Butthole Surfers- Classic or dud?

Past their prime but not bad for past their prime:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE_MzjyC7lA

I also lost my hair stylist this weekend, but she was kind of rude and pompous anyway.

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Man, I hope this works out.

But shit, this is Albuquerque. Hold a family at gunpoint and be let out the same week.

Why should I be locked up just for being a little crazy over the weekend and engaging in DEVIANT COMMUNICATION. (That's actually just my term but echoes of discussions about linguistics classes.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE_MzjyC7lA

Mostly alright. I will be alright as long as the authorities don't fuck with me.

They should really worry more about drug addicts breaking into people's homes and attacking them with wooden crosses:

ok what the fuck happened to that story? Censored? Maybe they gave out more info. than they should have.

This kind of stuff tends to happen in my neighborhood but not necessarily my block.

Somewhat of a tradition to post long drunken series of posts.

http://krqe.com/2018/01/07/woman-prompts-swat-situation-by-breaking-into-home-yelling-at-homeowner/

Man I'm so much better than people who do drink and drugs hahahahahaha.

I'm still on my first mixed drink. Just zero tolerance at this point and the elevation probably doesn't help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9ZqUWJZKyI

Baz Ghawanmeh
5 years ago
Great song.. can do without the Hilary duff pics though

Not the Azar Habib song I was looking for but okay.

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.

Here's the Azar Habib song. Ridiculous drug:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ih9ky99hoU

Really, WTF is going here?

Definitely a Best Song.

The jump-cut at the beginning for one thing.

samklasvegas
samklasvegas
4 years ago
I want to love you where ever you are ... You are my candle lights in my holidays . Awesome!!

Exactly.

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

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.

The Butthole Surfers thread is too chaotic! Shut it down!

Really.

I am so not me OMG. I mean, NORMALLY, not now.

<3 you rudipherous

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."

Fucking hell.

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."

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.

Whoa. Why is this thread purple. Is this a flashback.

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/

i have everything by them!

Thank you! xp

and also thanks for linking those three questions to Kramer! what a story teller.

just something from 2017 I didn't know: https://superiorshit.blogspot.com/2017/06/how-artwork-fo-butthole-surfers-ended.html

on Kickstarter--Pledge $250 or more
"What Does Regret Mean?" Book
Get 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!

Anyone hear Leary's new album yet?

Born Stupid? Yeah, I thought it was surprisingly enjoyable.

Just leaving this here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj38l9n98aE

there are several clips with Gibby Haynes with The Paul Green Rock Academy on YT, from last Summer. All quite hectic.

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/6uSVENanQq
more detail : https://t.co/mhmcRvgwwB@buttholesurfers pic.twitter.com/XeKtLQz9Ld

— Matador Records (@matadorrecords) May 24, 2023

crucial chunks of the butthole

No bonus material? It's just a (bowel) movement then

haha they removed Negro Observer

https://store.matadorrecords.com/psychic-powerless-another-man-s-sac

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.

I think that's just a sticker maybe?

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.

the remasters are very good though, heard the download versions and they're definitely improvements over the 1999 (?) reissues.