Track Listing

1. Hairway
2. Hairway (1)
3. Hairway (2)
4. Hairway (3)
5. Hairway (4)
6. Hairway (5)
7. Hairway (6)
8. Hairway (7)
9. Hairway (8)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #119570 in Music
• Released on: 2000-04-24
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .12 pounds

CD Description
Devoted Butthole Surfers fans will argue the relative merits of the band's early albums, but all seem to be in agreement on the brilliance of HAIRWAY TO STEVEN. The album combinesthe sometimes harrowing freakishness of their debut and thesonic experimentation of LOCUST ABORTION TECHNICIAN with a glimpse of the accessibility that crept into their 1990s albums.
Still, HAIRWAY is vintage Surfers, a nearly overwhelming mixture of spinning psychedelia, fractured songcraft, thunderous punk, and a generally outr sensibility. Gibby Haynes employs his "Gibbytronics", a device that unleashes a barrage of vocal effects, and guitarist Paul Leary saws, soars,and does everything in between, while the lyrics paint character sketches of crippled midget lesbian boys and the like.Somehow the Surfers manage to turn all this chaos into art,and HAIRWAY stands as an underground classic, and probably the best example of the band's uniquely inspired lunacy.

Customer Reviews

outcast and amazing
When listening to this CD you don't get a tame introduction at all, in fact quite the opposite, its brilliant yet disturbing. The lyrics on this album make you wonder what is going through the writer's head, he sings about things that have neve been sung before. This album is very diverse and you can really appreciate the guitar and bass. (...). This is one of the gems in my collection, up with the greats like Meat Puppets II, sometimes the guitaring sounds very similar.
The vocals aren't particularly amazing,(...) If you're trying to turn yourself onto different music you never knew was out there, buy this CD, if you don't like it, at least it has a cool cover. The only disapointing thing about the album is the length, sometimes it seems too short. You probably won't like the album straight away, it's one of those cd's where it needs a good few spins to really be appreciated, but it's not a cd you can like, you'll either love it, or hate it.
(...)if you're looking for the next best thing, you don't need to look anymore.

The Song Names
1. Jimi
2. Ricky
3. I Saw an X-Ray of a Girl Passing Gas
4. John E. Smokes
5. Rocky
6. Julio Eglesias
7. Backass
8. Fart Song