Butthole Surfers – Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac LP

40 years later, Butthole Surfers have announced their first batch of reissues in collaboration with Matador Records certain to raise the roof for a lot of people who thought they had a pretty good handle on the outer realms of the ‘80s indie-rock scene.

‘PCPPEP’ was the first to feature the power of the band’s classic two drummer line-up (King Coffey and Teresa Taylor). The synchronized percussive brutarianism of this pair (falsely rumored to be siblings) provided the perfect base for the unhinged blurt of the guitars and vocals then being shared by Gibby Haynes and Paul Leary. ‘Psychic...Powerless... Another Man’s Sac’ was also wildly advanced over the previous records. Parts of the LP swaddled their punk edge inside so much oink and babble you almost couldn’t discern it, with other segments stretching out into a mutant form of garage blues, and others just swirling out of control.

This evolution continued on ‘Rembrandt Pussyhorse,’ mixing rock-based form destruction with experimental, tape-mangling passages of many flavors. Meanwhile, their live shows became legendary examples of excess and derangement, and their music just kept getting louder and stranger and more savage. It was the diametric opposite of the hardcore scene from which it had emerged, which was heading in ever more codified and stylistically conservative directions.

Label: L

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered

Country: US

Released:

Genre: Rock

Style: Noise, Punk, Experimental

Tracklist

A1 Concubine

A2 Eye Of The Chicken

A3 Dum Dum

A4 Woly Boly

A5 Negro Observer

A6 Butthole Surfer

B1 Lady Sniff

B2 Cherub

B3 Mexican Caravan

B4 Cowboy Bob

B5 Gary Floyd