Track Listing

1. Kaiser
2. Woo
3. Superman
4. Charlie
5. Stop Foolin
6. Letter
7. 15000
8. Nights
9. I Need Some Help
10. Dream Machine
11. Redneck Sex

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42176 in Music
• Released on: 2004-08-24
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Album Description
The first solo album from the legendary Butthole Surfers' front man and co-founder. It's a groundbreaking collection of songs from one of the most dynamic, controversial, and influential icons of the alternative music movement. Sure to be embraced by Butthole Surfers fans and the alt music world.

Customer Reviews

Enough
Enough with the Butthole Surfers comparisons. I suppose it's inevitable, given Gibby's pedigree, but please - when held up to the inspired mayhem and relentless avant-gardeism of the Butthole's finest work (if you think I'm talking about anything released after 1988, you're in the wrong class - quit reading this, go to the record store, and buy the good stuff) any comparison is simply ridiculous.
This is a new project, and although King Coffey and Paul Leary made contributions, they were not part of the conceptualization. Gibby and his new team of Austin veterans have crafted a listenable album of psychedelic pop songs that, to my ears, bears little resemblance to any of their former projects. To me, this is to be commended - any one of these guys could have allowed themselves to coast on their reputations and crank out the same thing year after year. Instead they did something new, and it sounds pretty damn good. You want the Butthole Surfers? Go listen to Locust Abortion Technician. Want to hear what Gibby's up to now? Buy this record.

3 1/2 stars--
Not intense and arty as the best B Surfers, but it is a fun listen. Good music to drive to. A couple songs sound like pop songs from the sixties but sung by an alchie (the song LETTER would be a good example). On first listen I didn't think much of the cd, it wasn't as perverse as I hoped it would be, but on second listen I started hearing the songs for the simple fun weirdness they do have.

Accept this album for what it is.
I did not know what to expect when I put this CD into my computer. Would Gibby return to Locust Abortian Technician style experimentation or would he continue in the more straight ahead (though with trademark deviations from the norm) indie rock tradition of more recent Butthole Surfers offerings like Independant Worm Saloon or Electric Larryland? The answer is the latter. This is a pretty straight ahead rock and roll offering and its mainly Gibby's off the wall lyrics that provide the strongest link with the past.
That said, I still love this album. Accept it for what it its, not what particular Buttholes era you want it to hark back to. I personally like the tracks that are obvious homages to 60's psychedelia and garage pop the best... like "Superman" and "Letter." "Kaiser" is great for its lyric, a repeated monologue suggestive of a sadomasochistic gay speed freak's intreaty to his boyfriend to accompany him to Los Angeles on a quixotic, incontinent quest for fame.... "I'll be the Kaiser, You'll wear the diapers, We will be famous, In California" etc etc...
I have been a [...]Surfers fan since hearing Locust Abortion Technician back in the 80s, and I have always been happy to go wherever these mutant Texan genii (if only George W. Bush were more like them) will take me, whether its Sabbath-esque heavy metal or something much more bizarre. They are also one of the best live acts I have seen. So if Gibby, Paul Leary or anybody else involved in the Buttholes puts out a side project or solo effort, it will command my attention.