Butthole Surfers: Locust Abortion Technician (Vinyl LP)

The second part of Matador’s reissues of the essential early records by Texas’s Butthole Surfers continues with three of their most insane slabs -- 1985’s Cream Corn from the Socket of Davis, 1987’s Locust Abortion Technician and 1988’s Hairway to Steven.

The period during which these records were first issued parallels the Buttholes’ transition from being weirdo Texas outcasts to becoming internationally recognised smut-kings of the American underground. In 1985 they were still the sole province of hallucingen-soaked punk rock freaks. By 1988 they had toured Europe, had records licensed internationally, and bought a house in Driftwood Texas to serve as their home base. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves.

1. Sweat Loaf
   
2. Graveyard
   
3. Pittsburg To Lebanon
   
4. Weber
   
5. Hay
   
6. Human Cannonball
7. U.S.S.A.
   
8. The O-Men
   
9. Kuntz
   
10. Graveyard
    
11. 22 Going On 23