EP
Smash the State E.P.
Smash the State E.P. is a short release from Melvins, put out by Amphetamine Reptile Records on 24 August 2007. It arrived in the middle of a long and restless run for the band, who had been making albums since Gluey Porch Treatments in 1987 and showed no sign of slowing down.
It sits between (A) Senile Animal from 2006 and Nude With Boots from 2008, which places it in a busy stretch for the group. For anyone following the Melvins' story record by record, it is a small but useful marker of where they were in the late 2000s, and a good excuse to dig into a catalogue that rewards the curious.
Smash the State E.P.: tracklist
Tracklist
- 1Smash the State
- 2Stalin's Solution
- 3Communist Concubine
- 4Useful Idiot
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1987
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1989
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1991
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1991
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1991
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1992
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1992
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1992
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1992
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1993
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1994
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1995
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1996
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1997
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1997
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1998
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1999
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1999
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2000
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2000
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2001
Colossus of Destiny
2001
Hostile Ambient Takeover
2002
Melvinmania: The Best of the Atlantic Years 1993-1996
2003
Neither Here nor There
2004
Pigs of the Roman Empire
2004
Never Breathe What You Can’t See
2004
Sieg Howdy!
2005
Houdini Live 2005: A Live History of Gluttony and Lust
2006
(A) Senile Animal
2006
Nude With Boots
2008
Melvins vs. Minneapolis
2008
Chicken Switch
2009
Sludge Glamorous
2010
The Bride Screamed Murder
2010
Melvins / Isis
2010
Sugar Daddy Live
2011
The Bulls & The Bees
2012
Freak Puke
2012
1983
2012
New Years Eve Ball Room Blitz
2012
Everybody Loves Sausages
2013
Tres cabrones
2013
Hold It In
2014
Chaos As Usual
2015
The Colossus of Destiny
2015
Beer Hippy
2015
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2016
Three Men and a Baby
2016
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2016
High Desert Overdose
2016
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2017
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2019
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| Source | Date | Note |
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| MusicBrainz | 24 August 2007 | |
| US release | 24 August 2007 | earliest US date |
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| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 August 2007 | US | Amphetamine Reptile Records | original |
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