This came out in 2003 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
“There’s a time to f— and a time to crave / But the Shah sleeps in Lee Harvey‘s grave!”
With that twisted couplet — screeched menacingly by guitarist Paul Leary over howling feedback — so begins the long, cacophonous, bizarre and transfixing saga of Butthole Surfers, perhaps the most demented band ever to crawl out of the Texas desert and foist themselves upon an unsuspecting public. If you think the Beckish single Pepper is what the Buttholes are about, you need to seek out Butthole Surfers + PCPPEP, which compiles the Surfers’ first two mini releases into one full-length. There’s 1983’s self-titled EP (aka Brown Reason to Live), a mind-warping hit of noise-punk mayhem, primal rhythm, bad-trip psychedelia and out-patient dementia in tracks like Hey, Something and Bar-B-Q Pope. Then there’s PCPPEP, a surprisingly coherent live set which proves infamous drug-gobbling vocalist Gibby Haynes could keep it together enough to get the job done. Finally, for the faithful, there are four unreleased live cuts and studio leftovers. The moral of the story? “There’s a time to live and a time to die / I smoke Elvis Presley’s toenails when I wanna get high!” That about says it all.
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