With their new acoustic album Five-Legged Dog, the Melvins reveal how music can become wildly untethered from our expectations and experimentation can take new and unheralded forms.
The Melvins release their most ambitious project yet: Five Legged Dog, a 36-song newly recorded, acoustic collection featuring a career-spanning collection of songs, from 1987’s Gluey Porch Treatments to 2017’s A Walk With Love and Death, the entire gamut of the legendary band’s catalogue is represented.
Five Legged Dog features acoustic versions of several rarities from the influential band’s overflowing discography including a cover of Redd Kross’ “Charlie” (from the limited-edition “Escape From LA” single), “Outside Chance,” a Turtles’ cover from the “Slithering Slaughter” single and new interpretations of The Rolling Stones “Sway,” Brainiac’s “Flypaper,” and Fred Neil’s “Everybody’s Talking” (popularised by Harry Nilsson). Butthole Surfer Jeff Pinkus lends his vocals (and banjo) to “Don’t Forget to Breathe” and “Everybody’s Talking.”
Tracklist:
- 1 Edgar the Elephant
- 2 Up the Dumper
- 3 Hung Bunny / Roman Dog Bird
- 4 Hooch
- 5 Billy Fish
- 6 Shevil
- 7 Charlie
- 8 A Growing Disgust
- 9 Eye Flys / Woman
- 10 Pitfalls in Serving Warrants
- 11 Outside Chance
- 12 Evil New War God
- 13 The Bloated Pope
- 14 Bad Move
- 15 With Teeth
- 16 Halo of Flies
- 17 Oven
- 18 Sway
- 19 Anaconda
- 20 Lovely Butterflies
- 21 Boris
- 22 It's Shoved
- 23 Honey Bucket
- 24 We Are Doomed
- 25 Fly Paper
- 26 Let God Be Your Gardener
- 27 At the Stake
- 28 Night Goat
- 29 Queen
- 30 Everybody's Talking
- 31 Revolve
- 32 Suicide in Progress
- 33 Prig
- 34 The Bit
- 35 Civilized Worm
- 36 Don't Forget to Breathe
