{"id":11160,"date":"2016-07-20T05:45:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T09:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11160"},"modified":"2016-07-13T09:13:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T13:13:37","slug":"album-mini-review-melvins-basses-loaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/20\/album-mini-review-melvins-basses-loaded\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Melvins &#8212; Basses Loaded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/melvins.jpg\" alt=\"melvins\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11161\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/melvins.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/melvins-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><iframe style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ss&#038;ref=as_ss_li_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B01DFXX9VK&#038;asins=B01DFXX9VK&#038;linkId=73e301f23b2db7c8f60c2c47e95913b6&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nFile next to: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/08\/concert-review-the-sword\/\"><b>The Sword<\/b><\/a>, <b>Black Sabbath<\/b>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/11\/album-mini-review-sunn-o-kannon\/\"><b>Sunn O)))<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Loosely \u2013 and really only geographically \u2013 associated with the Pacific Northwest grunge scene, The Melvins long have stood apart from <b>Nirvana<\/b>, <b>Pearl Jam<\/b> and the like. For awhile now they&#8217;ve played live gigs with two drummers, but in reality that has been all about locking in the sonic bottom end. So building an album around the insistent throb of the bass guitar is in keeping with their aesthetic. The punning title refers not only to the four-string but to the appearance of every Melvins bassist \u2013 past and present \u2013 on this delightfully thudding record. A left-field <b>Beatles<\/b> cover (\u201cI Want to Tell You\u201d) is a highlight, and borders on being a piece of ear candy. The disc ends with \u201cTake Me Out to the Ball Game,\u201d a playful poke in the eye to listeners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: The Sword, Black Sabbath, Sunn O))) Loosely \u2013 and really only geographically \u2013 associated with the Pacific Northwest grunge scene, The Melvins long have stood apart from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62,65],"tags":[2780],"class_list":["post-11160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-melvins","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11162,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160\/revisions\/11162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}