Lonesome Bulldog

Butthole Surfers - Piouhgd

Rough Trade, 1991

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I listen to completely irrelevant music, and I like it that way. It strikes me that I've never really thought of why. I guess I could listen to fresh stuff, but keeping up on trends really isn't my thing. And historically important music is good but intimidating. God knows I'm opinionated about music. Maybe listening to music that never really mattered anywhere except in my head is my way of avoiding the conflict of real discussion.

All I know is that this cover of Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man" is hilarious.

The Butthole Surfers lost something with this album. Like the lunacy stepped back and was replaced by that sort of complacent commercialized confusion commonly mistaken as insanity. The sound is more developed here - the production glossier, but not like the later albums where better production is actually embraced. It's between phases for the Surfers, and where they were from and where they were going didn't really mesh well.