Underground Experimental Experience Edition 13: Buttersnakes - Snakes Alive
Normally I tend to avoid writing about bands twice but Bobby Butter and Sammy Snakes are breaking up if I don’t so being the last thread keeping the band together I must review this album. This album is truly a mystery to me, I thought I already had this on CD but there are two (or possibly more) variants of Snakes Alive which have different songs on them. It’s funny to me how threatening yet hilarious this album is. It starts off with some tropical background music while a heartbroken Bobby Butter is longing for his girl to pick up her damn telephone. This version has a favorite of mine “Fitchburg” where it sounds like the buttersnakes are ganging up on me...In Fitchburg. I wouldn’t say anything to the Buttersnakes faces in Fitchburg if I were you. Some of these tracks embrace strange and nonsensical themes as well like “get me 2 the dentist girl” and “feed me eels”. The Buttersnakes will not disappoint you in making you laugh and wonder what is genre. Listen and support h...