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2011 live album by Melvins

Sugar Daddy Live

Live album by Melvins

Released

May 31, 2011

Recorded

Busta-Guts Club Downey, California

Genre

Alternative rock

Length

61:36

Language

English

Label

Ipecac (CD)
Amphetamine Reptile Records (Split Series)

Melvins chronology

The Bride Screamed Murder
(2010)

Sugar Daddy Live
(2011)

The Bulls & the Bees
(2012)

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	77/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
Popmatters	8/10
Revolver

Sugar Daddy Live is a live album by the Melvins, released on May 31, 2011. The songs are taken from their 2008 tour, with the majority of the tracks coming from their two most recent studio albums at the time, (A) Senile Animal and Nude with Boots.

Two songs from the same show that were left off of the live album were released separately. "Suicide in Progress" was released in a split 7-inch with Totimoshi on Volcom Entertainment. "Billy Fish" was released as "Billy Fish Alive" as part of the Joyful Noise 2013 flexi series.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Nude with Boots"	3:59
2.	"Dog Island"	5:55
3.	"Dies Iraea"	3:19
4.	"Civilized Worm"	5:39
5.	"The Kicking Machine"	2:32
6.	"Eye Flys"	9:12
7.	"Tipping the Lion"	3:44
8.	"Rat Faced Granny"	2:48
9.	"The Hawk"	2:24
10.	"You've Never Been Right"	2:46
11.	"A History of Bad Men"	5:39
12.	"Star Spangled Banner"	1:47
13.	"Boris"	11:44

Split Series

All thirteen songs were released as 12-inch singles for a split series through Amphetamine Reptile Records with bands selected by the Melvins, taking nearly three years to finish. Though some of the bands submitted new material, others like The U-Men and the Cows contributed previously released material due to being defunct.

Vol. 1: U-Men

"Gila" was originally released on the U-Men's self-titled debut EP in 1984.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Nude with Boots"	3:59
2.	"Gila"	2:18

Vol. 2: Cows

"Chow" is from the Cows' second album, Daddy Has a Tail, released on AmRep in 1989.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Dog Island"	5:55
2.	"Chow"	3:43

Vol. 3: Off!

Off! provided a cover of "No Reason to Complain", originally by The Alarm Clocks.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Civilized Worm"	5:39
2.	"No Reason to Complain"	1:15

Vol. 4: Killdozer

"Lupus" was released in 1989 on Killdozer's Twelve Point Buck album and as a single.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Dies Iraea"	3:19
2.	"Lupus"	3:09

Vol. 5: Midwest Hardcore

A trio of classic hardcore bands from the midwest United States: Negative Approach with "Sick of Talk", Die Kreuzen with "In School" and Necros with "IQ32".

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Kicking Machine"	2:32
2.	"Sick of Talk"	0:34
3.	"In School"	1:29
4.	"IQ32"	0:24

Vol. 6: Butthole Surfers

All Butthole Surfers tracks are taken from a live performance dated January 31, 1987. "No Rule" is a Leather Nun cover.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Eye Flys"	9:12
2.	"Pittsburgh to Lebanon"	3:45
3.	"No Rule"	2:13
4.	"Gary Floyd"	2:02

Vol. 7: Mudhoney

All Mudhoney tracks are taken from a single live performance.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Tipping The Lion"	3:44
2.	"If I Think"	3:58
3.	"I'm Now"	2:43
4.	"Judgement, Rage, Retribution and Thyme"	2:19
5.	"The Open Mind"	2:12
6.	"Tales of Terror"	3:26

Vol. 8: Fucked Up

"21st Century Cling-Ons" by Fucked Up was released exclusively on this single.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Rat Faced Granny"	2:48
2.	"21st Century Cling-Ons"	4:45

Vol. 9: Napalm Death

"To Go Off and Things" is originally by the Cardiacs. "Oxygen of Duplicity" is a previously unreleased original.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Hawk"	2:24
2.	"To Go Off and Things"	2:31
3.	"Oxygen of Duplicity"	3:36

Vol. 10: Fantômas

The Fantômas tracks are taken from the original demo that Mike Patton made before the band was fully assembled. It was released in its entirety on a cassette included in the Wunderkammer box set.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"You've Never Been Right"	2:46
2.	"SKETCHBOOK 1: Page 20, 16, 26, 9, 15, 2, 19, 25 and 7"	9:51

Vol. 11: Melvins 1983

"Dogs and Cattle Prods" was previously released on Tres Cabrones in 2013.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Star-Spangled Banner"	1:47
2.	"Dogs and Cattle Prods"	8:58

Vol. 12: King Buzzo

"The Vulgar Joke" was originally released on This Machine Kills Artists in 2014 and was the only song left out of the three volume 10-inch vinyl release of the album through AmRep.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"A History of Bad Men"	5:39
2.	"The Vulgar Joke"	2:37

Vol. 13: Karp

"Rowdy" came from Karp's last single, released in 1998, and was later included on Action Chemistry. "Bacon Industry" comes from the band's final album, Self Titled LP, originally released in 1997.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Boris"	11:44
2.	"Rowdy"	5:14
3.	"Bacon Industry"	3:56

Personnel

King Buzzo - guitar, vocals
Dale Crover - drums, vocals
Coady Willis - drums, vocals
Mr. Warren - bass, vocals

Additional personnel

Toshi Kasai - engineer
John Golden - mastering
Mackie Osborne - package design, illustrations
Ben Clark - live photos
Jane Adams - live photos

References

"New Release: Melvins: Sugar Daddy Live". Pitchfork.com. Archived from the original on May 26, 2011. Retrieved May 31, 2011.
"Sugar Daddy Live by The Melvins". Metacritic. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
Lymangrover, Jason. "Melvins Sugar Daddy Live". Allmusic. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
Begrand, Adrien (June 28, 2011). "The Melvins Sugar Daddy Live". Popmatters. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
Geist, Brandon. "Review: Melvins - Sugar Daddy Live". Revolver. Newbay Media. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
"Melvins To Release 'Sugar Daddy Live' In May". blabbermouth.net. Archived from the original on February 28, 2011. Retrieved May 31, 2011.
"Melvins – Sugar Daddy Live". comfortcomes.com. Archived from the original on July 21, 2011. Retrieved May 31, 2011.
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Studio albums	Gluey Porch Treatments Ozma Bullhead Lysol Houdini Prick Stoner Witch Stag Honky The Maggot The Bootlicker The Crybaby Electroretard Hostile Ambient Takeover (A) Senile Animal Nude with Boots The Bride Screamed Murder Freak Puke (Melvins Lite) Everybody Loves Sausages Tres Cabrones (Melvins 1983) Hold It In Basses Loaded A Walk with Love & Death Pinkus Abortion Technician Working with God (Melvins 1983) Five Legged Dog Bad Mood Rising Tarantula Heart
Collaborations	Pigs of the Roman Empire (with Lustmord) Never Breathe What You Can't See (with Jello Biafra) Sieg Howdy! (with Jello Biafra) Three Men and a Baby (with Mike Kunka)
EPs	Six Songs Eggnog King Buzzo Dale Crover Joe Preston Tora Tora Tora The Bulls & the Bees
Live albums	Your Choice Live Series Vol. 12 Alive at the Fucker Club Colossus of Destiny Millennium Monsterwork 2000 (with Fantômas) Houdini Live 2005: A Live History of Gluttony and Lust Melvins vs. Minneapolis Sugar Daddy Live
Compilations	Singles 1–12 The Trilogy Vinyl Electroretard 26 Songs Melvinmania: Best of the Atlantic Years 1993–1996 Neither Here nor There Mangled Demos from 1983 The Making Love Demos Chicken Switch
Video releases	Salad of a Thousand Delights Live from London 2006 (with Fantômas)
Singles/songs	"Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More" "Love Canal/Someday" "With Yo' Heart, Not Yo' Hands" "Boris" "Venus in Furs" "Honey Bucket" "See How Pretty, See How Smart"
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