Independent Worm Saloon by Butthole Surfers

Independent Worm Saloon, the Butthole Surfers' sixth album, came out on Capitol in March 1993, and the San Antonio troublemakers made it with, of all people, John Paul Jones, formerly of Led Zeppelin, in the producer's chair. That hire steered them toward a heavier sound for most of the record: Paul Leary's guitar grinds and snarls, King Coffey pounds, and Gibby Haynes rants over the top like a preacher who's lost the plot.

The band's old taste for psychedelic murk, noise and black humor hasn't gone anywhere; it's just been bolted to bigger riffs, as on "Who Was in My Room Last Night?". It also closed the book on longtime bassist Jeff Pinkus, whose last release with the band this was.

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