''Everybody Loves Sausages'' is an album of

cover songs In popular music, a cover version, cover song, remake, revival, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by a musician other than the original performer or composer of the song. Originally, it referred to a version of a song release ...

by the Melvins, released on April 30, 2013. In similar fashion to ''

The Crybaby ''The Crybaby'' is the twelfth studio album by American rock band the Melvins, released in 2000 through Ipecac Recordings. It is the last part of a trilogy preceded by ''The Maggot'' and ''The Bootlicker''. The trilogy was later released on viny ...

'' it features guests on most of the tracks and even features the Melvins Lite on three tracks. Three of the tracks had been previously released in

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. Black Betty previously appeared on a split 7-inch with the

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion was an American three-piece rock band from New York City, formed in 1991. The group consisted of Judah Bauer on guitar, backing vocals, harmonica and occasional lead vocals, Russell Simins on drums and Jon Spenc ...

covering the same track. Female Trouble and Carpe Diem are featured on a split 12-inch with

Redd Kross Redd Kross is an American rock band from Hawthorne, California, who had their roots in 1978 in a punk rock band called the Tourists, which was started by brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald while Steve was still in middle school. With the additi ...

. A nine-part 7-inch Tribute series was released through

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between 2013 and 2015. Featuring ten songs from the album, seven of them featured bonus cover songs of each respective band.

Track listing

"Heathen Earth" is not actually a cover but an interpretation in the vein of Throbbing Gristle as there's no actual song by the band with that song title, just one of their albums. Osborne stated in an interview with Spin Magazine "This is Throbbing Gristle's Heathen Earth in the style of what Throbbing Gristle would do.".

Tribute Series

Vol. 1: A Tribute to the Scientists

Vol. 2: A Tribute to Venom

Vol. 3: A Tribute to the Kinks

Vol. 4: A Tribute to Pop-O-Pies and Tales of Terror

Vol. 5: A Tribute to Roxy Music

Vol. 6: A Tribute to David Bowie

Vol. 7: A Tribute to Queen

Vol. 8: A Tribute to The Jam

Vol. 9: A Tribute to Throbbing Gristle

Personnel

Buzz Osborne Roger "Buzz" Osborne (born March 25, 1964), also known as King Buzzo, is an American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. He is a founding member of the rock band Melvins, as well as Fantômas and Venomous Concept. Biography Born in Morton, ...

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guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

(1-6 & 8-12), bass (1, 4 & 5),

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

(3, 6-8 & 11), backing vocals (1, 2, 10 & 12), stylophone (5 & 10), all instruments (13) * Dale Crover – drums (1-12), backing vocals (1-3, 6, 8 & 9) ;with * Jared Warren – bass (2, 3, 6 & 8), backing vocals (2, 3 & 8) *

Coady Willis Coady Willis is an American drummer and a member of Big Business, High on Fire, White Shit, and the Melvins. He previously played in the bands Dead Low Tide, Broadcast Oblivion, and The Murder City Devils. Willis and Big Business bandmate J ...

– drums (2, 3, 6 & 8), backing vocals (3 & 8)

Special Guest Stars

* Scott Kelly – guitar & vocals (1) *Caleb Benjamin – vocals (2) *

Mark Arm Mark Arm (born Mark Thomas McLaughlin; February 21, 1962) is an American singer and songwriter, best known as the vocalist for the grunge band Mudhoney. His former group, Green River, was one of the first grunge bands, along with Malfunkshun, ...

– vocals (4) *

J.G. Thirlwell James George Thirlwell (born 29 January 1960), also known as Clint Ruin, Frank Want, and Foetus, among other names, is an Australian musician, composer, and record producer. He is known for juxtaposing a variety of different musical styles. ...

– vocals & vocal

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(5) *

Clem Burke Clement Burke (born Clement Anthony Bozewski; November 24, 1954) is an American musician who is best known as the drummer for the band Blondie from 1975, shortly after the band formed, throughout the band's entire career. He also played drums f ...

– drums (6) *

Trevor Dunn Trevor Roy Dunn (born January 30, 1968) is an American composer, bass guitarist, and double bassist. He came to prominence in the 1990s with the experimental band Mr. Bungle. While performing with Mr. Bungle, Dunn would dress similar to the ...

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double bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox additions such as the octobass). Similar i ...

(7, 9 & 11), vocals (9) *

Jello Biafra Eric Reed Boucher (born June 17, 1958), known professionally as Jello Biafra, is an American singer, spoken word artist and politician. He is the former lead singer and songwriter for the San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys. Initially ac ...

– vocals (10) *

Kevin Rutmanis Kevin Rutmanis (born October 17, 1958) is an American bass guitarist. He is of Latvian descent. Before getting into music, he was a student teacher. In late 1985, along with his younger brother Sandris Rutmanis, Thor Eisentrager, and then Jayh ...

– bass (10) *

Tom Hazelmyer Tom Hazelmyer (born 1965) is an American musician and printmaker. He is known as the founder and owner of the independent label Amphetamine Reptile Records as well as being the lead vocalist and songwriter for the band Halo of Flies. Biograp ...

– guitar & vocals (12)

Additional personnel

Toshi Kasai Toshi Kasai is a Japanense record producer, engineer, mixer and musician. He is most well known for his strong vocal production work with hard rock and metal groups such as his long standing relationship with The Melvins and his work with Tool. ...

– engineer,

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(2 & 5) *John Golden – mastering *Mackie Osborne – artwork

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Everybody Loves Sausages Melvins albums 2013 albums Covers albums Ipecac Recordings albums Experimental rock albums by American artists