Butthole Surfers- Classic or dud?

Humpty Dumpty is a career spanning rarities set. Actually pretty solid.

P.S.Y. is the only good song on pioughed IMO

yeah, that's the best bit anyway. i do like the donovan cover & "barking dogs" (a bonus track), "blindman" is okay-ish.

"strawberry" is my favorite indie worm track. like "P.S.Y.", it had been floating around as a live staple for quite a while before they finally got around to recording it.

also i take back saying "i might even prefer IWS" to piouhgd. had a very hard time getting through the latter earlier today. IWS at least has energy, focus and a bunch of memorable tracks.

All the best stuff from the Piouhgd era is on Widowmaker and The Jackofficers Digital Dump.

be sure to check out their career rarities comp humpty dumpty LSD, there are some truffles worth rooting from that trough

xp

― truth bomb lawyer mean mean pride (Edward III), Thursday, July 11, 2013 8:03 PM (2 hours ago)

who was in my room, dust devil and tongue are all keepers from IWS

My copy of Psychic, Powerless... has Cream Corn EP tacked on the end of it, and the song To Parter is called Two Part on that version.

A lot of Google sites call it "To Partner" as well. And then there's the case of "Lou Reed" sometimes being known as "Comb", except that BOTH titles appear separately on "Double Live" so I guess they're separate songs after all.

Side A
"Moving To Florida" – 4:32
"Comb" 1 – 4:57
Side B
"To Parter" 2 – 4:20
"Tornadoes" – 2:36

1 Titled "Lou Reed" on UK editions.
2 Titled "Two Part" on UK editions.

"pioughd" rules precisely because of the verse chorus verse songs, the DI guitar sound, the alesis drum noises, the shitty casio strings. it's a "fuck you" to buttrock "extremity". reunion shows tragic.

it's WACK AS FUCK

and therein lies the beauty of it.

And then there's the case of "Lou Reed" sometimes being known as "Comb", except that BOTH titles appear separately on "Double Live" so I guess they're separate songs after all.

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, July 12, 2013 1:40 PM (5 hours ago)

they're the same song

lou reed works in a beehive

"pioughd" was the first buttholes album i ever heard. put me off them for quite a while tbh. i like "revolution", "psy" and "hurdy gurdy man" though. isnt there some lame JAMC pisstake on that album too?

jeez watching the Buttholes do their cymbal fire thing (and any of their 80s party tricks) on TV shows in the 90s is depressingly lame in a way I can't describe

Maybe slightly more palatable at Lollapolloza or whatever

it's a "fuck you" to buttrock "extremity".

sometimes a lazy, halfassed album is just a lazy, halfassed album

and if there's any band i'm not gonna take just half an ass from...

You want the hole butt, obv

They should have split after 1993 - IWS should have been the last gasp

They don't suit late 90s/00s at all

re: Piouhgd;

1) the Donovan cover was one of my favorite songs for a while and was likely the thing that eventually that led me to go, er, deeper into their discography

2) I first got into them thru Hairway/Double Live, and Piouhgd def seemed like a natural extension, if a bit watered down by that point. The fact this is where Psychedelic Jam/PSY and Something had popped up, plus the aforementioned hurdy gurdy, kind of made it seem just this side of essential. Plus, I still love No I'm Iron Man, though def by this point Ween need not fear

this thread has revived my abiding interest to hear the P album.

I knew it was the end of an era when they played lollapalooza...

I think "play" is a bit of a misnomer. Way more of a noise terrorist set than when I saw them on Stairway. All vocal fuckery, shotguns, and ten minute versions of "Hey". It was awesome.

lol I forgot that PSY had singing over it

fuck this album!

I still love No I'm Iron Man

This track shocked me when I heard Pioughd, 'cause I was working at a lollege radio station in 1987/88 where onetime ('85) Buttholes bassist Trevor Malcolm was also working and making music. And I was listening to the station one morning and somebody played a solo recording he'd made a few days before, just freefrom atonal acoustic slide guitars and goofy overdubbed voices going "I'm iron man!" "No I'M Iron Man!" and so on - really ridiculous. But it amused me, and when I saw Trevor a coupla days later I told him how I'd heard it and really liked it. He acted really pained, said that he recorded the track while drunk and was embarrassed by it and had already erased the tape.

So years later I buy "Pioughd" and hear "No I'm Iron Man" and go "aha!" Maybe that track and Malcolm's earlier recording both derived from some silly shared idea that was going around during his tenure in the band? Seems plausible, given the halfassed recycledness of that album.

(Radio station in question was CJAM in Windsor, Ontario btw. Occasional ilxor peepee was a program director there at the time.)

jeez watching the Buttholes do their cymbal fire thing (and any of their 80s party tricks) on TV shows in the 90s is depressingly lame in a way I can't describe

naw it was ace when they did it on the larry sanders show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GmeD18ttWY

http://www.hark.com/clips/ywyyyxbdws-butthole-surfers-on-cb4

Master of Treacle is right. Once they hit the festival/ bigger stages all the fun of the stage show went out the window. In the 80's you were up close dodging flaming cymbals and piss wands in a club full of smoke, flashing lights and autopsy movies...Last time I saw them firing blanks was the big part of their performance?!?!

The Donovan cover isn't really a very creative cover and it's just good because that's a really good song. Their arrangement is just a half asst version of Donovan's
This was my first time really listening to this band and life is way too short for pioughed

(I just got a ilxor royalty cheque...thanks Sir Lord)

:D

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:-)

Anyone hear the Melvins record with Leary and the bassist on it?

Sitting here listening to "American Woman" and thinking there should be more covers like this of big classic rock songs, that are neither reverent nor pisstakes

Am I alone in thinking "Cowboy Bob" is a straigh-up rip of the Sisters of Mercy "Floorshow"?

There's a similarity, but I think it would be pushing it to say it's a rip. I'd be surprised if in 1983 when they wrote it the Butthole Surfers had heard a then unreleased demo from a UK band that had basically zero presence in the States.

Book about them, Let's Go To Hell, came out a few months ago. It's not cheap on Amazon, looks to be well-done. Anyone have it? One of the few bands where I do kind of want to know what the hell was going on. Watched their '84 performance along with early Beastie Boys the other day...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bezWjn1rT1E

I often wonder what Gibby has been doing for the past decade. Aside from the live tour, painting and the occasional guest appearance. Wikipedia says he done radio, maybe he does that now?

I'm not sure I've ever heard of Leary's newer band Carny.

did any of the late 90s/early 00s noise scene acknowledge the Butties as antecedents? Been listening to them all day and the similarity in goals/aesthetics/styles seems kinda obvious

http://thequietus.com/articles/22036-butthole-surfers-locust-abortion-technician-paul-leary-interview

As much as I loved Indepedant Worm Saloon, it really does seem right that they'd go back to the Locust Abortion Technician way of doing things, if they do another album.

Re: Leary saying this is an ideal time to do another album because of Trump. "Lady Sniff" springs to mind.

I don't think I've heard any similar music in years, I miss this kind of stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFVUvKm7ZzY

I couldn't tell if the sound was coming out of my speakers or out of the toilet.

As Ramtha said in a toast: TO THAT WHICH IS CALLED LIFE!

A tooooooooooooooooooooast.

I can't even listen to this!

Did you ever not drink for like six or seven or eight years and then have some vodkae to brimg a situation to ahead finally and finally? Yes? We; that's what we have here/

It is indeed a shit or get off the pot moment. Jesus this fucking Lenovo keyboard all the keys are in the wrong place.

I had a Dell that last like 15 fucking years and I didn't buy another Dell!

Self-inflicted wound.

I am distraight about a classical Chinese medicine practitioner with the fakesteyebrows in history. Maybe I can get over it, mayve not. It's not ven being in love. No, betrayal. Oh, I work with emotions, all about emotions. I didn't ven ask for fucking emotions. Just an allergy treatment. But okay, you want emotions,here tyou go. Oh, wait, no that's too much emotions. I should have known betterfrom her photo. But she looks so much better without all them aekup really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVemUWvl_z4

Native born New Mexican Taoist shaman with most likely Arab or Sephardic roots.

OMG shut this down no don't let him go on.

But it's not100% abiouyt that.Just 994 [eret

hey hey hey

because you see
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it's like this
I can't predict

anything

and all these Ice Queeen Aquariuzes with genuine Spanish roots, you knwo? Crypto-Jew or not.

Idon't know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVemUWvl_z4