Butthole Surfers: Hairway To Steven LP

Butthole Surfers and Matador Records present the 2024 remastered reissue of their fourth full-length studio album, "Hairway To Steven". Originally released in 1988 on Touch and Go, the 8-track record is a blast, ranging from the blood-smeared guitar-overload of "Jimi" to the acoustic guitar-based sing-along sweetness of "I Saw an X-Ray of a Girl Passing Gas", to the Fugs-like ranting of "John E. Smokes". Yet somehow, the album managed to get the straight media to actually notice. For all its strangeness, "Hairway To Steven" got rave notices in places that had never paid the band any attention previously. It was the Buttholes' last album of the 80s and marks the beginning of their ascendance into something akin to commercial success, not that the band actually imagined anything at all like that occurring.