sixteen
Can't you see I'm going blind
Yes I think I'm going blind
And I know how it's to be, yeah
08 Sky Pup (03:17)
SKY PUP
Next time you gimme your gaze
Think about mork sinny goal
That tricky grass for me
Aw, T.V. you're in my nose
Oh, baby, baby, big red bally
Ain't it just a big ol' ball?
My baby, you're not crazy
Might be you're lone
*cough cough*
*choke*
Come on, gimme a drag
Bambino, see your diamond landing
Well baby, you're not so mean
Tell you like a horny nuclear
This damn baby, she wants my skillo
Hawk sooner I'm a witness
You like, like...hog
Lazy bread in your cocktail
Kurt mazy you're not bad
My only dude you are my best friend
She's cat damned
Damn, damned easy
My head's a big smile
09 Teet (02:45)
TEET
I've seen a friend go ride you host away the peel
My leavin bedroom for my carvin wheel
Joke Mister join the Navy ain't so sad in awe
Half of the jay gone century cat the call
Toast no indee gone aim no want to be a ray
She's not afraid to fear more chaste with me
Ask not and you won't find it ride
Actin like over gentry
Maybe you're in hair
Ace like a big and hairy happy sad
Toast no indee gone aim no want to be a ray
She's not afraid to fear more chaste with me
Ask not and you won't find it ride
11 Honey Bucket (02:21)
Eight times of fel-an-fo-fi
Like cobalt cast and clean
I got a mojo felt the wheel
Real fashion feel
Tri-Jack it, black it for more
Handcuffs with special keys
Triple locked and been down defiled
It's a V. S. I.
Throw a case of plasticine down
Baby I can immolate
And it's rotten in my rounds
Sister's in my way
I'm as fast as my home town
Green glass it most of all
Been around this foreign cage
Villiage in the wall.
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