Butthole Surfers
Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac LP

The early-mid ‘80s had their share of insane combos -- The Birthday Party, Black Flag, Minor Threat, SWANS, Einsturzende Neubauten, Big Black, Sonic Youth... The Buttholes shared elements with all of these groups, but added an insane psychedelic edge and a propensity for bizarre spectacle. And while the recordings are not the fully immersive experience of the Buttholes in concert, you may still feel as though you’ve fallen down a rabbit hole the size of Texas itself. By the time they started touring to preview and then support the revamped version of Psychic... Powerless... Another Man’s Sac, the Buttholes’ live show was a berserk, evolving extravaganza of strobes, smoke, clothespins, naked dancing, bullhorns, raving lunacy and music that was as madly mind-blowing as that of any band who ever lived. Another Man’s Sac was also wildly advanced over the previous records. Parts of the LP swaddled their punk edge inside so much oink and babble you almost couldn’t discern it, with other segments stretching out into a mutant form of garage blues, and others just swirling out of control. This evolution continued on Rembrandt Pussyhorse, which featured a set of tunes for which the Buttholes’ rock-based form destruction was mixed with experimental, tape-mangling passages of many flavors.

NEW / Released in 1984 / Reissue

Tracklist:

A1 Concubine

A2 Eye Of The Chicken

A3 Dum Dum

A4 Woly Boly

A5 Negro Observer

A6 Butthole Surfer

B1 Lady Sniff

B2 Cherub

B3 Mexican Caravan

B4 Cowboy Bob

B5 Gary Floyd