Butthole Surfers

simonbrew · 12-19-2011, 07:27 AM

another band i need to get around to listening to more extensively

GravitySlips · 12-28-2011, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by fazstp

Ah, 'tis a thing of beauty.

probably the best song ever made

Stephen · 05-21-2012, 09:57 PM

Screen13 · 05-30-2012, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Molecules

Everyone will tell you start with this:

this is 1987, the album before it (the aforementioned Rembrandt Pussyhorse) is equally brilliant and the 1988 album Hairway to Steven is supposed to be the last album before they went more commercial, and i have to say it's my least favourite of the three

This is quite an album. Actually, during the era of Rembrandt and this, my best friend got me into them for a while. For some strange reason, I never bought Hairway, and pretty much left it there, but their early albums are great reminders of what it was like then. Saw a show in '87 in Flint, met my first real girlfriend there as well. Great show!

bob. · 05-30-2012, 05:05 PM

87 would have been a good year for them live.....i first caught them in 91....still fun....but not scary

Holerbot6000 · 07-28-2012, 06:45 AM

Funny, I just came across their PCP EP record, a live EP that I think dates back to the 80's. Man that definitely sounded like one scary show. And when you think about how many people there were arfed up on acid, that must have been something. I'm not a huge live album fan but that is actually a pretty fun record.

joy_circumcision · 07-28-2012, 01:28 PM

I've been obsessed with the Surfers' output for quite some time. The first EP and the debut are head and shoulders above most experimental rock music, and Rembrandt and LAT are definitely among the classics of the style, but the rest of their discography is so boring to me.

thesundancek1d · 08-07-2012, 09:42 PM

Slave System managed to get Sweat Loaf in it's entirety played on a local family radio station recently. Cudos.

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simonbrew Groupie Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: East London Posts: 25	another band i need to get around to listening to more extensively

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Holerbot6000 Music Mutant Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: near a record store Posts: 327	Funny, I just came across their PCP EP record, a live EP that I think dates back to the 80's. Man that definitely sounded like one scary show. And when you think about how many people there were arfed up on acid, that must have been something. I'm not a huge live album fan but that is actually a pretty fun record.

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thesundancek1d Groupie Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 11	Slave System managed to get Sweat Loaf in it's entirety played on a local family radio station recently. Cudos.