Chicken Switch

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Chicken Switch
Melvins Chicken Switch cover.jpg
Remix album by
Melvins and Various Artists
ReleasedSeptember 29, 2009
Genre Sludge metal, experimental, noise, plunderphonics
Label Ipecac
Melvins chronology
Live from London 2006
(2008)
Chicken Switch
(2009)
The Bride Screamed Murder
(2010)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Drowned In Sound (6/10) [2]
Fangoria Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Pitchfork Media (7.8/10) [4]

Chicken Switch is a Melvins remix album by various noise and experimental artists, released on September 29, 2009. [5] Unlike usual remix albums where the remixer is given a single track to work with, for Chicken Switch each remixer was given a full album to work with and pull from to create their track (and in some cases, more than one full album was used as source material). The song names were also newly selected by their remixer.

Track listing

No.TitleMusicSource album(s)Length
1."Washmachine Sk8tronics" Eye Yamatsuka Hostile Ambient Takeover 5:09
2."Emperor Twaddle Reemix" Christoph Heemann Honky 4:20
3."She Chokes Her Dying Breath and Does It In my Face" V/Vm 26 Songs 4:24
4."AAHHH..." John Duncan Lysol, The Bootlicker 5:02
5."Linkshänder" Matmos Gluey Porch Treatments 5:12
6."EggNog Trilogy i) She's Ivanhoe ii) Cancer iii) Inebriated" Lee Ranaldo Eggnog 4:24
7."SNOW REM REM IBVZ" Merzbow Stag 5:56
8."Prick Concrete/Revolution M" David Scott Stone Prick 3:23
9."Queen (Electroclash Remix)" The Panacea Stoner Witch 4:40
10."The Silky Apple Butter of Youth" Sunroof! Ozma 3:12
11."4th Floor Hellcopter" Kawabata Makoto Bullhead 5:06
12."disp_tx_skel_mach_murx" Farmers Manual Gluey Porch Treatments 5:06
13."Overgoat" Void Manes Houdini, Prick, Stag, Ozma, Hostile Ambient Takeover 4:35
14."Over from Under the Dog, Girl & Boy Treatment" RLW Gluey Porch Treatments 4:04
15."Hard Revenge Milly Bloody Battle VS. The Melvins Ozmatized Gore Police (Feat. Cardopusher of the Five Deadly Venoms)" Speedranch Ozma 5:15
16."Punch the Limo (mp3 bonus track)" Hiro Noodles King Buzzo, Hostile Ambient Takeover, and other albums3:04

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. "Drowned In Sound review". Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved October 2, 2009.
  3. Fangoria review Archived November 21, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  4. Pitchfork Media review
  5. "Melvins Set To Release "Chicken Switch" Remix". Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved July 18, 2009.