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Butthole 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
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The last full-length Butthole Surfers album of the 1980s marked a midway point in the band's career, straddling their psychedelic-noise roots and the more accessible recordings that would follow. Like Butthole Surfers' previous releases,
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All songs written and co-produced by Gibby Haynes, Paul Leary, Jeff Pinkus and King Coffey. The following titles were extrapolated by matching the songs to those found on 1989's
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uses nontraditional instrumentation, extensive tape editing, and sound modulation. Unlike its predecessors, which relied almost exclusively on a foundation of
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This album used no actual song titles when originally released; each song was represented by an absurdist, often scatological cartoon printed on the
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Live performances of all of the album's songs, with the exception of "Julio Iglesias", were included on 1989's
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was recorded at one studio in a relatively short period of time. According to bassist
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in 1999. Some of its tracks make allusions to famous musicians, such as
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Index


Studio album
Butthole Surfers
Dallas, Texas
Label
Touch and Go
Latino Buggerveil
Blast First
Au Go Go
Producer
Butthole Surfers
Locust Abortion Technician
Double Live
AllMusic
Rolling Stone
experimental rock
Butthole Surfers
Touch and Go
Latino Buggerveil
Julio Iglesias
electric guitar
bass
drummers
acoustic guitar
Teresa Nervosa
Double Live
vinyl record
CD
Double Live
Track listing

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