Butthole Surfers

The Butthole Surfers surprised just about everyone in the world when they managed to turn "Pepper" into an alt-radio hit in '96. The entire album may not be as much as a mind-bending freakout as their earlier sessions, but the band are still making a hard-to-pin concoction of punk rock, psychedelia and just-plain oddness.

What a difference a hit single makes. The veteran scourge of U.S. underground rock, the
Butthole Surfers, are now heavy-rotation dudes, thanks to "Pepper," which, in all honesty,
is one of the lesser entries – too much Beck (a la "Loser"), not enough brown-acid mischief
– on Electriclarryland. OK, Larryland itself is no Locust Abortion Technician or Hairway to
Steven; the gonzoid locomotion of today's Buttholes is more streamlined and co... More >