― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 17 September 2006 02:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Humpty Dumpty LSD, Widowermaker, Electriclarryland (not that good at all; practically IWS)
― Butt Dickass (Dick Butkus), Sunday, 17 September 2006 02:44 (seventeen years ago) link
I was lazy! I'd hear it all before, of course.
"...and I walked on down the hall, and I saw my father again..."
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 17 September 2006 03:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Sunday, 17 September 2006 05:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 17 September 2006 05:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ficky Stingers (Bimble...), Sunday, 17 September 2006 08:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ficky Stingers (Bimble...), Sunday, 17 September 2006 08:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 17 September 2006 08:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Sunday, 17 September 2006 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Oh No It's Dadaismus! (Dada), Sunday, 17 September 2006 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ9lCXVLpiY&mode=related&search=
― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 17 September 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=butthole+surfers&search=Search
― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 17 September 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Richard Bliss (mazdachik), Sunday, 24 September 2006 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― JB Young (JB Young), Sunday, 24 September 2006 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Butt Dickass (Dick Butkus), Sunday, 24 September 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Marmot, ya gotta get Humpty Dumpty if only for the rousing froth-at-the-mouth track "I Hate My Job", which is the only other tune they've ever done that equals "Suicide".
― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Sunday, 24 September 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link
No, there was plenty of '60s US garage psych that was intentionally dumb, intending it as humor. And plenty of it somewhat psychotic as well - though not making a real big POINT about it like the Butthole Surfers. Also plenty of '70s proto-punk w/ garbage-psych aspects that was fucked up as well.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 24 September 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link
The only thing I can think of is that Spazz song ("Get offa the floor, boy, people gonna think you're a Spazz") from the Pebbles comp and another one called "I Wanna Get Back (from The World of LSD)" or something like that... but I can't think of any where the singer WAS the fool. They were usually talking about the fool or being foolish. Hope you get what I'm saying.
― Butt Dickass (Dick Butkus), Sunday, 24 September 2006 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link
For '70s proto-punk psych: Debris, Twinkeyz, Simply Saucer
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 24 September 2006 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link
I didn't reallize Simply Saucer was '70s. Some dude gave me a cd-r of one of their albums a few years ago and I sort of thought, "well, some things never change," thinking it was the new generation's alternapsyche. I'll have to dig it out again.
― Butt Dickass (Dick Butkus), Sunday, 24 September 2006 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ben H (Ben H), Sunday, 24 September 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm pretty much convinced "Concubine" is one of the best songs I have ever listened to.
That is all.
― Ivan, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 18:49 (sixteen years ago) link
What's this rumor about a 2008 Summer tour of Europe with Teresa & Pinkus? Anyone hear anything?
― StanM, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 14:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Total classic, was into them back in the day like some were into the Grateful Dead. Had mad bootlegs of their shows. But they lost it on Pioughd. Still a few good tracks on that lp, but maybe its Paul Learys production, or the upcoming big label support. I gave up on them in the 90s. Still think 'Double Live' is a fantastic record, 'Hairway to Steven' too. Punk, psychedelia, and a sick live show, what more could anyone want? I hear some Surfers in Comets on Fire for some reason, nowhere else though.
― U-Haul, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Classic, but my view of them these days is as much colored by the whole thing with Corey Rusk and T & G as it is by the swesomeness of Psychic Powerless.
Strange how a band so uncommercial in its amazing heyday should come to mean being all about the money, whatever shit you have to release, whatever friend you have to fuck over. . . .
― SecondBassman, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Classic - for 'Psychic Powerless...' and any live Buttholes show. Humour. The guitar in 'Mexican Caravan' . FFS. I could smell the desert dust on these deranged fucker's boots trying to score some smack.
Saw Pinkus' HONKY in Austin about 5 years ago. He was the softest, most loveliest piece of shit going. Just had to put his dog to sleep. It was sad.I think I mentioned it before but it's really not that interesting. RIP Pinkus' dog.
― Fer Ark, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Sorry _ it was Jeff Pinkus' dog. It was ill. He had had to put it down before gig. I wasn't very clear.
― Fer Ark, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Total classic, was into them back in the day like some were into the Grateful Dead.
I hear ya. their stage show between '86 and '90 has never been topped. they bottled up crazy and sold it like lemonade.
― Edward III, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link
all those shows at the old ritz in nyc were pro-filmed. I'm patiently waiting for the day they slip out of the vaults....
― Edward III, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:27 (sixteen years ago) link
mind-boggingly detailed gigography here:
http://www.jasonramke.com/bhs/main.php
― Edward III, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link
from their forum:
"Paul will not be going on the European tour but will likely join for the NY show after the European tour. The only US shows (as of now) will be on the East Coast - like Philly, NY and maybe DC.
Europe - so far looks like Scotland, England, Denmark, Germany, France, The Netherlands and possibly Spain."
― StanM, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
scotland!!! so, i will possibly finally get to see them as they never played here back in the day. the question is, do i really want to see the buttholes 2008 version?
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 17:10 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm asking myself the same question, for the same reasons. Find I haven't heard ANY of their 90's output.
― Soukesian, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
".....probably with a slight flange."
― flowersdie, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I didn't read this whole thread, sorry if this is redundant. I am, like many of you I bet, supposed to be working!
i think everything up to pioughd is total classic, pioughd is still very good although the magic had started to fade, and everything post-pioughd is crap, bin it. i think they decided to take the grunge/alt rock dollar in order to fund their other projects. and why not?
that jack officers acid house album is a complete mistake though...
OTM except the Jackofficers record was a joke, get it?
― Saxby D. Elder, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link
everything post-pioughd is crap,
Independent Worm Saloon, Electriclarryland and Humpty Dumpty LSD do contain a lot of great stuff, though. The only ignoreable thing they ever did was Weird Revolution. (Don't know about any side projects, tbh)
― StanM, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I saw them at the Marquee in NYC (that obsessive site marks it as 4/25/91). One of only two shows at which I genuinely feared for my life. I had taken a whole bunch of cold medicine (for an actual cold) and then drunk a 40 oz. of Budweiser, and was somewhere between coma and hallucination for the whole set. The crowd was a massively oversold roiling mass, the films were scrolling, Gibby was shooting fireballs at the ceiling...I was terrified and exhilarated, and will forever regret not buying one of their tour T-shirts (a b&w photo of a newborn piglet being given an injection with a giant needle, with the Newport cigarettes motto "Alive With Pleasure!" underneath).
I recently stuffed Psychic...Powerless...Another Mans Sac, Rembrandt Pussyhorse, Cream Corn From The Socket Of Davis, Hairway To Steven, Locust Abortion Technician and Double Live into my iPod after having not listened to them for about a decade. Brilliantly fucked studio work - I'd forgotten just how great. I'm revisiting Flipper lately, too - wish their second album had come out on CD at some point.
― unperson, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 19:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Classic, up to a point. When I was in college I had this little balcony off my bedroom. We'd go out there and blare records from my bedroom. Next door was an irritating little dog that really bugged us. One day, by accident, we discovered that when we played Psychic, Powerless... the dog went crazy; barking and jumping around, etc. So...needless to say, that record got played quite a bit that summer.
And no...I don't feel sorry for the dog. It was really an awful little dog.
― kwhitehead, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.buttholesurfers.com/tourdates.html
Butthole Surfers will be playing shows on the east coast and Europe this summer. For these shows, Jeff Pinkus will be on bass and Teresa Taylor (along with King Coffey) on drums. This is the rhythm section the band had for most of the 80s and marks the first time this line up has played together since 1989.
Paul Leary has prior commitments and unfortunately can't play the European dates (he will be on stage for the New York City show and possibly more stateside).
However, fear not, our European friends. Joining the band onstage for all shows in the US and Europe will be The Paul Green School of Rock All-Stars. This mob of teenage geniuses will blow your mind, forming a virtual Butthole Surfers Orchestra when they play with Gibby and company.
Check back for more confirmed dates/ticket info (more European dates announced soon).
6/24/08 - Asbury Park, NJ - Asbury Lanes - get tix here 6/26/08 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club - get tix here 6/27/08 - Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory - get tix here 7/04/08 - Glasgow, UK - ABC1 - get tix here 7/05/08 - Manchester, UK - Academy 2 - get tix here 7/06/08 - Wolverhampton, UK - Wulfrun Hall - get tix here 7/26/08 - London, UK - Kentish Town Forum - get tix here 7/29/08 - New York City - Webster Hall - get tix here
― StanM, Saturday, 17 May 2008 13:41 (sixteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Green_School_of_Rock
http://www.schoolofrock.com/index.php
― StanM, Saturday, 17 May 2008 13:42 (sixteen years ago) link
No reunion shows in Texas, and only half of them with Paul?
boooooooo
― Mackro Mackro, Sunday, 18 May 2008 01:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Might have to go to that.
― unperson, Sunday, 18 May 2008 03:19 (sixteen years ago) link
CLASSIC until they started to sound like a Goth band, thereafter DUD -- DadaFrom way upthread, but funny 'cuz to my ears, a lot of their best stuff sounded goth nearly from day 1 ("Cherub", "Concubine", "Whirling Hall of Knives", "Waiting for Jimmy to Kick", etc.).
Love the Butthole Surfers. Paul or no, I wish they were playing some West Coast dates. (Wish, too, they hadn't been such dicks to Touch & Go, but I guess that's another thread.)
― contenderizer, Sunday, 18 May 2008 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
i love the butthole surfers because they just don't give a fuck.
― pipecock, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 16:26 (sixteen years ago) link
They def give a fuck about $$$$$. At least some of them.
― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 17:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Which is fine. But, as already discussed ad nauseum, the way some of them have achieved this has burned some bridges in lame ways in the past...
― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 17:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Still doesn't stop Psychic Powerless from being one of the best rock records ever.
"Gimme MAH BACON"
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 17:17 (sixteen years ago) link
(it's about giving head when you're six years old)
it's about coming of age it's about learning how to do it it's about learnin' how to experience things the way they ought to be experienced it's about growing up it's about licking' the shit off the floor it's about doing the things that you ought to do it's about being a butthole surfer it's about doing promotional work it's about it's about PR it's about all these things it's about loving yourself it's about loving your mom it's about loving your dad it's about doing the things it's about going to the go-kart track it's about loving everything your pop, your kitty all the things the catfood, the little bits of crayons the melted pieces the loving friends all the things you wish you had
― StanM, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 17:25 (sixteen years ago) link
GREAT song. Always creeps me the fuck out (in a good way, of course). That's the thing about their early Touch & Go material - it's just seething with raw sickness. I remember reading an interview with the band circa 'LectricLarry, and interviewer guy was trying to get them to admit that there might be something, you know, a bit unwholesome about a song like "Cherub". And they flat-out denied it. Course, they're famous for being assholes to interviewers, but I wonder if in saying it they really believed it. That core of real (or real-seeming) pathology dropped after Locust Abo, in favor of the "weirdness" and strange comedy of Hairway and what came after. Wonder if they noticed the change, if they really understood just how disturbing/disturbed-seeming some of the earlier stuff was.
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link