The Butthole Surfers: Deeper & Down
Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 8 December 1990
AFTER OVER A YEAR OF SILENCE, the Butthole Surfers have re-emerged only to suffer the indignity of being topical. With uncanny punctuality, their cover of Hurdy Gurdy Man coincides with the current Donovan revival (an upshot almost as bizarre as the rehabilitation of The Carpenters earlier this year).
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