Butthole Surfers (EP)
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| EP by Butthole Surfers | ||||
| Released | July 1983 | |||
| Recorded | 1982-1983 San Antonio, Texas |
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| Genre | Punk rock, noise rock, psychedelic rock | |||
| Length | 18:36 | |||
| Label | Alternative Tentacles | |||
| Producer | Butthole Surfers Mike Taylor |
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Later editions of Alternative Tentacles' 12-inch vinyl version of Butthole Surfers' debut EP include the words "Brown Reason to Live" on the cover.
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| Robert Christgau | A− |
Butthole Surfers is the debut studio EP by American punk band Butthole Surfers, released in July 1983. It is also known as Brown Reason to Live and Pee Pee the Sailor (see "Title controversy"). All songs were written and produced by Butthole Surfers.
The album was originally released on Alternative Tentacles. Butthole Surfers and 1984's Live PCPPEP were reissued as Butthole Surfers/Live PCPPEP CD on Latino Buggerveil in 2003. The 12-inch vinyl version is still available from Alternative Tentacles, and is listed as Brown Reason to Live.
The center label on Butthole Surfers' vinyl printings invites listeners to erroneously play the record at "69 RPM," a joke referencing the famous sex position. The album's back cover features a mildly distorted image of famed Mexican luchador Santo. Kurt Cobain listed the EP in his top fifty albums of all time.
Butthole Surfers introduced themselves to the world with seven songs full of throbbing bass, crashing drums, and heavily distorted guitar topped off with largely nonsensical, barely intelligible lyrics, alternately sung by lead vocalist Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary. Haynes also plays saxophone and drums on some tracks. Unlike later Butthole Surfers albums, no electronic instrumentation is present.
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