Locust Abortion Technician

Some of these songs made me want to jam a screwdriver into my ears to make it stop. Some were okay.

I've had limited exposure to these guys, mostly in their later work, but I was pretty optimistic when this one came up. Wrongly so, as this one seems an acquired taste that I was just not interested in acquiring, with large swaths of noise and distortion that I found downright repellent. Almost can't believe this list chose this album over Electriclarryland, but given my experience with its questionable inclusions to this point, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. Overall, I found few enough redeeming qualities to round up from the 1.5/5 that I settled on, and am glad that whatever inspiration Kurt Cobain found in this album morphed itself into something resembling music through his lens.

Best thing about this album is the band's name.

I do love the song Human Cannonball. I find the rest to be unlistenable. One good song isn’t saving this from getting a 1.

This was a musical dumpster fire. There was one semi ok song in all this nonsense. It's turned me off from exploring their vast catalouge. Great dumb band name tho.

I gave this album the benefit of the doubt despite the juvenile album name and band names. Turns out that was a mistake, content is exactly as bad as you'd suspect. Only good thing with this album is that at least it doesn't steal much time from you.

This ain't music, just a bad joke made by people who desperately need to be the center of attention

I thought my favorite song was the 33 second one (because it was the shortest). Then I listened to it again...and it's just as bad as the rest of the album. Worst album yet.

what the fresh fuck is this 1 star

I bet this one would go hard if you had brain damage This albums an absolute mess, it’s the musical equivalent of rage bait. It’s like the rhythms are crafted to piss you off and the instruments are fine tuned to hurt your ears. The lyrics are very minimal which is probably a good thing honestly, as I don’t think there’s a whole lot of talent on display. Also congrats to The O-Men for probably being the single worst song we’ve heard on our journey so far, it takes special talent to make something that putrid. I really don’t like how edgy the subject matter gets, from the band name to the album title to whatever the hell that last song was. The reason it doesn’t quite approach Robert Wyatt level awfulness is that it at least keeps you engaged, every track is pretty short, the variety’s there, and when they want to they can actually sorta bang out a tune (I’ve definitely heard worse songs than human cannonball) It’s influential at least, so I can see why it’s on the list. Don’t get me wrong there’s zero chance I’d ever put this one on unless I got lobotomized but it’s interesting. Music is definitely deserving of a 1 star but at least it’s bad in a way I’ve never heard before rather than a boring way.

I'd be curious to meet someone who decided to spend their hard-earned money on this album in 1987

This is awful. Had to skip tracks 7 and 8. Really hard to listen to. And track 9. Track name gave me all I needed to know about the track.

I really don't like this. Some of the songs were super annoying--equivalent to someone repeatedly poking you, but doing it loudly and as obnoxiously as possible.

Another one of those albums make me question the office mentality when putting this list together. I have quite a wide ranging vocabulary but even I'm struggling come up with words that adequately describe this utter bowl of sputum that has been delivered. To call it noise is actually insulting the concept of noise itself so i'm left describing it as the biggest pile of horseshit I have ever encountered put together by the largest bunch of fuck knuckles. And there You have it, Only the fact I'm obliged to give it one star, but I do sir but I am doing so reluctantly having had my fingernails pulled out with a pair of pliers and my ears syringed with hydrochloric acid.

My husband (a normal, fairly mainstream kind of listener) and I (notoriously fond of a lot of weird shit) had opposite reactions to this album. Good thing it's the weird shit enjoyer going through the generator, huh?

So so so good, weird as fuck punk that makes you feel uncomfortable , American music at its best at times. Best track: Human Cannonball

The sweet spot of weird a raw talent

You either love or hate the Butthole Surfers. They are funny and weird and provide, sometimes, inciteful social commentary. For me, this was their finest hour. The songs sneak up on you and are remarkably catchy for their angular bent and mix of punk, metal, psychedelic and everything else they could think of. Top tracks for me are Sweet Leak, 22 Going on 23, Kuntz and Hunan Cannonball. The sly references, pseudo homages, and creativity that went into this record make it a worthwhile and wonderful experience. This LP regularly makes my turntable as a break from conventional. Again, this is not for everyone and for those who enjoy this chaos forced into pseudo conventional song structures this is can’t miss. 5/5

Potentially one of the strangest yet most enjoyable albums I’ve ever heard 5stars

Massive experimental weirdo banger I love it it’s great fun

Wonderful! Brings me back to 1987 in a good way

When Spotify was first released, many moons ago, I was studying music at college. Our tutor said "sit down, your lives are about to change forever". He told us of this magic new service where you can just listen to any song ever recorded. He asked us to shout out the most obscure songs we could think of, and the hefty lad sitting at the front said "Sweat Loaf". My life did change.

I've tried to listen to these guys before, but couldn't get into them. But damn, yesterday's listen had me in a state. I'm not even sure what to say about this other than it's an unpredictable, wonderful, horrifying mess of a record that had me in thrall for the entire duration. It's part punk, part jazz, part who the hell knows what. These guys are definitely Residents fans (and Sabbath, obv.), but other than that, I have no idea where this came from. I need to check out more.

Love the Butthole Surfers.

A masterpiece of psychedelic noise

I first read about the Butthole Surfers in the book Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad. I was immediately intrigued because everything about them in the book sounded somewhat insane. I wish I could have experienced the chaos of their live shows with the costumes, stripping, props, fake blood, lighter fluid filled cymbals, strobe lights, smoke machines, and naked dancers. Unsurprisingly, the music is a similarly chaotic and psychedelic mix of noise and punk rock. This album in particular is another that I absolutely love, but likely wouldn’t recommend to anyone unless I knew they had a similarly strange taste in music.

I have no idea how this band **EVER** got a hit. It of course happened in the same way that nearly every weird, established underground band did in the '90s, everyone was looking for the next Nirvana, and bands that Cobain liked were first on the list to get a chance in the sun. But the problem was that Cobain's taste in music was *incredibly* cool, and I don't think the label executives ever really even came *close* to getting it. And of all the bands that got a chance, Butthole Surfers may be the weirdest. I know what you're thinking, "their '90s stuff isn't that weird", and honestly it isn't. But anything from Locust Abortion Technician and earlier is a totally different ballgame. And Locust Abortion Technician was the culmination of all of it. The album is basically ~30 minutes of some of the most fucked up, genuinely twisted audio experiments most people will ever be exposed to. The thing sounds sick, as in unwell. Human Cannonball is the most listenable we get, and even it remains somewhat challenging. But everything else here is chewed up, slowed down, distorted, and much, much worse. It is punk taken to a deeply psychedelic place. The first song is mostly just the Black Sabbath Sweet Leaf riff played at incorrect speed, and slathered in Gibby Haynes vocals treated with his unmistakable "Gibbytronics", which was the effects device he used to fuck his vocals up as badly as possible. Gibbytronics are used to great effect on pretty much every song here. Graveyard (Not to be confused with Graveyard) sounds like a sludge 45rpm single played at 33rpm. It plods, and melts and sputters, and the vocals are an unintelligable, pitch shifted mush, in short, it's a fantastic song. U.S.S.A is also noteworthy for sounding a way that I don't think anything else ever has. An exciting new magic also reveals itself on the songs the really push music the farthest past what most people think it should, or even can sound like. Hey is structured like a joke that's kind of funny, then isn't funny, then becomes extremely funny. But compared to Kuntz, it is a mere footnote. Kuntz is built around a mauled sample of Thai folk song Klua Duang, performed by Phloen Phromdaen and Kong Katkamngae, and I cannot effectively describe how this song sounds through writing. But every song here is noteworthy for sounding baffling, disturbing, funny, and frightening, usually at the same time. This is a real landmark for those willing to make the plunge, and it is utterly original, exciting, and *truly*, *uncommonly*, bizarre.

Lo amee, muy yo 10/10

Off to a great start with an amazingly offbeat Black Sabbath "cover" and some sage wisdom. I feel like this album and I are going to be friends. This feels spontaneous and fresh all these decades later. This has aged very well and I love it more than I would have in...holy hell 1987. USSR is repetitive and dissonant, not a fan. The O-Men has a more metal-mixed-with-Devo feel to it that I enjoyed. Sort of if Smooth-Noodle Maps had been metal. This was an excellent album overall with just USSR rubbing me the wrong way.

Honestly, I didn't have a bad time at all with this album. Yes, sometimes it's just plain experimental nonsense. But it did not detract from my enjoyment of the rockin' riffs and the headbangers. The album feels like a "fuck you, I'll do what I want" more than a "This is sophisticated music, you just don't understand." kind of experimental. Update: I'm giving this a 5 just because I got laid off today. It's the perfect disorienting album to accompany it with. If you don't like that, eat my whole fucking dick.

I was dreading this album after looking at the reviews and ratings but I don't think it was too out there compared to some of the noise stuff that exists these days. It was basically just metal/punk that sounded a bit lofi sometimes.

Noise rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock, experimental rock, avant garde, alternative rock.

I love any album with obscure yelling and a bell here and there- no notes.

What an experience. This is my 705th album and likely the best I've discovered via this project. Unusual sludgy grunge, intersprsed with aboitoir noises, a traumatic phone call and a Black Sabbath sample? Count me in. Looking at the reviews this has been peppered with 1s and 2s, but all I ever see people complain about is how there's far too much 70s/80s prog and country. Here you go people, an actually interesting album and you've shat all over it. Big up the Butthole Surfers, I'll be back again and again!!

Just an amazing piece of work.

Remarkable album and an absolute wall of sound. Described as experimental and it's not wrong. Human Cannonball proves they can knock out a good classic, it's just they choose not too Loved it

Pretty dang rad. Chaoticly crazy fun. feel like most negative reviews are based on the name alone.

This is the album that exposes me as the fraud that I am. I like to pretend that I like beautiful angelic music with pretty compositions, with pristine production and vocals, maybe even some infectious harmonies. But at the end of the day I really am a sick in the head degenerate that likes to listen to angry music that’s so filled with hate for the listener that you can feel your ears bleeding. I don’t even know how I’m gunna begin to defend myself, because to be fair I should have to defend myself. No one can say they like this album without a lengthy explanation, usually along the lines of describing how I’ve been a huge fan of theirs since highschool when I discovered their album “independent Worm School” and much I just adored. It’s so weird and silly, and it’s still to this day refreshing when I find a band that aggressively doesn’t take themselves seriously. Like these guys have the tenure, the discography, and the edge to be on the same level if not higher than a band like Nirvana. But the biggest reasons why they are not and will never be on that level is because they are unapologetically themselves. This album has some much creativity and spiteful energy that it makes me so happy that it exists. There is genuinely nothing like this album and there never will be again. Even the butthole surfers could never replicate this unholy magic. I know it’s easy to disregard the love for this album as surface level contrarianism, but that’s what makes it special! It is contrarianism manifest, it’s pure counter culture, for better or worse.

#2380000000/1001. File under: head(phones) melting from the inside File under: hats of meat File under: songs as both disease descriptions and related medical procedures File under: Alaskan heatstroke theology File under: horror movies played backward File under: punk rock played by cockroaches on acid File under: comedy without toothpaste File under: inspiration in a liquid state File under: basslines sampling the ceiling File under: nonsense that knows exactly what it’s doing File under: stroboscope in stereo: ugliness in left, beauty in right channels File under: too stupid to be fake File under: too smart to be fake File under: fake File under: childhood nightmares with disposable drum kits File under: drinking milk without instructions File under: laughter, fear, then laughter again File under: dayscreaming for profit File under: seen live in LA in 1991, never recovered

incredible

This album is bonkers and I love it!

Fuck yeah. This is messed up but it's messed up good. Sometimes we all need a palate cleanser to scrape away everything else. I get why people don't like this, but I think it's brilliant. Great cover art.

This album blew my mind as a kid. I have no idea how I randomly picked it up 8-10 years after it was released, but it was the first time I heard anything even remotely like this.

rock and roll. pressure. anxiety

One of the most surprising and challenging pieces of music I've listened to. Loved it!

Bonkers. As a young punk rocker this band was far too psychedelic for me, but they have grown on my in the intervening years. Sprawling, messy noisy and silly. And most of all weird. Featuring possibly the best Black Sabbath cover ever. Love it.

Another top 10 (personally)🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

Fuck yeah, Locust Abortion Technician! I have had this album permanently saved to my spotify sidebar for a decade now, it's a masterpiece of noise rock. I'm skipping a lot of backlog 'cause I've heard and loved this album before and I'll love it again. It's weird, it's mind-shattering, it's probably best heard inebriated, it's SATAN SATAN SATAN, it's fucking awesome.

Completely taken me by surprise. Incredible album

Pure, beautiful chaos for my brain—count me hooked.

almost nothing in music writing will make u feel more like a dumbass than trying to put down words about a butthole surfers record, because its made of so many evocative parts and yet what are u supposed to even say about it. ig ill just say that part of the draw is that even compared to other artists theyre compared to, this album just constantly refuses to bother making recognizable Songs...not to litigate the definition of a song, but there's a different feeling between the relatively fully formed classic Human Cannonball and all the tracks where they find one riff or silly noise that they have fun making and just do that until it gets boring, which they clearly have a very low threshold for FHJSFHJSF. it rly is a record of far more Indulgence then the most outsized prog epics could ever be...no pretensions towards what the end product will even look like or how it will come across to people who are not the present tense Them. its hard not 2 have a good time!

An insanely good album

Sataaaaaaaaaaaan 10/10

Repeat listen

This album was banging proper weird in all the good ways loved it

Gibby Haynes - fuck yeah

How did a band with such a dumb name produce such a smart album?

Sweet Loaf, og Sweet Leaf med Black Sabbath. Begge er fede! Enormt punk at have 2 numre med den samme titel på det samme album. 😂 Det er tæt på Resident til tider, men her groover det bare også. Håber virkelig at mine naboer, og familien kan lide det her halvt så meget som mig, for det her er en den perfekte 5er for mig. Det var ukendt, det overraskede mig, det variere helt vildt meget, jeg keder mig aldrig, og men vigtigst, det er kort! Kort nok til at jeg har hørt det 4 gange idag.

Just beautiful crafted noise. I love this record!

This is the 12th album I’m rating. I don’t know what this is or who this but I can tell it’s metal from the name. Actually, it might be punk now that I think about it. Sweat Loaf - Adding to my Playlist. I got worried at the start but I was right after all. This is metal. Not a lot of genres would have a name like Locust Abortion Technician. I have a feeling that skit at the beginning is going to get annoying. Graveyard - Adding to my Playlist. I probably shouldn’t be adding this to my playlist because now this means I can’t listen to it at church. Pittsburgh to Lebanon - Adding to my Playlist. The voice is cool but I can’t tell what it’s saying. Weber - Not Adding to my Playlist. Too short. Probably good if it was longer. HAY - Not Adding to my Playlist. I can’t tell what’s going on in this song. Human Cannonball - Not Adding to my Playlist. That singing is annoying. U.S.S.A - Not Adding to my Playlist. Started off strong but got annoying. The O-Men - Not Adding to my Playlist. That is some strange singing. Kuntz - Not Adding to my Playlist. This sounds different probably because this definitely isn’t English. Graveyard - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is pretty cool but I feel like it goes on a little bit too long. 22 Going on 23 - Adding to my Playlist. I’m beginning to rethink if this is metal or not. I am very confused from listening to the other songs. This song is very confusing to me. Those parts with the talking aren’t that great but I really like the other parts. I’ll add it because it’s fun and experimental. All in all I liked 4/11 songs. Not the worst thing in the world but not that good either. This was better than This Year’s Model though. It started off strong but gradually got worse.

I had no idea these guys were doing things in the 80s. That's cool. I'm liking this one so far. Especially the first track. "And by the way, if you see your mom this weekend, will you be sure and tell her SATAN!!!! LOL. It's got such a cool intro. All slow and cinematic sounding. A bit mysterious. this secong one is cool too! Human Cannonball was awesome had that punk sound. U.S.S.A...KMFDM has a song called that. Man this is so different from the stuff I knew from them first which was that Pepper song. Welp, giving this one 5 stars!

It was definitely weird at first. But was over before I realized it. Fun music to zone out too.

Sounds super interesting

I’ve only known Butthole Surfers for their more popular tracks, especially when they started getting radio play back in my middle and high school days. That’s when all my friends were listening to them, but I never really gave their albums a chance because they felt like a more commercial, polished version of experimental music. At the time, I was already diving into more extreme avant-garde artists like John Zorn. Listening to this album now, I was surprised by how good and experimental it is, but in a DIY, punk, and sludgy way. If I’d heard this back then, my perception of the band probably would’ve been very different.

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Abbrassive and eery. Droning guitars, unusual song structure and animal noises to close it out. Transfixed the whole time. The spoken word radio in the final song with the heavy instrumental was a perfect way to end. Human cannabol was also a good standalone song, which is hard to say for the rest of them. Creepy and disturbing experience, but in the best way possible. 4/5. Giving it a 5 feels to far, an album like this almost doesn't want a 5.

Yes yes yes yes what a fucking weird band, very strange very odd I love it all 4/5 Best Song: 22 Going On 23

Love it when you hear the original of a sample. The rest of the album was an assault. Everything about this was designed to challenge and push boundaries and for that I appreciate it.

Heavy little monsters emerge dripping and ravenous out of a vat of sludge, wink, and dive back in.

surprised how much I liked this. scratches an itch

This type of just fucking around is so awesome. The last song and the Thai song do venture into the too far territory for me but isn't that point

When people say "Keep Austin weird" this is what they're talking about. Pretty funny to consider this was the state of acid rock in 1980s - did the Woodstock generation leave only the brown acid for the next generation, or was it Reaganism that twisted things? Disappointed they didn't credit Sabbath for their mutation of Sweet Leaf or the Kuntz singers.

I enjoyed this. Discord and noise are right up my alley. There are times where this album veers a bit too close to sillyness, particularly on O Men, and that stops it getting the full five. Overall though, very good.

And what a name! Yeah this was enjoyably weird, not too weird but love a bit of textural recorded spoken word stitched in - who doesn't? Nice one lads!

Mental but interesting. Enjoyed this more than I expected based on some of the reviews here.

What can I say, I like their kind of crazy. I'm more familiar with their later albums. I enjoyed going back in time and relistening to this, hadn't heard it since college.

love me some Surfers

Unreal pisstake noise rock album. Never gonna listen again but a fun time whilst it’s on

Hard to believe this band eventually had a couple of chart hits. Independent Worm Saloon was always more my jam, but I can see how this is the more relevant record.

Is this music you'd hear at a circus in hell? Maybe, but this is a crazy fun album and I'm surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I particularly liked Sweat Loaf and Graveyard (Pt. 2).

This is rough sledding but ultimately rewarding. Sweat Loaf still hits as a compassionate, sad and rational critique of societal attitudes towards sexual violence, while still managing to alloy that with detached irony. The prescience of The O-men makes is slightly hair raising. Demonstrates the Burroughs / Gysin maxim “cut into the present and the future leaks out.” Cyborg Lust! Terminate! I’m not sure I consider this easy listening. But in a category of its own.

Psychedelic noise rock at its most accessible, haha. Love this album

Weirdly, I first heard about this band about 10 years ago from my Intermediate Accounting professor, but haven’t listened until now. I actually like this noise rock, and have to support fellow San Antonians.

Um yeah. So...OK.

Too avantgarde for me, but cool. Great band. I like the artwork

interesting album. pretty cool

You forget sometimes just how forward thinking and innovative these guys are. An excellent album.

Quite enjoyed the weirdness of this one

Sweat leaf hehehe

I happen to really enjoy the butthole surfers

This record surprised me in a good way. Gritty, hard edged and on the verge of avant garde. The music was about textures and chunks of unique sounds rather than melody or harmony or a good hook.

It's one of the lowest rated albums on the site, so of course it's a) something I have in my collection and b) something I really like! From the moment that "Sweat Loaf" (a play on the closely named Black Sabbath track, and not the only track which meddles with Sabbathian playing) kicks in, you know that you're in for a wild ride. It exercises some wonderfully manic, discordant playing, off-piste tones, desultory structures and absurd lyricism, however it knows precisely when to lock into more conventional sensibilities and grooves in what feels like a partially sarcastic, yet well-considered manner. It's very much an album that you'd struggle to put into a specific box, where a consistent sense of irony, humour and surrealism are its aces up its sleeve. Elements of noise rock, experimental rock, psych rock, post punk, sludge metal and sampled tape music are all plain to hear, and they coagulate into a habitually thrilling package.

Максимальный мистербанглинг

not bad, but i didn’t love it. weird as hell so props for that

Confusing but interesting

30/03/2026 I'm as surprised as anyone to be giving this 4 stars, but there we go. What a scary world we live in eh? Spotify listeners: 1.6 million

Kind of cool. Before their time a bit, too.

Always liked sweat loaf but never heard the full album and whew wee it’s nuts

An experience that simply has to be seen (and unfortunately heard) to be believed. From the unhinged album name (to pair with the equally ridiculous artist name), to the album cover, to the actual “music” itself. Nothing I could say really does it any justice. The crazy thing is, there is some good stuff in here. And the Butthole Surfers are fully capable of making great music - look no further then “Who Was in My Room Last Night” from their 1993 album Independent Worm Saloon. 3.5/5

Hells yeah. Had no idea these guys were so cool.

This sounds like some buddies having fun together. What more could guy ask for?

My friends and I listened to this is in high school and held this in such high regard as a non compromising avant garde piece of genius. Listening to this today, this is still an uncompromising avant garde piece of genius, but sometimes it borders on unlistenable. I have a high respect for it, it's incredible and at the same time horrible. Objectively this is a 3/5, but it's a 5/5 in my heart, which puts it at a 4/5 overall :p

Zappa's Mothers of Invention for the 80s and beyond. I can't hear this band without thinking of their late drummer Teresa Taylor's appearance in Richard Linklater's Slacker and how perfectly she encapsulated a kind of New Weird America represented by celebrity worship and droll descriptions of gun violence. This album is essentially a bunch of kids playing around with new, exciting toys to see what outrageous and funny sounds they could make, but there's also a real sense of disaffection and contemporary urban malaise. It's the kind of music you might make if you were just fucking around with some friends, but because of that it's so uncompromising that there's a kernel of the sublime to it.

Cluttered, psychotic, experimental...a perfect representation of the human experience. For better or for worse, no one exists this ride the same person.

It turns out that any band that influenced Nirvana sounds better than Nirvana. A kitschy album.

Een album waarbij je bij voorbaat al weet dat sommige mensen dit cognitief niet kunnen verwerken. Hoe vaker je het album luistert hoe meer je ontdekt. Schijnt dat de live shows altijd een bijzonder spektakelstuk was. Er zitten grappige en interessante dingen in die je niet in één luisterdag kan vatten. De tempowisselingen, tape-loops en destortions hebben denk ik wel veel invloed gehad op artiesten die later kwamen. Ze laten zien dat muziek niet altijd mooi hoeft te zijn en zelfs lelijk mag zijn, het heeft een andere functie. Van provoceren en experimenteren en optredens niet alleen als muziek te zien maar een hele act. Het was niet altijd mooi maar wel leuk om naar te luisteren. Denk dat de "before you die schaal" nog meer geld voor de hele act in die tijd dan alleen de studio albums. Had het wel willen zien.

感觉停在第9首挺好的，发泄之后整理情绪

I honestly found this to be a refreshing experience. Won't necessarily enter heavy rotation, but a worthwhile listen, good change from the blandness.

Classifying this record is challenging. It’s noisy and disjoint, messy and loud. There are blips of radio-adjacent songs but this album, in short ~2 minute blasts, mostly challenges convention. The use of shattering guitars and pounding sludgy bass over backtracking and tape effects and, at times, incoherent lyrics come together to create an aural psychosis. These guys (and a gal) pushed music forward at a time when the radio was full of saccharin over-synthetic dreck. Experimentation is messy and doing new things is hard. Butthole Surfers are uncompromising in their art and I appreciate them for that. A record that begs me to come back to it is certainly worth the stars.

YES! a deranged, demanding, difficult listen. MORE OF THIS KIND OF THING !!!

Good.

Love the wierdness

porra eu curto butthole surfers desde aquela do guitar hero que me ajudou a desenvolver o que hoje eu chamo de "síndrome do tunel do carpo" no pulso esquerdo barulhento, esquisito e relativamente duvidoso em diversos aspectos? gostamos!!!!

ou fortíssimo esse aqui hein uma bela mistureba de música barulhenta e desconexa. tudo de bom, gostoso demais. ouvir no 5550 com dois moradores de rua brigando foi uma experiência

Raw, punky fun.

Brilliant weird menacing plus some cool riffs

4.5

Highlights: Sweat Loaf, Human Cannonball

Day735 - these buttholes are pretty talented and socially ahead of the curve but 22 going on 23 made me sad

Insane in a good way.

I own this, think they should be on the list, and think this was the right choice as representive of the band. That said, certainly not for everyone, but necessary to see just how weird American underground music could get in the 80s. An aside: a Letterbox review of the movie Slacker has been making the rounds lately: "A beautiful snapshot of what life can be like when an entire city is mentally ill in roughly the same way. You could show this to basically any human being from any era in history and -barring language barrier issues- they'd be able to correctly guess which member of this cast played drums for the Butthole Surfers."

Kant get enough

Do drugs kids 👍

To me, an evolved faster and coked out crazier cousin of the great Duck Stab album I had here before. Pretty good!

Cool and weird band with a cool and weird record. Not quite Electriclarryland to me but still quite good.

Weirdly enjoyable

Giving this a 4 for originality and general overall bizarre craziness. But my day was not conducive to having to sit through this, and I didn't really enjoy it. 4

- lembra quando eu comentei que o final dos anos 80 foram importantes? então, ele germinou várias maluquices que são rotuladas de post-punk, essa é uma delas. - tem uma lírica meio gore que eu particularmente não sou fã, mas também faz você se questionar sobre arte e sociedade.

Album review 023 Locust Abortion Technician by Butthole Surfers (1987) Rating 4/5 I’ll admit that when the 1001AlbumGenerator dealt me Locust Abortion Technician, I thought this would be an album that I’d instantly dislike and end up giving a 1/5. I expected a puerile, limpbizkit-like half-hour of disappointment and distaste, with crappy songs aimed at frat boys. I’m pleased to say how wrong I was, so don’t let the band’s or album’s name give you any pre-conceived ideas like I did! Without wanting to sound too reductive, this is heavy, sludgy, proto-grunge and it’s made me want to take the day off and spend it digging into their back-catalogue.

Unlistenably great

Interesting and messy.

Probably the least accessible collection of material from the Surfers. It's taken years for this to grow on me. You have to want it. What's helped me is to think of this as a soundtrack rather than a rock album.

Brash, noisy and sometimes impenetrable. The attitude and energy is amazing at times. Not every experiment works here but lots of great stuff to enjoy. Obviously not for everyone but definitely for me.

Ultimately here's what I love about this project: this was a band I knew nothing about, this was an album I knew nothing about, based on their titles I thought I was going to hate it, and I was kind of blown away. If you've ever seen and loved any noise rock band in a small club (which, ideally, should be most of you here), this plays like your favorite club band giving free rein to do whatever the hell they want and going for it. It's loud, kinda punky, kinda psychedelic, kinda heavy on the weird samples, and all in all makes for a pretty unforgettable listening experience.

The Surfers are so good!

*Gordon Ramsay Voice* finally, some good fucking music

This was another one I came into with absolutely zero expectations. Honestly, I think that was an extremely special experience. As I drove to my father's house for a Thanksgiving meal, I thought to myself "why don't we listen to the album of the day on our drive?" and threw the album on. Let me tell you, the first-time listening experience for this while being on a (mostly) empty Bluegrass Parkway was surreal. I found this whole thing, front to back, to be a joy of an experience. It's the pinnacle of "don't let them guess your next move" and that mystery kept this album fun the entire way through for me. That being said, I really do think it's a shock-value experience, and subsequent listens to this album will never be the same as it was on the Bluegrass. That puts this album in an odd spot for me. It's not one that I would go out of my way to listen to in its entirety again, but it's one that, I think, will stay in the back of my mind. It will be waiting for someone who hasn't yet heard this album, so maybe I could show it to them and enjoy their first-time experience with it with them. This is a problem due to my scoring rubric not accounting for "won't change the rotation, but definitely something I look forward to sharing in order to enjoy it as much again."

Experimental music with some fantastic guitar and production work. Kind of a Sgt Peppers of metal. I need to hear more of these guys, although I'd prefer longer, more developed versions of these songs. 4/5

Great. Still influential today with bands like Metz, etc. But I totally understand it's not for everyone. Favorite song: Weber.

This was an awesome album. Bonus points for learning, FINALLY, where Orbital sampled the line "satan" for their track Satan. I love it when dots are connected. The Butthole Surfers are a treasure.

What a chill enjoyable album

My kind of noisy rock! Reminiscent of Pixies, Sonic Youth, Captain Beefheart and much more. Quirky, absurd and catchy. Likes the sheer attraction of the above but still my cuppa tea.

Original, had personality. Would recommend everyone has a listen

they jus love outrageous shit don't they bizzare af, how i like it

I'm not scared off by fucking killer guitar riffs and tones, delightfully strange vocals, and musicians who owe as much to The Residents as they do Dead Kennedys. Really, really cool stuff. High 3.5 stars with room to grow. 3.5/5

While I was baking I put on a show about a bald dude with glasses eating Italian food and now I'm forced to wonder, would Stanley Tucci like Butthole Surfers? I choose to believe he would.

Don't see what all the fuss is about, I fuck with this. There needs to be more oddball albums on the list! Favorite track: Human Cannonball

Some great stuff on here.

Strange but good

Knew of this band, but never really listened to them. Love this sound and how dirty, deranged, grungy and crunchy it is. The opening track is extremely misleading with its mood, but I love that. “U.S.S.A.” is incredible. What a vibe this record is and I’m all about it. Fuck normality.

Loved this. Love how weird and experimental it is. Love everything that was influenced by this sound. 4.5

It's art rock, so it's meant to be heard the way you'd appreciate an art gallery. The lyrics aren't always stories, they're usually facts or symbols presented in a way that feeds you the intended energy but let's you do the math. I'd set up a listening party for this with Scotch and The Shining muted in the background. Recommend following along on Genius in case the conversation throws you off the cryptic messaging. 3.6/5

Fun album

Weird and fun, I enjoyed it but I'm surprised by the professional reviews

Spectacularly weird and wildly unpredictable, an album that is vaguely centered in sludge metal but veers into all kinds of different territories, including southeast Asian / Indian. Incredible use of production techniques to augment and alter sounds and vocals, as in “Graveyard” and “Kuntz”. And “22 Going On 23” is one of the most unsettling things I’ve ever heard. Not for everyone, for sure, but an aggressively creative exploration of where music can go.

Savage album, proper 80s mashup of different genres. refreshingly crazy 4 Heard before? Yes Owned: Yes 17/1001, 17/65 (26%) Will I get? Yes

I wasn't really in the mood for this, but still a fun album. The wacky energy predates becks "whiskey cyclone hotel city" album by like 6-10 years.

I was really expecting to hate it so I'm surprised. very harsh, loud, weird and bizarre, but also listenable.

7.5/10 Weirdly enjoyable Highlights: 22 going on 23 Human Cannonball Sweat Loaf Graveyard Kuntz

Not the kind of music I would play all the time, but I can't deny this is a cool, weird album. Favourite Songs: Sweat Loaf, Human Cannonball, 22 Going on 23. Least Favourite Songs: HAY, U.S.S.A..

I’m not sure what I listened to, but it worked for me. Noise rock that would influence grunge later. Represent my TX roots. I kinda can’t believe it made the list, but it was a good listen for me today.

Alltid tyckt att de varit ett märkligt band. Det här är dock förvånansvärt bra.

Different. Aggressive. Not for everyone.

Klasik alt rock iz osamdesetih. Fali malo pisama

Funny, and funny name 4

love butthole surfers!

Ok I actually liked this one a lot more than I expected. It's dark, heavy, murky, disturbing, yet full of absurdist humor. So it's not going to be one that I play at a dinner party but as lofi, cheaply made, ridiculous sonic experiments go, it's brilliant. Honestly the most off-putting element to me is the album cover. But the music is fantastically weird. It's not great in an objective sense, but I love it for it's unashamed rupture with anything radio-friendly. Surprisingly I only previously knew The Butthole Surfers from their 90s hit "Pepper" which did get a lot of radio play at the time. This album is a lot more niche, to put it mildly. If it makes you uncomfortable, take comfort in the fact that you're in the majority. But if you manage to see something in it, you're still in very good company. Kurt Cobain listed this as one of his 50 favorite albums. Not bad for a group of guys experimenting at home without the benefit of a recording studio.

This band comes across as either really intelligent or really stupid. Locust Abortion Technician is puerile and ridiculous and mostly emulates the sonic experience of hanging out at band practice rooms as a teenager and hearing about 20 different musicians tuning up and widdling around simultaneously. But I get the impression these are songwriters who could do more conventional material if they wanted to and have just kind of evolved beyond that, like comedians who end up circling right back around to dick jokes. They might be geniuses. I feel it's missing the point to even attempt to review this, tbh.

I don't know what the fuck I just listened to, but I like it.

I enjoyed this album.

Similar feelings as Liam. I kinda like it and there’s a good chance that I revisit this album. It’s certainly entertaining and dark, but there is definitely a lack of seriousness to it. I’m struggling between a 3 and 4, but will probably land at a soft 4.

Why do I like this? 4/5 - sweat loaf forever

Holy shit what a wild ride! There are so many crazy things going on with this album it will take many listens to unpack it all... I love the bluesy doom/stoner rock sound of Pittsburgh to Lebanon. From there it feels like a psychedelic trip until Human Cannonball which rocks. The rest of the album feels like a bad psychedelic trip, but the wild experimentation is fascinating. They include a lot of elements from genres I love. I had already been interested in listening to this since it was in Kurt Cobain's top 50 album list from his journals.

I’ve been a Butthole Surfers fan for years. I get the criticisms that their music is inaccessible. It’s definitely not dinner party music. But, I love how much they explored what you can achieve sonically in the studio when you don’t feel constrained by formulas.

A really interesting record

Cool- another big example of seeing their influence on other bands

I listened to this whole thing thinking I had heard one of their albums earlier on the list, just now finding out it was Circle Jerks! OK, then this is my first time hearing this band. I was mistaken expecting this to be hardcore punk. I wish I didn't wait two days to write the review because I've forgotten most of it, but at least I remember I decided on a 4/5, and I will listen again.

Man... brings back memories. Still, not anything extraordinary musically, but 4 it is!

Pepper. The band that did pepper. I knew these guys were a little left field but nowhere near this. This is legit so ahead of its time in the mid 80s. All the pre recorded stuff playing all over the thing. Wtf is that? The chugging metal riffs. The more punk inspired stuff. This is alot of what I want. Not perfect but very very good. My only problem is in all this experimental stuff it really just leaves you with 2 songs. Maybe 3. Oh well. I loved it all the same

Can’t believe I’m giving an album titled Locust Abortion Technician this score

Drug infested nightmare fuel, glue sniffing big brother psychedelic punk with it's stillborn grunge sibling doing their thing, while side chick noise rock is sticking it's nose in it every chance they get. The album has an interesting backstory, that they rented a house to record this in by themselves, bought some gear and noodled on with the recordings while leisurely doing drugs. I mean, this is how legends are created, be it blues, metal, rock or fucking sludge. Did I like it? Fuck yeah! Am I going to listen to it again? Hell nah!

Surfers It’s just a fun, tongue in cheek, two fingers up at everything, rollercoaster of a record. I like it. It’s harsher than their later efforts, where I joined the party in the 90s. This one is a huge influence on Heart Shaped Box I reckon, and Kuntz is never not gonna raise a smile. Not an album to ever go on rotation, and I don’t think any of theirs are, but a band to be revisited on occasion. Or at least, I do.

Crazy, crazy album. Ordinarily I hate noise rock, but they manage to make noise without injury - it's actually noise that fits the music. Sludgy and weird - I know this is currently the 20th worst rated album on this site, but I actually like this kind of weirdness. Underneath the weird are very cool sludgy riffs. I wouldn't listen to this anywhere that anyone else could hear...but I liked it (a little concerned about the fact that I liked it, but hey). Favorite tracks: Sweet Loaf, Graveyard (totally weird, but I like the underlying bass and drums), Pgh to Lebanon (sludgy blues), The O-Men, 22 Going on 23 (dark and oppressive, matching the subject matter). Oh, and it's hysterical that all the "heys" in HAY are the sound of cows mooing, played in reverse double speed.

Chaotic and absurd and creative -I really like it.

Not the Butthole Surfers album I would have put on this list, but it's just nice to see them here at all. Give 'em a half-star for the "Satan" bit that opens the first track, a wild interpretation of Sabbath's "Sweet Leaf."

Better than Coldplay.

Fuck it, this album was actually really cool. It had the same tone and vibe as In Utero and was honestly ahead of its time.

Loud, experimental (or unhinged…) noise rock. I approached this hesitantly, not expecting to like it, but I really enjoyed it. It’s bonkers and sounds like a Black Sabbath/doom metal album played by guys who had never heard but had had it described to them.

When this showed up on my list I was immediately skeptical. I only knew Pepper from them. But as I got through this album it was a really really wild ride. What really surprised me is that when it was over I wanted to listen again. This all happened in 87 so wild.

I have many room-clearing records, but this uniquely confuses and infuriates guests. A few freakoid bangers - “Human Cannonball” and “The O-Men” are my favourites - sit alongside the remorselessly offensive. The sadism of appending moos and sludgy anthemic guitar to a radio phone-in account of sexual assault is precursor to the morphing of 4Chan’s offensiveness into the general assault on rights and dignity that’s ravaging the States right now. I don’t blame the Buttholes. Occasionally the circus switches from spectacle to the specutaculur.

“The O-Men” into “Kuntz” is a whole thing, let alone the final track 😨

This is so odd, funky and cool

The difference witth oither noiderockbands? They're not fun and Butthole Surfers are.

I’m surprised this got a positive score from you. This is very weird and noisy and I don’t mind that at all.

hell yeah, more butthole surfers! these guys are weird as hell and the more i listen to their work, the more i dig it. the sweet leaf cover/parody/interpolation/whatever here is great and one of the standout tracks. favorites: sweat loaf, human cannonball, u.s.s.a., the o-men, graveyard (part 2)

Quite crazy, but in a good way!

After I listened to this twice, I went from a 3 to a 4. I reacted badly to the last song at first, but then I realized the reverberating "anxiety" "depression" and "therapy" meant that they were not exploiting the taped radio caller.

Heavy, weird and more chaotic than creative. Oddly enough, one appreciates it more now as an old dude than one did then as a young dude. Funnily enough, the most conventional, "Human Cannonball," works best, though one has a soft spot for the bizzaro-rama that is "Kuntz." "22 > 23" shows how they might have developed in the direction of (or made the world safe for the likes of) Sonic Youth and other proper noise rockers. And compared to the way less original, way more tiresome imitators of the '90s, these guys got the advantage of brevity.

Et album der er kvart i Duck/Stab og Kollaps. Til tider lyder det som de sidste 10-20 sekunder af et Nirvana nummer. Men på de numre der har en reel rytme svinger det ret godt. Der er et fedt miks af groove og smadderet punklyd. Jeg springer gerne de mere lydkollage-agtige numre over. Dem har jeg ikke brug for. Men der er en fed EP hvis man skærer lidt til.

Man this album is weird. But I kinda like it. Butthole Surfers obviously know how to make a great "normal" song if you've listened to their more popular songs, here they make something almost alien just because they can. Really cool unique album

That was fun, but I understand why people don’t like it. They’re no fun.

Demented experimental psychedelic punk. An lsd trip through the depths of hell. It’s intense, disturbing, confusing, scary, off-putting, dangerous, and a ton of fun. It’s truly original. Song-writing really isn’t the point here, it’s all about creating a feeling…a dissociation…a maniacal breakdown…an impending sense of doom…and laughing through it all. There’s still some great riffs, a relentless pounding rhythm section, bizarre vocals, filtered through wild effects with pitch/speed shifters and echoes that make you forget which way is up. It’s unforgettable, gnarly, and a real experience. It’s fucking cool.

Pure slimy noise rock, love it. I know it's not got the best rating on this site, but I will always be here for someone trying to do things differently - plus it's great music for when you're properly pissed off about things and want some catharsis!

Lmao Sweat Loaf is just a Sweet Leaf cover. Love that. Butthole Surfers are awesome

Love them or hate them, I don’t think anyone can disagree they are quite unique and varied! Listening to this it’s hard to believe theyre the same band who did that song about Dracula. I’m only really familiar with them due to their associations with Kurt Cobain, and possibly a Simpsons reference, so only knew their big hits. Quite enjoyed this though, some where between noise rock, pysch, and garagey punk. Nice DIY ethos with this record too. Canny

I quite like Pepper, from a different album, but it never occurred to me to listen to anything else. Ambitious, caustic, challenging, and daft; very glad to have heard this. I think the shock value would lessen on repeat listens. Kuntz was decent.

interesting album, good noise rock, grew on me after a few listens.

This guys are truly underrated in the alt rock scene - give Paul Leary some props....

this album starts off as wacky fun time and then ends with one of the most fucked up songs ive ever heard, great album

hressilegt og skemmtilegt. er á blábrúninni.

Oh, I love this one. Fierce and aggressive, unpredictable changes with experimental sound and structures. So noisy and chaotic! This is exactly what I signed up for! I would give a 3.5/5 exactly on this one. It's not so nice sounding but weird and fun!

Avoiding their awful name meant I missed this great album, also with an awful name.

A wild psychedelic ride that helps you appreciate the surfers for what they are worth to the industry.

Back when Texas weirdos were cool and fun and not just religious zealots.

Positiv overraskelse! Meget nært beslægtet med Mr. Bungle. Jeg nød den

It's not even funny but it definitely sounds better and more interesting than a lot of synthpop and psych rock on this list.

Oh yeah, this one almost defines weird for the sake of weird. Is it a punk rock album? Is it grunge? Is it a psychedelic rock album? Is it just noise? Nobody has a single clue, and that’s the key defining characteristic of this album. Musically it’s just straight up bizarre. It’s almost the OG edgelord album, but it’s not at all unenjoyable for me to listen to it. It’s almost intentionally controversial, and it’s clearly born of an incredible amount of drug use, but there’s so many references and unique little quips in this album, I’m positive that the majority of them went over my head. It’s clever in its strangeness. It’s not something that I’ll ever add to my regular rotation, but it’s definitely a record that I’m glad exists. 4*

Loud. Strange. Absurd. Kinda anxiety-inducing. Often dissonant. Weirdly fun? There is a lot of creativity in this album and it doesn’t take itself very seriously. A strange sense of humor permeates it. The opening track, “Sweet Loaf” oscillates abruptly between different sounds; the result is a lot of fun to listen to and one of my favorites on the album. “Kuntz” is the other favorite, an expected and delightful twist on a recording of some southeast Asian origin. “Pittsburgh to Lebanon” sounds like a blues track that marinated in a vat of toxic sludge. The weak points for me were “USSA” and “The O-Men”, which I found a bit grating. This album sounds like a bad acid trip but somehow uses that to its benefit and ends up a miraculous winner. There is some kind of black magic going on here. 7.5/10 would listen again

Oh! This is where Orbital got the sample from! Nice. Heavy and Weird. I am in, sir! Sign me up for a subscription! Noise. Human Cannonball is a great post-punk banger also. More noise. Yes thank you.

Goes Hard 8/10

- Avant-garde garage rock? I had no idea that was the Butthole Surfers oeuvre. - Really digging this for the first half. Great crunch, enthralling beats, keeps your heart pumping. Comes to a head with "Human Cannonball." - Loses me a bit after that stellar track. Found the next two to be a bit grating and "Kuntz" to be more bewildering than anything else.

The Surfers at the pinnacle of weirdness. Good stuff.

YAY sweatloaf- 7 or 8. i wonder how the janitor who told me about the butthole surfer show he went to is doing. miss him graveyard- 6 pittsburgh to lebanon- 7 weber- 6 hay- 6 or 7 human cannonball- 6 ussa- 6 or 7 the o man- when youre happy you enjoy the music, when youre sad you understand the lyrics. 7 or 8 kuntz- 7 grave yard 2- 5 22 going on 23- 6 favorite song is sweat loaf or the o men

I kinda dig it. Some of it is pretty... just noisy, but I've heard many albums that are noise for noise sake and this isn't one of them. Like, they know what they're doing and how to use some of those harsh tones in kind of a Stephen Riech way. I guess, less experimental and with more purpose.

4/5

It is what it is. Long live the Surfers.

Good crunch sound, some weird stuff on here but it goes hard.

Well I know the artist and some of their hits, but I went into this album blind for sure and came out utterly shocked and feeling odd but at the same time, this album intrigued me in ways and I continued to listen to it regardless. And I'm concerned that I enjoyed this.

Holy shit wtf lol this opening track. This album kinda rules.

I hope there's more of them on here wow

America's freakiest freaks come from the south.

One of my only complaints is that it's too short. This album is heavy as hell while maintaining it's acid-soaked, psychedelic, abstract approach throughout. Real tasteful fuzzed out bass riffs infused with megaphone vocals, backwards effects, slowed down tracks, and enough lo-fi studio trickery to keep you guessing.

So way better than I expected. Not just some mindless punk or sludge album. You never really know where each track is going. I'll take weird any day of the week. The blending of styles and samples worked really well.

I know some of the songs are annoying but damn...1987? These guys were at the vanguard of a massive assault on 80s shit music and they kick ass. Butthole Surfers, Faith No More, Fugazi, Pixies...there are many others but there is no doubt that was change in the air in the waning years of the 1980s if you could look past your Whitesnake and see it. And don't even fucking start with me...I loved Whitesnake! But it was time to move on by 1987, and bands like The Butthole Surfers forced the issue. As for this particular album, it a lot like other Butthole Surfers albums: annoying, brilliant, poignant, loud, repetitive, punky, rocky, poppy, confusing, funny. I felt like I was listening to music at least, as opposed to a commercial endeavor. And for that, I say, "Thank you, Butthole Surfers."

Loved it.

Really good album, I have been listening to a few tracks on it for years, but coming back to it with more understanding of the Surfers' work means I appreciate all the tracks on this, but still some more than others. Dirty, noisy, chaotic, punk, irreverent, fun, energetic, with the tracks like Kuntz and 22 Going On 23 showing that the band are capable of beauty, empathy and nuance, but choose to express themselves otherwise. Edge of a five star rating for me, really enjoyed this.

I can see how this was a big deal in 1987. Now it's just noise. Their later stuff is better.

Pretty interesting and entertaining album.

Since Butthole Surfers is to hard rock as Miles Davis is to jazz, I shouldn’t like this album - but I do. The group’s ability to create catchy phrases of lyrics and riffs, along with keeping each song and the album short, made me want more. The jerks!

Sounds super progressive for early 80s punk. Not even sure if post-punk was a thing by that point but they certainly were on the vanguard.

I understand the general dislike of this album. It is noisy, abusive, unpolite and messy. But it is also very funny, inventive, original and the songs are great. If you like to draw within the line, do not like off keys, like classic paintings and dislike modern art then this is not for you. If that is so: please go back to your suburban neighborhood, in real life we need this kind of music. Not all is fine, so our music should not be either.

Experimental and psychedelic alternative rock from 87. Inspiring Kurt Kobain and others. Powered by drugs in a small flat.

Rockin' tracks. I'm going to be listening to this until my butthole hurts.

All these people have no taste. This was cool and fun and didn't take itself too seriously. Great album.

Cool

I was lead to believe this was one of the worst albums on the website. This album is incredible, I don’t understand everyone. I really like it

The name of this album really was something. The actual content was quite fun, except for the last song which was called 22 going on 23 (literally me fr) and was about a girl who had been sexually assaulted. So. Certainly covered a Range of subject matter

Album 356 of 1001 Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician Rating : 4 / 5 Their 'Electriclarryland" album is a favorite and I hoped that I would like this one, as well. While it didn't seem to hit that mark, it is certainly the Butthole Surfers and I like it. They are an acquired taste, for sure. I've been known to like some weird stuff. If you've only heard of them but never heard them, give a listen. I would recommend Electriclarryland over this one, but this would be a fine start, as well. I think you will be pleasantly surprised.

Music needed this, the same way it needed Black Flag and Fugazi. It's not user friendly, but it's worth the effort. And to the haters: the music you and the critics fawn over wouldn't look so good if it wasn't for these guys.

didn't listen to the whole thing but 4/5 on principal.

An absolute classic

Album opens on the most gradual of fade-ins I have ever experienced. I had enough time to check my sound settings to make sure audio drivers didn't shit themselves before it became perceptible. Cuts to a sincere-enough sounding vocal exchange that turns absolutely demented. Oscillates back and forth between driven sections with harmonized shouting and spaced out sections. The harmonized sections remind me a hell of a lot of some Disco Biscuits. I'm here for it. Human Cannonball is like alternative post-punk. Has the thumping drum and bassline of a Joy Division, with more expressive vocals and guitar noodling overlaid. Standout track. U.S.S.A. is a trudge of a song that makes me think of a less aggressive Soul Glo. Still, I'm into it. The O-Men features more quirkiness with a heavy, blown-out metal riff with cartoonish vocals (think Faith No More) interleaved with some helium-laiden refrain and satanic sampling. Makes for a delightfully demonic jam -- all the best parts of a bad trip :) Then there is "Kuntz" which flips us suddenly into an Indian traditional sounding song where they can openly discuss Kuntz without it sounding vulgur. Love 22 Going On 23. Pure sludge-fest with more quirky vocal samples and overlays. Well that was an eclectic listen and I feel like I am a better person having now experienced it. I'm gonna go directly back through for a second listen. Surprised I've never dived into Butthole Surfers before. Even more surprised by how different this all is to their breakout single "Pepper" from nearly a decade later. This album is a certified family favorite and I will be playing it at my cookouts this summer. Strong 4 / 5.

Noise, but I still love it.

I like it and I could see me listening to it again, maybe a few times, particularly because it's just over 30 minutes long. It was an interesting mix of noise, tunes, riffs, and strange stuff that never failed to please.

Enjoyed this. Some Dead kennedy vibes. Human Cannonball and The O-Man were stand out tracks for me. Second half of the album was way better than the start.

THIS GOES HARD if you’re slightly mentally ill. I thought it was unique and different, and not some horrible thing, but then near the end it was like I started to get sick. It was weird. Added it to my library though because if I’m in a crazy mood sometime I’m definitely listening to this again lol. Overall though liked it a decent amount 4/5

less trolling and I might have scored it higher. great band name.

While I was wondering how I'm listening to this wonderfully unleashed psych pre-slugde metal punk for the very first time, I simultaneously knew because they're called the Butthole Surfers and I had always assumed this band's thing is to be ȩ̷̟̝̜̼͓̂̒̈͜d̶̨͈̈́̃͊̆͠ǵ̷̛̜͖̅͆͠ͅy̸̙̞̝̞͖̌̀̍, first and foremost. Was I wrong? no. But when '22 Going on 23' ended after me being quite entertained for 32 minutes, Spotify played the Melvins, because of course: as a point in the last 50 years' of music history, this album is perfectly good at making sense, and at its time, even if its or Butthole Surfers' schtick is not quite ~my vibe~.

Defiantly delightful madness that’s as artful as it is abrasive.

8/10 awesome album, but I could’ve done with a little less of the 💥💥🧨💣🤯🤯😡😡📢📢💥📢

4.25

While I love the B-Surfer, I don't think this is quite as good as their later stuff. Give me Weird Revolution or Electriclarryland any day of the week.

Happy to see some Butthole Surfers on this list. Locust Abortion Technician is such a bonkers album, though it's not one I've listened to a ton. It's fun to hear less constrained versions of sounds that they continue to play with on later albums. Album description describes that they had their own house to record in with long sessions broken up by heavy drug use...yeah, that tracks, lol!

Chunky, crunchy, not entirely unpleasant. Sounds more like Nine Inch Nails than Nirvana.

Probably the most outright wild album we've had so far. Maybe it's just by virtue of it being refreshing, but I relished this. Weird, spooky, fuzzy, chunky goodness. Fave track: Sweat Loaf

Great Noise, although some parts where I think it is maybe a little too nonconforming and challenging for no other purpose than to be that way.

The first bit of the album is a slog to get through. Those last four tracks...starting with o-men, are a tidy noisy mess.

Butthole Surfers Genre: Noise Rock, Psychedelic rock, Experimental rock, Avant-garde 1987 3rd Listen: 4, 3.5 Standouts: Sweet Loaf, Human Cannonball, The O-Men, 22 Going on 23 Others: Pittsburgh to Lebanon, Graveyard, Kuntz Sweet Loaf is an awesome track! I always loved Sweet Leaf by Black Sabbath and this is a really cool version! And it really sets the mood for the rest of the album. 4/5

delightful garbage

Grew on me over the course of the day to the point where listening almost became addictive.

Gnarly punk!

ahh some good ol schizophrenia inducing music which makes your mom think you joined a satanic cult. fav songs: sweet loaf, human cannonball, USSA, kuntz, 23 going on 23

The terriblness and disturbing-ness of this album has been greatly exaggerated by the reviews on here. If you have any experience with any sort of grit in your music, you should be just fine listening to this, and the fact that Nirvana's albums have such high scores compared to this, kind of tells you that I think a lot of Nirvana's fans miss exactly what made that so special. Anyway, speaking of grit, this album is so gripping audibly that it scratches every itch I would try and achieve with any music I would ever make. And the varying genres and styles basically making fun of various types of music keeps the album light hearted without sacrificing the musicality (most of the time), despite the downright evil sound of most of the music. Overall I think this pretty entertaining, and at a cool thirty-two minutes, what's not to like? Are most of the songs something I wouldn't put on casually? Absolutely, but I think as an album and an experience it's pretty great.

Fever dream. 4/5

This album was on the list of lowest-rated albums from this site. I like receiving an album from this list because I usually disagree, but also because I note how non-orthodox albums usually receive very bad rates. At the same time for me, I think sometimes I'm here precisely for this kind of stuff. Anyway, is this a good album? Probably not. Or even better, not a good album for everyone. Do It deserves 4 stars, and should be kept on the 1001 list? Sure! These guys were doing these crazy sounds and a lot of experimentation in 1987!!!

un discazo. te tiene que gustar la disonancia, el pánico y el ruido, pero un discazo

This album was certainly interesting and unique…. but I actually quite enjoy it. EXCELLENT album title. ‘Human Cannonball’ is a song I’ve had saved to my Spotify for a number of years, but I find the rest of the album is also really good (though less easy to sing along to), albeit confusing. It’s hard to know what their intention was with “22 Going On 23”, and I don’t like some of their comments about it (assuming the woman was lying is strange to me) - but what they did with it musically is very interesting. I like the art, I’m not sure I like their ethos behind it. Fav tracks: Pittsburgh to Lebanon, Human Cannonball, The O-Men, U.S.S.A, Kuntz (although I do wonder whether this track would be classed as culturally insensitive…. it was pleasing to my ears).

'Human Cannonball' is a great track the rest of the album is pretty unique and a bit crazy, which I enjoyed.

Is it really all that wild-sounding today? Certainly, it still feels wildly influential; one hears a formless sort of template that way too many less original and less out-there folks, from Fugazi to Thrill Kill Kult to Prodigy to NIN, would adopt. The scope of the weirdness occassional reaches Pink Floydian scope, and this feels more authentic, like it had to be done, that performative (where acts aim to simply be weird for weird's sake). It all comes down to how comfortable one is with massive abstraction and total unconventionality in terms of song structure, and/or how one feels about art rock or noise rock; and while one's younger self did not naturally gravitate to the BSs, one gets both the art and the impact now.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Wasnt expecting a lot, and was pretty good afterall.

It seems like the Butthole Surfers just got a new fan!

A mixed bag of noisy silliness. And I mean that in the best possible way.

Growing up in Houston, I've probably heard Butthole Surfers' "Pepper" at least a few hundred times (I'd bet a large sum of money that The Buzz still plays it at least daily), but this was my first time listening to one of their albums from start to finish. I'm really glad to see some Texas rockers land an album on this list and... well yeah, that's about as glad as I got during this album. Butthole Surfers are great musicians, and their guitar riffs and drum fills are fantastic, but the lyrics on this album were just a little too out there for me. "Human Cannonball" was the highlight here for me, and I enjoyed the second half of the album more than the first. Even though this album wasn't really my taste, it's not without its merits. Butthole Surfers set out to make an album that showcased their unique psychedelic and noise-rock sound, and they succeed. They're talented musicians and songwriters, but they are a tad niche. I'm giving this album four stars, but I wish I could give it 3.5.

I woke up this morning, went to the toilet and used the last piece of toilet paper whilst flicking to see my latest 1001 Album. Lo-and-Behold it was one i'd eagerly awaited on the list of worst albums on the chart! Buttholes and Abortions it must be designed to offend. Well I must say it hit a sweet spot in me and I found myself enjoying it's unabashed in-your-face fun. Too late for Punk and with a tongue in cheek sensibility it's loud and fun rock at a time people were into Hair-Rock and AIDS hence my score.

4/5. I don’t know why I like this one so much, I guess it’s the bluntness of the lyrics and the creative use of sound and samples. Not perfect and not a game changer, but gosh is this fun to listen to.

Weird, disturbing, noisy and insane. It's just great!

High weirdness of the best kind. Not an easy listen, it requires a certain kind of mood and activity to have on. Fortunately I had both by coincidence yesterday.

All the noisy and weird punk you could want. I feel bad for the kids in the 90s that bought these albums thinking all the songs would sound like Pepper.

This record is everything pure Butthole Surfers, and whether or not that's your thing will depend on how you feel about it. It feels like a nightmare acid trip just dripping with a sludginess that feels so quintessential to the band's best music. Great record.

Enjoyable rascally noise

Kool and krazy

Swagg

Noise rock outsider art. Fantastic

One of those albums that you have to hear and appreciate, but you'd have a hard time listening to on repeat. I love it when bands are pushing the envelope and this record certainly does that in spades. Helps that Kurt Cobain and Doug Martsch cite this as one of their biggest influences.

Every time I get a bottom ranking album, I approach it with a little bit of dread, but I really liked this album. Musically it's pretty excellent, and more clever than I expected it to be. Noisy and trippy, grinding and grungy, gleefully weird, sometimes with a dash of humor. Love the experimentation with distortions and noise. The outlier is "22 Going on 23," which is dark and twisted, but brilliant. Fave Songs: Sweat Loaf, Human Cannonball, 22 Going on 23, Graveyard, Pittsburgh to Lebanon, Kuntz

Definitely one of the strongest record of the genre of that period which is also an interesting evolution of the sound of the band. Their style remains unique and all the tracks are relevant and enjoyable. In conclusion, the cover is very nice.

This album doesn't sound fully realized, nor does it feel completely serious. But it's dark, immersive, irreverent, and probably inspired your favorite 90s band. Nothing to sneeze at, once you get over the weirdness.

Look up the term 'grunge' and they should appear.