Honky (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Honky
Type = studio
Artist = Melvins


Released = May 5, 1997
Recorded = February 12-17, 1997
Genre = Sludge metal
Length = 70:53
Label = Amphetamine Reptile
Producer = The Melvins, Joe Barresi
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5vbyxdkbool7 link]
*Piero Scaruffi rating-10|5 [http://www.scaruffi.com/vol5/melvins.html link]

Last album = "Stag"
(1996)
This album = "Honky"
(1997)
Next album = "Singles 1-12"
(1997)

"Honky" is an album by Melvins, which was released in 1997 through Amphetamine Reptile Records. It is widely considered to be the band's most experimental album. Their first studio album after being dropped from Atlantic, it contains a mixture of traditional Melvins-sounding rock, experiments with drones and soundscapes, and some rather uncharacteristic electronic pieces. A video was made for "Mombius Hibachi". "Lovely Butterfly" became a live favorite and is still played to this day. The final track, "In the Freaktose the Bugs are Dying", concludes with over 25 minutes of silence.

Track listing

# "They All Must Be Slaughtered" (Melvins) – 8:17
# "Mombius Hibachi" (Melvins) – 1:58
# "Lovely Butterfly" (Melvins) – 2:10
# "Pitfalls in Serving Warrants" (Melvins) – 3:36
# "Air Breather Deep in the Arms of Morphius" (Melvins) – 12:12
# "Laughing with Lucifer at Satan's Sideshow" (Melvins) – 2:16
# "HOW --++--" (Melvins) – 3:26
# "Harry Lauders Walking Stick Tree" (Melvins) – 3:17
# "Grin" (Melvins) – 4:11
# "In the Freaktose the Bugs Are Dying" (Melvins) – 29:23

Personnel

* Buzz Osborne - Guitar, vocals
* Dale Crover - drums
* Mark Deutrom - Bass
* Katherine Bjelland - Additional Vocals (on Track #1, "They All Must Be Slaughtered")
* Mac Mann - Piano, Bells and Synthesizer
* David Scott Stone - Bowed Cymbal and Oscillators