Piouhgd by Butthole Surfers

Piouhgd, the fifth studio album from the Butthole Surfers, Texas's most gleefully deranged export, landed on Rough Trade in 1991. The core trio was intact: Gibby Haynes on vocals, Paul Leary on guitar and King Coffey on drums, the same crew that had been whipping up chaotic live shows since their early '80s hardcore days, still smearing punk, psychedelia and noise into one sticky, hallucinatory mess of tape tricks and pitch-black jokes. "The Hurdy Gurdy Man" is the track that found its way onto rock radio's countdowns.

The record's afterlife got tangled. When the American arm of Rough Trade folded, the album went out of print, and Capitol, which had bought the rights to coax the band away from other labels, put it back out in 1992. In 2007 the band's own Latino Buggerveil label reissued it again, with the 4 songs of the 1989 Widowermaker EP tacked on.

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