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Pick Your Battles
Pick Your Battles
Album cover for the CD included with the book.
Compilation album by Melvins
Released April 7 2009
Recorded 1989 / 2008
Genre(s) Sludge Metal, Alternative Rock, Grunge
Length 49:38
Melvins chronology
The FantomasMelvins Big Band
(2008)
Pick Your Battles
(2009)
Chicken Switch
(2009)
Alternative Cover
Manchild4cover
Cover for the book.

Pick Your Battles is a live compilation featuring music by Melvins and is a complimentary CD to the art book Manchild 4. Pick Your Battles was released on 7 April 2009 and limited to 3000 copies.

Tracks 1-8 recorded live on 4 February 1989 at the 924 Gilman Street Project in Berkeley, California. Tracks 9-15 recorded live on 9 August 2008 at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston, Massachusetts.

The Bifocal Media website would also release two outtakes from the 2008 set as a free download: Civilized Worm (5:33) and Suicide in Progress (3:56)

Promotion[]

Once again, Mr. Brian Walsby has compiled a collection of edgy, biting comic art and bad assed, rare tunes from the Melvins. MANCHILD 4 is 100 pages of illustrations and stories from a comic artist who’s been poking fun at subversive youth culture, pop culture, your favorite band, and himself since the early 80s. You’ll laugh. You’ll cringe. You just might get angry and start a message board war. Contents of Brian’s new book include “No! I Don’t Want To Play Your Effing House Party”, “Frisky’s Beaver Hut”, “We Were All Assholes”, “My First Orgasm”, “Emo Rock Revival”, and tons of others. There’s also an in depth Melvins 2008 tour diary that’s sure to break a few eggs.

Pick Your Battles is a 15 song CD of live Melvins tunes recorded in 1989 at the 924 Gilman St. Project in Berkeley, Ca. and in 2008 at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston. The track list is as follows: Koolegged, Oven, Cranky Messiah, Raise a Paw, Ever Since My Accident, Green Honey, Claude, You’re Blessened, Nude With Boots, The Kicking Machine, Eye Flys, Rat Faced Granny, The Hawk, You’ve Never Been Right, and Boris.

BATABING! There are 3000 of these on earth. How many do you have?

Tracklist[]

  • 1. Kool Legged (2:54)
  • 2. Oven (1:43)
  • 3. Cranky Messiah (1:31)
  • 4. Raise A Paw (1:26)
  • 5. Ever Since My Accident (1:32)
  • 6. Green Honey (1:24)
  • 7. Claude (1:28)
  • 8. Your Blessened (5:47)
  • 9. Nude With Boots (3:05)
  • 10. The Kicking Machine (2:33)
  • 11. Eye Flys (7:44)
  • 12. Rat Faced Granny (2:37)
  • 13. The Hawk (2:33)
  • 14. You've Never Been Right (2:45)
  • 15. Boris (10:36)

Personnel[]

References[]


  V·T·E Melvins
Current Members Buzz OsborneDale CroverSteven McDonald
Past Members Mike DillardMatt LukinLori BlackJoe PrestonMark DeutromKevin RutmanisTrevor DunnJared WarrenCoady WillisJeff Pinkus
Albums Gluey Porch TreatmentsOzmaBullheadLysolHoudiniPrickStoner WitchStagHonkyThe MaggotThe BootlickerThe CrybabyElectroretardHostile Ambient TakeoverPigs of The Roman EmpireNever Breathe What You Can't See(A) Senile AnimalNude With BootsThe Bride Screamed MurderFreak PukeEverybody Loves SausagesTres CabronesHold It InThree Men And A BabyBasses LoadedA Walk With Love and DeathPinkus Abortion TechnicianWorking With GodFive Legged DogBad Mood RisingThrobbing Jazz Gristle Funk HitsTarantula Heart
Select Extended Plays and Splits Six SongsEggnogNight GoatKing Buzzo (EP)Dale Crover (EP)Joe Preston (EP)Interstellar OverdriveSmash The StateSludge GlamorousHurray For Me Fuk YouThe Bulls & The BeesHigh Desert OverdoseSteven McDonald (EP)SabbathHot FishBangersEscape From LAWhite Lazy BoyMulletSlithering SlaughterThe Devil You Knew, The Devil You KnowControlling Data For a Better Feeling Future
Live Albums & Videos Your Choice Live Vol. 12Salad of a Thousand DelightsTora Tora ToraAlive At The F*cker ClubLive At Slim's 8-Track TapeColossus of DestinyA Live History of Gluttony and LustThe EndMelvins Vs. MinneapolisPick Your BattlesEndless ResidencySugar Daddy LiveMelvins Live At Third Man RecordsAround The USA in 51 Days: The Movie!The Colossus of Destiny: A Melvins TaleLive Stream Obscene
Compilations Singles 1-1226 SongsNeither Here Nor ThereMangled Demos From 1983Sieg Howdy!The Making Love DemosChicken Switch
Associated Bands and Artists Nirvana • Fantomas • Butthole Surfers • Redd Kross • Mr. Bungle • AltamontPorn (The Men Of)ShrinebuilderOFF!Crystal FairyCrystal Fairy (Album)Big BusinessBilly AndersonAcid KingSawed OffMelvanaDrumbWe Reach: The Music of The Melvins
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