Cream Corn from the Socket of Davis
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| EP by Butthole Surfers | ||||
| Released | January 1986 (US) October 1985 (UK) |
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| Recorded | 1984-1985 | |||
| Genre | Avant-garde, hardcore punk, psychedelic rock | |||
| Length | 16:24 | |||
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Touch and Go (US) Fundamental (UK) |
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| Producer | Butthole Surfers | |||
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Cream Corn from the Socket of Davis is the second studio EP by American punk band Butthole Surfers, released in October 1985. All songs were written and produced by Butthole Surfers.
The EP was originally released on Touch and Go. It was also included with CD editions of Rembrandt Pussyhorse in the U.S. and Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac in the UK. Rembrandt Pussyhorse and Cream Corn... were again packaged as a single album when they were reissued on Latino Buggerveil in 1999.
Highly eclectic, Cream Corn... finds Butthole Surfers exploring blues, industrial music, psychedelic rock, and country rock in the space of four songs. While guitarist Paul Leary has described Cream Corn... as an unfinished full-length album, lead vocalist Gibby Haynes has said it was conceived as a single with additional songs.
It is unclear if Teresa Nervosa performed on all four songs, as she left the band for a short time in 1985. She has been confirmed as playing on "To Parter" and "Tornadoes."
Three of the EP's songs – "Moving to Florida," "Comb," and "To Parter" – are often performed at the band's live concerts.
"Moving to Florida"'s first spoken words would later be sampled by Japanese noise band Hanatarash on their track "Butthole Surfers/Pisshole Surfers".
The "Davis" in the album's title is a reference to American entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr., while the "socket" alludes to the socket of his left eye, which he lost in an automobile accident in 1954. The album's original cover concept called for an image depicting cream corn spewing from Davis' eye socket. The commissioned piece did not match the band's expectations though, and they decided to use a different cover image while keeping the concept's name.
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