Primitive Enema
{{Infobox album
| name = Primitive Enema
| type = Studio album
| artist = Butt Trumpet
| cover = Butt_Trumpet-_Primitive_Enema_Album_Cover.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1994
| recorded = July–August, 1993
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Punk rock
| length = 30:54
| label = Chrysalis
| producer = Geza X
| prev_title = Primitive Enema (7-inch)
| prev_year = 1994
| next_title = Show & Tell: A Stormy Remembrance of TV Theme Songs
| next_year = 1997
}}
Primitive Enema is the debut album by the Los Angeles punk band Butt Trumpet.{{cite news |last1=Phalen |first1=Tom |title=An Alternative to 'Jingle Bells' |work=The Seattle Times |date=16 Dec 1994 |department=Tempo |page=13}}{{cite news |last1=Cummings |first1=Sue |title=A Day in the Life of Butt Trumpet |work=LA Weekly |date=Aug 18, 1994 |page=48}} It was produced by Geza X and released in 1994 by Chrysalis Records, with the recording sessions allegedly costing less than a thousand dollars.{{cite book |last1=Thompson |first1=Dave |title=Alternative Rock |date=2000 |publisher=Miller Freeman Books |page=815}}{{cite magazine |last1=Earles |first1=Andrew |title=The Majors Get Weird |magazine=Spin |date=May 2010 |volume=26 |issue=4 |page=80}} 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.{{cite news |last1=Guilfoy |first1=Christine |title=Mother seeks curb on explicit lyrics |work=Telegram & Gazette |date=1 Mar 1995 |page=A1}} The band supported the album by touring with Fear.{{cite news |last1=Locey |first1=Bill |title=Punk Show Promises to Be Rude, Crude and Not for Prudes |work=Los Angeles Times |date=9 Mar 1995 |page=J6}} The album had sold more than 60,000 copies by the end of 2000.{{cite news |last1=Ross |first1=Paige |title=Ready to rock |work=Corpus Christi Caller-Times |date=3 Nov 2000 |page=E4}}
Reception
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/primitive-enema-mw0000626258 |title=Primitive Enema- Butt Trumpet |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |website=AllMusic |access-date=October 25, 2018}}
|rev2 = Robert Christgau
|rev2score = {{Rating-Christgau|dud}}{{cite web|url=http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=2629&name=Butt+Trumpet|title=Butt Trumpet|accessdate=June 7, 2019|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau}}
}}
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."{{cite web |last1=Robbins |first1=Ira |title=Butt Trumpet |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/butt-trumpet/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=19 June 2024}} 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."
Track listing
- All songs written by Butt Trumpet.
- "Clusterfuck" 1:51
- "Funeral Crashing Tonight" 2:02
- "I've Been So Mad Lately" 2:16
- "Dicktatorship" 3:24
- "Classic Asshole" 2:27
- "Decapitated" 0:40
- "Dead Dogs" 1:08
- "I Left My Flannel In Seattle" 1:32
- "I'm Ugly And I Don't Know Why" 3:10
- "The Grindcore Song" 0:49
- "Primitive Enema" 2:01
- "I Left My Gun In San Francisco" 1:14
- "Shut Up" 1:58
- "Ten Seconds Of Heaven" 1:22
- "Yesterday" 2:33
- "Ode To Dickhead" 0:52
- "Pink Gun" 1:35
- "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.