Primitive Enema Explained

Primitive Enema
Type:	Studio album
Artist:	Butt Trumpet
Cover:	Butt_Trumpet-_Primitive_Enema_Album_Cover.jpg
Released:	1994
Recorded:	July–August, 1993
Genre:	Punk rock
Length:	30:54
Label:	Chrysalis
Producer:	Geza X
Prev Title:	Primitive Enema (7-inch)
Prev Year:	1994
Next Title:	Show & Tell: A Stormy Remembrance of TV Theme Songs
Next Year:	1997

Primitive Enema is the debut album by the Los Angeles punk band Butt Trumpet.^{[1] [2]} It was produced by Geza X and released in 1994 by Chrysalis Records, with the recording sessions allegedly costing less than a thousand dollars.^{[3] [4]} 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.^[5] The band supported the album by touring with Fear.^[6] The album had sold more than 60,000 copies by the end of 2000.^[7]

Reception

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."^[8] 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.

1. "Clusterfuck" 1:51
2. "Funeral Crashing Tonight" 2:02
3. "I've Been So Mad Lately" 2:16
4. "Dicktatorship" 3:24
5. "Classic Asshole" 2:27
6. "Decapitated" 0:40
7. "Dead Dogs" 1:08
8. "I Left My Flannel In Seattle" 1:32
9. "I'm Ugly And I Don't Know Why" 3:10
10. "The Grindcore Song" 0:49
11. "Primitive Enema" 2:01
12. "I Left My Gun In San Francisco" 1:14
13. "Shut Up" 1:58
14. "Ten Seconds Of Heaven" 1:22
15. "Yesterday" 2:33
16. "Ode To Dickhead" 0:52
17. "Pink Gun" 1:35
18. "Blind" 5:18

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.

Notes and References

1. News: Phalen . Tom . An Alternative to 'Jingle Bells' . The Seattle Times . 16 Dec 1994 . Tempo . 13.
2. News: Cummings . Sue . A Day in the Life of Butt Trumpet . LA Weekly . Aug 18, 1994 . 48.
3. Book: Thompson . Dave . Alternative Rock . 2000 . Miller Freeman Books . 815.
4. Earles . Andrew . The Majors Get Weird . Spin . May 2010 . 26 . 4 . 80.
5. News: Guilfoy . Christine . Mother seeks curb on explicit lyrics . Telegram & Gazette . 1 Mar 1995 . A1.
6. News: Locey . Bill . Punk Show Promises to Be Rude, Crude and Not for Prudes . Los Angeles Times . 9 Mar 1995 . J6.
7. News: Ross . Paige . Ready to rock . Corpus Christi Caller-Times . 3 Nov 2000 . E4.
8. Web site: Robbins . Ira . Butt Trumpet . Trouser Press . 19 June 2024.