| View Larger Image | Independent Worm Saloon | Audio CDby Butthole Surfers
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| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Format: | Explicit Lyrics | | Studio: | Capitol | | Release Date: | March 23, 1993 | | Sales Rank: | 36,875th |
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TRACK LISTING |
Disc: 1
- Track 1: Who Was in My Room Last Night?
- Track 2: Wooden Song
- Track 3: Tongue
- Track 4: Chewin' George Lucas' Chocolate
- Track 5: Goofy's Concern
- Track 6: Alcohol
- Track 7: Dog Inside Your Body
- Track 8: Strawberry
- Track 9: Some Dispute over T-Shirt Sales
- Track 10: Dancing Fool
- Track 11: You Don't Know Me
- Track 12: Annoying Song
- Track 13: Dust Devil
- Track 14: Leave Me Alone
- Track 15: E.D.G.A.R.
- Track 16: Ballad of Naked Man
- Track 17: Clean It Up
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 32 reviews)
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Excellent by William R. Nicholas (Mahwah, NJ USA)  4 Stars
November 08, 2009
John Paul Jones--yes, him--produced Independant Worm Saloon, and you can tell.
Jones takes the Surfers experimental noise and condences it to tight songs. The offhand playing and avant sheets of the band are in full force, but on tracks like "Alcohol' and many others, it thrives within the tight formats Jones enforces
The punk attitude is not lost, and where Jones may have done some heavy editing here, the sound of the Surfers is never watered down--"Clean It Up" provides more than enough proof.
Great album
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Dirty Psychedelia by M. K. Adams (Seattle, WA)  5 Stars
June 13, 2009
A raw, funny, and rude album that feels like a hummer from a gutter skank while on bathtub LSD. Yeah, the Butthole Surfers are hard to describe. Combining scuzzy blues rock with a grab-bag of weirdness that has to be heard to be understood -- Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart proceed the Surfers, and bands like Ween and Primus follow in their wake. If Hunter S. Thompsan's alter-ego Raoul Duke had stopped everything in the middle of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas to compose an album, this would be that album.
The last album the Surfers put out before the far more polished Electric Larryland brought them national attention, this is BS's Bleach, and like that album its the best of their career. Here we find the band at the peak of their technical prowess before their sound would be filtered through million dollar studios, still creatively free to experiment and screw around, but taking their music seriously enough to produce something you want to listen to more than once despite the high weirdness.
For the Surfers being even weirder, try Locust Abortion Technician, for the Surfers aiming for the mainstream check out Electriclarryland.
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I wet the bed last night. I woke up dirty by Unkl Whiskey 5 Stars
November 02, 2008
After seeing the surfers live many times in the 80's I can't give enough credit to a group of junkies that can make it to the shows unlike those drunks from Led Zeppelin, and really rock out and has captured the mood on albums as well. By far , this album instantly proved to be the greatest jam session of all. Gibby has also contributed to other groups like Ministry..The Butt holes have had a long career and can go into rock history as not a fly by night..Their sound has never been duplicated like the Seattle sound or others..This is a must to add to the collection..Can't figure out how anyone who knows the Buttholes to give this album a 2 star rating??
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I guess you just have to be into it by Sean Adhikari 5 Stars
October 18, 2008
This one is by far my favorite, and although many would disagree with me, I think it's mainly because I'm heavily punk-oriented. And I think this album allowed the Surfers' punk ego to shine the most, since they're not actually considered a real punk band, but rather a unique psychedelic rock band. It also contains tons more upbeat energy than any other, but I'd have to say the true sellout days came only after this one, with Electriclarryland and afterwards.
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Easiest BS Listen by Paul Drager (Colorado Springs, CO United States) 4 Stars
December 07, 2007
Well, if you want an album you can put on for friends by the Butthole Surfers, this is it. Well, minus that one album with Pepper on it, but that was no fun was it?
Songs have structure. The bass, the guitar(s), the drums, the vocals. All crazy. All intense. All over the place. And some great songs. This is the type of music you are meant to blow your speakers out with. Completely rocking without any pretension. A beautiful mix of the strange and scary with song structure.
If you are looking to expand your taste of music into the slightly strange, Independent Worm Saloon stands up with Mr. Bungle and Frank Zappa as some of the strangest, yet accessible and fun music out there.
Highly, highly (I'm flying) recommended on so many levels.
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