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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Butthole Surfers |
| Record Label: |
Latino Bugger Veil |
| Genre: |
Rock and Pop |
| Subgenre: |
Alternative |
| Release Date: |
July 17, 1999 |
| Album Duration: |
32m:34s |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Sweat Loaf
2. Graveyard
3. Pittsburgh to Lebanon
4. Weber
5. Hay
6. Human Cannonball
7. U.S.S.A.
8. O-Men
9. Kuntz
10. Graveyard
11. 22 Going on 23 |
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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 tho... |
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