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Butthole Surfers "Locust Abortion Technician" LP

Butthole Surfers "Locust Abortion Technician" LP

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Remastered! Butthole Surfers 84-91 Retrospective Series. Standard Black 12" EP Pressing.

Locust Abortion Technician is the third full-length studio album by American rock band Butthole Surfers.

In 1987, when the Butthole Surfers were at their crazed, creative crest, the UK music scene was in a prissy state of uncertain transition. At Melody Maker, a vanguard of us journalists, determined to turn up the dialectical heat, hailed the new maximal/minimal expansiveness of hip-hop, Prince in his preposterous finery, The Sugarcubes and The Cocteau Twins’ overspill of glossolalia, the momentous new shapes and rhythms hammered out on the electro-goth anvil by Skinny Puppy, The Young Gods and Front 242, and, from America, what Simon Reynolds unabashedly hailed as “the return of rock” – the combined gale force of, among others, Sonic Youth, Big Black and Husker Dü. All of this represented an aesthetic revolt against the studied smallness, the tapered, anti-rockist, anti-flamboyant, Peelite correctness into which indie (cf The Wedding Present) and tasteful, white socked, post-Style Council Red Wedge retro-crews alike had lapsed. It felt time to rail against this decency, this too-British caution, to get back on the road to excess. Locust Abortion Technician, released in March 1987, was the epitome of this. It impacted like a whale on a beach, exploded by the deadly build up of its internal gases. This, right here, in every right head, was the state of rock.

Tracklist

A1        Sweat Loaf    6:05
A2        Graveyard    2:27
A3        Pittsburg To Lebanon    2:29
A4        Weber    0:33
A5        Hay    1:49
A6        Human Cannonball    3:52
B1        U.S.S.A    2:14
B2        The O-Men    3:28
B3        Kuntz    2:25
B4        Graveyard    2:45
B5        22 Going On 23    4:28

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