Lysol (album)
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| Lysol | ||
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| Studio album by The Melvins | ||
| Released | 1992 | |
| Recorded | 1992 | |
| Genre | Grunge | |
| Length | 31:23 | |
| Label | Boner Records | |
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Note: AMG reviewed the musically identical Melvins and Lysol versions of the album. |
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| The Melvins chronology | ||
| Joe Preston (1992) |
Lysol (1992) |
Houdini (1993) |
| Original album cover | ||
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| An original pressing of the album with the tape removed. | ||
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 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 statue by Cyrus Edwin Dallin named "Appeal to the Great Spirit".
[edit] Track listing
In the CD version of the album, the entire six song program is presented as one continuous and unbroken track.
- "Untitled" – 31:23
[edit] Personnel
| The Melvins |
| Band members: Buzz Osborne | Dale Crover | Coady Willis | Jared Warren |
| Additional musicians: David Scott Stone | Adam Jones | Trevor Dunn |
| Mike Dillard | Matt Lukin | Lori "Lorax" Black | Joe Preston | Mark Deutrom | Kevin Rutmanis |
| Discography |
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| Albums and extended plays: Six Songs | Gluey Porch Treatments | Ozma | Bullhead | Eggnog | King Buzzo | Dale Crover | Joe Preston | Lysol | Houdini | Prick | Stoner Witch | Stag | Honky | The Maggot | The Bootlicker | The Crybaby | Electroretard | Hostile Ambient Takeover | (A) Senile Animal |
| Live albums: Your Choice Live Series Vol.12 | Alive at the F*cker Club | Colossus of Destiny | A Live History of Gluttony and Lust |
| Compilations: Singles 1-12 | The Trilogy Vinyl | Melvinmania: Best of the Atlantic Years 1993-1996 | Neither Here Nor There | Mangled Demos from 1983 |
| Collaborations: Millennium Monsterwork 2000 | Pigs of the Roman Empire | Never Breathe What You Can't See | Sieg Howdy! |
| Videos and DVDs: Salad of a Thousand Delights |
