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Lysol

 
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Album Review: Lysol
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  • Artist: Melvins
  • Rating: StarStarStar
  • Release Date: 1992
  • Genre: Rock

Review

Originally and notoriously known as Lysol before the company behind said household product had something to say on the matter (early copies with the original information can be found), Melvins was in many ways the pinnacle of the band at that point. Besides being the full-length farewell to indie rock labels, at least for a few years, it also showed an ambition that arguably they wouldn't have been to fulfill while on Atlantic. Though there are six separate songs on the disc, it is mastered and assembled as one megacomposition, in ways making it the perfect counterpart to the previous year's solo projects. The logical extension of the sheer monstrosity of the band's work up to that time, with longer and longer songs, its first two parts alone are jawdroppers. "Hung Bunny," which takes up the first third of the whole half-hour effort, begins with Osbourne's slabs of feedback and wordless vocals, with only very occasional drum-and-bass hits punctuating them. They rev up in full toward the end as the song shifts into "Roman Dog Bird," which easily stakes a claim as being the most Sabbath-like number the band had yet done -- huge, moving at a snail's pace, and with Osbourne's already on-the-edge vocals flanged and distorted like crazy. One of the most interesting things about Melvins is that in among the mayhem, there are two cover versions included -- both equally understandable sources of inspiration, both comprehensively Melvin-ized. Flipper was an obvious role model for the Melvins' slow-as-it-goes rumble, thus the trudging treatment of "Sacrifice" here. Meanwhile, none other than Alice Cooper himself gets the nod with "The Ballad of Dwight Fry," which actually slots into the whole presentation scarily well (and displays, wonder of wonders, subtlety). ~ Ned Raggett, All Music Guide

Credits

Melvins (Main Performer)
Wikipedia: Lysol (album)
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Lysol
Studio album by Melvins
Released 1992
Recorded 1992
Genre Sludge metal, Drone Metal
Length 31:23
Label Boner
Professional reviews

Note: AMG reviewed the musically identical Melvins and Lysol versions of the album.

Melvins chronology
Joe Preston
(1992)
Lysol
(1992)
Houdini
(1993)

Lysol is an album by the Melvins, which was released in 1992 through Boner Records.

Boner Records was unaware that Lysol was a registered trademark until after the first batch of record jackets and CD booklets/back cards had already been printed. When they requested permission from the Reckitt Benckiser Corporation to use the name, permission was denied. Boner officially retitled the record Melvins and covered the word Lysol with black tape on the front of the jackets and booklets and with black ink on the spines. Early after the initial release, the tape and ink were easily removed, and many fans did so. Later, attempting to remove the tape would result in severe damage. Subsequent printings omitted the word Lysol entirely.

Even though there are no writing credits, a long standing rumor is that bassist Joe Preston wrote the song "With Teeth" and that the name "Joe" printed on the back of the album was in a much larger font than "King Buzzo" or "Dale" because Osborne had grown weary of Preston's repeated requests to be allowed more input and given more credit. Preston was fired from the Melvins soon after Lysol was released.

The cover image of the Native American on a horse also appears on The Beach Boys in Concert and appeared on the logo for Brother Records. The image itself is a painting based on a sculpture by Cyrus Edwin Dallin named "Appeal to the Great Spirit".

Track listing

# Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Hung Bunny"     10:42
2. "Roman Dog Bird"     7:38
3. "Sacrifice"   Flipper 6:07
4. "Second Coming"   Cooper 1:14
5. "Ballad of Dwight Fry"   Bruce, Cooper 3:11
6. "With Teeth"     2:25

In the CD version of the album, the entire six song program is presented as one continuous and unbroken track.

Personnel


Translations: Lysol
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - lysol

Nederlands (Dutch)
lysol, krachtig ontsmettingsmiddel

Français (French)
n. - Lysol

Deutsch (German)
n. - Lysol (Desinfektionsmittel)

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (χημ.) λυσόλη

Italiano (Italian)
lisoformio

Português (Portuguese)
n. - lisol (m) (Quím.)

Русский (Russian)
лизол

Español (Spanish)
n. - lisol, marca registrada de un antiséptico líquido

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - lysol (desinfektionsmedel)

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
来苏儿, 煤酚皂溶液

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 來蘇兒, 煤酚皂溶液

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 리졸, 소독제

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - リゾール, ライソル

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) الليزول, سائل زيتي مطهر‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮ליזול (נוזל-חיטוי)‬


 
 
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