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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
the Holy Grail of sponge rock Texas cosmic acid, August 19, 2005
How to say it?
The Butthole Surfers' music is sacred to me. I look at their first four albums as works of art. The most transcendentally wigged-out rock and roll music ever recorded. Period.
And Locust Abortion is the creme de la creme of the Surfers music. A short but bursting to the brim sonic sponge bath carefully engineered to hit you where it hurts.
I go back and forth over which track is my favorite. Both versions of "Graveyard" are gleaming sinister perfection. I decided a few months ago that the version played at regular speed is the greatest song ever recorded (it's between "Whirling Hall of Knives", "Edgar", and "Jimi" - Surfer fans should know them all).
Pittsburgh to Lebanon is the sludge that life is made from. Total beauty. The hollow moans at the end are actually quite lovely.
A word about the slowed down version of "Graveyard". You should probably listen to the songs in order, so you hear "Sweat Loaf" before "Graveyard". "Sweat Loaf" basically primes your head for the drop into "Graveyard". (whoever said that listening to the Surfers was like taking drugs was NOT lying. It really is).
Other great songs: "Kuntz" . I could listen to this again and again (and I do). "22 going on 23" is another free-floating dangerous masterpiece that will even out your mind.
I have this CD in my car always and usually listen to it at least once every couple of days. Sometimes it won't leave my CD player for days at a time. I love it.
Now, a quick word of warning. If you have never listened to this CD (or any Surfers' CD) be careful (heh-heh). You may want to start with one of their easier albums like Psychic Powerless. If you listen to this album first, it could freak your head out a little (course you wouldn't listen to it in the first place if you didn't enjoy that sort of thing from time to time) - I KNOW I do.
Have fun. disappear. Fall in. Embrace. This is it.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Perhaps you're not ready, September 15, 1999
By A Customer
to be submersed in the dark oozing subliminal world of cigarette smoking beligerent clowns. Perhaps you have no desire to intertwine your consciousness with the liquid of insanity. Maybe you can't handle the denizen's of your mind frolicking about in the real world. Don't listen if any of these apply to you. You're better off, trust me. This is the soundtrack to the twisted world you know exists, but no one ever talks to you about.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This CD should come with a warning label..., March 25, 2005
Because it can warp and twist your mind like no other music can. First there's the cover art...two blissful clowns playing with a cute dog. Nothing could possibly be more misleading. But turn to the reverse side and you'll see a photograph of a baby that looks like he has Down's syndrome. And we're off to Locust Abortion Technician!!!
Easily one of the most bizarre, nightmarish, acid-drenched albums ever to bubble up from the gutter, Locust Abortion Technician will make you redefine the meaning of "wierd." This is the Butthole Surfer's best and most avant-garde album, filled with tapeloops, slowed/sped-up/reversed vocals and sfx, sludgey distortion and chaotic song structure. It is a crazy, schizophrenic mess that will get inside your head. I love it.
The Butthole Surfers prove to be masters of the studio, as they create "music" that you would think spilled out of an insane asylum from a freaky netherworld. This is THE album to play if you want to freak out or disturb all people within listening range.
Sweet Loaf: 10/10 - Variation of Black Sabbath's Sweet Leaf. Goes on for about 8 minutes. A bit repetitive, but still cool.
Graveyard: 10/10 - A sludgey, distorted song that sounds like it was recorded under 10 feet of dirt. Slowed-down lyrics accompany Leary's choking guitar.
Pittsburgh to Lebanon: 8/10 - Blues, Butthole style.
Weber: 3/10 - This song seems like a fragment of a different song. Its only 35 seconds, and is the only useless song on the album.
Hay: 10/10 - Now this song is scary. People screaming HAY in the background while rapidly reversed sound effects and scratching overlap. Very, very, freaky.
Human Cannonball: 8/10 - The most "normal" song here. You can actually understand the lyrics, and it has a followable structure. Sounds like late 70's punk.
U.S.S.A: 8/10 - Distorted, whining guitars, high-pitched sceaming.
O-Men: 10/10 - Gibby making Tasmanian Devil noises as a thrashing guitar and drums play. Also features disembodied high-pitched vocals, slowed-down segments, clanging and clashing sounds effects. Very noisy.
Kuntz: 10/10 - Probably the strangest song I've ever heard, even more so than anything by Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart. The Surfers take an old Thai song and mess around with it. They use multiple layers of tapeloops, slow-motion and fast-motion to create a truly pyschadelic mess.
Graveyard 2: 9/10 - Different version of Graveyard 1.
22 going on 23: 10/10 - One of the best songs on the album. A radio show involving a female talking about how she was sexually assualted plays in the background as the Sufers play music that sounds straight out of hell. The words "medicine," "guilt," "anxiety," "I cannot sleep," and "depression" echo and repeat over and over in the background. The albums ends with cows mooing away in a field, along with crickets chirping.
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