Primitive Enema

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]

Primitive Enema
Studio album by Butt Trumpet
Released	1994
Recorded	July–August, 1993
Genre	Punk rock
Length	30:54
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)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[8]
Robert Christgau	[9]

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

• All songs written by Butt Trumpet.

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

• Bianca Butthole: vocals, bass
• Sharon Needles: vocals, bass
• Thom Bone: bass, occasional vocal backing, ego
• Blare N. Bitch: guitars, vocal backing
• Jerry Geronimo: drums, percussion, cymbals, vocal backing

Additional personnel

• Geza X., Jamie Schene, Andrea Beltramo (a.k.a. "The Butt Trumpettes"): vocal backing

Production

• Arranged By Butt Trumpet
• Produced By Thom Bone, with additional production by Geza X (deliberate error in liner notes is an inside joke)
• Recorded & Mixed By Geza X & Thom Bone, July 31-August 2 (per liner notes "real cheap")
• CD and cassette tape mastered By Dave Collins, Patricia Sullivan & Thom Bone; vinyl mastered By Bill Lightner & Thom Bone at A&M Studios and K-Disc in Hollywood, CA
• All Songs Published By Buttwrenching Music.