The Lord is a monkey
Thanksgiving's coming on the Fourth of July
In the form of a girl with a needle in her eye
Well she come from out west on a nickel worth of gas
Got her mind on her money and her dope up her ass
Outside of Phoenix where the gimmick broke down
Fucked that cracker for a rig and she was out of that town.
HA HA HA HAA
Well she was a Hare Krishna in the ashram bed
She was sellin' Gil's cot had a funky-ass hair
Well she put food in my mouth and she threw me on the bed
Where she cut off my balls and she sewed 'em to my head
Well she's headin' back east in a 57 Caddy
Got her mind on her money and a dope for her daddy
Well I met her on the street where she beat me like a fool
Then she got me accepted to an ivy league school
Well I really did good but it's kickin' my ass
I lost 38 pounds and my eye turned to glass
Well she's looking pretty good first week in July
She's got a dope up her ass and a needle in her eye
Thanksgivings coming on the Fourth of July
In the form of a girl with a needle in her eye
Well she come from out west on a nickel worth of gas
Got her mind on her money and her dope up her ass
the Butthole Surfers are one of my favorite bands when I need to get my blood pumping. Electriclarryland is a brilliant album from start to finish. These guys are the real deal and a meal!
They are true to their nature and it's reflected in the music. They spent a summer in Athens, Georgia one year [back in the day], stalking members of the band R.E.M., until it was time for there European tour in the fall...
it's like,
"I'm bored, what do you wanna do?"
"Oh, I don't know, let's go to Athens and bug R.E.M."
"sounds good, let's get some bus tickets."
The Buttholes are best known for their chaotic and disturbing live shows, black humor, a sound that incorporates elements of punk rock, psychedelia, heavy metal, noise rock, and electronica, as well as their use of sound manipulation and tape editing.
Although they were respected by their peers and attracted a devoted fan base, the Butthole Surfers had little commercial success until 1996's Electriclarryland, their only gold record to date. The album contained the hit single "Pepper" which climbed to number one on Billboard'sModern Rock Tracks chart that year.
Released in March 1987, Locust Abortion Technician is one of the heaviest Butthole Surfers albums, and it is often considered their finest to date. Harnessing aspects of punk, heavy metal, and psychedelia, its unique sound produced a number of grinding, slower-paced songs, arguably making it an early precursor of grunge.
Work 219: Landscape XX, affectionately known as Penis Landscape, is a painting by H. R. Giger. Created in 1973. It was made by airbrushing acrylic paint on paper-covered wood, and measures 70 x 100 centimetres. It depicts a number of penises entering a series of vaginas (or perhaps anuses? {it's a bit ambiguous}). One is wearing a condom.
It came to fame for the part it played in the trial of Jello Biafra after his hardcore punk band Dead Kennedys featured it as a poster included with their 1985 release Frankenchrist.
In April 1986, police officers raided Biafra's house in response to complaints by the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) headed by Tipper Gore. In June 1986, L.A. deputy city attorney Michael Guarino, brought Biafra to trial in Los Angeles for distributing "harmful material to minors" in the Dead Kennedys album Frankenchrist. In actuality, the dispute was about neither the music nor the lyrics from the album, but rather the print of the H. R. Giger poster Landscape XX (Penis Landscape) included with the album. Biafra believes the trial was politically motivated; it was often reported that the PMRC took Biafra to court as a cost-effective way of sending a message out to other musicians with content considered offensive in their music.
Poster insert
When Dead Kennedys front man Jello Biafra first saw Giger’s graphically but mechanically sexual Work 219: Landscape XX, he had the kind of epiphany reserved for punk smartasses decrying conformity and consumption.
“I was totally blown away the minute I saw it,” Biafra said. "That is the Reagan era on parade. Right there! That shows how Americans treat each other now. He captured it in a nutshell.”
He instantly decided to make Giger’s artwork the cover of Dead Kennedys’ next album (Frankenchrist), to the chagrin of, well, pretty much everyone. That includes Biafra’s bandmates, biz partners and more. But after Biafra compromised and inserted — pun intended — the piece (known more colloquially as Penis Landscape) into Frankenchrist, he and Michael Bonanno, the former manager of Biafra’s San Francisco-based label Alternative Tentacles, were quickly charged with distributing obscenity to minors.
The absurd ensuing trial nearly bankrupted his label, but Biafra would probably do it all over again, he has explained.
“I first saw it in late summer or early fall of 1985 when a friend showed me Giger’s work in a magazine and said, ‘You really gotta look at this guy. Look at this work!’” Biafra said.
“It occurred to me that I hadn’t finished recording all the vocals for Frankenchrist, and if I tweaked the lyrics here and there, its songs might fit more together as a concept album. I’m not sure that would have clicked in my mind if I hadn’t had that spark of inspiration from seeing Giger’s work for the first time.”
