Butthole Surfers, Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac - 35m 8s

Tracks & Durations

1. Concubine	2:27
2. Eye of the Chicken	1:36
3. Dum Dum	3:47
4. Woly Boly	2:45
5. Negro Observer	3:39
6. Butthole Surfer	3:02
7. Lady Sniff	3:45
8. Cherub	6:22
9. Mexican Caravan	2:46
10. Cowboy Bob	2:55
11. Gary Floyd	1:56

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Review

It takes only seconds to realize that Psychic... Powerless took everything one step further in 1985. Hardcore wasn't a genuinely relevant context for the Butthole Surfers' first full-length, nor was noise, experimental improvisation, or any sibling, cousin, or neighbor of rock & roll. Psychic... Powerless just took everything, including a compelling sense of postpunk music as a premise for extreme (and often very funny) drama, and mashed it together under Paul Leary's unshaped guitar. Gibby Haynes's Texas wail perked up with his free-verse associations over the guitar and bass and the roiling, repetitive drums, and the whole thing sounded like brilliance. Lest one think it came from a graduate-school course in postmodernism, it warrants pointing out that the Buttholes were genuinely as mad as their sounds; they ratcheted up the temperature on their experiments and LSD-drenched road shows over the course of their next several albums (Rembrandt Pussyhorse, Hairway to Steven, and Locust Abortion Technician). But Psychic... Powerless remains a towering achievement--or a tunneling achievement, digging under the skin for a fully visceral impact that sticks to the ribs like nothing else from the 1980s' postpunk panoply. --Andrew Bartlett

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