Reviews (page 7 of 8)
I'm sure this is good as far as noisy avant-garde goes, but it's just not musical enough for me
They play this album in Hell to prevent you from getting any sleep.
Hard work screeching noise. The riff on the first track was groovy kind of awesome in places. The rest was just a mess if I am honest hard to listen to rough noises hard work I get it's experimental but geez have some cohesion I like a heavy track and a beat but this lacked anything like that.
Wikipedia calls them a rock band and while I get a bit of that the background noises and distortion they use is almost more punk-ish to me. Not my kind of vibe at all though
The type of overpowering noise you either get into in highschool or never get into at all. Bowed out at O-Men
Ranking 19th from the bottom of global stats on here. What the fuck is it still doing. Hey, Surfing Buttholes, stick it where the sun don't shine. I listened to a few seconds from a sample 4 or 5 tracks, threw up, wrote this review as a warning, WARNING! WARNING!, and got on with my day. What a bunch of KUNTZ. Go fuck your own butthole.
3/10
Just plain weird.
don't even know if you can call this music.
Not really
Ok it is time to get to the more well known Butthole Surfers albums, starting off with easily their most controversial project Locust Abortion Technician. What a fucking fever dream this album is, pure insanity in every way of expressing it. This album will go on long instrumental tangents out of nowhere and have it evolve and stretch over 4 tracks, and then randomly get back on the original path it was going on with another track with vocals. This album randomly goes into this psychotic area every now and then almost like a tick or a episode unfolding right in your eardrums. This project is more of an oddity than an actual quality release in my eyes, but if you do seriously like this could you explain why to me? I don't get how people could genuinely enjoy Butthole Surfers music unless it is the few songs that are actually appealing. Like how do people enjoy this album, it is an experience more than anything and one I don't think I will be going back to anytime soon.
очень странное дерьмо. мне оказалось не по зубам.
Awful
I am aware of this band from my younger days, however once the shock factor of the band, song and album names wears off, the music can become quite tedious. I appreciate that they were something of a spectacle as a live show. USSA is interesting and sounds like Death Grips. I’m not sure the O Men actually had any words. Replay ability in this album is approaching zero.
It's as intricate as it is juvenile: unfortunately that just leads to an irritating record. Long stretches of trite, edgy garbage are only occassionally interrupted by fleeting moments of lucidity, which are far from frequent enough to make this enjoyable.
Utterly, utterly abhorrent.
A little too screamy and screechy for me...weird music
Just terrible.
I cant listen It is really bad
Mostly annoying. Occasionally boring.
This was the wrong album to put on before going to bed. Sweet Loaf is pretty decent, if a little chaotic. Never heard of an album where I was dreading each song as it started, but if I have nightmares tonight I’m gonna blame the Butthole Surfers.
Even if I get what this album is going for, I still can’t get aboard so that’s on me
I won't lie - I'm mostly familiar with Butthole Surfers through the song Pepper. While I'm not allergic to noise and to this type of rock, it's just so annoying for so long and the cool hooks they build are too few between. I did like the riff on 22 Going on 23 if it didn't sound exactly like Subliminal by Suicidal Tendencies. I don't know, this one just didn't hit for me.
I know Butthole Surfers have better albums than this. I tried my best to make it through but gave up. 1/5
The first I couldn't finish in this project. Disjointed noise, it's not for me.
A rare 1-star. Holy horrible!
this one was a joke right?
Never heard before, fun cover Hay: idk not for me for sure lyrics! Weber: kinda rock but short USSA: not my vibe, scary Sweat loaf: more calm, listenable Graveyard: meme genre de song Pittsburgh to Lebanon: Lyrics!! Scary Human Cannonball: listenable, like the production on this one The O-Men: funny Kuntz: prefer this one Graveyard-Pt.2: ok 22 going on 23: fine
When they figure it out, they're unstoppable. It's just that it takes an entire album for them to figure it out for one song, and that results in a terrible experience for an album-listening exercise.
that's BS for sure. 1.5 bc Hay conjured fond memories of goat barns
Music for people who think they're really cool because they've watched Faces of Death multiple times and claim they find it soothing
Electriclarryland is a really good mid-90s alt rock album. You should listen to it. I have no idea what this is doing here.
What an album name. Amazing how many bands were influenced by Black Sabbath with Sweat Loaf right out of the gate. I can only imagine an day old meat loaf sitting out on a hot park bench with that title.
Butthole 💩 is correct
0’5
Swing and a miss. Trash.
Pretty weird. Would probably skip.
Some weird one in there but overall great musically
I really wanted to like this album, but it was mostly noise. I don't get it. I liked their radio hit "Pepper", but this was just all... garbage. One star.
...
Nightmares and fever dreams. I kinda feel sorry for folks fucked up enough to enjoy this. “Brain is squirming like a toad”…No thanks.
I liked the first 30 secs of the first song, that's it...
For every Beach Boys there are Butthole Surfers. Jeezo. Just not good
Betraying my generation but just couldn't with this one!
do yourself a favor and skip it. Not sure what all the hype is.
Pretty much unlistenable for me.
Crap
Listened to a few song but was really not into it.
I was hesitant going into this one. Sweat Loaf started out, I was like ok it's not as bad as I expected. Then it all went to shit. Human Cannonball was also ok. The rest of the album was assaulting my ears. Except Kuntz, that one was insanely fun. Best song: Kuntz
VTNC 1 estrela
A good way to start the day because no matter how bad the rest of your day is, it will be an improvement on listening to this. 1 star or F-.
Impressively bad. Has to be a joke? Wonder what it’s doing on this list - pioneering in the post-enjoyment genre, perhaps
not for me. but obsessed with their name!
I wanted to like this one, but it’s not beating the allegations. Terrible.
When they try to make actual music - it’s not bad (Human Cannonball), but way too much of this album is not quite right. Some of it actively hurts to listen to.
I wanted to like it, I had a feeling it was going to be an unexpected gem. Wrong. Utter dogshit. Made it halfway through Track 5 (Hay) and had to turn it off. It's just noise. No real music coming through.
the quintessence of crap
Pas mon truc, trop de bruit…
Where did you get that job? I'm gonna shoot my guidance counselor.
No es mi estilo para nada. No me gustan las cosas que suenan mal por más que ideologicamente o simbolicamente representen algo.
Yeah , wasn’t aware of these when they released it , wish that was still the case. Time I’ll never get back
Like listening to hell’s circus.
Rubbish
Crap
nothing about this album appeals to me.
Brottades lite med frågan om ifall Human cannonball och möjligen någon låt till skulle kunna pusha upp betyget från en etta till en svag två, men landade efter moget övervägande i ett nej. Trots ska inte premieras.
I did not enjoy this
didn't listen,
Hot garbage. I gave them studio time, but this thing is junk.
Not for me
Bad
This list has taught me that noise rock is one of my least favourite genres. Most of this album was very tough to listen to and some of the songs were pure edgelord material.
Absolutely not for me. No.
Not for me
Too much...
Too industrial for my taste.
Nope
Dafuq...
First impressions this is too out there I don't get enjoyment out of this. Ass
NO !!! Massive waste of time to listen to. Some more of this kind, and I'll leave this community!
This album is a bizarre trip. Ultimately, a bad trip. I really enjoyed the part of the album where it ended. I hear their influence on other, better bands, but that doesn’t mean that this album is great. It’s the rock album equivalent of Trout Mask Replica.
So many raised eyebrows, so many times I just said what the fuck! I appreciate the effort but…1/5
I'm not even sure how this album can classify as music. It was a really bad noise collage. I wish i could have the time back that I spent listening to it. I definitely do not recommend nor would ever recommend. Anybody that claims to like this album is severely pretentious and probably love every sonic youth and radiohead album ever made as well. I don't normally review anything but I had to make a special case for this terrible, terrible album.If it can even be called that
no
Oh Mann. Das war furchbar. Schwer durchzustehen, noch viel schlimmer, als ich es mir beim Namen der Band vorgestellt habe. Fast schon in einer Liga mit Tom Tom Club.
It’s a no from me boss
Why? Some songs were decent but rest were bad
Pre-listening thoughts: well we were due for a bottom twenty album a while ago, so I can’t say I’m surprised that this showed up. Frightened, though, for what will be on here that makes it so bad that almost the entire website hates it. Time to turn on private session so Spotify doesn’t think I enjoy this. Post/during listening thoughts: laughed really hard at that opener tbh. Also skimmed some of their other stuff and it sounds a lot less experimental/noisy, so maybe this is an outlier in their discography? My experience with a lot of these bottom twenty albums is that they are so bad it’s funny. Like the music equivalent of The Room, or like any of the Kissing Booth movies. I like ALMOST find myself enjoying some of it just because I’m getting a kick out of it. That Laibach album was genuinely some of the funniest stuff I’ve ever heard. But like at the end of the day (TO ME SUBJECTIVELY) it is still bad. And you may disagree but somehow to me, Slipknot was still worse than this. But I will say 22 going on 23 is exactly what it feels like to be 22 going on 23. 1/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: nope Fav tracks: I almost want to put Sweat Loaf here just because that intro made me laugh so hard. SATAN Also Human Cannonball was like the only (semi) normal song on this goddamn album. I know it’s an experimental album and maybe my horizons are still narrow but Jesus christ Least fav tracks: I did feel like I was being auditorily assaulted through most of this. Is this what it sounds like when a locust gets an abortion #prochoicebutidontgottahearallthat
The best thing about this process is learning about artists and albums you have never heard of. This is one of them but in this case it might have been better to have continued to live in ignorance of it. Says it all when best thing about the album is the cute dog on the cover. 1/5 13/3/25
Holy mother of God. Do not ever put me through this again. They got one thing right - they are BUTTHOLE.
Disturbing and not in a fun way. The 80s version of Trout Mask Replica? I suppose points for being nothing approaching accessible music but holy hell. Was thinking of giving 2 for creativity but I'm gonna need therapy as a result and I'll need to remember to not listen again. 3/10 1 star
This is one of those bands that I've heard about for my entire life, but have never actually listened to. Would have preferred to keep it that way.
Ugh.
Sometimes I think there are albums on the list designed just to make you grateful for the other albums that are actually good. A group of boys get together in their garage, shout 'kuntz' and 'hay' over some poorly constructed tracks.
not for me -- noise
This was rough. One of my least favorite things I've heard in this list. It's punk and very unique, but I really don't like what they are going for. Way too chaotic, juvenile, and distracting. Human Cannonball is a pretty good punk song, but probably their most accessible song on this album.
This is, without exaggeration, the absolute worst album I have EVER heard. There is not a single redeeming quality, it is actually a marvel how truly terrible this really is. The track Graveyard made me want to launch my headphones halfway through. Ironically by the end of the track I envied the dead, they didn’t have to hear this. This is only getting 1 ⭐️ because the system makes me give it so. In my headspace it is Minus 5 Stars.
god this was high key horrible
This ain’t it, chief.
No
Yeahhhh…no.
This album is an abortion. I only got half way through it. 1/5.
Too much
The overall sound here is grating, unmelodic, difficult. Some of the songs, very unusually, lack a bass (including Graveyard, Weber, and The O-Men) – which removes harmonic grounding and can make it really unappetising to sit through. The vocals are not enjoyable in most tracks. In Graveyard, it sounds like a filter not unlike something from early King Crimson or Black Sabbath – except without the infectious instrumentation to back it up. Instead, throughout the whole album, we get a gravelly, unskilled guitar part that meshes badly with the similarly gravelly hard-rock vocals. The vocals in other tracks are often Axl Rose-esque, but with transitions to weird chipmunky filters (or other assorted voice effects) that make it impossible to take the singing seriously. Other things of note: Hay is a crowd of filtered voices shouting "hay" over a really unpleasant soundscape of reversed factory noises. It's pretty out there for its time – but is it groundbreaking? Sweat Loaf (the opening track) is pretty good. Nothing particularly catchy, but it's fun to hear alternating soft and loud song sections, and an adapted guitar riff from a better band. U.S.S.A.'s singing reminds me, very loosely, of Nirvana's Endless, Nameless – but with a considerably more irritating rhythm section. The singing in O-Men is a babbling mess. There's no album flow, no experience, concept, or genre to latch onto. No convincing melody or harmony (apart from the key tracks). There's nothing here. I'm obliged to give this 1 star, and everybody else is too. 1/5 Key tracks: Sweat Loaf, Human Cannonball, Kuntz
no
Wow... this is probably the worst album I have ever listened to in my life. I couldn't listen all the way through. Got to the 3rd to last track and decided to save my ears the immense pain of listening to the Butthole Surfers. Cool band name, horrible sound. I'd give 0 stars if I could because even 1 is too generous.
So, that was a thing... Why does this list do such an atrocious job at showcasing punk?
Only made it through 2 tracks. Ruined my Friday, thanks
I had to hear this why? Noisy experiments with no direction
Yeesh, this may be the worst thing I've ever heard. There's just nothing redeeming. Half the tracks are literally just noise, the other half are noise with a beat.
I'm glad this album was short
Almost* a perfect album, -4/5 *I enjoyed the outro to "22 going on 23"
How is this on the list
What makes this album suck? A lot that I don't want to revisit in my mind. I don't know where and to whom this was influential, but it's not here and it's not to me.
Maybe just not in the mood for this genre but really did not enjoy it
Christ that was headache inducing and not really in a fun way.
Favourite song - Pittsburgh to Lebanon
Could barely get through the first few songs
Wtf my review disappeared. Long story short I didn't like it at all and it was shit.
yuck
I don’t care, I’m never gonna respect you if you couldn’t come up with a better band name than the fucking butthole surfers.
A banda que antecipou The Vaccines, só que piorado. Não deu pra terminar de ouvir!
for every good there must be bad and this is a 1 star for me dog
First listen. What is this thing???
this was really bad and cheesy
Fucking awful! First three songs are incoherent. Gave up after that. Life is too short to spend it on this.
Human Cannonball // 1.5/5
Noise.
MamaThisIsGarbage.gif
Experimental Avante-Guarde Psychedelic Grunge Punk Art Noise Rock. I certainly consider this a work of art as I consider all music art. Such an amalgamation of genres, feelings and soundscapes. But it's definitely not for everyone, myself included. Interesting enough listen. But wont be adding it to my collection.
Sometimes being ignorant of bands and albums suit me just fine. I expected a lot more from the band name, album name and album cover.
Wow, theres maybe one whole song that is intelligible in this entire album. 2/10
I have no idea why this is on here. Seriously
clown music
This happens when some weird musicians are closeted somewhere with a recording machine and too much drugs.
Tak men nej tak
Are zero stars possible?
there are like 2 ok songs on this album i felt sick after it
Mmmm...no...yeah...no. That's a "no" from me dawg. If any of these songs end up in your Spotify Wrapped, please seek therapy. Favorite track: Human Cannonball, because it was one of the only tracks where I felt like my ears weren't under attack
# Playlist track - There's no way in hell I'm adding any of those tracks to my playlist. # Notes - I admire the commitment. I really do. However, this is so bad that it almost made me a conservative so I could complain about "them kids and they shitty music." - It's noisy and wild, sure. But not in a "oh wow, this noisy album is so cool!" kind of way.
Seriously? Jeez... Clever it might be, but it ain't music. Well, there are moments of music, but a lot of it is just industrial experimentation. Sounds like they got bored of making music. Or had breakdowns. Or both. Case in point: U.S.S.A.
Ik hou wel van een beetje noise, maar hier kon ik echt niet naar luisteren zonder koppijn te krijgen en krankzinnig te worden. 1/10
Tolerable garbage but still garbage. 1.25-1.50/5
Nah
Blah - liked the southeast Asian stuff they included later in the album but doubt it was because they liked the music
Locust Abortion Technician is a sonic disaster masquerading as avant-garde brilliance. The Butthole Surfers throw everything at the wall here — noise, distortion, pitch-shifted gibberish — and somehow nothing sticks. It’s not weird in a cool or challenging way; it’s weird in a "please turn this off before my brain leaks out" kind of way. There’s no structure, no coherence, and certainly no reward for sitting through this mess. Every track sounds like it was recorded during a psychotic breakdown in a garage full of malfunctioning equipment. The vocals are buried under layers of nonsense, the production is intentionally awful, and any moment that might resemble a song is quickly sabotaged by sheer obnoxiousness. If the goal was to make something unlistenable, mission accomplished. It's not bold, it's not experimental — it's exhausting. This isn’t art. It’s a migraine with album art.
This one is clowning us
Los escuché de pasada en la radio en los años 90. Nunca encontré sus discos a la venta cuando se compraban off-line. Menos mal que es corto, por que es insufrible. Hace tiempo que no ponía 1 estrella y este se la merece. Estoy deseoso de ver las opiniones del resto de usuarios.
No words of mine can get close to conveying how awful this puerile trash is.
I am the clown for listening to this
einfach nur krank und kaputt
Viel Lärm um nix. Auffallen um jeden Preis? Nein, danke!
What does the album name or cover art have to do with each other or with anything contained therein? It would seem to me that this album was less about a genuine or meaningful musical expression and more about an intentional effort at being non-conventional and at forcing a reaction of some kind from the audience. My reaction was negative.
1. loaf - 1 2. graveyard - 0 3. lebanon - 1 4. uueber - 0 5. hay - 0 6. human - 1.5 7. uza - 0 8. men - 1 9. kuntz 1 10. graveyard - 1 11. 22 - 0
Well that definitely sounds like some dudes on drugs in a random home studio in Georgia. Best song: Sweat Loaf?
I am so sick of hearing albums on this list that are less melodic than listening to a human being trying to shit out a rusty tin can.
Couldn’t get past track 1. Even when I was skating and listening to The Dead Milkmen, Violent Femmes, and The Dead Kennedys, this band didn’t land with me.
I like some Butthole Surfer songs but I was not a fan of this album at all.
I hated this so much. Even the song that I went in wanting to like (Kuntz) they made weird. Not for me.
Hideous.
Trash busurda
Should not have listened on a Monday morning.
This sounds identical to the motorcycle that is currently going off across the street
I knew this was gonna be a "challenging" listen, but ooh boy...The hardest of passes. Highlights: "Human Cannonball" (the drums and bass are competent)
I appreciate people who explore the line between noose and music. This album does that, but in an apparent attempt to irritate the listener; with significant success. On the rare occasions that they veer into something resembling song (e.g. Human Cannonball) it’s pretty sweet. But not enough to justify a second listen.
Not that interesting.
I didn't get very far with this one, sorry.
Crazy name.
Oof
Utter CRAP! I knew the name but never heard their music. Probably for good reason. Expected them to be better. Disappointed.
God this is truly unpleasant. Truly, truly unpleasant. I would give it a zero stars if I could.
What the fuck was that?
Raw instrumentation, kinda plodding
sounds like ass
I have a varied taste in music and I often like noise, experimental or avantgarde albums but this was something that was almost completely unlistenable to me. The last song was surprisingly good compared to the rest. But still, overall it's a 1 star album...
This album is all over the place. At times it's a mess of noise, at times it's a somewhat creative ensemble of some weird experimental rock. While I wanted to give Butthole Surfers a shot and get behind this, I just can't do it. It seems like it made the list for the sheer diversity and weirdness of the whole thing. I guess they live up to their deservedly weird reputation which was earned as soon as they named themselves Butthole Surfers. Overall it's not my cup of tea and something I'll likely turn off after a couple of minutes moving forward. 1.41
Nää voi surffaa kyl suoraan hanuriin, heippa
I loved Pepper and we played the crap out of it. But even back then I couldn't find much else to like.
Ugh. Gross.
Apparently Kurt Cobain and Doug Martsch were influenced by the Butthole Surfers. I don’t share the sentiment, but if it helped us get Nirvana and Built to Spill, I guess I can thank the Butthole Surfers. But I can’t thank them for “Locust Abortion Technician.” Nothing was tolerable until “Human Cannonball,” and the rest is pretty terrible.
Ummm, no thanks.
Very noisy and incoherent. Not good.
Exactly what you'd expect from a band who calls themselves "The Butthole Surfers"... Horrible noise music — I think there's a clear distinction between 'avant-grande' and being wasted.
What even the hell
I'm having nightmares tonight, THANKS!!! This album is literally just a shitpost.
If I could, I’d give it zero stars.
actually appalling to the ears and was a very difficult listen. if i hear this again it will not be by choice. abominable.
So bad. Dnf
Thank god it’s over. Maybe one of the worse albums I’ve ever listened to. Just noise on noise and not in a good way. I can’t even pretend that I tolerated any of the songs to pick a favorite. If I could I would give this record a negative rating. Garbage.
No
This album sucked. Very hard on my ears and nerves Literally came out of a butthole 0/5
Geintje zeker?
Als je de hoes, de albumtitel en zeker de bandnaam ziet, weet je al genoeg.
Just not for me, not sure what the appeal is.
Um, just no! The music was so splintered so I was hoping there would be some lyrics? Oddly, the only song I felt was reasonable was Kuntz!
Shit.
A bunch of noise and dissonance. 1/5
Crap
Well, I listened to that.
Not for me
A bunch of cats being electrocuted. Couldn’t finish the album, though I wanted to save the cats.
The band name piqued my interest, and the first song started out well, but it was not enjoyable after that. Worst song was U.S.S.A., which was followed by the best song, O-Men. Human Cannonball was alright. Apart from that, not good.
🤢 🤮
Pretty unlistenable with a few good parts. 2.5/10
2.5/10 - The first word of the album is daddy. A bad start to say the least. Weber and Hay begin almost the exact same and are both very much not worht listening. Human Cannonball was decent but USSA and the O-men are literal trash. Kuntz was interesting but had some redeeming parts. 22 going on 23 was a difficult topic but I do not get why they decided to end the song with cow noises. Overall such a strange album that is pretty bad
Best part was that it was short
The only enjoyable part was the Black Sabbath riff in the first song
Really not in the mood for Butthole Surfers today.
Not to be overly negative but… Actually it’s impossible to be overly negative about this album.
The best part about this album is that it’s only 32 minutes long.
wtf is this shit
And I thought Radiohead was as bad as “music” could sink. This was definitely a “hold my beer” album in that regard. Utter filth.
I think this is only on the list so if someone is doing a project like this, they can say "I listened to Butthole Surfers"
Crap
Trash. 2 minute songs with 30-60 second intros. No thanks.
I don’t think they were going for high marks on this one.
For the love of god DO NOT look up all the band names these guys almost went with before they settled on Butthole Surfers, I can assure you that you will regret it.
Tf is that... Its like the 80's verision of Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat With a noise rock, strange lyrics and all Pretty Fucked up but its underground, its punk so its influencial. I really dont know what to think about it
Couldn't take it.
Whenever I think this album might be a 3, it does something to make me want to rate it a 1. The end of the album kind of trips over its own dick.
Nope
Every other song is just noise. It sucks.
АХАХАХАХХА ПАШЕЛ НАХУЙ
Хорошо, что всего полчаса... слава богу, что всего полчаса. Не, ну вот с Lightning Bolt я тогда как-то кайфанул. Здесь совсем беспредел.
I absolutely LOATHED listening to this. A strong contender for my least favorite album on the list (at least ~100 albums in). It feels like it wants me to hate it, so I guess it's doing its job?
This album name and band name duo does not spark optimism that this album will be very good. Hopefully I'm wrong. Goddammit I hate being right.
So much noise and screaming. This album would get 5 stars on the Making me Uncomfortable for the Whole Album scale. There were a couple of songs that were alright like Human Cannonball and Kuntz was weirdly cool. But not nearly enough to pull it out of a 1.
Ik ken Butthole Surfers van 'Dracula in Houston', maar dat is helaas totaal niet wat je op dit album krijgt. Dit album bestaat uit verneukte, experimentele kutherrie. Vroeger hebben ze niet genoeg aandacht van de juf gekregen, nu gebruiken ze drugs en geven ze geen fucks. Stoer man. 0 sterren afgerond naar 1. Iedereen die dit hoger geeft is interessant aan het doen. Wel een dikke albumcover, dat moet ik ze geven.
Locust Abortion Technician indeed… been hearing great things about this band for years but this is what they are? Shit, this was really disappointing and about as fun to listen to as nails on a chalkboard.
Occasionally dipped into melody but was mostly repetitive and discordant.
Dear lord what have I been subjected to. My butthole has not just been surfed, it has been violated. I have been violated. That said I listened to this on an airplane, does that qualify me for the mile high club?
Not for me 1/5
Noise
What the fuck did I just listen to? Is this what having a stroke sounds like?
I question some of the selections on this list. I like some of the stuff from this band, but I think a lot of what I appreciate comes from being in the mindset to aptly explore it. Today there were a few moments sprinkled in with what is mostly a bunch of noise.
Yay, more noise rock, which is absolutely a disguise for 'we're gonna do whatever the fuck we want, call it music, and release it with absolutely no shame'. This is at least better than that horseshit we had from Liars recently, but not by much. Mercifully they keep it short, and devote a good 20% of the record to the opening track Sweat Loaf, which is at least heavy and has a great riff (which they unfortunately overuse). Human Cannonball is also fine, maybe because it doesn't have many vocals, just a lot of screaming, and some inoffensive punk styling. The less said about the rest the better (although I'll highlight Kuntz as maybe the worst track we've had on more than 700 records); why this is one of the 1001 albums we must listen to I don't know, but I'm not sure anyone should've expected much at all from a band called Butthole Surfers.
I like other Butthole Surfers albums, but this was unlistenable. I don’t know if it was important in the development of a noise/freakout scene, but even if it was I can’t see how it merits inclusion.
Absolute rubbish. Noise and more noise..almost turned it off three tracks in!
I assume this album is used as torture at Guantanamo.
Too discordant/ raucous. Couldn’t get through the entirety of a single song.
Þetta er nú ekkert voðalega skemmtileg plata.
This is just noise with no fucking purpose. At least with Nevermind I could tell Cobain was making music, even if I didn't enjoy it. This is truly just noise.
I would like to find something good (maybe the driving drums) but it is VERY hard....
funny idea for an album and many of the songs, but the music just doesn't do anything for me.
From the title of the album and name of the artist, I admittedly was not expecting much. However, I was pleasantly surprised as in reality, I immediately saw the relevance of the word 'abortion' in the title; in that this album should be aborted off the face of this earth for no ears to ever have to suffer through ever again. (last 2 tracks are not horrendous but not enough to save it)
Nervig
No comment
Not for me and not sure why this one made the list.
wtf is this
I can appreciate their influence on grunge bands of the 90’s but that’s it.
I’ve heard many of her other songs and albums before, but not this one. I found a couple of songs I really enjoyed and the album, overall, was decent. Then I re-listened to “Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea” and thought that album was much better. I like how different her sound is across multiple albums and appreciate all of her music. Overall, glad I heard this, but not my favorite from her.
No
I was a hard-core punk kid through most of the 80s, but this is just some annoying fucking noise. I like a little musicality with my music, as opposed to this crap, which seems to have none.
1.5 Mostly just creepy noise. Kuntz and ussa were almost ok. Don’t really care to listen again
I don’t like this
Hated - angry and grating
holy heck. ei nykyaikana, nykyajalla pärjäisit tällästä sanoa, hullua komediaa... meikä vanha porilainen, tälläsestä ymmärrä .. haistakkaan haujakaan.. uudet veret hulluttelee give me the eagles..On a dark desert highway... Cool wind in my hair.. siitä ymmärtää.. autolla radio ppäälle ja haisemaan.. siinä nautiskellessa.. eikä tarvi tietokoneilla muunneskella , soittimilla pärjätään mainiosti. pittsburgh to lebanon
Nope
Fine if you're into that sort of thing I guess. I am not.
Quite the ordeal. 0 stars.
My only experience with the band was “Take the Skinheads Bowling.” It started out promising with “Sweet Loaf” but got repetitive and redundant even in its short length. I get that they’re trying to be provocative and all. But it was just… boring.
DNF. What the fuck was that.
This album must belong to the author of the book 1001 albums to listen before you die, cause, this has no reason to exist. But unfortunately, it exists in this universe. 1 for the cover
Another day another album without a songs on it. Sounds like Pixies just fucking around trying to sound as awful as they for the most part. I’m not above laughing out loud to a middle eastern vibed song called Kuntz but overall I don’t need to listen to this album 2.9/10
This album was chaotic. Every track felt like they could be in a soundtrack of some old movie. All I had in my mind while I listened to this was these crazy scenarios these songs could be played over. It was interesting, but I can't really recommend the album for anyone. Favorite was "Human Cannonball" obviously.
I don’t understand what would be appealing about this album. I guess it’s supposed to be subversive, but it doesn’t even do a good job at that. It’s like they’re trying too hard to be edgy, which just makes it uncool. Plus the music is downright unpleasant.
Must be difficult telling people you are a fan of the Butthole Surfers and not because the band name, but because this album is a joke…hence the clowns on the album cover. But really the joke is on anyone who had to listen to this crap and pretend it’s art. Note: the only semi-ok thing that came from the Buttholes is “Pepper”, in my humble opinion.
Well that was interesting… very experimental. Not very fun to listen to.
Hvem skulle trodd at butthole surfers var et unhinged band? Mentalt ustabil sanger og ustabilt band. Hva faen har de tatt jeg orker ikke mer.
Nope.
Syntes dette bare var bråk ass. Dette album-prosjektet har fått meg til å forstå at jeg ikke er en punker.
#47. I know I said I was going to be less harsh in dealing out one stars after that Tom Waits album, but I guess I lied. Because I kinda hate this. I mean, it's nowhere near as bad as Tom Waits, but I still hate it. It's not really music so much as just noise. 1/5: terrible
I'm really looking forward to my meetings today.
Ontzettend matig album, waarom dit nou op de 1001 lijst moest staan..?? Het enige nummer dat nog te doen is is Human Cannonball, verder is het grotendeels herrie. The O-men is wat mij betreft het beste voorbeeld over waarom dit zulke herrie is. U.S.S.A kan er ook wat van Butthole surfers komt op mij over als een super edgy tieners project, nogmaals, waarom staat dit in godsnaam in de lijst?? 1 voordeel: het album duurt heel kort.
It's like Ween but shit.
Yeah - I gotta tell you...this album was fucking awful. It sounded like the noise my friends and I would make with our instruments while drunk in high school.
Not for me
How is this even in the top 1001 greatest albums!? Trash
In a nutshell: background music for reenacting The Aristocrats joke. Heard of the band name, never heard their music. Was anticipating punk rock based on the short description on here. Nope. Don't let the opening sentence of the album's Wikipedia entry fool you, this isn't the rock music you're expecting. This album is definitely punk. It's more in the experimental noise genre than rock. Overall: 1/10
I just could not handle listening to this one the whole time. Ouch
eh ill probably blow it with this girl, im actually really shy sometimes. and thats okay. maybe everything may fail and you really just have no control over life. and thats okay too. eat the pizza its good for you. im cleaning moth larvae and mould out of the fucking floor lol this album kind of fucking stinks
Yeah not my thing. I try to listen to the whole album each time but I couldn't make it through the first song.
Not for me, wasn't horrendous but not my vibe.
Just terrible. Not one redeeming quality. Nothing to even say about it besides that it sucks.
How does this album even make it on this list? *sigh*
1/5. Maybe I’m not “smart” enough to get this album, but it’s horrible. Reminds me of Trout Mask Replica, which I also don’t “get.” Not a singular moment on this record is redeeming and every second was a waste of my time.
I’d be interested to know the “music” to “stupid ass noise” ratio of this one. At 30mins, even the small amount of “music” on here isn’t any good. There’s a lot of weird, unpleasant shit on this list.
This is one of the worst things Ive ever listened to
I started off thinking this was alright, despite the title and band name. By later in the day it was a “NO” from me ! 1*
it's as bad as you'd expect from a band called "butthole surfers" with the album called "locust abortion technician"
A lot of noise and swearing dressed up in various attempted music genres. It's garbage. Still wondering who thought this should be on the list...
I'm sure everything about this was edgy and cool in 1987, I just can't find a way to enjoy it now. Maybe as a rebellious teenager I would have been all about it... guess I'm officially an old man because my assessment is that it just feels like loud noise and the various names of band/album/songs are off-putting. It does not leave me wanting more.
The whole album feels yuck, and not because of the name, lol! So not my vibe. And while I get the musical evolution, this is one chain in the evolve I could do without.
Was supposed to interview King Gizzard And the Lizard Wizard for a webzine at a festival today. But the band cancelled all interviews at the last minute to shoot a video by the seaside. So what I'm doing instead is sit idly for the concerts to begin near the artists' lodges. Not because the artists are there, but because I need wifi to listen to today's... well... to listen to today's "album". Sometimes life serves you milk and honey. And sometimes it's just a platter of smelling turds. I feel like "L" is written on my forehead right now. In a way, this record is fitting given the circumstances I'm find myself in at the moment. Things will get better when the gigs start in a couple of hours, hopefully... As much as I respect and understand most of Kurt Cobain's provocative / drugged out impulses when he wrote that "50 favorites albums list" (including *Locust Abortion technician*), it"s obvious that he was more enamoured of the "fuck you" concept behind this LP than the music actually displayed in it. The best "music" in this album is actually a long sample of Thai musicians with a few sparse effects added to it ("Kuntz"). "Human Cannonball", "Graveyard part 2", and "22 Going On 23" are also interesting experimental noise rock. But that's as far as I'll go to "defend" this LP. File next to Throbbing Gristle. As I said before, I'm glad that Dimery's list also picked weird shit to subvert the whole concept of what an "essential" album should be. In this case it's just not the sort of weird shit I would choose myself. Next, please. Number of albums left to review: 465 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 252. Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 125 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more essential to me): 159 (including this one)
Driving with my infant daughter, she's cranky so I think "I'll put on some music, she likes music." Open to see the album of the day and push play. That didn't work out as anticipated. I think I ruined my daughter's morning and mine. For what value does "music" like this hold? Why does noise rock exist? What talent does it demonstrate? I swear I could have reproduced this in high school with my friends in an afternoon. And this is a "must hear"? Nope.
throwing random sounds and vocals into poorly created melodies is not going to result in good music. locust abortion technician is a disjointed, messy album. it's fine butthole surfers did a play off a black sabbath song, but what was the point? what did butthole surfers do in this album to be anywhere near remarkable and legendary?
The Butthole Surfers surfed too far in and discovered a steaming pile of crap. That's it. That's the review.
Good god, just make it stop. This is pretty much what I was expecting for an artist that is named Butthole Surfers.
Nee.
No value whatsoever.