5つ星のうち5.0the Holy Grail of sponge rock Texas cosmic acid
2005年8月19日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
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The Butthole Surfers' music is sacred to me. I look at their first four albums as works of art. The most transcendentally wigged-out rock and roll music ever recorded. Period.
And Locust Abortion is the creme de la creme of the Surfers music. A short but bursting to the brim sonic sponge bath carefully engineered to hit you where it hurts.
I go back and forth over which track is my favorite. Both versions of "Graveyard" are gleaming sinister perfection. I decided a few months ago that the version played at regular speed is the greatest song ever recorded (it's between "Whirling Hall of Knives", "Edgar", and "Jimi" - Surfer fans should know them all).
Pittsburgh to Lebanon is the sludge that life is made from. Total beauty. The hollow moans at the end are actually quite lovely.
A word about the slowed down version of "Graveyard". You should probably listen to the songs in order, so you hear "Sweat Loaf" before "Graveyard". "Sweat Loaf" basically primes your head for the drop into "Graveyard". (whoever said that listening to the Surfers was like taking drugs was NOT lying. It really is).
Other great songs: "Kuntz" . I could listen to this again and again (and I do). "22 going on 23" is another free-floating dangerous masterpiece that will even out your mind.
I have this CD in my car always and usually listen to it at least once every couple of days. Sometimes it won't leave my CD player for days at a time. I love it.
Now, a quick word of warning. If you have never listened to this CD (or any Surfers' CD) be careful (heh-heh). You may want to start with one of their easier albums like Psychic Powerless. If you listen to this album first, it could freak your head out a little (course you wouldn't listen to it in the first place if you didn't enjoy that sort of thing from time to time) - I KNOW I do.
Have fun. disappear. Fall in. Embrace. This is it.
I broke down and paid the full price for this thing even though it is only 32 minutes long. No bonus/live tracks even? Hello lying record corporation sacs (ie TBSer's)? OK, well it's done and I guess it's a classic and is presented as it was originally and I'm listening to it again after 30 years. I had the vinyl record u see when it came out. Something... about this record worms it's way into your brain (and it is probably the left side of your brain) so be careful with intoxicants. Now I can play Kuntz for my neighbors who it was named for. I can sing along even when it's not playing. Now I can play 22 Going On 23 for my neighbors who it was named for. I can sing along even when it's not playing. Great solo in 22; so well paced and transcendental sounding.
The more I listen to it now, the more I think what a huge debt TBS owe to psychedelic post punk band Chrome. I'm not saying TBS owe their sound to Chrome; only that I hear some similarities and I betcha they were listening to Chrome. If you haven't heard Chrome please buy some CD's so Helios can continue to make it unreal.