― Kodanshi, Tuesday, 5 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Greg, Tuesday, 5 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 5 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Kodanshi, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
http://thebigtrip.hypermart.net/images/danceman.gif
Weeehaaa! I wish I just changed the background to black, but I know I didn't. Still, you can't blame me for tryin.
― Nude Spock, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Kodanshi, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Omar, Tuesday, 12 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
My favorite recordings are: Hairway to Steven, Rembrandt Pussyhorse/Cream Corn, Locust Abortion Technician, and Psychic Powerless Another Mans Sac. Haven't bought their last couple. Whatever happened to the album Brown Reason for Living? I remember seeing it on vinyl but I don't believe it was ever evacuated onto CD.
― DeRayMi, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
"Psychic Powerless", "Cream Corn", and"Rembrandt Pussyhorse" being the ones to search for.. always liked "Locust", but it's a tad overrated. "Hairway" and "Widowermaker" were great and quite underrated.
The Butts were also an underrated influence on a lot of current damaged/complex rock.. like Terminal Cheesecake, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, etc... (Sonic Youth were influential in the same way too, but they seem to get more of credit for it...)
― Brian MacDonald, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― gareth, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― K-reg, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
(Idea for Butthole Surfers album title: All Things Must Pass Gas.)
― DeRayMi, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― bob snoom, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I was supposed to see them again, but it was an all ages show, and the person I was going with kept saying we would have plenty of time, that it couldn't possibly start as early as I was thinking it might start. So we hung around my apartment getting stoned. We showed up at the door, and the guy at the door said, "Dude, the butts are playing their encore now," or something like that.
This thread inspired me to get out some of the CDs and listen to them again, and a lot of this stuff still sounds good to me. At the same time, it's not really what I want to listen to these days, though "I Saw An X-Ray of a Girl Passing Gas" should be a more widely acknowledged classic. I remember being very dubious about that song based on its title, but when I finally heard it, I had to give in.
― Nude Spock, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― blackula!, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― lick my testimacles, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― norml, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Brian MacDonald, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nude spock, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― stevo, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I figured this thread was about dead... Don't hurt me!
I'm tired of celebrations of weirdness, too.
― DeRayMi, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nude Spock, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
The really interesting thing about this band, for me, is the consistent in-joke referencing from album to album. They repeat the same phrases or explore the same subject matter as previous for a line or two. It's an on-going thing and it's the thin line that keeps it all "the same". Just a quick example offa WR: "Shit Like That" he says "I need another DOCTOR!" and "doctor" is sung/screamed the exact same way as off the Widowermaker e.p. where he goes "DOCTOR don't toucha me there, DOCTOR" etc. There's a whole bunch of these references/phrases if you go back and play your albums, you'll see it clearly. It's funny. Other phrases: "empty parking lot" (found in Negro Observer and Golden Showers) and "get down", a phrase which finally gets it's own song on WR. Anyway, there's a bunch.
― Nude Spock, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
-Boredoms fan
― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 13:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 15:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 15:24 (nineteen years ago) link
(I know this is just more of an indie cred/protest issue, but if you can find the used Touch & Go copies, you're a better man/woman for it (and slightly more rich). The Butts kinda did to that label what the ex Dead Kennedys did to Jello Biafra...)
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link
shakey mo sounds knows what he's talking about, but i think youll be happiest with the great mid 80s trilogy material ("rembrandt pussyhorse" "psychic...powerless" and "locust abortion technition")hairway to steven isnt quite as good in my opinion, and stay way clear of anything after that. also, i'm not sure humpty dupty lsd really is a good career overview, it's more an odds and ends thing.
also seek out CREAM CORN ep, hard to find tho.
definitely agree with donut bitch, don't buy from latino bugger veil!!
― my name is limitless, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 16:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― beaty dna, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 17:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― beaty dna, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link
http://krqe.com/2018/01/07/woman-prompts-swat-situation-by-breaking-into-home-yelling-at-homeowner/
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:30 (six years ago) link
Man I'm so much better than people who do drink and drugs hahahahahaha.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:33 (six years ago) link
I'm still on my first mixed drink. Just zero tolerance at this point and the elevation probably doesn't help.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:34 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9ZqUWJZKyI
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:38 (six years ago) link
Baz Ghawanmeh5 years agoGreat song.. can do without the Hilary duff pics though
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:39 (six years ago) link
Not the Azar Habib song I was looking for but okay.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:40 (six years ago) link
I'm fucking between San Mateo and San Pedro (east-west) and Zuni and Central (north-south). Now go map where crazy things happen. Not far from there, I assure you.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:46 (six years ago) link
Here's the Azar Habib song. Ridiculous drug:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ih9ky99hoU
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:47 (six years ago) link
Really, WTF is going here?
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:49 (six years ago) link
Definitely a Best Song.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:51 (six years ago) link
The jump-cut at the beginning for one thing.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:55 (six years ago) link
samklasvegassamklasvegas4 years agoI want to love you where ever you are ... You are my candle lights in my holidays . Awesome!!
Exactly.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:56 (six years ago) link
lock thread
so far off from the topic of butthole surfers and moved to a place of free association
if this is a veiled cry for help, i hope you can be alright man
― kolakube (Ross), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:58 (six years ago) link
Oh, for pete's sake. No veiled cry for help. Thanks for your concern. Moving elsewhere.
If you don't think Azar Habib's songs are a little bit coterminous with the aesthetic of the Butthole Surfers, you haven't got ears.
Plus it's a Butthole Surfers thread.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 07:02 (six years ago) link
The Butthole Surfers thread is too chaotic! Shut it down!
Really.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 07:27 (six years ago) link
I am so not me OMG. I mean, NORMALLY, not now.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 07:28 (six years ago) link
<3 you rudipherous
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 07:36 (six years ago) link
You have not lived until you've read Kramer's in-depth story of the Butthole Surfers and Norway (in toto). Third of the three questions here:
https://believermag.com/logger/three-questions-for-kramer/
“He has told me that he has all ten of your records.”“We only have two. Believe me.”“Well, then maybe he is now dreaming. The Swedes are big dreamers."
“We only have two. Believe me.”
“Well, then maybe he is now dreaming. The Swedes are big dreamers."
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
Fucking hell.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 4 August 2020 18:46 (three years ago) link
A great read, thanks Ned!
"Of the ten or so times in my nearly sixty years that I have witnessed my life flashing before my eyes, Gibby was right there for eight or nine of them."
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 19:27 (three years ago) link
Incredible. There needs to be a book.
All 3 answers were just fantastic. I have had to revise my near life long idea of what Daevid Allen was really like.
But that Stavanger gig, OMG!
Thanks for the link.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 20:27 (three years ago) link
Whoa. Why is this thread purple. Is this a flashback.
― Branwell with an N, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 20:28 (three years ago) link
As good a time as any to note that there's a Kickstarter for a documentary happening -- already reached its goal and seven days to go, seems like it'll be good fare based on the people behind it:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theholetruth/the-butthole-surfers-movie/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 00:34 (two years ago) link
i have everything by them!
― xzanfar, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 02:11 (two years ago) link
Thank you! xp
― StanM, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 04:59 (two years ago) link
and also thanks for linking those three questions to Kramer! what a story teller.
― StanM, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 06:16 (two years ago) link
just something from 2017 I didn't know: https://superiorshit.blogspot.com/2017/06/how-artwork-fo-butthole-surfers-ended.html
― StanM, Sunday, 2 January 2022 19:51 (two years ago) link
on Kickstarter--Pledge $250 or more"What Does Regret Mean?" BookGet a special edition Melodic Virtue/Aaron Tanner's Butthole Surfers coffee table book, "What Does Regret Mean?" - the first 100 donors who will pledge $300 or more for this reward will receive a book signed by Gibby Haynes, Paul Leary, and King Coffey!
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 2 January 2022 19:58 (two years ago) link
Anyone hear Leary's new album yet?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 22:44 (one year ago) link
Born Stupid? Yeah, I thought it was surprisingly enjoyable.
― StanM, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 23:15 (one year ago) link
Just leaving this here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj38l9n98aE
― MaresNest, Friday, 6 January 2023 18:45 (one year ago) link
there are several clips with Gibby Haynes with The Paul Green Rock Academy on YT, from last Summer. All quite hectic.
― StanM, Friday, 6 January 2023 19:46 (one year ago) link
crucial chunks of the Butthole Surfers catalog are now available via Matador on digital services ; LP reissues coming down the road (please look both ways). Stream / download : https://t.co/6uSVENanQqmore detail : https://t.co/mhmcRvgwwB@buttholesurfers pic.twitter.com/XeKtLQz9Ld— Matador Records (@matadorrecords) May 24, 2023
― city worker, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 15:01 (ten months ago) link
crucial chunks of the butthole
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 18:46 (ten months ago) link
No bonus material? It's just a (bowel) movement then
― StanM, Thursday, 25 May 2023 10:28 (ten months ago) link
haha they removed Negro Observer
https://store.matadorrecords.com/psychic-powerless-another-man-s-sac
― StanM, Thursday, 8 February 2024 14:24 (two months ago) link
I just had a good look at the images of the vinyl, and it looks the the record covers all have a logo in the upper left hand corner now?
I just cancelled my order, these seemed like a good deal but not if they're messing around with the music and art.
― Cow_Art, Thursday, 8 February 2024 20:17 (two months ago) link
I think that's just a sticker maybe?
― StanM, Friday, 9 February 2024 03:26 (two months ago) link
I assumed that at first, but since when do they show stickers on the mockups with the record coming out of it?
Maybe it is, but messing with the music is my main problem with it. Part of the appeal was getting proper versions of these but I can't say that's the case now. And if they're willing to cut a song, who knows what other alterations there may be. I get being... embarrassed, maybe the Surfers themselves wanted the song removed. But for a B.S. song that has the word "negro" in the title, it could be a lot worse. Why not just change the title to "Observer?"
"I Wanna Be Black" isn't the best Lou Reed song but I'm not buying a version of Street Hassle that doesn't have it.
― Cow_Art, Friday, 9 February 2024 10:08 (two months ago) link
the remasters are very good though, heard the download versions and they're definitely improvements over the 1999 (?) reissues.
― StanM, Monday, 12 February 2024 21:58 (two months ago) link