CLICK HERE for Reviews of Albums by THE BUTTHOLE SURFERS!
FROM REVIEWS:
LOCUST ABORTION TECHNICIAN – This is the one. My god, what an unholy racket! The concept this time is frigged-up blues metal. A semi-cover of Black Sabbath’s “Sweet Leaf” starts it off rather uneventfully, but then it really gets weird. Little bits of songs, sludge guitar recorded at the wrong speed, thrash parody, Indian music (recorded off of a record, I’d wager), a sexual assault nightmare taped off of talk radio and tacked onto a frighteningly heavy bass line, more industrial noise, and ONE semi-normal rock song, “Human Cannonball.” I really can’t praise it enough. It might be the most enjoyable, least accessible record ever put out by any band that was later signed to a major label. A great party record. Wonderful album cover, too. Definitely the pinnacle of their career.
HAIRWAY TO STEVEN – This time, the goal was to create well-written, well-played, and well-produced SONGS – pop, rock, blues, psychedelia, folk, etc.; the strange thing is – they’re completely successful, but this band’s idea of what constitutes a “normal song” is so bizarre, it’s still probably the most creative (and, well, WEIRD!) album to be released in 1988 by anybody! The songs don’t have listed titles (just drawings), but man overboard, do they ever have MELODIES! And truly godlike (as in Hendrix) guitar work…. Lots of experimenting with studio effects, but contained within a clean and “normal” framework.
