(LP) Butthole Surfers Locust - Hairway To Steven (2024 Remastered Reissue)

September 20th, 2024.

Standard Black Remastered Reissue

Hairway to Steven was the fourth full-length studio album by American experimental rock band Butthole Surfers, in April 1988.

The period during which these records were first issued parallels the Buttholes' transition from being weirdo Texas outcasts to becoming internationally recognized smut-kings of the American underground.

Hairway to Steven is a blast, ranging from the blood-smeared guitar-overload of "Jimi" to the acoustic guitar-based sing-along sweetness of "I Saw an X-Ray of a Girl Passing Gas" to the Fugs-like ranting of "John E. Smoke." Yet, for all its strangeness, Hairway got rave notices in places that had never paid the band any attention previously. It was the Buttholes' last album of the '80s and marks the beginning of their ascendance into something akin to commercial success. Not that the band actually imagined anything at all like that occurring.

TRACKLIST:

1. Jimi
2. Ricky
3. I Saw an X-Ray of a Girl Passing Gas
4. John E. Smoke
5. Rocky
6. Julio Iglesias
7. Backass
8. Fast Song