| Product Summary | | Label: Latino Bugger Veil | | UPC: 00697410000524 | | Release Date: 7/20/1999 | | Buy.com Sku: 60319018 | | Item#: MVDYG4 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Sweat Loaf ~ Butthole Surfers |  | | 2. Graveyard ~ Butthole Surfers | | | 3. Pittsburg To Lebanon ~ Butthole Surfers | | | 4. Weber ~ Butthole Surfers | | | 5. Hay ~ Butthole Surfers | | | 6. Human Cannonball ~ Butthole Surfers | | | 7. U.S.S.A. ~ Butthole Surfers | | | 8. O-Men, The ~ Butthole Surfers | | | 9. Kuntz ~ Butthole Surfers | | | 10. Graveyard ~ Butthole Surfers | | | 11. 22 Going On 23 ~ Butthole Surfers | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Butthole Surfers: Gibby Haynes (vocals); Paul Leary (guitar); Jeff Pinker (bass); King Koffey (drums). | | Widely considered to be the Butthole Surfers' crowning achievement, 1987's LOCUST ABORTION TECHNICIAN plays to the Texas acid-rock band's strengths, unveiling one twisted tune after another. The album begins with "Sweat Loaf," the group's skewering of (and/or tribute to) Black Sabbath's "Sweet Leaf," and then moves on to the sinister, lumbering "Graveyard." As always, the gleefully subversive ensemble's calling cards are Paul Leary's blistering guitar lines and Gibby Haynes's maniacal yelping and distorted crooning. | | Although the Surfers aren't afraid to offer up a fairly straightforward punk song (the rocked-out "Human Cannonball" hints at their future accessibility), these mad sonic scientists seem most comfortable making listeners uncomfortable, as on the closing "22 Going on 23," which happily and intrepidly pushes the limits of offensive subject matter. Though some Surfers diehards (particularly those frightened by this record's surely Gacy-inspired clown face cover) favor the group's earlier work, most fans will attest to the bizarre majesty of LOCUST ABORTION TECHNICIAN. | | Widely considered to be the Butthole Surfers' crowning achievement, 1987's LOCUST ABORTION TECHNICIAN plays to the Texas acid-rock band's strengths, unveiling one twisted tune after another. The album begins with "Sweat Loaf," the group's skewering of (and/or tribute to) Black Sabbath's "Sweet Leaf," and then moves on to the sinister, lumbering "Graveyard." As always, the gleefully subversive ensemble's calling cards are Paul Leary's blistering guitar lines and Gibby Haynes's maniacal yelping and distorted crooning. | | Although the Surfers aren't afraid to offer up a fairly straightforward punk song (the rocked-out "Human Cannonball" hints at their future accessibility), these mad sonic scientists seem most comfortable making listeners uncomfortable, as on the closing "22 Going on 23," which happily and intrepidly pushes the limits of offensive subject matter. Though some Surfers diehards (particularly those frightened by this record's surely Gacy-inspired clown face cover) favor the group's even earlier work, most fans will attest to the bizarre majesty of LOCUST ABORTION TECHNICIAN. |
| | Artist Overview | | Few bands can lay claim to a title like "most deranged band ever" in quite the same way the Butthole Surfers can. Formed in Austin, Texas, in the early 1980s, the group combined punk and metal riffage, tribal drumming, and sheer noise with singer Gibby Haynes's hallucinatory psycho-ward ramblings. The Buttholes' live shows were at times terrifying, and their early albums were challenging, exhilarating, and utterly unique, making them a long shot to ever ink a major-label deal. Nonetheless, the band released two albums on Capitol in the mid-'90s and even scored a genuine radio hit with the song "Pepper." The band jumped to Hollywood records for 2001's WEIRD REVOLUTION. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 07/17/1999 | | Original Release Date : 1987 | | Catalog ID : 5 | | Label : Latino Bugger Veil | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00697410000524 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Uncut (p.84)
- 5 stars out of 5 -- "[P]robably the Buttholes' finest work....They're best remembered as purveyors of the best sort of '70s excess."Uncut (8/01, p.114)
- "...The Buttholes were never quite this strange again..." Alternative Press (7/95, p.83)
- Ranked #28 in AP's list of the `Top 99 Of '85-'95' - "...LOCUST ABORTION TECHNICIAN....represents the Buttholes at their most deliberately focused, confrontational, and downright evil..." Mojo (Publisher)
(3/03, p.76)
- Ranked #48 in Mojo's "Top 50 Punk Albums". Mojo (Publisher)
(3/01, p.115)
- "...This is a genius-flecked bad trip through a senseless world....The best recorded representation of their oeuvre, teetering between celebration of and revulsion at the sickness endemic in American society..." Mojo (Publisher)
(p.52)
- Ranked #5 in Mojo's "The 50 Most Out There Albums Of All Time" - "[O]ne of the most unsettling records of all time." |
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