Humpty Dumpty LSD is the second compilation album by American experimental rock

Experimental rock

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 band Butthole Surfers

Butthole Surfers

Butthole Surfers is an American alternative rock band formed by Gibby Haynes and Paul Leary in San Antonio, Texas in 1981. The band has had numerous personnel changes, but its core lineup of Haynes, Leary, and drummer King Coffey has been consistent since 1983. Teresa Nervosa served as second...

, released in July 2002. All songs were written by the Butthole Surfers, except for "Earthquake," which is a cover version of the 13th Floor Elevators

13th Floor Elevators

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 song.

The album was released on the band's own label, Latino Buggerveil

Latino Buggerveil

Latino Buggerveil is an independent record label and publishing company that was founded by psychedelic noise-punk band the Butthole Surfers.The label's first release was the 1987 album A Texas Trip, a various artists compilation which was co-released by Caroline Records...

. It offers a wide assortment of demos

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, unreleased studio tracks and songs originally released on compilations, recorded between 1982 and 1994. Most notably, it contains outtakes from the 1985 sessions for the Surfers' Rembrandt Pussyhorse

Rembrandt Pussyhorse

Rembrandt Pussyhorse is the second full-length studio album by American experimental punk band Butthole Surfers, released in April 1986. All songs were written and produced by the Butthole Surfers, except "American Woman", which was written by Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings, Jim Kale, and Garry...

studio album. Some tracks are unfinished songs; for example, "Day of the Dying Alive" was later reworked as "Jimi," while the vinyl-only song "Sherman" is an alternative version of "Backass," both of which are on Hairway to Steven

Hairway to Steven

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.

The bonus track

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, which lasts for only six seconds, is the band's shortest song to date. "Ghandi" first appeared as a bonus track

Bonus track

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 on Independent Worm Saloon

Independent Worm Saloon

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.

Track listing

1. "Night of the Day" – 2:20 ¹
2. "One Hundred Million People Dead" (a.k.a. "100 Million People Dead") – 7:22 ²
3. "I Love You Peggy" – 3:25 ³
4. "Space I" – 5:48 ²
5. "Perry Intro" – 1:36 ³
6. "Day of the Dying Alive" – 5:46 ²
7. "Eindhoven Chicken Masque" – 2:52 ³
8. "Just a Boy" – 4:02 ⁴
9. "Sinister Crayon" – 4:00 (2-LP version only)
10. "Hetero Skeleton" – 4:58 ³
11. "Earthquake" (Roky Erickson
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    /Tommy Hall) – 4:55 ⁵
12. "Ghandi" – 2:28 ⁶
13. "I Hate My Job" – 2:04 ⁴
14. "Space II" – 5:11 ²
15. "Concubine Solo" – 1:46 ¹
16. "All Day" – 8:32 ² (featuring Daniel Johnston
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     on guest vocals)
17. "Sherman" – 6:10 (2-LP version only)
18. "DADGAD" – 6:00 ⁷
19. (untitled bonus track) – 0:06

¹ 4-track recording, 1983

² Home 8-track recording, 1987

³ Studio recording, 1985 (Rembrandt Pussyhorse

Rembrandt Pussyhorse

Rembrandt Pussyhorse is the second full-length studio album by American experimental punk band Butthole Surfers, released in April 1986. All songs were written and produced by the Butthole Surfers, except "American Woman", which was written by Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings, Jim Kale, and Garry...

sessions)

⁴ Studio recording, 1982 (Butthole Surfers

Butthole Surfers (EP)

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sessions)

⁵ Studio recording, 1988 (Hairway to Steven

Hairway to Steven

Hairway to Steven is the fourth full-length studio album by American punk band Butthole Surfers, released in February 1988. All songs were written by the Butthole Surfers, co-produced by the Surfers and Ric Wallace, and mixed by Wallace...

sessions)

⁶ Practice space recording, 1992

⁷ Practice space recording, 1994

Personnel

• Gibby Haynes
• Paul Leary
• Quinn Matthews
• Bill Jolly
• Jeff Pinkus
• Scott Matthews
• King Coffey
• Teresa Nervosa