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#6. Butthole Surfers, The O-Men
When I was 19, my roommate and I came back from a Saturday night of drinking. He had outpaced himself and collapsed awkwardly on the couch, like a Texas Chainsaw Ice Capade. I told him I was making myself a grilled cheese sandwich and he begged to make him one. I told him I would if he let me listen to the cassette I had bought earlier that day; 'Locust Abortion Technician' by the Butthole Surfers. He lasted five songs. Had I made his sandwich after mine, he would not have had one.
This one's on side two.
The Butthole Surfers, by the way, are the only band where I had to move *back* during a show because I got disturbed while watching.
I don't generally give a shit about originality or uniqueness in rock bands but I have never ever heard another record that sounds remotely like Locust Abortion Technician. Paul Leary does things with a guitar that make my mother hate me.
#4. Dinosaur Jr., "The Lung"
Their first national tv appearance ever. Microdot covered this at Tedstock.
Nothing says "I don't give a fuck" more than playing on National TV looking like a cross between Sarumon and Wilfred Brimley in "Cocoon". God bless J. Mascis.
#10. Black Flag, "TV Party".
DALLAS! QUINCY!
This song would've been higher on the list if they'd released a superior version of the song I heard at some point, which was slower, sloppier, and (most importantly) included the Lee Majors classic 'The Fall Guy' as a favorite show. For those who don't remember seeing it, Lee Majors played a stuntman named Colt Seavers, and no, it was not a porno.
When I was 19, my roommate and I came back from a Saturday night of drinking. He had outpaced himself and collapsed awkwardly on the couch, like a Texas Chainsaw Ice Capade. I told him I was making myself a grilled cheese sandwich and he begged to make him one. I told him I would if he let me listen to the cassette I had bought earlier that day; 'Locust Abortion Technician' by the Butthole Surfers. He lasted five songs. Had I made his sandwich after mine, he would not have had one.
This one's on side two.
The Butthole Surfers, by the way, are the only band where I had to move *back* during a show because I got disturbed while watching.
I don't generally give a shit about originality or uniqueness in rock bands but I have never ever heard another record that sounds remotely like Locust Abortion Technician. Paul Leary does things with a guitar that make my mother hate me.
#4. Dinosaur Jr., "The Lung"
Their first national tv appearance ever. Microdot covered this at Tedstock.
Nothing says "I don't give a fuck" more than playing on National TV looking like a cross between Sarumon and Wilfred Brimley in "Cocoon". God bless J. Mascis.
#10. Black Flag, "TV Party".
DALLAS! QUINCY!
This song would've been higher on the list if they'd released a superior version of the song I heard at some point, which was slower, sloppier, and (most importantly) included the Lee Majors classic 'The Fall Guy' as a favorite show. For those who don't remember seeing it, Lee Majors played a stuntman named Colt Seavers, and no, it was not a porno.
posted by stinkrock at 1:45 AM
4 Comments:
"The Fall Guy" may not have been a porno, but with Markie Post it served much the same purpose during my youth.
Who remembers the theme song, performed by Mr. Majors himself?
'Locust Abortion Technician' was my intro to the Buttholes. Sadly it's the only one I own. I should remedy that.
Track down 'Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac' and/or 'Hairway to Steven'.
Funny, I don't remember playing The Lung on national television.
Colt Seavers is famous for fathering Colt Brennan, the QB for the University of Hawaii this year.
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