Hairway To Steven is my favorite Butthole Surfers album. Every song on it is gold. It’s one of the greatest experimental rock albums of all time, easily on par with Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica. I have the original Touch & Go release from 1988, with the impossible-to-remove MADE IN CANADA sticker. This disc is thirty years old.
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Hairway To Steven
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Tagged as 1980s, 1988, 1990s, 1996, alternative music, Butthole Surfers, Captain Beefheart, experimental rock, Gibby Haynes, Gwar, Jeff Pinkus, Julio Iglesias, King Coffey, music, Paul Leary, Richard Linklater, San Antonio, Savannah, Suicidal Tendencies, Teresa Nervosa, Texas, The Addams Family, underground
“Retrovertigo”
In 1999, four years after their previous album, Mr. Bungle released California. My friend George and I were/are slavering fanatics of Mr. Bungle. That shirt that says “There’s a tractor in my balls again”? I had that. I wore it so often I destroyed it, even after it survived a GWAR show in 1997.
So let’s just say we were very excited about Bungle’s third album. The band’s website teased this excitement, with minute-long samples of each track on California. This was 1999. I was using my first PC, the one I got from Gateway, which came with a set of Boston Acoustic speakers that I now use with my Xbox 360. Good, long-lasting speakers, my point here would be. Continue reading →
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Tagged as 1990s, 1999, alternative music, Bands I Useta Like, behind the scenes, California, Clinton "Bär" McKinnon, Danny Heifetz, despair, experimental rock, Greatest Of All Time, Gwar, Mike Patton, Mr. Bungle, music, Trevor Dunn, Trey Spruance
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