- The Crybaby
Infobox Album | Name = The Crybaby
Type = studio
Artist =Melvins
Released =February 7 ,2000
Recorded = Various
Genre =Sludge metal
Length = 73:03
Label = Ipecac
Producer =The Melvins ,Tim Green , Tool,Ryeland Allison ,Vincent De Franco
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3i63mpmh9foo link]
*Pitchfork Media rating-10|6.7 [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/19828-the-crybaby link]
*Piero Scaruffi rating-10|5 [http://www.scaruffi.com/vol5/melvins.html link]Last album = "
The Bootlicker "
(1999)
This album = "The Crybaby"
(2000)
Next album = "The Trilogy Vinyl "
(2000)"The Crybaby" is an
album byMelvins , released in 2000 throughIpecac Recordings , and the last part of a trilogy: "The Maggot", "The Bootlicker" and "The Crybaby". The trilogy was released on vinyl byIpecac Recordings ("The Trilogy Vinyl ", IPC-011,November 27 ,2000 )."Dry Drunk" includes "Interlude," written and performed by
Godzik Pink . On the CD version, after a few minutes of silence there is a spooky sample of the intro to "Amazon" (the first song on "The Maggot") after "Moon Pie", followed by more silence. The album ends with a man screaming "AGAIN!".The Trilogy vinyl version features an edited version of "Divorced" and lacks four songs: "Dry Drunk", "Okie From Muskogee", "The Man With The Laughing Hand Is Dead," and "Moon Pie".
"Divorced" contains performances by the band Tool, as well as a conversation between Tool drummer
Danny Carey and frontmanMaynard James Keenan .Track listing
#"
Smells Like Teen Spirit " (Cobain, Grohl, Novoselic) – 5:01
#"Blockbuster" (Jesus Lizard) – 3:09
#"Ramblin' Man" (Williams) – 3:14
#"G.I. Joe" (Patton/Rutmanis) – 3:59
#"Mine Is No Disgrace" (Osborne/Thirwell) – 8:21
#"Spineless" (Sanko) – 4:01
#"Divorced" (Crover/Melvins) – 14:42
#"Dry Drunk" (Osborne/Yow) – 4:03
##"Dry Drunk (Part I)" (Osborne/Yow)
##"Interlude" (Godzik Pink )
##"Dry Drunk (Part II)" (Osborne/Yow)
#"Okie From Muskogee" (Haggard) – 2:10
#"The Man with the Laughing Hand Is Dead" (Osborne/Blood) – 11:26
#"Moon Pie" (Osborne/Sharp) – 12:44Personnel
*The Melvins:
**Buzz Osborne (King Buzzo) -vocals ,guitar ,bass guitar , noise
**Dale Crover - drums, guitar, vocals, noise
**Kevin Rutmanis - bass, slide bass,oscillator ,harmonica ,metronome , vocals, guitar
*Tool:
**Danny Carey - drums on track 7
**Justin Chancellor - bass on track 7
**Adam Jones - guitar on track 7
**Maynard James Keenan - vocals on track 7
*Vince DeFranco - producer/engineer track 7
*Ryeland Allison - producer/engineer track 7
*Skeleton Key:
**Erik Sanko - guitar and vocals on track 6
**Rick Lee -trash and samples on track 6
*Bliss Blood - vocals,Wurlitzer , treated vocals,electric sitar , musical saws andSeñor Wences samples on track 10
*Henry Bogdan -steel guitar on tracks 3 and 9
*Bruce Bromberg - guitar on track 6
*Amanda Ferguson - vocals on track 6
*Leif Garrett - vocals on track 1
*Mike Patton - vocals, sampler, guitar and percussion on track 4
*Godzik Pink - performs "Interlude" on track 8
*Kevin Sharp - vocals and samples on track 11
*J. G. Thirlwell - vocals and samples on track 5
*Hank Williams III - guitar and vocals on track 3, vocals on track 9
*David Yow - vocals on tracks 2 and 8
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.