One, three, four. From W be easy Chicago and PRX, this is sound opinions. I'm Greg Kott.

And I'm Jim De Regattis. The Melbins were an inspiration to the 90s alternative rock explosion,

but their own mighty sound is hard to classify.

The Melvans join us to talk about their 34-year career.

Plus, singer-songwriter Billy Bragg makes the case for a little known 1950s music craze.

It's the moment when British pop music moves from being a kind of jazz-based

confection for grown-ups to becoming a guitar-led music for teenagers that will eventually conquer the world.

The story of Skiffle coming up on sound opinions.

You're listening to sound opinions and Greg we have got the mighty

Melvans talking to us about their career on this episode of sound opinions.

They defy any easy genre classification.

I mean the best way I can describe the Melvins is one of those handful of bands every time I see them.

The top of my head gets sliced off and my brain spill out all over me. That's the Melvans.

Coming up later in the show. But first, the mighty good road,

rock out a line,

who up too much.

Oh, the rock on a line.

She's a mighty good road.

If you want to ride it, got a ride it like a flight and get your ticket at the station on a rock out of line.

That is singer-songwriter Billy Bragg performing Rock Island Line.

That song was a huge hit in 1956 for a British singer named Lonnie

Donagen and it spawned a craze across the UK for skiffel music a raw take on

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