Butthole Surfers....

I just saw the Butthole Surfers play a couple weeks back, they still got it. I however could not handle the weed cloud surrounding them stage and had to move away and miss a bit of the video show that was going on during their set. Either way, the Surfers were amazing and I was reminded how little material of theirs I actually have. I went to Lot 49 and picked up the CD of their first single, which has the "PCPEP" tacked onto the end of this. The music is still as insane as the first time I heard it, just chaos. I've always heard from older dudes who used to say their live shows were legendarily nuts. It took me a long time to get into the Butthole Surfers, I really wasn't too into it. I was too "hardcore". I listened to only bands that were on REV, Wishingwell, New Age, etc. I quickly grew out of that and opened up my mind to new sounds. The Butthole Surfers were one of those bands that seemed so eye opening to me. So much that I saw them on the first Lollapalooza tour. They didn't play too much of the old stuff then, let alone anything off this 7". "Retro"mania wasn't cool yet. Bands didn't play their back catlogue yet, people weren't clamouring for it yet, their newer material didn't totally suck. The Butthole Surfers' latter radio friendly material is testament to this. But this e.p.- completely caustic, unfriendly, menacing, acid drenched freakouts. The opening track, "The Shah Sleeps In Lee Harvey's Grave" is a perfect opening salvo for this band. You can always find these CD's cheap; does anyone actually care about the Butthole Surfers anymore except for a handful of people in your town who saw them in 1987? I hope so....

18 songs makes the count at 17559....