Show & Tell: A Stormy Remembrance of TV Theme Songs (1997)
Primitive Enema is the debut album by the Los Angelespunk band Butt Trumpet. It was produced by Geza X and released in 1994 by Chrysalis Records, with the recording sessions allegedly costing less than a thousand dollars. The album was the subject of a censorship campaign in Leominster, Massachusetts, after a mother campaigned against the sale of Parental Advisory-stickered records to minors. The band supported the album by touring with Fear. At timestamp 13:15, on track 18, there is a hidden song titled "Do It in the Butt." The album had sold more than 60,000 copies by the end of 2000.
Trouser Press wrote: "The double-bassist Los Angeles quintet ... is strictly out to offend on Primitive Enema, wielding a two-pronged fork of blaring punk aggression and tastelessly crude lyrics that make outrageous jokes of the three S's: scatology, sex and stoopidity." AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine called the group "crude and amateurish-and fiercely proud of it, by the way", and said the disc "made more sense on a smaller label". He also criticized Geza X's production, calling it "slightly too clean to make Primitive Enema sound dangerous."
Track listing
All songs written by Butt Trumpet.
"Clusterfuck" 1:51
"Funeral Crashing Tonight" 2:02
"I've Been So Mad Lately" 2:16
"Dicktatorship" 3:24
"Classic Asshole" 2:27
"Decapitated" 0:40
"Dead Dogs" 1:08
"I Left My Flannel in Seattle" 1:32
"I'm Ugly and I Don't Know Why" 3:10
"The Grindcore Song" 0:49
"Primitive Enema" 2:01
"I Left My Gun in San Francisco" 1:14
"Shut Up" 1:58
"Ten Seconds of Heaven" 1:22
"Yesterday" 2:33
"Ode to Dickhead" 0:52
"Pink Gun" 1:35
"Blind" 5:18
(Hidden track) "Do It In The Butt" 5:02
Personnel
Butt Trumpet
Bianca Butthole: vocals, bass
Sharon Needles: vocals, bass
Thom Bone: bass, occasional vocal backing, ego
Blare N. Bitch: guitars, vocal backing
Jerry Geronimo: drums, percussion, cymbals, vocal backing
Additional personnel
Geza X., Jamie Schene, Andrea Beltramo (a.k.a. "The Butt Trumpettes"): vocal backing
Production
Arranged By Butt Trumpet
Produced By Thom Bone, with additional production by Geza X (deliberate error in liner notes is an inside joke)
Recorded & Mixed By Geza X & Thom Bone, July 31-August 2 (per liner notes "real cheap")
CD and cassette tape mastered By Dave Collins, Patricia Sullivan & Thom Bone; vinyl mastered By Bill Lightner & Thom Bone at A&M Studios and K-Disc in Hollywood, CA
All Songs Published By Buttwrenching Music.
References
↑Phalen, Tom (December 16, 1994). "An Alternative to 'Jingle Bells'". Tempo. The Seattle Times. p.13.
↑Cummings, Sue (August 18, 1994). "A Day in the Life of Butt Trumpet". LA Weekly. p.48.
↑Thompson, Dave (2000). Alternative Rock. Miller Freeman Books. p.815.
↑Earles, Andrew (May 2010). "The Majors Get Weird". Spin. Vol.26, no.4. p.80.
