Daddy, what does regret mean?
Well son, the funny thing about regret is
That it's better to regret something you have done,
Than to regret something you haven't done.
And by the way, if you see your mom this weekend,
Could you be sure and tell her SATAN SATAN SATAN!!!!
Ah ah ah ah, ehm. A dire il vero la cover dei Black Sabbath non è niente di sconvolgente ma passata quella, che allucinante accozzaglia di blasfemie!
Dietro una splendida immagine di copertina si cela un disco meglio prodotto e allo stesso tempo più divertente e accessibile dei precedenti. Un feroce, schizofrenico capolavoro.
Su undici brani, l'unico che si avvicina a una canzone normale è "Human Cannonball", un rock'n'roll melodico dal retrogusto anni '70, veramente figo. Per il resto questa banda di pazzi si lancia senza indugio nelle follie più sfrenate. Sono clown assassini: divertenti ma micidiali, più vicini al mostro di "It" che a veri pagliacci da circo. Violentano la musica senza ritegno e lo fanno con una serietà impressionante, godono nello scaraventare bombe incendiarie e palate di sterco fumante sull'ignaro ascoltatore. Dall'inizio alla fine non sbagliano un colpo, sia che alzino muraglie di rumore insopportabile, sia che deturpino indecentemente musica orientale (vedi "Kuntz").
In "U. S. S. A. " una demenziale voce in falsetto ripete ossessivamente la sigla per tutta la durata del brano. In "The O-Men" un cannibale psicopatico pronuncia frasi incomprensibili e per tutta risposta gli strumenti impazziscono completamente. "Pittsburgh to Lebanon" è un aggressivo blues in distorsione che racconta una storia degradata di sesso e sangue. "Graveyard" è una sorta di vodoo-metal con chitarre deviatissime. "22 Going on 23" è l'inquietante confessione di una ragazza stuprata. Tra queste e altre nefandezze, Gibby Haynes si esibisce in un cantato spettacolare alla David Thomas e in ruggiti degni di un licantropo.
Traendo ispirazione dalle fonti più disparate (Beefheart, Pere Ubu, Cramps, Flipper, Chrome, Dead Kenndys e Red Crayola per dirne qualcuna) i Butthole Surfers hanno coniato un linguaggio nuovo che diventerà presto imitatissimo ma soprattutto hanno compiuto il nobile atto di elevare rutti e scoregge a forma d'arte.
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01 Sweat Loaf (06:09)
Daddy?
Yes, son.
What does regret mean?
Well son, the funny thing about regret is that it's better to regret
something you have done than
to Regret something that you haven't done
And by the way, If you see your mom this weekend, will you be sure and
tell her...
SATAN SATAN SATAN!!!!
02 Graveyard (02:27)
You lie in the graveyard
Well you're rotting away
When I talk to you daily
You`ve got nothing to say
You lie in the graveyard
Well you are down making plans
Well you control all my thoughts
Well you make dust fall
03 Pittsburgh to Lebanon (02:29)
I was born out my momma ass,
Well, I'm as blind as can be,
I brought my first shotgun,
By the age of three,
Said, Fine whiskey and women, oh,
By the time that I was five,
So tired of the way that I am living now
You know I`m gonna windup alive.
06 Human Cannonball (03:51)
Are you ready to Rock?
Well rock on!
Pardon me,
I'm only bleeding
but you cut me
to the bone
my imperfections
have reduced you
to a lowly
animal
A part of me
was introduced to you
then it walked right
out the door
And tonight
you're probably feeling
like a human
cannonball
It used to be
that loving you
was easy,
unrestrained
and now
I'm only bleeding
forgone loving,
only pain
Pardon me,
I'm only bleeding
but you cut me
to the bone
and tonight
you're probably feeling
like a human
cannonball
10 Graveyard (02:45)
You lie in the graveyard
Well you're rotting away
When I talk to you daily
You`ve got nothing to say
You lie in the graveyard
Well you are down making plans
Well you control all my thoughts
Well you make dust fall
11 22 Going on 23 (04:23)
Woman: I enjoy your show and I've been trying to get through for quite a while.
Man: Well, We're glad you kept trying
Woman: Umm. I have this problem. Last July, I was assaulted...sexually,
and ever since then, I've been having trouble sleeping.
Man: How old are you?
Woman: I'm 22 going on 23
Man: Medicine...Counseling...Anxiety...Sleep Programming
..Medicine...Sleep Programming
..Anxiety...Counseling...Medicine...Sleep
Programming...Depression...Anxiety...(etc.)
Woman: Well, they told me, when I have these bad dreams, to try and put
endings on the
dreams, like I come out a winner. But everytime i try to do that, I
just...don't get anywhere. It
seems, I keep having the same dream over and over every night, and
that's why I'm up so late.
Woman: And I watch one soap opera a day. And if he happens to walk in
the house, I'm
paranoid. I just jump up and turn off the TV. Except he says, "Is that
all you're gonna do all
day, just sit around and watch TV?" And I love to travel, so I've
mentioned traveling to him.
And finances are no problem. But he says that he did all the traveling
that he wanted to do while
he was in the service.
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