Jello Biafra & The Melvins - Sieg Howdy
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Artist: Jello Biafra & The MelvinsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-09-27
Music Label: Alternative Tentacles
Soundtracks:
- Halo of Flies
- The Lighter Side of Global Terrorism [Extended Space-Melt Version]
- Lessons in What Not to Become
- Those Dumb Punk Kids (Will Buy Anything)
- Kali-Fornia Ã?ber Alles 21st Century [Live]
- Wholly Bun Bull
- Voted Off the Island
- Dawn of the Locusts [March of the Locusts Deadverse Remix]
- Enchanted Thoughtfist [Enchanted Al Remix]
- Caped Crusader [Subway Gas/Hello Kitty Mix]
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Music Review: Jello + Melvins=Fun Sludge-Punk Satire
Rating: 4 Stars
Oh, and don't forget Adam Jones from Tool as he adds some great atmospheric guitar to about half the tracks here. It may not be the DK of old with Jello manically leaping out of your speakers, but he is not the wiry creep he was in those days, just a 40-something punk celebrity. With the help of the Melvins, he is doing just about as well as Joe Strummer was doing in his 40's with albums like _Streetcore_, which is definitely saying something.
If you come here expecting straight-up Melvins or DK, you may as well go to their old releases, as this is something of a different beast. Think DK playing "stoner rock" or the faster Melvins with social commentary in their lyrics. Really, the Melvins seem to benefit when they have someone extra performing with them in the last ten-odd years, like the release with Lustmord they put out a couple of years ago. Maybe their dada sludge just dried up on them some, as I don't remember a Melvins-by-themselves release I loved since _Houdini_. So the relationship is beneficial to both sides.
It's a blast to hear the band go out into space (which creates some heroically long songs) after Biafra's tirades, some of which are hilarious, like usual. We get to laugh at punk's further commodification in "Those Dumb Punk Kids (Will Buy Anything)" with some ludicrous images: "if our scam works/ What a bandwagon it will be/ Malcolm in the Middle in the Misfits [. . .]/ Gary Coleman in Black Flag" and more. We also get some illuminating soul-baring and autobiography: "Felt I had to confess/ In Ginsberg's apartment/ My literary background's mostly songs and cartoons/ He said 'Oh, that's just fine'/ I sort of felt relieved/ But when I hurl my word bombs/ How much should be believed." No, it's definitely not the infinite provocation of the older days, but rather an older, wiser Jello, which all in all can only be a good thing if he's sharing his insights with us in a sincere fashion, which he chooses to do at several points here.
The best thing here, and what rescues this from being some kind of feel-good "punk supergroup," the kind Biafra condemns, is that neither Biafra nor the Melvins seem to be revisiting some elusive old glory days nor scrambling for some equally elusive relevance in the modern context. Both parts of this equation just do what they do best in the spirit of the new millennium: the Melvins rock in an exploratory fashion, Jello rants while never resting on his laurels. From this we have a release that, while not quite blowing a listener away like the best of the releases from both of these agents, is thoroughly enjoyable and thought-provoking from start to finish, while often even managing to challenge a listener. If this collaboration continues, it's easy to see that much better things could be yet to come . . . giving at least this reviewer the fleeting hope (for the millionth time) that punk is, indeed, not dead.
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