Sunday 13 December 2009

Holy Shit!

This has existed in various forms around the web; but just in case you've missed it, never bothered or knew not of it, here it is in all its full definitive glory, ripped from cassette @320kbs, digitally enhancing the original DAT recording, allowing you to flatten off the hiss and play it very, very loud indeed.
The only way to listen.
Not much to say about this really.
Except it is one of the best live collections of avant-noise-punk songs from one of the best bands of their genre(s).
And as far as the Surfers' oeuvre goes, this captures them at their absolute peak; their very best; their most surreal and their most creative.

Gibby's mastered his Gibbytronix; Leary's axing iconoclastic; the monster rhythm section's bombastic.

Lewd, crude, extreme, offensive, but often sublime.
Live music didn't get any better than this.

Butthole Surfers - Double Live (1989)

Part 1

To Parter
Psychedelic Jam
Ricky
Rocky
Gary Floyd
Florida
John E Smoke
Tornadoes
Pittsburg to Lebanon
The One I Love
Hey
Dum Dum
No Rule
U.S.S.A.
Comb

Part 2

Graveyard
Sweatloaf
Fast
I Saw an X-Ray of a Girl Passing Gas
Strawberry
Creep in the Cellar
Suicide
Jimi
Lou Reed
Kuntz
22 Going On 23
Something

Excellent cassette rip @320kbs
To parter one here
To parter two here

4 comments:

-d said...

Classic. I was going to post this on my site as one of the next couple postings. Everyone interested in different music should download this and thank Roy, here...

Anonymous said...

thanks for this!

Michael said...

I have this on vinyl... Great album!

Hewg said...

Thanks Roy, very exciting stuff.