Primitive Enema

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Primitive Enema
Butt Trumpet- Primitive Enema Album Cover.jpg
Studio album by
Butt Trumpet
Released1994
RecordedJuly–August, 1993
Genre Punk rock
Length30:54
Label Chrysalis
Producer Geza X
Butt Trumpet chronology
Primitive Enema (7-inch)
(1994)		Primitive Enema
(1994)		Show & Tell: A Stormy Remembrance of TV Theme Songs
(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]

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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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." [10] 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." [8]

Track listing

  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

Additional personnel

Production

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  2. ↑ Cummings, Sue (Aug 18, 1994). "A Day in the Life of Butt Trumpet". LA Weekly. p. 48.
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