Double Live

Rock · 1989 · 28 tracks

Double Live

Butthole Surfers

1989 · Latino Bugger Veil

Double Live is the sound of a band actively trying to sabotage their own legacy while simultaneously cementing it.

It feels like a transmission from a collapsing star, or perhaps just a very sweaty, very loud basement in 1988. The production is intentionally murky, leaning into the 'official bootleg' aesthetic that the band embraced to spite the black market. It is thick with tape saturation and the kind of grit that only comes from a soundboard recording made on a portable DAT machine. The atmosphere is one of beautiful, controlled catastrophe, where the line between a tight rock performance and a total sonic breakdown is constantly blurred.

Tracklist · 28 Tracks

01

Too Parter

3:53

02

Psychedelic Jam

8:52

03

Ricky

2:43

04

Rocky

3:37

05

Gary Floyd

1:47

06

Florida

3:45

07

John E. Smoke

7:04

08

Tornadoes

2:47

09

Pittsburg to Lebanon

3:01

10

The One I Love

7:58

11

Hey / Dum Dum

5:31

12

No Rule

2:11

13

U.S.S.A.

4:22

14

Comb

5:26

15

[untitled]

2:17

16

Graveyard

4:01

17

Sweatloaf

3:58

18

Backass

6:03

19

Paranoid

5:45

20

Fast

1:48

21

I Saw an X-Ray of a Girl Passing Gas

4:18

22

Strawberry

3:26

23

Jimi / Lou Reed

16:53

24

Kuntz

2:30

25

22 Going on 23

4:08

26

Creep in the Cellar

2:26

27

Suicide

1:50

28

Something

9:31

Moments Worth Listening For

The moment Sweatloaf devolves into a wall of screeching feedback and distorted vocal samples that seem to swallow the audience whole.

The transition into Paranoid where the band's internal joke about their pit bull manifests as a sludge-metal parody of the classic track.

The rhythmic density of the dual-drummer setup becoming overwhelming during the extended Psychedelic Jam section.

Where This Album Departs

How does Double Live sound next to the rest of Butthole Surfers's catalogue?

Intense+4.0σ

Intense saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

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