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Classic DVD Review: Melvins | Salad of a Thousand Delights

The sludge kings spend an hour pummelling a drunken, riotous mob into submission.

This came out in 2003 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


THE MAIN EVENT: Think of the heaviest power trio you know. Then imagine them playing twice as loud and half as fast — and you might have something that sounds a little like Seattle sludge-metal gods Melvins.

Now, give one of them an explosive Sideshow Bob afro, cram them onto a teeny bar stage in Olympia and film them with shaky, unfocused hands as they spend an hour pummelling a drunken, riotous mob into submission with shrieking black ooze, and you have this amateurish but watchable 1991 live DVD.

EXTRAS! EXTRAS! Well, there’s another 20-minute live set from Seattle the same year — which somehow manages to be of even poorer video quality than the first gig. But there’s also a true rarity: A hilarious chunk of videotape from what looks like a 1984 cable-access TV appearance by the impossibly young trio — it’s worth shelling out for this DVD just to see guitarist Buzz Osborne, who is the spitting image of Eddie Munster.

AW, SKIP IT: Some of the shakier video footage makes you wish the crew had invested in a tripod — or at least filmed a gig where they were separated from the crowd.

 

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