Here are buttons to buy a few releases,
All these records are available from the labels who put them out. (apart from the columbus discount singles club 7" and the dullknife single)
Dullknife 7' - Terrible shame/Ghost of a flea pt 2 $6.50 (price reflects expensive packaging)
Mr Oblivion 7" (Columbus Discount)$4.50
'Thankyou very much 2XLP' (SS Records) $15.00
'Dim Are The Lights' 7 Inch (Convulsive Records) $5.00
'Christmas For The Crows' (Daggerman) $10.00
(prices do not include shipping)
REVIEWS - Dan Melchior has been much in demand this yr & like any solid mercenary, he delivers w/force & thunder. Without a doubt one of my favorite tracks've to date is his (apropos) menacing ode 'Post Office Line', haha, just the organ refain itself has enough lethal rounds in it to take out an entire station. This latest offering via Dull Knife is no slouch neither, 'Terrible Shame' bein absorbed in similiarly resigned, post psychedelic/hangover clarity as any've the outstanding tracks what can be found on the last V-3/Jim Shepard releases (atwixt 'Pimping In The 90's & 'Motorcycle Movie'). 'Ghost Of A Flea, Pt. 2' doesn't knock on the door so much as kicks it down & while it might jog my memory as a modern day companion to Flipper's 'Old Lady' dirge, unlike Shatter & co.-who liked to bully from a safe distance-Dan make it abundantly clear he's in the house to rob the men & fuck the women. Or is it the other way around? Either way I'm given the guy a wide berth! - Roland Woodbe - Siltblog
anyway a surprising new electro- direction for dan melchior, sounding not a million miles away from the dirty synth pop sound of crystal castles or the new yeah yeah yeahs album.
haha.
i kid of course.
it’s more of the same from our wayward wandering ‘garage rock musician’ (you gotta love the wiki inverted comma). a new(ish) ‘band/project’, dan melchior und das menace, and new double lp on s-s records.
he’s evolved (and evolving still) the garage mangled blues of broke revue into something extra special. released the wonderfully titled ‘fire breathing clones on cellular phones’ (among others) under his own exotic name. and now does his shit under the slightly more sinisterly and germanic… und das menace. i’d use the word prolific – not including the abandoned records. but i have a better one – polyphiloprogenitive. oof.
so ‘thankyou very much’ is another slice of raggedy genius, another sixteen well-heeled double slabs of murky balladeering, fuzzy blooze and clever-word-punked numbers, no sight of any billy childish golightly medway shenanigans (thank the lord (although the devil in the flesh lp is one of the few childish-y records i dig)) and the usual exemplar worderry and lyrical waxing. see where graham coxon nicked all his ideas before he slunk back to bluurgh - cows are just food.
'Christmas For The Crows' surely exhales great plumes of hempish wry from the Hangman chillum-like a spit & polish take on that old rapscallion, Sexton Ming-but also devours w/great success lost tins've indica laced biscuits purloined from stash mongers pining for tunesmithery & pluck that harkens back Syd Barrett, Viv Stanshall or that Oliver fella. So you might say I got a bit of egg on my face in regard to ol' Dan Melchior. But that's okay, he can pelt me with'em by the dozen so long as he keeps makin records of this caliber. -Roland Woodbe, Siltblog
No matter what group he's fronting, Dan Melchior always produces a very dapper brand of snot - - - the new Dan Melchior Und Das Menace single is out, and it's the shotgun blast to the belly we expected: a two man effort that combines keys with Melchior's murk to great effect. Hear what happens when someone calls Dan a hippy. It's groovy! - Byron Coley, The Wire
Dan Melchior Und Das Menace - Christmas For The Crows
LP (Daggerman)
I believe the reason Herr Melchior has been on seven
hundred record labels is that despite whatever it is
that makes him not be on any of these record label for
too long (an unresponsive public? a bristly
personality? Who knows?), basically anyone who fancies
himself a music label dude that gets delivered an
album as unfuckingbelievably awesome as this one is
going to release it regardless of logic, business
sense, or any other factor. That these ghostly,
genre-free (but not unrelated to blues garage, but not
actually identifiable as such) creepy musical
explorations are so instantly catchy is downright
eerie. How can something so dark and oddball bore
into your brain like a chewing gum jingle. Melch Ado
About Something! Roctober Magazine.
When people throw the term "songwriter" around nowadays I start to wretch inside. If I could send Jeff Tweedy fans adrift without hopes of return, I would have no regrets. So if this is the case who the fuck writes a good SONG in this day and age? The answer is clearly Dan Melchior Und Das Menace. If you want to find out what cult stars he's played with or with which famous rock stars he's shared stages, go look on the internet [Ed. You're already looking on the internet.]. If you want to hear rock and roll delivered like Doc Boggs, Mark E. Smith and Gene Vincent wrapped together then I suggest you go purchase Dan's new 7" on Daggerman Records immediately. The A-side "Elev to Mezz" is classic Melchior with all the bitterness, spite and humor that only he can muster - Steve Lowenthal, The Fader
Dan Melchior's never made a bad record, but his last few have been so incredible. My enjoyment and intrigue are ratcheting up to a whole new level even as he becomes seemingly more prolific. The Elev to Mezz and Pink Scream EPs are top-notch, comprising eight of the best examples of songcraft you may hear in 2007, and there's a new EP on Plastic Idol just around the corner. Plans are also coming together for Dan und Das Menace to tour, hitting the west coast in the first week of November. Surely, it's been said too often by lazy reviewers that Dan's music is "like the Country Teasers," and while I'd definitely recommend these records to any Teasers fans, such a one-sentence review is not a fair summation, and it does little to alleviate the confusion that exists about the man's music.
Most recordgeeks became familiar with Dan when the Broke Revue was anointed briefly as an up-and-coming "it" band in NYC, shortly after the time that Dan came to the States from his native England, where he had worked with Billy Childish and related projects such as Holly Golightly. The Revue even opened for much-hyped midmajor stars as Interpol, and my guess is that it looked like too much too soon for cred-conscious scene-honchos to hitch up to the bandwagon. I was skeptical, too. Probably a year or more went by before I learned that the Broke Revue's album on the In the Red was actually really good! And there were a buncha other records that came out around then by Dan which for me got lost in the shuffle, never bought, never heard. I thought I had him pegged as a bluespunker. I respected him for the raggedy edge and a unique singing voice, but I was afraid he was a little too prolific, and I felt late to the party after missing so many records.
Nowadays, Dan's music has become even more diversely influenced, and while it surely seems to share many influences with the Country Teasers, I also get the sense that Dan's got a subscription to the Messthetics series because The Pink Scream and Elev to Mezz sound as if they'd fit right into that (albeit, his music's blues edge is still more palpable than any of those British DIY bands of 1978-1980). There's keys and synths in there in places, even the occasional disco beat, but it's never the least bit cheesy, and like the Teasers' main man Ben Wallers (here's where the comparison does indeed ring very true), Dan's lyrics are enthralling enough to command close attention.
Rick Ele - Art for Spastics/KDVS
DISCOGRAPHY -
holly golightly/dan melchior/bruce brand - your love is mine/laughing to keep from crying - flapping jet 1997
dan melchior -wrong inside/crow jane 45 - hangmans daughter 1998
billy childish and dan melchior - devil in the flesh LP - sftri 1998
dan melchior's broke revue - this love is real CD - sftri 1999
the broke revue - oldtime futureshock LP - milou 1999
holly golightly and dan melchior - desperate little town LP- sftri 2000
dan melchior - instant love/that's no way to get along 45- smartguy 2000
dan melchior's broke revue - bad for my soul/art machine 45 - in the red 2000
dan melchior's broke revue - heavy dirt LP - in the red 2001
dan melchior's broke revue - andover,duluth,london 12"EP - version city 2002
dan melchior's broke revue - bitterness, spite, rage and scorn - in the red 2002
dan melchior - this is not the medway sound LP - smartguy 2002
dan melchior's broke revue - remote control/garage obituary 45 - tmu 2003
dan mel -key -ore's broke revue - gudbye ta sluggo CD EP - plastic records 2004
dan melchior's broke revue - o clouds unfold double LP - (never released) - 2004
dan melchior - the covert stomp LP - hate records 2005
dan melchior - hello I'm dan melchior CD - shake it records 2005
dan melchior - fire breathing clones ..ular phones CD - plastic records 2006
dan melchior - span of attention/to the river 45 - ssld records 2006
dan melchior und das menace - your lousy floor ep 45 - bughouse records 2006
dan melchior und das menace - elev to mezz/gravy train and ice cream truck/hippy! - daggerman records 2007 dan melchior und das menace - PINK SCREAM ep - -shake appeal records - 2007
dan melchior und das menace - back in the village/dog love - disordered records - 2007
dan melchior und das menace - madame nu/so real - plastic idol records - 2007 dan melchior und das menace - christmas for the crows lp - daggerman records 2008
world's lousy with idea's vol 5 - w catatonic youth and christmas island - almost ready 2008 dan melchior und das menace - she's so blank/certainly 14th st 45 - Almost ready records 2008
Mr Oblivion/Piledriver nitemare 2 - Columbus Discount records - 2009
Columbus discount singles club - The post office line/Tourists - Columbus Discount - 2009
Thankyou very much - double lp - SS records - 2009
Dim are the lights/I don't want to be nice 45 - on Convulsive records - 2009
It's a terrible shame/Ghost of a flea pt 2 45 - on Dulknife records - 2009
Obscured by Fuzz - LP - Topplers Records - 2009 COMING SOON
Split with the Fresh and onlys on Volar records
archeological resurrection of "O CLOUDS UNFOLD' by hook or crook
10" on Kill Shaman
Album on SS
A LOT OF THE ABOVE RECORDS ARE AVAILABLE AT -
danmelchior.net
DAN MELCHIOR und das menace's Friend Space (Top 35)
There's an exclusive interview with the mighty Dan Melchior in Issue 10 of Ice Cream For Quo, plus a review of the astonishing Obscured By Fuzz LP. If anyone would like a copy of the magazine, please get in touch.
This 14 track album by Dan Melchior is out now on the Topplers Record Label.
Dan Says... It's a good one I think, very loud and blasted out like the more 'punk' moments on 'Thankyou very much' , but with a good dose of mangled pop too.
Available from good independent dealers in the US and UK or direct from Topplers.
Thanks for the add. Now that I got your latest album I know what to wear if I ever end up at a party in Williamsburg. Hope to see you in Europe someday. a-b
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