Butthole Surfers

This disc collects together the Buttholes' second full-length and a 1986 EP called Cream Corn From the Socket of Davis. The album reveals the band's Residents leanings more than any of their other records. A very upsetting listen, thanks to the painfully clear production. The EP has "Two Parter" which is awesome, and lots of puking noises, which are also awesome.

I respect these guys, really--their dedication to dementia is a rare and wondrous thing. But their claque's idea of accessibility is Iron Butterfly on bad acid digging deconstruction, yet another version of the touching avant-garde truism which holds that the proper study of incoherence is incoherent. Upped a notch or two for concept, attitude, hype, bullsh*t, somewhere in there. (Grade - B-)