Songs Melvins Have Covered
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A list of songs Melvins have covered both live and in the studio sorted by original artist name.
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Song | Original Artist | Original Album | Where Melvins Covered It |
Reagan's War Puppets | The Accused | The First LP | (live only - 1986) |
Sin City | AC/DC | Powerage | (live only - 1985) |
I Can't Shake It | The Angels | No Exit | I Can't Shake It/Some Girls split 7" with the Cosmic Psychos |
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Song | Original Artist | Original Album | Where Melvins Covered It |
I Am The Walrus/Revolution #9 | The Beatles | Abbey Road/White Album | (live only - WMPG 1999) - medley of the 2 songs |
I've Got To Run | Black Flag | TV Party | (live only - 1992) |
Six Pack | Black Flag | Damaged | (live only - 1986) |
Into The Void | Black Sabbath | Master of Reality | (live, 1993) |
Iron Man | Black Sabbath | Paranoid | (live only - 1985, also WMPG 1999) |
Symptom of the Universe | Black Sabbath | Sabotage | Hate The Police/Symptom Of The Universe split 7" with Mudhoney |
Tomorrow's Dream | Black Sabbath | Volume 4 | (live only - 1986) |
Out Of Focus | Blue Cheer | Vincebus Eruptum | (live only) |
Parchment Farm | Blue Cheer; Mose Allison | Vincebus Eruptum | (live 1992) |
Cherub | Butthole Surfers | Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac | Millennium Monsterwork 2000 and live, 2000/01) |
Graveyard | Butthole Surfers | Locust Abortion Technician | (live 2013-15) |
Moving To Florida | Butthole Surfers | Cream Corn from the Socket of Davis | (live 2015) |
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Song | Original Artist | Original Album | Where Melvins Covered It |
4'33" | John Cage | Shit Sandwich 7" | |
Dies Irae | Wendy Carlos & Rachel Elkind/traditional | "The Shining" Original Soundtrack | Nude With Boots |
Candy-O | The Cars | Candy-O | Ozma |
Just What I Needed | The Cars | The Cars | (live only - 1991) |
Tequila | The Champs | (live only - 2000/01 Tour) | |
Surrender | Cheap Trick | Heaven Tonight | (live only) |
Bang, Bang | Cher; Nancy Sinatra | (live only - 1985) | |
Theme | Clown Alley | Circus of Chaos | Singles 1-12; (Peel Session) |
Halo of Flies | Alice Cooper | Killer | live, 2001; Sieg Howdy! |
Return of the Spiders | Alice Cooper | Easy Action | Dr. Geek 7" |
Second Coming/Ballad Of Dwight Fry | Alice Cooper | Love It To Death | Lysol |
Missing | The Cows | Peacetika | Electroretard |
Deserted Cities of the Heart | Cream | Wheels of Fire | (live only - 2007) |
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Song | Original Artist | Original Album | Where Melvins Covered It |
Mr. DNA | DEVO | Duty Now For The Future | Live, August 2009 |
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Song | Original Artist | Original Album | Where Melvins Covered It |
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Song | Original Artist | Original Album | Where Melvins Covered It |
The Green Manalishi (With The Two Pronged Crown) | Fleetwood Mac | The Green Manalishi (With The Two Pronged Crown) 7" | The Maggot |
Love Canal | Flipper | Sex Bomb Baby | Love Canal/Someday 5" |
Sacrifice | Flipper | Gone Fishin' | Lysol |
Someday | Flipper | American Grafishy | Love Canal/Someday 5" |
Way Of The World | Flipper | Album Generic Flipper | Singles 1-12 (Peel Session) |
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Song | Original Artist | Original Album | Where Melvins Covered It |
Lexicon Devil | Germs | Lexicon Devil 7" | Lizzy CD Single; Singles 1-12 |
Leech | Green River | demo cassette | Gluey Porch Treatments; Singles 1-12 (Peel Session) |
Promise Me | Gun Club | Fire Of Love | Fool 7" |
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Song | Original Artist | Original Album | Where Melvins Covered It |
Theme From The Andy Griffith Show | Earle Hagen & Herbert W. Spencer | (live only - 1997/99) | |
Okie From Muskogee | Merle Haggard | Okie From Muskogee | The Crybaby |
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Song | Original Artist | Original Album | Where Melvins Covered It |
Ambition | Iggy Pop; Glen Matlock | Soldier | 'Hard Ons + Melvins Split 7"' |
J
Song | Original Artist | Original Album | Where Melvins Covered It |
Blockbuster | Jesus Lizard | Pure EP | The Crybaby |
Chrome | Jesus Lizard; Chrome | Chrome 7"; Chrome - Half Machine Lip Moves (medley of TV as Eyes/Abstract Nympho) | (live only - 2005/09 (with David Yow) |
Living After Midnight | Judas Priest | British Steel | live, 1997 |
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Song | Original Artist | Original Album | Where Melvins Covered It |
Bacon Industry | Karp | Self Titled LP | (live, 2010) |
Attitude | The Kinks | Low Budget | Everybody Loves Sausages |
Victoria | The Kinks | Arthur | Tribute To The Kinks 7" |
Cold Gin | KISS | KISS | (live, 1986) |
Detroit Rock City | KISS | Destroyer | Star Spangled Banner EP |
Firehouse | KISS | KISS | (live, 1986) |
God of Thunder | KISS | Destroyer | Hard To Believe: A KISS Covers Compilation |
Going Blind | KISS | Hotter Than Hell | Houdini |
I Want You | KISS | Rock and Roll Over | Live @ KOKO, London 2005 |
Living in Sin | KISS | Gene Simmons | Ozma (Intro to Creepy Smell) |
Love Theme (from KISS) | KISS | KISS | Ozma (As Love Thing) |
Makin' Love | KISS | Rock and Roll Over | left off the Making Love Demos |
Rip It Out | KISS | Ace Frehley | (live only - 1985/86) |
She | KISS | Dressed To Kill | (live only - 1985/86) |
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Song | Original Artist | Original Album | Where Melvins Covered It |
Dazed and Confused | Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin | 1995 WRIU Radio Show Soundcheck |
Trash Can Baby | The Lewd | Kill Yourself 7" | (live only) |
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Song | Original Artist | Original Album | Where Melvins Covered It |
With Yo' Heart, Not Yo' Hands | Malfunkshun | Deep Six | With Yo' Heart, Not Yo' Hands 7" |
Soup Line | March of Crimes | demo cassette | live, 'Melvins 1983' Tour 2009 |
Poison | MC5 | High Time | Singles 1-12; Wayne Kramer - The Hard Stuff |
Rocket Reducer #62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa) | MC5 | Kick Out The Jams | Hooch and Lizzy CD Singles |
I Got The Fire | Montrose | live, December 01, 1990 Ann Arbor, MI - Club Heidelberg | |
Magic and Ecstasy | Ennio Morricone | Exorcist II: The Heretic | live/rehearsal |
Jerkin' Krokus/Jerkin' Crocus | Mott The Hoople | All The Young Dudes | Judas Chang 7" |
Rock and Roll Queen | Mott The Hoople | Rock and Roll Queen | (live, 1993) |
I Want to Hold Your Hand | Moving Sidewalks; The Beatles | Flash | (live only - 2004-05) |
Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More | Mudhoney | Superfuzz Bigmuff | Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More/I Dreamed, I Dream Steel Pole Bathtub split 7" |
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Song | Original Artist | Original Album | Where Melvins Covered It |
Amazing Grace | traditional | live 1997 | |
Smells Like Teen Spirit | Nirvana | Nevermind | The Crybaby |
Stranglehold | Ted Nugent | live, 1994 |
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Song | Original Artist | Original Album | Where Melvins Covered It |
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Song | Original Artist | Original Album | Where Melvins Covered It |
Interstellar Overdrive | Pink Floyd | The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn | Interstellar Overdrive EP; Electroretard |
The Nile Song | Pink Floyd | Soundtrack from the Film More | (live 1991) |
Adolescent Wet Dream | Pussy Galore | Sugarshit Sharp EP | Night Goat 7" |
Q
Song | Original Artist | Original Album | Where Melvins Covered It |
Now I'm Here | Queen | Sheer Heart Attack | (Everybody Loves Sausages / live 2000-01 Tour) |
R
Song | Original Artist | Original Album | Where Melvins Covered It |
Today, Your Love... Tomorrow, The World | The Ramones | The Ramones | Brain Center 7" |
I Am Woman | Helen Reddy | (live only) |
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Song | Original Artist | Original Album | Where Melvins Covered It |
Star Spangled Banner | John Stafford Smith/Francis Scott Key | Star Spangled Banner EP | |
Boss Hoss | The Sonics | Here Are The Sonics | Boss Hoss/Patton Oswalt split 7" |
Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight | The Spaniels | live, 2007 Tour | |
Down on the Street | The Stooges | Fun House | (live, Spring 1990 US Tour) |
Loose | The Stooges | Fun House | (live, 1985-92) |
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Song | Original Artist | Original Album | Where Melvins Covered It |
Dreamachine | Throbbing Gristle | Heathen Earth | In Formation: A Tribute to Throbbing Gristle |
Hamburger Lady | Throbbing Gristle | D.O.A: The Third And Final Report | Tribute to Throbbing Gristle 7" |
Subhuman | Throbbing Gristle | Heathen Earth | Tribute to Throbbing Gristle 7" |
Buick MacKane | T-Rex | The Slider | Great Jewish Music: Marc Bolan |
White Punks On Dope | The Tubes | The Tubes | Foaming 7" |
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Song | Original Artist | Original Album | Where Melvins Covered It |
Lacrimosa | unknown (possibly Thomas of Celano) | The Lacrimosa is part of the Dies Irae sequence in the Requiem mass | Stag |
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Song | Original Artist | Original Album | Where Melvins Covered It |
Venus in Furs | The Velvet Underground | The Velvet Underground & Nico | Here She Comes Now/Venus in Furs Nirvana split 7" |
Warhead | Venom | Warhead 7" | Everybody Loves Sausages |
Hawaii Five-O | The Ventures | Hawaii Five-O | live/rehearsal |
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Song | Original Artist | Original Album | Where Melvins Covered It |
Arny/Arnie | Warlock Pinchers | Deadly Kung Fu Action | Foaming 7" |
My Generation | The Who | My Generation | live, 2008/09 Tour |
Ramblin' Man | Hank Williams | Take These Chains from My Heart B-side | The Crybaby |
Rock & Roll McDonald's | Wesley Willis | Greatest Hits | live, Jelvins 2005 Tour |
Let Me Roll It | Wings | Band on the Run | live, 25th Anniversary Tour May 2009 |
Youth of America | The Wipers | Youth of America | Electroretard |
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Song | Original Artist | Original Album | Where Melvins Covered It |
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Y
Song | Original Artist | Original Album | Where Melvins Covered It |
Rockin' In The Free World | Neil Young | Freedom | live, West Coast 1990 Shows |
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Song | Original Artist | Original Album | Where Melvins Covered It |
Nasty Dogs and Funky Kings | ZZ Top | Fandango! | live 1994/95; Singles 1-12 |