Butthole Surfers - Hairway to Steven - SUPER LIMITED

Butthole Surfers
Hairway to Steven
Matador 2059 - SUPER LIMITED 

The second part of Matador’s reissues of the essential early records by Texas’s Butthole Surfers continues with one of their most insane slabs -- 1988’s ‘Hairway to Steven.’ The period during which this record was first issued parallels the Buttholes’ transition from being weirdo Texas outcasts to becoming internationally recognized smut-kings of the American underground.
‘Hairway to Steven’ is a blast, ranging from the blood-smeared guitar-overload of “Jimi” to the acoustic guitar-based sing-along sweetness of “I Saw an X-Ray of a Girl Passing Gas” to the Fugs-like ranting of “John E. Smokes.” Yet, for all its strangeness, ‘Hairway’ got rave notices in places that had never paid the band any attention previously. It was the Buttholes’ last album of the ‘80s and marks the beginning of their ascendance into something akin to commercial success. Not that the band actually imagined anything at all like that occurring.
 -- Byron Coley

     Includes:
Jimi
Ricky
I Saw An X-Ray Of A Girl Passing Gas
John E. Smoke
Rocky
Julio Iglesias
Backass
Fast Song

NEW SEALED re-issue LP - ALREADY OUT-OF-PRINT!!