Show & Tell: A Stormy Remembrance of TV Theme Songs (1997)
Primitive Enema is the debut album by the Los Angelespunk 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]
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]
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