Second in the Buttholes vinyl reissue campaign that Alternative Tentacles has been on this year, which started with the self-titled 12" and has come round to their blistering live 12" from 1984, Live PCPPEP. We're talking golden era Surfers here, folks, when the band was the weirdest, most freaked out and fucking genius hardcore punk band in the US. Recorded live in March of 1984 at The Meridian in San Antonio, Texas, this record captures seven songs, most of which had appeared a year before on the band's self-titled EP aside from "Cowboy Bob" which would later appear on Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac, but one of these songs ("Dance Of The Cobras") has never appeared on any other release, to the best of my knowledge.

This shit still destroys. It's the first recording of the double-drummer lineup when Teresa Nervosa began sharing drum duties with King Coffey, and the band rages through these songs, playing them loose and fast, except for "Bar-B-Q Pope", whose sludgy horn-blasted Stooges crawl hints at the sound that the Brainbombs would drag into the sewer a few years later. Conversely, "The Shah Sleeps In Lee Harvey's Grave" is served up in feirce blasts of feedback-soaked thrash with Gibby Haynes's hallucinatory lyrics turning this into one of hardcore's greatest (and most insane) jams. Essential.

Packaged in a green jacket, no insert, and pretty much the exact same presentation as the original release.