Honky (album)

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Honky
Honky cover
Studio album by The Melvins
Released May 5, 1997
Recorded February 12-17, 1997
Genre Heavy metal, punk rock
Length 70:53
Label Amphetamine Reptile
Producer The Melvins, Joe Barresi
Professional reviews
The Melvins chronology
Stag
(1996)		 Honky
(1997)		 Singles 1-12
(1997)

Honky is an album by The 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 favourite and is still played to this day. The final track, "In the Freaktose the Bugs are Dying", concludes with over 25 minutes of silence.

[edit] Track listing

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

[edit] Personnel

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Dale Crover · Buzz Osborne · Jared Warren · Coady Willis
Additional musicians: Trevor Dunn · Adam Jones · David Scott Stone
Lori "Lorax" Black · Mark Deutrom · Mike Dillard · Matt Lukin · Joe Preston · Kevin Rutmanis
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