melt banana
 

melt banana playing at the melbourne international arts festival in october......

...saw them in dublin last year...fucking stunning!

...saw them in glasgow last year...fucking stunning!

I missed them last year in hamburg and I am still regretting it

saw them in southampton a few years back and they were indeed...fucking stunning!

i've seen them about 10 times, they are always amazing

saw em in bloomington, indiana 2 years ago... fucking stunning!

Seen them about 5 times (I think). One of those bands that everyone should see.

if they dont tour the rest of the country i am going to have to travel interstate

...missed them when they came to Detroit last year...fucking stunning!

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Also at the Dublin gig (see Pauliebee). Put me down for fucking stunning. And the singer is unspeakably hot. Best not speak about it, then.

I'd nail the 2 foot tall bassist.

always good live. in all honesty ive been getting over thier tunes lately, i just dont ever have any jones to listen to hyperactive spazzy prog punk stuff like them. which is wierd cuz i still dig the early records by dazzling killmen, u.s. maple, and the first yowie record. melt banana just doesn't do it for me anymore, as talented as they are they seem more of one of those "gateway" bands to me. they sound great and bizzarre when you're young and naive, but the second you listen to the electric eels or no wave (the 70s kind) or something like that i feel thier appeal drops. maybe it's just i don't dig this kind of thing anymore in general, but i feel if i wasa going to listen to fast as fuck spazz music id just go all out with dropdead or fear of god or something.

yeah, I never listen to 'em either.. but I've been listening to them for nearly 10 years now so of course I'm a bit over them at this point. Haha.

bambi's dilemma was totally overlooked as far as i know. bloody shame, it rocked.

overlooked? From what I've heard and seen, that was their most popular and well-recieved album ever. I personally know 2 people who hated Melt Banana who loved that record.

hm...i just dont remember hearing anyone talk about it /see anything about it on the internet...good for them, what do i know

I distinctly remember it being on tons of "top 100" lists and all that nonsense. Also, shortly after it came out, they toured with Tool and they did the theme song for Perfect Hair Forever. They grew much larger in success afterwards.

Of course, they are still the ultimate proof that some styles of music will never be popular. For as good as they are, as many fans as they have amassed, and for as long as they've been doing this shit... they still play in small clubs and people's houses and shit, often. Granted, that may be one of their choices, but you know, they should be much bigger at this point. They reached their glass ceiling with that last album, I think, I don't see them getting any more popular than that.

I am pretty sure they don't make a living off of their music. Also, I read that they said they can't even tour Japan, because it's expensive and people don't go see them anyway. Weird...

yeah, it was their most commericla record for sure.

they're mega-popular in tucson where i go to school. the so called "hip" kids there seem to don't go past hardcore and thrash type stuff, and melt banana seems to be "wierd band" for all those dudes, prolly because they're still fast and thrashy and did a split with discordance axis.

If anyone wants a pristine, unplayed copy of the 1997 split vinyl 5-inch they did with Xerobot, PM for details. I have the last copies of this release straight from Coat Tail records, and this was limited to 1000 copies when it was released twelve years ago.

xerobot, now there's a name I haven't heard in forever.

they're probably my favourite live band ever but i hardly listen to their records because i don't think their energy is really captured in recordings at all, at least not the ones i've heard.

Yeah, I have to agree with ya there. I remember one track specifically on Bambi's... I think it was called Crack Plaster Cast(?)... I thought it was quite 'poppy' (i say that pretty loosely) for them.

listened to "squeak queak creak" today, still sounded ok. but just for sure not where i'm at musically anymore. they're music is too tight, needs more breathing room, like king crimson who wre tight as fuck but still had room for thier guitars to swirl and thier drums to switch up, etc..

new melt banana ep:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/zl0f5i

never saw they live and that's fucking sad

I was lucky enough to see them twice live in Tokyo. Both times were amazing, but I discovered what they mean about being unable to tour Japan...

For one, they were about third tier of both bills. A few gaijins like myself were super excited to see them, but the Japanese people didn't react much at all. At one show everyone went batshit, but that was just because everyone was drunk (later in the festival day). People were happy to see me so happy, though.

The other time, no one reacted at all. Totally stood still silently. Same thing for DMBQ (which seems impossible). Then they reacted to some twee guitar J-Rock that sucked.

Don't think Japan has an awesome subculture just because of all the cool shit that makes it to the States. It's clearly much more difficult for a prize band like Melt Banana to make it in Japan than it would be if they lived in NYC or something.

Oddly, though, the show that I stood still was about the best I've seen from them. Might have simply been that I was actually watching rather than going weird.

yeah, i saw them 3 times in tokyo and it was never as good as when i've seen them in london. when i saw them in tokyo there was one crazy japanese dude who was at each show and determined to mosh but otherwise it was all just people standing still. I think the band tend to get more into it when they play abroad though as the crowd give them a much stronger reaction.

Fuck yeah. They're gonna be in chicago Nov. 30.

anyone hear this melt banana lite business?

http://www.amazon.com/Melt-Banana-Li.../dp/B002PJ8A9C

doesn't sound too lite, haha...

it should probably be called 'melt banana laser' instead

Gonna go see 'em tonight!

saw them last week. they were fucking incredible. have fun, dude!

Just got back.....and yes.


I'm fuckin' deaf. The show was....amazing.

Got pics. I'll post 'em later\z

Just got that but haven't had a chance to listen yet. I'm intrigued by the idea of synths though.

argh amazing live band.i saw them by absolute chance last year in brighton and it was honestly one of the BEST live shows i have ever seen. their records definitely don't do them justice.

can't wait to see them again...

yeah, i'm not sure if i can listen to their records sitting on my ass/exercising/dancing my ass off at home ever again. if there ever were a mandatory live band, melt-banana would be it.

So true, I'm pretty bummed I didn't even know they were in town here the other night.

I saw Melt Banana at Colchester Arts Centre on Sunday, I dont think ive ever been moved like that watching a band before, it was like being 17 again only without the badness. They were earth shattering.

it was odd because it was a Sunday night and the Arts centre is a converted church, with no barriers or nothing. And the best thing about seeing them in such a provincial setting on a Sunday is all the curious locals showed up, and you could tell that noone went out for a piss or a fag at any stage of the performance. I think its the best gig ive ever seen, and it finished at 9.45.
amazing