Butthole Surfers Humpy Dumpty LSD is out. It's great!

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The lack of press they're sure to receive encouraged me to bring it to your attention. This is old unreleased material, 16 tracks, over an hour. It's really great stuff and has been described as "the missing album between Locust Abortion Technician" and "Hairway To Steven".

Im not sure how such things can be remixed so impressively, but for the most part, this sounds like a brand new recording with great sound. There is one song with Daniel Johnston at the end that has a shitty college-dorm quality, but the rest of the songs (some of which I've had on mp3 format) have been brought up to date with nice, rich clarity and a full bass to round it out.

Anyway, for those of you here who'd been complaining that they've sucked for the last 10 or 15 years or whatever, you'll probably like this album. A couple instant classics like "I love you Peggy" and "Earthquake" cover tune make it pretty hard to put down, both literally and figuratively. However, I'm sure Pitchfork can rise to the occasion with it's first negative score rating.

Just a public service announcement. I won't be back to argue up and down or anything. ;-)

― Nude Spock, Sunday, 9 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

so, is this stuff actually recorded around 88 then? is any of this on double live?

― gareth, Sunday, 9 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No, it's all new (as in unreleased) or very, very, very rare. For instance, "Earthquake" appeared on some compilation.

Samples of every song are up at midheaven, but they really are misleading. After I listened, I wasn't very excited about it. Once I bought the CD, I realized the samples make the songs sound horribly dodgy compared the strength of the actual recordings.

The Butthole Surfers have another compilation of rare stuff planned for the future called "White, Dumb, Poor and Ugly" with another hour's worth of stuff.

Here's the track listing of HDLSD:

Night of The Day One Hundred Million People Dead I Love You Peggy Space 1 Perry Intro Day of the Dying Alive Eindoven Chicken Masque (a very unique song, I've never heard them play remotely this style before) Just A Boy Hetero Skeleton Earthquake Ghandi I Hate My Job Space 2 Concubine Solo All Day with Daniel Johnston Dadgad (this song is such a damn happy ender)

― Nude Spock, Sunday, 9 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh and yes, it's from around 88 or earlier. Some of the songs are from around 82 or 84, I think. It's songs that never made it onto the popular albums: Psychic, Powerless; Locust Abortion; Rembrandt Pussyhorse or Hairway. Some songs were random releases or appeared on comps. There are some 4 track demos of superior quality.

This is album is as good as Double Live, I think and has the same feel to it. However, the sound quality of HDLSD is much better.

― Nude Spock, Sunday, 9 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You know, I should've just done this in the first place. Would've saved me a lot of typing.

http://www.buttholesurfers.com/img/humptypage2.gif

― Nude Spock (email is not functional), Sunday, 9 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Huh. But no "Nee Nee" from the elephantitus 10 inch. That's an amazing song that should have been properly released.

― Brian MacDonald, Sunday, 9 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It clashes with everything I listen to these days, but I find myself tempted.

― DeRayMi, Sunday, 9 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It really is quite, quite great.

― John Darnielle, Sunday, 9 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Will get this!

― Julio Desouza, Sunday, 9 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hello and how are you Spock? Nice to hear from you.

― Sean, Sunday, 9 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i shall get this too, i haven't listened to them in quite a long time, but i am certainly intrigued

― gareth, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

supposedly Butthole Surfers are playing Fuji-Rock with Sonic Youth and Boredoms.... ?

― http://gygax.pitas.com, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

More news:

If you wait for the double gatefold vinyl (which is out today in the UK, but not til later in the states), you get 2 extra songs. So, that's 18 songs.

Also, like I said "White, Dumb, Poor & Ugly" is another hour of unreleased material slated for release later this year.

NEW INFO: The feller that make "The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt" has been given permission to (and will) make The Hole Truth Part Too this summer from his vast 80-something raritities and bootleg tapes.

Thank god the buttholes finally got that lawsuit settled, eh? On top of this, a truly new album is in the works to be released late this fall, I believe....

― Nude Spock, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sounds great - The Sufers used to be damn wild and very inventive. It's interseting that they're releasing this now isn't it? I wonder why? And there's more on the way? goodness me.

― Andrew, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Every dog has it's day... right? I've been speaking w/Paul and King for a while now and I've discerned they have nothing to prove. They just want to live. Interesting to note: King drives a Toyota Camry, Paul drives a Honda Accord and Gibby drives a 70s Cheverolet Caprice Convertible. When Paul's not cruisin' for chicks in the Accord, he's ridin' along on his scooter, which he is almost as adamant about as a Harley dude, except he just likes it and I don't believe he's trying to scare the neighborhood with his loud muffler.

Can you imagine being in such a band? Think you'd do better? If I was any of them, I would die a very happy man.

Ah. shit, I'm becoming addicted to this forum again. Drinking beer'll do that to you, I guess.

― Nude Spock, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, apparantly, King gave his entire life savings to the estate of Roky Erikson.

― NUdespocck, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

^ Nude Spock

― am0n, Thursday, 6 September 2007 02:53 (eighteen years ago)

So, this seems to be what I said somewhere else, on a thread I lost track of: When he's OK, he's a valuable ILXor, and when he 'goez off', he bad?

― Mark G, Thursday, 6 September 2007 09:55 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

anybody know anything about the planned second volume? I am jonesing for a version of "Bioled Dove" that is not my crappy cassette copy.

― sleeve, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 00:29 (eighteen years ago)

"Boiled". duh.

― sleeve, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 00:29 (eighteen years ago)

It's true, "Boiled Dove" is a crawl through the halls of greatness. One of my favorite songs.

"Flame Grape" needs a return, too -- it was originally on the A TEXAS TRIP comp with the Daniel Johnston song from HDLSD.

Was "Earthquake" really that deeply buried? REM and ZZ Top were on that Roky tribute comp, too.

But this isn't about archeology, it's about dropping acid and seeing how far your lips can stretch!

― Ian Christe, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

I just saw on Youtube a mid-80's live bit taped for a show called Scott & Gary, and they were amazingly insane.

― Marco Damiani, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

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