Six Songs is an album

Album

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 by The Melvins

The Melvins

The Melvins are an American band that formed in 1983. They usually perform as a trio, but in recent years have performed as a four piece with two drummers. Since 1984, singer and guitarist Buzz Osborne and drummer Dale Crover have been the band's constant members...

, released in 1986 through C/Z Records

C/Z Records

C/Z Records is a Seattle-based record label that was established in early 1985 by Chris Hanzsek and Tina Casale with the release of the now-legendary, Deep Six LP, which collected the earliest recordings of the real pro-genitors of what later came to be known as grunge...

. The album has been released as Six Songs (1986, vinyl), Eight Songs (1991, vinyl), 10 Songs (1991, CD) and 26 Songs (2003, CD). The songs are taken from two sessions in 1986.

Tracks 1-10 are taken from the 1991 eight/ten song, LP/CD version rerelease of this album. Tracks 11-16 are taken from the original six song vinyl release. Tracks 17-19 were taken from the 1986 Outtakes From First 7 inch vinyl single. Track 20-24 are garage demos. Track 20 is taken from the Northwest Hardcore compilation tape. Track 22 is taken from the Let's Kiss compilation tape from K Records

K Records

K Records is an independent record label in Olympia, Washington, co-founded, owned, and operated by Calvin Johnson, formerly of the bands Cool Rays, Beat Happening, The Go Team, The Halo Benders and presently in the bands Dub Narcotic Sound System and The Hive Dwellers...

. "Ever Since My Accident" is available on the Kill Rock Stars

Kill Rock Stars (album)

-Track listing :...

compilation (KRS-201) in superior quality. Track "26", "Hugh", is a field recording put as the b-side of the demo cassettes the band would give away to venues and labels to promote the band. As stated in a 2003 interview:

• So what's the deal with the track called "Hugh" at the end of "26 Songs"?

Dale: This crazy guy that walked by the alley of my house. Finally he comes up and knocks on the door and we're outside, taking a break from practice and he's totally on angel dust and one of us got the bright idea to start recording it. We forgot about that for years and then this guy that we know in LA's like 'I've got this demo tape you guys gave me in 1985 and on the other side there's this guy talking and I dunno who the fuck he is. He just sounds like he's just ripped!' and we're like 'oh my god! that's gotta be that tape we did of that guy Hugh!'
(Buzz laughs)
Buzz: The first demo tapes we sent out, we put that on the other side (laughs) - some guy on dust talking! (laughs)
Dale: And none of us had a recording of that so he gave it to us and copied it.
(Buzz makes some moaning noise as if he's off his face on dust)

• What's the actual song on that track, cos there is some music on there isn't there?

Dale: It's playing with him! (He laughs)
Buzz: Nah, the angel dust [guy] - jamming with him on harmonica! (Buzz cackles)
Dale: It's him playing harmonica! Playing some bullshit 12 bar blues! (he laughs)

The tracklisting on the booklet of the CD lists 26 tracks but for unknown reasons the CD only has 25 tracks as "Ever Since My Accident" and "Hugh" are together on track 25 and not individual tracks as credited.

Side one

1. "Easy as It Was" – 2:54
2. "Now a Limo" – 0:55
3. "Grinding Process" – 2:37
4. "#2 Pencil" – 3:08

Side two

1. "At a Crawl" – 3:04
2. "Disinvite" – 1:22
3. "Snake Appeal" – 1:39
4. "Show Off Your Red Hands" – 2:57

10 Songs

1. "Easy as It Was" – 2:54
2. "Now a Limo" – 0:55
3. "Grinding Process" – 2:37
4. "#2 Pencil" – 3:08
5. "At a Crawl" – 3:04
6. "Disinvite" – 1:22
7. "Snake Appeal" – 1:39
8. "Show Off Your Red Hands" – 2:57
9. "Over From Underground" – 2:22
10. "Cray Fish" – 3:06

26 Songs

1. "Easy as It Was" – 2:54
2. "Now a Limo" – 0:55
3. "Grinding Process" – 2:37
4. "#2 Pencil" – 3:08
5. "At a Crawl" – 3:04
6. "Disinvite" – 1:22
7. "Snake Appeal" – 1:39
8. "Show Off Your Red Hands" – 2:57
9. "Over From Underground" – 2:22
10. "Cray Fish" – 3:06
11. "Easy As It Was" – 2:39
12. "Now a Limo" – 0:53
13. "Grinding Process" – 2:44
14. "At a Crawl" – 3:13
15. "Disinvite" – 1:23
16. "Snake Appeal" – 1:52
17. "Set Me Straight" – 3:09
18. "Show Off Your Red Hands" – 2:57
19. "#2 Pencil" – 3:18
20. "Grinding Process" – 2:17
21. "Snake Appeal" – 1:43
22. "At a Crawl" – 2:52
23. "Operation Blessing" – 0:45
24. "Breakfast on the Sly" – 1:51
25. "Ever Since My Accident / Hugh" – 15:01

Personnel

• The Melvins:
  • Buzz Osborne
    Buzz Osborne
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     - guitar
    Guitar
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    , vocals
  • Matt Lukin
    Matt Lukin
    Matt Lukin is an American musician, best known as a bassist and founding member of the Melvins and Mudhoney.-The Melvins :...
    
     - bass
    Bass guitar
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    , vocals
  • Dale Crover
    Dale Crover
    Dale Crover is an American rock musician. Crover is best known as the drummer for Melvins and Men of Porn, Shrinebuilder, and for a brief time, drummer for Nirvana. He is also guitarist and vocalist for Altamont...
    
     - drums
    Drum kit
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• Chris Hanzsek - producer
  Record producer
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  , engineer
• Mackie Osborne
  Mackie Osborne
  Mackie Osborne is an artist, responsible for design and illustrations of many music albums since the 1980s. She is a member of the band Fleabag and has contributed to many albums on packaging artwork, layout design and art direction....
  
   - new artwork on 26 Songs rerelease
• Krist Novoselic
  Krist Novoselic
  Krist Anthony Novoselic II is a Croatian-American rock musician, best known for being the bassist and co-founder of the grunge band Nirvana. After Nirvana ended, Novoselic formed Sweet 75 and then Eyes Adrift, releasing one album with each band...
  
  - photographer