| Prick | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Melvins |
| Cover: | Prick.png |
| Released: | August 5, 1994 |
| Recorded: | April 1994 |
| Length: | 43:31 |
| Label: | Amphetamine Reptile |
| Producer: | Melvins |
| Prev Title: | Houdini |
| Prev Year: | 1993 |
| Next Title: | Stoner Witch |
| Next Year: | 1994 |
Prick is the sixth studio album by the Melvins which was released in 1994 through Amphetamine Reptile Records under the name ƧИIV⅃ƎM. It has been said that because the Melvins already had a contract with Atlantic Records, Prick was released with the band name in mirror writing.
The album displays a distinctly experimental quality, with an eclectic selection including field recordings, electronic effects and loops, band jam sessions, a stereotypical drum solo that segues into an archetypal heavy metal guitar solo, and a track that's introduced as "pure digital silence"—followed by silence for a minute. Singer/guitarist Buzz Osborne has stated that Prick is "a total noise crap record we did strictly for the weirdness factor. Complete and utter nonsense, a total joke."[1]
The band claimed that they wanted to call the album Kurt Kobain but changed it after Cobain's death to eliminate the possibility of people mistaking it for a tribute record. They implied that Cobain, a friend and collaborator since their teenage years in rural Washington, was actually the titular "prick", because he died and therefore forced them to change the album's name.[2]
All songs written by The Melvins.
