Band of the Week - Butthole Surfers
I remember heading with my brother over to Tempe's Roads to Moscow one fine day in 1983 and flipping through the records. Often times we discovered new music simply by finding the most outrageous album covers. That is how we discovered Klaus Nomi, and this day that is how we discovered The Butthole Surfers.
Their first EP cover was pretty hard to miss and about the most outrageous thing at the time, so we bought it. Once we got it home and cranked it up, we realized it wasn't just a crazy cover, it was a crazy bunch of people making insane, but incredibly great music. From the opening notes of the Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey's Grave, you know this is something different. Hey went on to become a favorite, something the whole family could enjoy, which was a really weird experience in my family. Wichita Cathedral, Suicide, Revenge of Anus Presley, all of them were just fantastic and really made an impression on me in my weird teen years. Years later this original EP (which I think my bro still has) was reissued on CD with their second EP of live stuff. Just got it in the mail the other day and can't quit listening to it. Not quite punk, nothing like 80s new wave at the time, just something totally different and great.
Really weird to think that many years later they would have a hit single with Pepper. Hilarious how they were called the B-Hole Surfers by many media outlets. Electric Larryland, with Pepper on it is a great album, but my personal favorite is 1993s Independent Worm Saloon. Wow, just mind blowing from beginning to end. I cannot picture the calm and stoic seeming John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin hanging in the studio with Gibby and the boys producing this record, must have been amazing. Standouts for me include Wooden Song, Goofy's Concern, Alcohol and Annoying song, but all of them are great. This is a must have.
I could go on and on about them, but you just got to hear it. Go out and get these three I mentioned, then go get everything else. They are just freaking awesome. That is why they are my band of the week.
http://buttholesurfers.com
Their first EP cover was pretty hard to miss and about the most outrageous thing at the time, so we bought it. Once we got it home and cranked it up, we realized it wasn't just a crazy cover, it was a crazy bunch of people making insane, but incredibly great music. From the opening notes of the Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey's Grave, you know this is something different. Hey went on to become a favorite, something the whole family could enjoy, which was a really weird experience in my family. Wichita Cathedral, Suicide, Revenge of Anus Presley, all of them were just fantastic and really made an impression on me in my weird teen years. Years later this original EP (which I think my bro still has) was reissued on CD with their second EP of live stuff. Just got it in the mail the other day and can't quit listening to it. Not quite punk, nothing like 80s new wave at the time, just something totally different and great.
Really weird to think that many years later they would have a hit single with Pepper. Hilarious how they were called the B-Hole Surfers by many media outlets. Electric Larryland, with Pepper on it is a great album, but my personal favorite is 1993s Independent Worm Saloon. Wow, just mind blowing from beginning to end. I cannot picture the calm and stoic seeming John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin hanging in the studio with Gibby and the boys producing this record, must have been amazing. Standouts for me include Wooden Song, Goofy's Concern, Alcohol and Annoying song, but all of them are great. This is a must have.
I could go on and on about them, but you just got to hear it. Go out and get these three I mentioned, then go get everything else. They are just freaking awesome. That is why they are my band of the week.
http://buttholesurfers.com
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