BUTTHOLE SURFERS – HAIRWAY TO STEVEN - LP •

BUTTHOLE SURFERS – HAIRWAY TO STEVEN - LP •UPC: 191401205917 Label: MATADOR RECORDS Format: LP Release Date: September 20, 2024 In stock items ship within 48 hours The second part of Matadors reissues of the essential early records by Texass Butthole Surfers continues with three of their most insane slabs 1985s Cream Corn from the Socket of Davis, 1987s Locust Abortion Technician and 1988s Hairway to Steven. The period during which these records were first issued parallels the Buttholes

UPC: 191401205917
Label: MATADOR RECORDS
Format: LP
Release Date: September 20, 2024
In stock items ship within 48 hours

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 recognized smut-kings of the American underground.

‘Hairway to Steven’ is a blast, ranging from the blood-smeared guitar-overload of “Jimi” to the acoustic guitar-based sing-along sweetness of “I Saw an X-Ray of a Girl Passing Gas” to the Fugs-like ranting of “John E. Smokes.” Yet, for all its strangeness, ‘Hairway’ got rave notices in places that had never paid the band any attention previously. It was the Buttholes’ last album of the ‘80s and marks the beginning of their ascendance into something akin to commercial success. Not that the band actually imagined anything at all like that occurring.

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