"POLLio Iglesias!": The Butthole Surfers' Hairway to Steven

I really love "X-Ray of a Girl" and "John E. Smoke" but "Backass" is f'in majestic...!

"Fast" is great.

It's a whole not a clutch of tracks but "Jimi", so obv.

I object to these song titles

This reminds me I need to do a poll on Julio and Enrique Iglesias albums called "Pollo Iglesias".

"They be tellin Julio Iglesias what to sing - right now"

Always loved "Johnny Smoke" (ten-foot-tall Texas tale, interrupted by overblown "heroic" climaxes). That idiotically enthusiastic audience-noise grafted on top is a nice hilarious touch, kinda like "[Famous Guitarist] Shreds" 20 years early.

"Jimi" aka "fecal baseball picture" is one of my fave Surfers jams so that, easy. Does anybody know where those song names came from? Setlists?

yeah I was gonna apologize for not putting the descriptions of the pictures, but I actually ahve never owned a legitimate copy of this album (someday I'll fix this), so I don't really know what the pictures are...

the song-titles, if I'm not mistaken, come from the Double Live Bootleg that the Surfers put out some years back...

1. pissing and defecating hard-on baseball
2. horse urine stream
3. double girl assholes
4. cigarette
5. needle
6. rabbit shits on fish
7. elk poops
8. rocket to the moon while bird craps.

fast, i think

http://i43.tinypic.com/15nmwds.jpg

I think I'm gonna go with double girl assholes altho this album is great from start to finish, the pinnacle of their recorded output methinks

i like it a little better than Locust Abortion Technician

'sgot more actual SONGS!

Their last worthwhile release! They always trod a fine line between surreal horror and wacky hi-jinks, songs like John E Smoke were starting to tip the balance by this point methinks. X-Ray Of A Girl is still my fave.

I pulled out my cassette of this and the receipt was still inside, check out the date, lol

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/0420.jpg

Hairway to Steven was recorded at one studio in a relatively short period of time. According to bassist Jeff Pinkus, the band had been performing most of these songs for years before recording them for this album. Many of the band's previous releases had been piecework affairs, recorded over several months in numerous studios, and their songs underwent far more in-studio development.

The Surfers opted to follow this album's blueprint on future recordings, entering the studio with more fully formed songs than they had in the past. Pinkus has expressed the opinion that these better-organized recording sessions stifled much of the spontaneous creativity that had propelled the group's previous albums.

pinkus otm

I prefer the version of "jimi" that was released as "flame grape" on a texas trip

was a texas trip never reissued? that's such a great comp.

Their last worthwhile release

Wait, Double Live, Widowermaker and the Hole Truth are also great! Voting Jimi.

A Texas Trip is great and is it also the only official release of Stick Men With Ray Guns? At least until the CD came out a few years ago?

Who are these haters btw? I thought this album was pretty much universally loved by Butthole Surfers fans, albeit not as much as Locust or Another Man's Sac.

I just mean, BH Surfers' haters in general who say that they never made a halfway decent album ever...

Ah right fair enough.

xpost like this guy, waiting in the wings until the Surfers' glory had faded before lashing out nastily...

"jimi" is cool and everything but "flame grape" gets the squids squirming out of the walls to swim in the transparent radiation if you catch my drift

great album...need to think on this

Backass. Nothing against the other tracks, but their ultimate jam isn't Jimi, IMHO, it's Psychedelic Jam. (before it got lyrics and became P.S.Y.)

X-Ray for that guitar solo.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Double Girl Assholes for the win!

yes! four voted for "elk poops!"

Hey, hey, hey daddy, why die in the war?

crazy goddamn world