Butthole Surfers
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Audio interviews
Interview by Mark Sinker, Rock's Backpages audio, Spring 1988
What starts off as an interview with Gabby Haynes, Paul Leary, King Coffey, Jeff Pinkus, Teresa Nervosa, and soundman Ric Wallace, talking about their riotous Mean Fiddler show, and their weird fans, and Texas, swiftly evolves into a chaotic conversation involving killer bees, the plague, the firing of TV personality Jimmy the Greek — and is Rick Astley Satan? — via African music, their dancer Kathleen, and the strength of American amphetamines.
File format: mp3; file size: 67.8mb, interview length: 1h 10' 39" sound quality: ***
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The Butthole Surfers: Beach Bums
Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 26 October 1985
Taller than Jesus, ferociously noisy, militantly gay and quite probably off their trolleys, THE BUTTHOLE SURFERS are coming to get ya, ready or not. Blubbering ...
Butthole Surfers: Irving Plaza, NY
Live Review by Richard Gehr, The Village Voice, May 1986
SORRY, THRILL SEEKERS, unlike the Butthole Surfers’ recent Danceteria appearance, there were no Live Sex Acts Onstage this time around. At Irving Plaza April 26, ...
Butthole Surfers: Rembrandt Pussy Horse (Red Rhino RRE LP2)*****
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 3 May 1986
CRAZY HORSE ...
Butthole Surfers: Locust Abortion Technician (Touch and Go)
Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, July 1987
THE ONLY WAY to analyze a Butthole Surfers record is to separate the good (hard, funny) bullshit from the bad (soft, tedious) bullshit, which ain't ...
Honey of the 'Core: Ten Years After... and it's Almost Independents Day
Interview by Ralph Traitor, Sounds, 16 January 1988
During 1987 the US indie underground began surfacing in much the same way as it had here a full decade earlier. BYRON COLEY, co-editor of ...
Butthole Surfers: Swamp Things
Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 2 April 1988
THE BUTTHOLE SURFERS ARE THE MONSTER SOUND OF THE EIGHTIES, A SWELLING CULT WHO PULL THEM IN IN DROVES AND HAVE TO TURN AWAY JUST ...
Butthole Surfers: Riding The Shock Wave
Interview by Mark Sinker, New Musical Express, 16 April 1988
IN TEXAS, even daylight isn't ordinary. You can stay indoors and sleep, hide from the noon-time sun that way, but the overlit world outside is ...
Butthole Surfers: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 1 October 1988
WHAT GALAXY could spawn this space ritual? ...
Guide by Mark Paytress, Record Collector, February 1989
Mark Paytress Unravels the Career of the Cult American Band ...
The Butthole Surfers: Deeper & Down
Interview by 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 ...
Butthole Surfers: FU Proof Technology
Interview by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 12 January 1991
DEEP IN the heart of Texas, a marriage seemingly made in hell continues to flourish. ...
Butthole Surfers: Piouhgd (Rough Trade/All formats)
Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 2 March 1991
PIOUHGD — WHAT A SCORCHER! ...
Noise rock forsakes grunge for art and experimentation
Overview by Simon Reynolds, Details, March 1993
IT'S YEAR two of the post-Nirvana era, and the deluge of Seattle soundalike grunge flows on and on. These days, most hapless record buyers find ...
Butthole Surfers: Independent Worm Saloon (Capitol)
Review by Keith Cameron, Vox, April 1993
WITH THEIR last album, 1991's half-hearted Pioughd, the Butthole Surfers appeared to be relying on a well-cultivated knack for elaborate in-jokes, almost to the exclusion ...
Butthole Surfers: Independent Worm Saloon (Capitol) ***
Review by Ira Robbins, Rolling Stone, 10 June 1993
IS NOTHING sacred? This alternative thing has definitely spun out of control when the Butthole Surfers — America's worst underground-rock nightmare, a band that began ...
The Butthole Surfers: In Through the Back Door
Profile and Interview by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 24 June 1993
The Butthole Surfers are the certified shock jocks of the next wave ...
Nirvana, Butthole Surfers, Chokebore: The Great Western Forum, Inglewood CA
Live Review by Sara Scribner, L.A. Weekly, 13 January 1994
"UH, DO you like to rock?" Kurt Cobain asked the audience in a wimpy voice and slack-kneed stance. His chatty, I'm-one-of-you-guys, ongoing banter with the ...
The Butthole Surfers Ride A New Wave Of Popularity
Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 19 July 1996
HAS THE WORLD gone mad? Gibby Haynes, lead singer-songwriter of the Butthole Surfers, thinks it's a distinct possibility — and he spoke with us several ...
Feeding the Fish: An Oral History of the Butthole Surfers
Retrospective and Interview by John Morthland, Joe Nick Patoski, Spin, November 1996
CAST OF CHARACTERS Jim Berry Road sound engineer for the Butthole Surfers, 1985-92. Jello Biafra Lead singer of the Dead Kennedys and self-described "absentee thoughtlord" of Alternative Tentacles, ...
Invisible Jukebox: John Paul Jones
Interview by Mike Barnes, The Wire, September 1999
Every month we play a musician a series of recordswhich they're asked to identify and comment on — with no prior knowledge of what they're ...
Butthole Surfers: Crust Of A Wave
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2001
THEY STARTED musical life riding the first wave of US punk rock in the early Eighties, Texans purveying lo-fi snotballs of geetar with titles like ...
Sonic Youth And the Blast First Axis
Essay by David Stubbs, The Wire, 12 February 2009
AS FAR AS many people were concerned in the 80s, in the UK in particular, rock was a discredited medium. ...
Sonic Youth and the Blast First axis
Retrospective by David Stubbs, The Wire, February 2013
A previously unpublished essay by David Stubbs, on Paul Smith's Blast First label and Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon's Sonic Youth. ...
Someday All the Adults Will Die!
Book Excerpt by Pat Blashill, 'Texas is the Reason' (Bazillion Points), February 2020
THE MISFITS had never been to Texas. They were just four lunkheads from Lodi, New Jersey, who had heard about punk. They had black leather ...
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