Or maybe I’m just in a good mood today…some say that the Blues X’s “She Said” is the best video in the history of videos, and they have their reasons. Anyway, I always thought the Butthole Surfers’ last (or at least most recent; they still live and may yet rock again) album Weird Revolution was underrated. Actually the Butthole Surfers on the (w)hole were underrated—it was the name, I think. They were one of the few to proudly carry the psychedelic freak flag into the 80s and 90s, though despite the long hair they were the opposite of hippies. (Gibby Haynes was an accounting major, you know.)
Well, no time for an in-depth consideration of the Buttholes today; when I finally build my museum they will have their own wing, though you will have to sign a waiver before entering. Instead, this video for “The Shame of Life.” I absolutely love this song, though it is clearly an attempt to follow up on their fluke trip-hop hit “Pepper.” Like their fellow-travelers Ween, the Buttholes always win the tug of war with whatever genre they dabble in, always emerge unscathed from whatever depth to which they sink; as the Trouser Press Record Guide put it, “they just like it down there.”
Headline fix needed. May I suggest “The 2nd Best Video Ever Made?” and leave off the “This may be.” You’ve not hesitated to be dogmatic with your opinions in the past.
Actually excellent. I had no idea.
Good, but not at the level of Take On Me by Ah Ha. Note the capitalization.
“girls petting squirrels”, nice use of squirrels, I like it; not better than “She Said”‘s use of Vampire Lesbian nuns, but better than any video I can remember where squirrels play such a dominant role.