Butthole Surfers – Lady Sniff

Puerile, disgusting, majestic. Why it’s the Texas heroes with a track from their 1985 album
‘Psychic… Powerless… Another Man’s Sac’.

Butthole Surfers – Jimi

Crushing opener from the last great Surfers album, 1988’s ‘Hairway To Steven’. The first section is pure moronic evil; like Jimi Hendrix making music that actually sounds like he was taking the amounts of acid he was notorious for; whilst the second section brings to mind Faust in one of their more bucolic moments.

Biota – Rackabones (Full Album)

This is incredible stuff from the criminally underrated American band. This album was them after they’d changed their name from Mnemonists, and forged forward as the musical project Biota. Under the new moniker, the collective were quieter; more discrete. However, the music oozes towards you in an extremely unsettling manner; rolling, cracking, clumping, and dissolving then reforming before your very eyes. This is the whole album from 1985.
[0:00] “Vagabones: Part I”
[26:39] “Vagabones: Part II”
[52:59] “Rackabones: Part I”
[1:11:02] “Rackabones: Part II”

Nurse With Wound – Elderly Man River/Dance of Fools

Delicious scrambled brains from the mighty Nurse With Wound, with 2 tracks from 1985 . ‘Elderly Man River’ sounds like Faust on Benzodiazepine’s, whilst ‘Dance With Fools’ is oozing with moronic evil.
“Never eat anything bigger than your head”.

Black Dice – Manoman

Completely nutted and lysergic slack-jawed idiocy; a compliment we extend to the whole of the 2007 album ‘Load Blown’ by New York’s BD.

The Residents – Constantinople

Maniacal Cartoon Pop with trace elements of old school Rock ‘n’ Roll (from Pluto). Yes, it’s The Residents, and yes, it’s from 1978’s classic ‘Duck Stab’ EP.

Butthole Surfers – Live in Aachen, Germany (1986)

Here’s the full (?) set from a gig this legendary band played in Germany. This was in 1986 when these Texan lunatics were at the height of their powers.

0:00:41 – Graveyard [cuts in]

0:02:50 – To Parter

0:06:33 – Hey

0:09:17 – Sweat Loaf

0:12:45 – John E. Smoke

0:19:23 – Mark Says Alright

0:23:44 – Creep In The Cellar

0:25:55 – Pittsburgh To Lebanon

0:28:15 – The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey’s Grave

0:30:37 – Moving To Florida

0:34:42 – Cherub

0:39:11 – KING COFFEY DRUM SOLO

0:42:32 – Suicide

0:44:15 – No Rule [Leather Nun cover]

0:46:26 – Lady Sniff

0:51:04 – “I got a smoke machine. Check it out. That’s fuckin’-that’s rock and fuckin’ roll. That is THE embodiment of rock and roll as we know it.”

0:51:40 – 100 Million People Dead

0:55:38 – P.S.Y./Psychedelic Jam

1:04:09 – Gary Floyd

1:06:18 – U.S.S.A.

1:09:54 – The Revenge Of Anus Presley

Black Dice – Bad Bet

The Brooklyn trio are back with their first album since 2012’s ‘Mr Impossible’. This here is the opening track from ‘Mod Prog Sic’ and sees the band overlay a stalking Electronica rhythm with peeling guitar and other mumbling ‘n’ fumbling sounds. The whole ‘if Butthole Surfers were an Electro group’ thing they started (in full swing at least) on 2005’s ‘Broken Ear Record’ is still in effect here, and elsewhere on the album.

Joke Lanz – Prositt

Here’s some insanity from the German’s brand new album ‘Zungsang’, available as digital download on Bandcamp, and cassette. Imagine NWW jamming with Black Dice, and you are well on your way.

Smegma – Difference

Loose ‘n’ shaggy Psych/Avant Rock from the US acts 1979 album ‘Glamour Girl 1941’.