Gluey Porch Treatments is the debut album by the rock band the Melvins, released in June 15, 1987 through Alchemy Records. The original release was vinyl only. The album was later released on cassette tape with the Six Songs EP through Boner Records and appears as bonus material on the CD version of Ozma. Tracks 18–29 can only be found on the 1999 Ipecac Recordings re release; these songs are taken from a boombox demo. The album is considered one of the first examples of sludge metal and a blueprint for grunge.
The songs Steve Instant Newman and As It Was are re recordings of Disinvite and Easy As It Was respectively, as heard on the Six Songs EP. Leeech was originally a song by Green River entitled “Leech.” When the Melvins founder Buzz Osborne asked a member of Green River why they never played the song, the reply was that the band thought it was too repetitive and was therefore dropped from their set. The song may have been essentially given to the Melvins on the spot, though Mark Arm has jokingly criticized their claim of ownership of it, teasingly saying that they inappropriately attributed the song to themselves.
The song “Eye Flys” appears on the soundtrack for the film, Kurt Cobain: About a Son and the Melvins live album Sugar Daddy Live. Glow God, Big As a Mountain and Heaviness of the Load appear on the Alchemy Records compilation album Peace Thru Chemistry. The title track Gluey Porch Treatments was re-recorded and released in 2001 on their thirteenth album Electroretard.
Tracklist:
- Eye Flys
- Echo Head/Don’t Piece Me
- Heater Moves and Eyes
- Steve Instant Newman
- Influence of Atmosphere
- Exact Paperbacks
- Happy Grey or Black
- Leeech (Mark Arm, Steve Turner)
- Glow God
- Big as a Mountain
- Heavyness of the Load
- Flex with You
- Bitten into Sympathy
- Gluey Porch Treatments
- Clipping Roses
- As It Was
- Over from Under the Excrement
- Echohead (Demo)
- Flex with You (Demo)
- Don’t Piece Me (Demo)
- Bitten into Sympathy (Demo)
- Exact Paperbacks (Demo)
- Glow God/Big as a Mountain (Demo)
- Heaviness of the Load (Demo)
- Happy Gray or Black (Demo)
- Heater Moves and Eyes (Demo)
- Gluey Porch Treatments (Demo)
- Eye Flys (Demo)
- Clipping Roses (Demo)
the Melvins
Matt Lukin: bass guitar, vocals
Buzz Osborne: vocals, guitar, liner notes on 1999 Ipecac reissue
Dale Crover: drums
Additional personnel
Mark Deutrom: producer, mixing
Carl Herlofsson: engineer, mixing
David Musgrove: second engineer
Victor Hayden: original artwork, executive producer
Mackie Osborne: new artwork on 1999 Ipecac reissue
