HAHAHAHAHA!!! I’m not even a huge BH Surfers fan, but it sounds like Locust Abortion Technician was a rite of passage for all of us here.
I remember being super high, having hotboxed it in my homie’s Ford Festiva and he just said, "Dude, listen . . . " and he put on “Kuntz” at full volume. I thought my head was going to explode, and then I thought I was going to die laughing.
I don’t remember much else from the album but it was such a doped out mindf**k of a disc. I don’t recall any other album that was simultaneously groovy, hilarious, trippy, and terrifying.
I don’t smoke weed anymore or do any drugs, but I can still remember a lot of my go-to CD’s when I was really stoned and wanted to melt my head . . .
Neurosis
Psychic TV/ Throbbing Gristle
NON - (especially the track "Cleanliness and Order)
Alice Donut
Skinny Puppy
Butthole Surfers
Primus
I don’t smoke weed anymore or do any drugs, but I can still remember a lot of my go-to CD’s when I was really stoned and wanted to melt my head . . .
Neurosis
Psychic TV/ Throbbing Gristle
NON - (especially the track "Cleanliness and Order)
Alice Donut
Skinny Puppy
Butthole Surfers
Primus
Excellent idea for a thread, Gunnar. But seeing as it’s not in its own thread compartment, I’ll just plant my response smack bang down here for all and sundry.
Albums that me and my buds got shitfaced along to back in the early 90’s and broke any number of laws in the process:
Mr Bungle - Mr Bungle
Tom Waits - Bone Machine
Big Black - Songs About Fucking
Birthday Party - Junkyard
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Cosmic Psychos - Blokes You Can Trust
Skinny Puppy - Bites / Remission
Napalm Death - Scum
Flipper - Album Generic
I listened the shit out of this album before I ever did a hallucinogen but it became a butt-holy experience after ingesting an 8th of shrooms. It starts out psychedelic, gets nice and muddy, sanity returns for one song with Human Cannonball, then descends further back into insanity until you hit that fuckin’ gem 22 Going On 23. That song caps this album; so perfect, so fucked up.
Locust Abortion Technician + mushrooms + lava lamp + pen and notebook = Taking the Hairway to Steven.
I remember reading people joking about a guy who actually ascended the Hairway to Steven because he took too much acid and never came home from a Butthole Surfers show sometime in the 80s. I couldn’t confirm if someone actually vanished but the thought of someone taking too much acid and taking the Hairway to Steven at one of their shows is amazing. If I can find the article I’ll post it.
I listened the shit out of this album before I ever did a hallucinogen but it became a butt-holy experience after ingesting an 8th of shrooms. It starts out psychedelic, gets nice and muddy, sanity returns for one song with Human Cannonball, then descends further back into insanity until you hit that fuckin’ gem 22 Going On 23. That song caps this album; so perfect, so fucked up.
Locust Abortion Technician + mushrooms + lava lamp + pen and notebook = Taking the Hairway to Steven.
I remember reading people joking about a guy who actually ascended the Hairway to Steven because he took too much acid and never came home from a Butthole Surfers show sometime in the 80s. I couldn’t confirm if someone actually vanished but the thought of someone taking too much acid and taking the Hairway to Steven at one of their shows is amazing. If I can find the article I’ll post it.
I have never done LSD, shrooms (attempted once, but it was a failure), or any hallucinogen. But I do have a favorite story . . . .
Some guy had a big 'ol sheet of blotter acid on him when the cops raided the party . . . . so, to hide the evidence, he just swallowed it all . . . like 50 hits or something. Well, as the tale goes, he fried his brain (go figure) and continued his life in a mental institution as a GLASS OF ORANGE JUICE. When the doctors/ nurses try to move him, he screams, “DON’T SPILL ME!!!”
Not sure if that’s true or urban legend, but I love the story.
I used to work with a lady who was a bartender when GG lived in Atlanta. Said he was a perfect gentleman. But she always wisely refused offers to go to his performances…
Yeah, Jeff Clayton (Antiseen) has said similar in interviews. GG lived with him at his house for like a year or something. He said GG was the perfect houseguest and was no trouble whatsoever. Always respectful, polite, and never a nuissance. He said he knows people ask him about it all the time hoping to hear something really saucy like GG would shit on the floor and roll around in it, but he said nothing of the sort ever occurred and he was a great and cordial room mate. Ironically, his “he was a perfect guest” report is probably the MOST shocking story he could have told about GG.
Has anyone mentioned PInky yet? Their early hippie psychedlic days with Syd to the Gilmore/Waters prog gods days is pretty drastic.
Maybe even Swans. Their early stuff was devastatingly dark and noisy and just an all out sonic assault on the senses, then they have their folky shit that I just can’t stand
How about Chumbawamba?
They were always crap, but they certainly took their crap in a different direction with that Tubthumper stuff after droning on for 15 years about war and corporations and whatnot with that peace punk gibberish.
How about Chumbawamba?
They were always crap, but they certainly took their crap in a different direction with that Tubthumper stuff after droning on for 15 years about war and corporations and whatnot with that peace punk gibberish.
Maybe even Swans. Their early stuff was devastatingly dark and noisy and just an all out sonic assault on the senses, then they have their folky shit that I just can’t stand
While I might have felt differently in 1988, I feel like Swans just made too many incremental changes to their sound (rather than ‘drastic’ ones). “Children of God” would have been the point where they began employing Jarboe’s cabaret-style singing and acoustic guitars, but there were still some crushing numbers in that set (‘New Mind,’ ‘Sex God Sex,’ ‘Blind Love’ etc.)
So I never got the impression that they ever “settled” on one approach or the other. Plus I never got the feeling the changes in their sound were motivated by anything other than Gira’s own tastes, and weren’t calculated for greater popularity or marketability.
And then they basically oscillated back and forth between gentleness and apocalyptic intensity in a way that’s difficult to pin down. Their records from 1995 onwards have balanced these elements out really well, with one of them - “Soundtracks for the Blind” - being one of the best album-length collections of music of the 90s (imho)…
I was going to mention Vanilla Ice.
In 1989-91 he was rocking lightning bolts shaved in the sides of his head, cheesy grafitti painted pants, and multi-colored leather jackets, while dancing around to “Ice Ice Baby”.
After enough jokes about the dude, whose image became dated about 2 minutes after premiering, he came back around 1994 as some street gritty rasta pot gangsta man, rappin’ about rollin’ blunts and cappin’ fools and whatnot.
I just read his Wikipedia, though . . . . I really didn’t know Vanilla’s story was this exciting. I thought everything was just fluff, but . . . this is pretty good stuff.
I was going to mention Vanilla Ice.
In 1989-91 he was rocking lightning bolts shaved in the sides of his head, cheesy grafitti painted pants, and multi-colored leather jackets, while dancing around to “Ice Ice Baby”.
After enough jokes about the dude, whose image became dated about 2 minutes after premiering, he came back around 1994 as some street gritty rasta pot gangsta man, rappin’ about rollin’ blunts and cappin’ fools and whatnot.
I just read his Wikipedia, though . . . . I really didn’t know Vanilla’s story was this exciting. I thought everything was just fluff, but . . . this is pretty good stuff.
and then after that he tried a Limp Bizkit style nu-metal rap hybrid thingy also…
I saw on that Wiki page also that Vanilla Ice is now signed to PSYCHOPATHIC RECORDS, which is Insane Clown Posse’s label. Yep. That sounds about right.
I knew this thread was going to steer towards Vanilla Ice at some point or another, so here is [url http://www.backwashzine.com/ice.html]an absolutely "mind blowin’’ interview with the man, in which he discusses his priceless thoughts on aliens and evolution.
Simple as a pimple, yo! Drop the zero and get with the hero!
I knew this thread was going to steer towards Vanilla Ice at some point or another, so here is [url http://www.backwashzine.com/ice.html]an absolutely "mind blowin’’ interview with the man, in which he discusses his priceless thoughts on aliens and evolution.
Simple as a pimple, yo! Drop the zero and get with the hero!
Wow. That was awesome.
I do like his candidness. I never realized that he fully owns his past musically and embraces it (despite his regret over letting his image be fabricated).
I also like guys that are open about their thoughts and beliefs, no matter how unpopular, wacky, or disconnected they may be.
[reply]I knew this thread was going to steer towards Vanilla Ice at some point or another, so here is [url http://www.backwashzine.com/ice.html]an absolutely "mind blowin’’ interview with the man, in which he discusses his priceless thoughts on aliens and evolution.
Simple as a pimple, yo! Drop the zero and get with the hero!
Wow. That was awesome.
I do like his candidness. I never realized that he fully owns his past musically and embraces it (despite his regret over letting his image be fabricated).
I also like guys that are open about their thoughts and beliefs, no matter how unpopular, wacky, or disconnected they may be.[/reply]
I’ve seen Van Winkle out and about at various events I have worked over the years…never talked to him but he seems like a nice dude…he is in to flipping houses or some sort of realty work…
Wow. That was awesome.
I do like his candidness. I never realized that he fully owns his past musically and embraces it (despite his regret over letting his image be fabricated).
I also like guys that are open about their thoughts and beliefs, no matter how unpopular, wacky, or disconnected they may be.
This is true…as much dirt as I have slung at the guy for his silly artistic decisions (on this board even), I might invite him to my table for a beer before I would do the same for certain insincere members of my own little sub-sub-culture.
For some reason, I still prefer enthusiasm and conviction in something completely corny than I do an uninspired attempt at doing something a little sexier. Having even a good ironic laugh at “Ice Ice Baby” still feels like a healthier activity than pretending to like work by people who themselves are pretending to care about what they’re doing.
And on another note: might this be the only discussion thread in history where both GG Allin and Vanilla Ice have been forgiven of their sins? Does an official Prongs Church now need to be started, considering our exceptional levels of tolerance and understanding?
Man, the only way to properly chill at the fairgrounds with the V.I.P. (Vanilla Ice Posse, for the culturally unenlightened) is with [url en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_Coke]a fried coke. Anything less than tha best is a felony.