Locust Abortion Technician

Submitted by Matthew Baker on 16 August 2013 - 10:12pm

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Butthole Surfers

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USA

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Track-listing:

Sweat Loaf*Graveyard*Pittsburg To Lebanon*Weber*HAY*Human Cannonball*U.S.S.A*The O-Men*Kuntz*Graveyard*22 Going On 23

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Nominator:

Bean

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Meeting-date:

Thursday, 24 October 2013

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reviewed by

Matthew Baker

80s cartoon noiseniks at their peak

8-9-11

I love the Buttholes. They are very exotic, their acid frazzled Texan kind of way, You'd be scared to hang out with them, and they just didn't really seem to give much of a fuck about anything.

The late 80s were very fertile period for noisey envelop pushing bands. These were at the more puerile end, but at their heaviest they could still rattle a few rib cages.
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reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

Beavis and Butthole

8-9-11

I’m not sure that their band / album name doesn’t limit their appeal and undermine their more serious side of their work a bit. I came into hearing this with preconceptions that weren’t entirely accurate and which I probably didn’t entirely shake off. 22 Going on 23, in particular, is a powerful and disturbing piece on which you can, at best, feel the band to be ambivalent to the subject matter.

On the track Kuntz their assumed carefree, offensive wrecklessness possibly fitted more comfortably, this is an astonishing exercise in infantile behaviour but I found it pretty amusing, I can’t help but admit. This is one of a number of changes in direction that gives this album some shape, along with some great guitar playing, all sorts of creative vocal treatments and enough common drive to tie it all together. I found the latter half of the album stronger than the first and felt they were really striking out into some interesting areas. Imaginative and unusual.
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reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

You can't beat some classic Thai folk.

9

I really enjoyed this. I like the mixture of rock'n'roll, chaos/nonsense and psychedelia which prevents any track from quite being normal, you never know quite what's going to happen next.

There are glimpses of Pussy Galore in there (check out Dial M For MotherF*cker), as well as the More Fiends and the Residents. It's a shame I only really found out that I liked them now, as I'm sure they would have been fun to follow in days gone by when I was too busy chasing new indie sounds.
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reviewed by

Richard Norbury