Hostile Ambient Takeover

Hostile Ambient Takeover
Studio album by Melvins
Released	April 16, 2002
Genre	Sludge metal, noise rock, electronic
Length	46:23
Label	Ipecac
Producer	Toshi Kasai
Melvins chronology
Millennium Monsterwork 2000 (2002) Hostile Ambient Takeover (2002) Melvinmania: Best of the Atlantic Years 1993–1996 (2003)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Blender	[2]
Pitchfork	(5.6/10) [3]
Rolling Stone	(mixed) [4]

Hostile Ambient Takeover is the fourteenth studio album by the Melvins, released in 2002 through Ipecac Recordings.

Each song was released as a limited 7" vinyl single (limited to 2,500 copies each) that included exclusive B-sides, which are mostly covers (except for "The Anti-Vermin Seed" which was split up onto both sides of its single).

Track listing

All songs written by Buzz Osborne except where noted.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Black Stooges [5] [6] "	Crover, Osborne	0:31
2.	Untitled		5:58
3.	"Dr. Geek"		2:35
4.	"Little Judas Chongo"		2:03
5.	"The Fool, the Meddling Idiot"		7:49
6.	"The Brain Center at Whipples"		3:50
7.	"Foaming"	Rutmanis, Osborne	7:47
8.	"The Anti-Vermin Seed"		15:51

Singles

Vol. 1

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Black Stooges"	6:05
2.	"Foaming (Fast Version)"	1:55

Vol. 2

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Dr. Geek"	2:41
2.	"Return of the Spiders (Alice Cooper cover)"	3:07

Vol. 3

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Little Judas Chongo"	2:02
2.	"Jerkin' Krokus (Mott the Hoople cover)"	2:56

Vol. 4

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Fool, The Meddling Idiot"	7:24
2.	"Promise Me (The Gun Club cover)"	3:14

Vol. 5

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Brain Center at Whipples"	3:44
2.	"Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World (Ramones cover)"	3:17

Vol. 6

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Foaming"	7:54
2.	"Arny (Warlock Pinchers cover) / White Punks on Dope (The Tubes cover)"	3:12

Vol. 7

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Anti-Vermin Seed"	6:35
2.	"The Anti-Vermin Seed"	6:36

Personnel

• Dale Crover – drums, vocals, keyboards
• Kevin "Rutmanis" – bass, slide bass
• King Buzzo – vocals, guitar

with

• Sir David Scott Stone – thunder sheet, electric wire
• Adam Jones – virus

Additional personnel

• Toshi Kasai – engineer, mixing, keyboards
• John Golden – mastering
• Mackie Osborne – art direction, design
• Kevin Willis – photography

References

1. "Hostile Ambient Takeover - Melvins". AllMusic.
2. http://www.blender.com/guide/new/50480/hostile-ambient-takeovermillennium-monsterwork.html%5B%5D
3. "Melvins Hostile Ambient Takeover". Archived from the original on May 17, 2008. Retrieved November 13, 2006.
4. "Hostile Ambient Takeover". Rolling Stone . Archived from the original on June 2, 2007. Retrieved September 5, 2007.
5. "Discogs: Melvins - Hostile Ambient Takeover".
6. "Hostile Ambient Takeover".