{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Primitive Enema | type = Studio album | artist = Butt Trumpet | cover = Butt_Trumpet-_Primitive_Enema_Album_Cover.jpg | released = 1994 | recorded = July–August, 1993 | 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.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Phalen |first1=Tom |title=An Alternative to 'Jingle Bells' |work=The Seattle Times |date=16 Dec 1994 |department=Tempo |page=13}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Cummings |first1=Sue |title=A Day in the Life of Butt Trumpet |work=LA Weekly |date=Aug 18, 1994 |page=48}}</ref> It was produced by Geza X and released in 1994 by Chrysalis Records, with the recording sessions allegedly costing less than a thousand dollars.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Thompson |first1=Dave |title=Alternative Rock |date=2000 |publisher=Miller Freeman Books |page=815}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Earles |first1=Andrew |title=The Majors Get Weird |magazine=Spin |date=May 2010 |volume=26 |issue=4 |page=80}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Guilfoy |first1=Christine |title=Mother seeks curb on explicit lyrics |work=Telegram & Gazette |date=1 Mar 1995 |page=A1}}</ref> The band supported the album by touring with Fear.<ref>{{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}}</ref> The album had sold more than 60,000 copies by the end of 2000.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ross |first1=Paige |title=Ready to rock |work=Corpus Christi Caller-Times |date=3 Nov 2000 |page=E4}}</ref>
==Reception== {{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="AllMusic">{{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}}</ref> |rev2 = Robert Christgau |rev2score = {{Rating-Christgau|dud}}<ref name="Christgau">{{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}}</ref> }} ''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."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Robbins |first1=Ira |title=Butt Trumpet |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/butt-trumpet/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=19 June 2024}}</ref> 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."<ref name="AllMusic"/>
==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.
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