¡CINCO AÑOS! Various Artists 1995

 

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Compilation on Trance Syndicate Records



Tracklist

  1. Starfish - Working Days
  2. Sixteen Deluxe - Daisy Haze
  3. Bedhead - The Dark Ages
  4. Desafinado - Vacuum
  5. My Dad Is Dead - I Had A Dream
  6. Furry Things - Everything New
  7. Sweet Pea - Cut
  8. Cherubs - Quitter
  9. Pain Teens - Manouche
10. Crust - Weekend Bell
11. Lowbrow - Hey Now (I Know)
12. Ed Hall - I Think I'm Going Bald
13. Drain - 120 Horses
14. Starfish - Runaround
15. Johnboy - Bob And Cindy
16. A.C. Acoustics - Love Lies Broken Pieces
17. Sixteen Deluxe - Giver
18. Cherubs - Carjack Fairy
19. Butthole Surfers - The Lord Is A Monkey (Remix)
20. Roky Erikson - You Don't Love Me Yet

DADDY LONGHEAD Cheatos 1991

 

 

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Artist Biography by Patrick Kennedy

Bassist Jeff Pinkus founded Daddy Longhead during his tenure with the Butthole Surfers as a way to voice the back catalog of songs that did not fit the bill with the Surfers. The band also served as an alternate musical voice stylistically, as well as an easygoing, stress-free environment within which to create and play music with friends. That's perhaps why Daddy Longhead always resembled a twisted, jam band reminiscent of an Allman Brothers on acid. Daddy Longhead was formed in Austin, TX, in 1990 with Jimbo Young on guitar, and Rey Washam -- an extraordinary musician who had previously worked with, among others, Big Boys, Scratch Acid, and later with Ministry -- on drums. The band began playing the occasional show in Austin or Houston when Pinkus' busy recording and touring schedule with the Butthole Surfers permitted. Issuing its debut album, Cheatos, in 1993, on the Butthole Sufers longtime home of Touch and Go Records, the band remained a side project until Pinkus quit the Butthole Surfers in late 1995.

Developing into more of a full-time band at that point, Daddy Longhead released its sophomore effort, Supermasonic in 1997 on the band's imprint Honest Abe's Custom Records, with Troy Baldridge assuming drumming duties, save a few album tracks recorded with Washam. In the meantime, Pinkus was devoting more and more time to his new project, Honky, which then itself catapulted into more of a full-time effort than Longhead. However, the band continued to record and tour, this time with former Pain Teens drummer Frank Garymartin. By 1998, Daddy Longhead called it quits. That same year saw the Man's Ruin Records release of Classic, a collection of 1993 recordings made with the original lineup of Pinkus, Washam, and Young.

Tracklist 

1	Back In '69	4:10
2	20 Lb. Jockey	3:48
3	Scar Spangled Boner	5:40
4	Speck	5:30
5	The Post	4:48
6	Driftwood	2:30
7	Green Fog	4:07
8	Pine Box	6:13

 

DRAIN Pick Up Heaven 1992

 

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Tracklist 

1	National Anthem	1:46
2	Crawfish	4:33
3	Martyr's Road	2:40
4	Non Compis Mentis	3:09
5	Funeral Pyre	4:08
6	Ozark Monkey Chant	4:35
7	Instant Hippie	3:34
8	Flower Mound	5:33
9	Every Secret Thing	4:33
10	The Ballad Of Miss Toni Fisher	1:00

HONKY Honky 1998

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Artist Biography by Mark Deming

Playing hot-wired boogie rock that fuses classic rock swagger with punk rock attitude, Honky were formed in 1996 by Jeff Pinkus, best known as the longest-lasting bassist with the Butthole Surfers. After leaving the Surfers in 1994, Austin, Texas-based Pinkus busied himself with a number of projects, including a short-lived band called Skinny Lynerd. Skinny Lynerd's guitarist was a moonlighting tattoo artist named Carson Vester, and when Pinkus, Vester, and drummer Lance Farley jammed together one day, they decided the chemistry was right and a power trio was born. Honky was soon gigging regularly on Austin's lively club circuit, and in 1997 they made their recorded debut with an EP on Man's Ruin Records titled Ten Inches. Later the same year, Honky dropped their self-titled debut album on Pinkus' Honest Abe label. Honky hit the road to spread the word about the band, and earned a reputation as a hard-working and hard-living live act. The band's schedule eventually became more than Vester had bargained for, and he left the group, with Gable Barber recruited to take his place on guitar. A chaotic Chicago show Honky played opening for L7 became the group's second album, Attacked by Lesbians in a Chicago Bowling Alley. In 2001, Honky delivered their second studio album, House of Good Tires, which introduced another new guitarist, Bobby Ed Landgraf. From this point on, Pinkus and Landgraf were the team that defined Honky, though a number of drummers would pass through the lineup. Arriving in 2005, Balls Out Inn featured Kenny Wagner on drums, while Michael "Night Train" Brueggen provided the backbeat on 2012's 421, which was mixed by Pinkus' former Butthole Surfers bandmate Paul Leary. During touring in 2013 and 2014, Dale Crover of the Melvins was drumming with Honky (often doing double duty on shows where Honky opened for the Melvins). In 2016, Honky emerged from the studio with their fifth studio album, Corduroy, which featured yet another new drummer, Trinidad Leal, who had previously played with Dixie Witch.

Tracklist

1	Smokin' Weed With Helios Creed
2	Mello Larry
3	Deezy
4	Honky Jam
5	Nice & Tastee
6	Toy Story
7	Comes A Time
8	What She Needs
9	Strange
10	Ticket Holder
11	ManDingDong
12	Sancha
13	Honkadelic

SATURDAY MORNING (Cartoons' Greatest Hits) 1995

by request

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Tracklist  

1	–Liz Phair With Material Issue	The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)	3:14
2	–Sponge (3)	Go Speed Racer Go	3:07
3	–Mary Lou Lord With Semisonic	Sugar Sugar	3:53
4	–Matthew Sweet	Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?	3:12
5	–Juliana Hatfield And Tanya Donelly	Josie And The Pussycats	2:53
6	–Collective Soul	The Bugaloos	3:18
7	–Butthole Surfers	Underdog	3:56
8	–Helmet (2)	Gigantor	4:14
9	–Ramones	Spider-Man	2:07
10	–Reverend Horton Heat	Jonny Quest / Stop That Pigeon	3:09
11	–Frente!	Open Up Your Heart And Let The Sun Shine In	3:31
12	–Violent Femmes	Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah (Means I Love You)	3:21
13	–Dig	Fat Albert Theme	3:46
14	–Face To Face	I'm Popeye The Sailor Man	3:05
15	–Tripping Daisy	Friends / Sigmund And The Seamonsters	4:22
16	–Toadies	Goolie Get-Together	3:48
17	–Sublime (2)	Hong Kong Phooey	3:47
18	–The Murmurs	H. R. Pufnstuf	3:19
19	–Wax (10)	Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy	3:32

 

 

 

THE JACKOFFICERS Digital Dump 1990

by request

 

 

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Review by Patrick Kennedy

At the dawn of consumer-level computer recording, fellow Butthole Surfers Gibby Haynes and Jeff Pinkus -- vocals and bass, respectively -- discovered that sampling, cutting and pasting, tagging on some weird blips and beeps, as well as the occasional vocal, could be an amusing lark. Never ones to offer a straight answer to the public, this was just another flight down the sonic rabbithole for the Butthole Surfers during their transition from an independent to a major label. At best, this is a goof-off captured to disc; at worst, well, the joke's on the listener. At least someone paid them to release this. And from Pinkus himself, someone even paid the duo good money to push play on the tape deck on stage in Europe for a two-week tour in support. Borrowing from recording lexicon, the album is literally -- as is almost everything recorded from the early '90s onward -- a digital dump: music created and dumped -- transferred -- to the digital domain. Most certainly, the title's irony was not lost on Haynes and Pinkus. Unfortunately, this type of sound and recording -- though far more fleshed-out, even if that would be digital flesh -- became the Butthole Surfers' complete methodology years down the line, long after Pinkus had split camp. 

Tracklist

1	Love-O-Maniac	3:07
2	Time Machines Pt. 1	4:57
3	Time Machines Pt. 2	4:05
4	L.A. Mama Peanut Butter	3:28
5	Do It	3:21
6	Swingers Club	4:19
7	Ventricular Refibulation	4:03
8	#6	2:45
9	Don't Touch That	3:09
10	An Hawaiian Christmas Song	3:33
11	Flush	1:21

 

 

P self titled 1995

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Artist Biography by Mark Deming

While Johnny Depp has developed a massive international fan following as an actor (especially since the release of the blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl), he's also been a musician and a passionate music fan most of his life, and one of his best-known musical projects was the band P. Depp began playing guitar when he was 12, after his mother gave him a second-hand acoustic instrument as a present; he taught himself to play using a Mel Bay chord book, and by his late teens he was gigging with a number of band in his native Florida and dropped out of high school to devote his time to his music. Depp's most successful group during his days in the Sunshine State was the Kids, a hard-edged new wave band who developed a significant local following an opened for a number of national touring acts, most notably Iggy Pop, who would work with Depp again years later, both as an actor and as composer of the score for Depp's directorial debut, The Brave. After recording a four-song demo, the Kids changed their name to Six Gun Method and moved to California in hopes of landing a record deal. Their big break didn't come and Depp quit the group, though bassist Bruce Witkin went on to play with Adam Ant and currently fronts the group Supremium, while Depp met Lori Anne Allison, a makeup artist who would become his first wife, through Six Gun Method's drummer. Depp then joined the hard rock band Rock City Angels, though in 1984, on the advice of Nicholas Cage, a friend of Allison's, he landed a role in the film A Nightmare on Elm Street and left the band to pursue acting full-time, though a song he co-wrote for the group, "Mary," appeared on their debut album, released by Geffen in 1989. In 1993, while Depp was in Texas shooting the film What's Eating Gilbert Grape, he and Sal Jenco, a close friend and fellow musician turned actor, struck up a friendship with two Lone Star rockers, guitarist and songwriter Bill Carter and Gibby Haynes, infamous lead vocalist with psychedelic punk firebrands the Butthole Surfers. The four decided to form a band, and P was born, with Depp and Carter trading off on guitar and bass, Jenco playing drums, and Haynes handling the vocals. The band made their debut at the 1993 South by Southwest Music Festival and became the informal house band at the Viper Room, the Los Angeles rock club co-owned by Depp. In 1995, Capitol Records, then home to the Butthole Surfers, released P's self-titled debut album, which featured guest spots from Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones, and pianist and L.A. scene fixture Chuck E. Weiss. A song from the P album, "Michael Stipe," gained some alternative rock airplay, and sales were respectable if modest considering the fame of the participants. The group proved to be short-lived, as Depp and Jenco returned to acting, Haynes continued touring and recording with the Butthole Surfers, and Carter released solo albums and collaborated with Howe Gelb of Giant Sand. However, Depp still plays guitar in his spare time, popping up on some Oasis sessions, guesting with his long-time paramour Vanessa Paradis, appearing on the first album by Shane MacGowan & the Popes, and playing a reunion show with the Kids in early 2007 at a memorial concert for Shelia Witkin, the group's manager and a longtime fixture on Miami's underground rock scene. Depp has also told interviewers he remains friendly with his P bandmates and wouldn't rule out recording a second album with them. 

Tracklist 

1	I Save Cigarette Butts	3:43
2	Zing Splash	3:16
3	Michael Stipe	4:25
4	Oklahoma	3:38
5	Dancing Queen	3:47
6	John Glenn (Mega Mix)	9:00
7	Mr. Officer	3:43
8	White Man Sings The Blues	6:40
9	Die Anne	4:43
10	Scraping From Ring	7:51
11	The Deal	6:05

DRAIN Offspeed and In There 1996

by request

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Biography

by Jason Ankeny

Drain was the ambient techno alias of King Coffey, better known as the drummer of the Butthole Surfers. Born in 1964, Coffey joined the Butthole Surfers in 1983, and began Drain in 1992 with the LP Pick Up Heaven, which -- despite the presence of samples and drum machines -- explored more traditional guitar-rock ground. However, with the project's second effort, 1996's Offspeed and In There (released on the indie label Trance Syndicate, a company owned and operated by Coffey in his native Austin, Texas), Drain took the plunge into experimental dance music, fusing hip-hop and trance beats with an eclectic collage of samples and influences. 

 

Tracklist 

1	Playground Twist	3:37
2	Burma Slowdrive	4:12
3	Return To Rosedale	4:06
4	Marrakesh: 3AM	4:22
5	A Bunch Of Guys About To Turn Blue	3:29
6	Helicopters Are Burning	4:05
7	Saipan Murder Mystery	3:55
8	Stop Six	4:33
9	Wendy Will Win	4:48
10	The Nitrous Shuffle	3:42
11	In The Spring We Eat Cucumbers	2:59
12	Upright & Locked	4:46

LOVE AND A .45 Soundtrack 1994

 

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Tracklist 

1	–The Flaming Lips	Turn It On	4:41
2	–Meat Puppets	Animal	4:31
3	–Mazzy Star	Ghost Highway	3:25
4	–The Jesus And Mary Chain	Come On	2:14
5	–Kim Deal & Bob Pollard*	Love Hurts	4:12
6	–The Reverend Horton Heat*	The Devil's Chasing Me	5:12
7	–April's Motel Room	Black 14	4:48
8	–FSK* With David Lowery From Cracker*	Unter Dem Doppeladler	3:41
9	–Butthole Surfers	Who Was In My Room Last Night?	4:08
10	–Johnny Cash	Ring Of Fire	2:37
11	–Courtney & Western	Am I In Love	3:06
12	–Roger Miller	King Of The Road	2:27

 

BAD LIVERS Delusions of Banjer 1992

I saw Bad Livers play here in Pensacola at Sluggo's around 1992. They were the biggest bunch of jerks. - just rude and for some reason stuck up. One of the band members was making fun of the soundboard and all sorts of snarky comments. They did put on a good show but what a bunch of buttholes. Paul Leary of the Butthole Surfers was their producer.

MINISTRY Jesus Built My Hot Rod CD EP 1991

Jesus Built My Hot Rod CD EP 1991
1. Jesus Built My Hot Rod (Redline Whiteline version)
2. Jesus Built My Hot Rod (Short, Pusillanimous* So-They-Can-Fit-More-Commercials-On-The-Radio Edit) [*contemptibly timid]