# Primitive Enema

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***Primitive Enema*** is the debut album by the [Los Angeles](/source/Los_Angeles) [punk](/source/Punk_rock) band [Butt Trumpet](/source/Butt_Trumpet).[1][2] It was produced by [Geza X](/source/Geza_X) and released in 1994 by [Chrysalis Records](/source/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](/source/Leominster,_Massachusetts), after a mother campaigned against the sale of [Parental Advisory](/source/Parental_Advisory)-stickered records to minors.[5] The band supported the album by touring with [Fear](/source/Fear_(band)).[6] The album had sold more than 60,000 copies by the end of 2000.[7]

## Reception

*[Trouser Press](/source/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."[8] [AllMusic](/source/AllMusic)'s [Stephen Thomas Erlewine](/source/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."[9]

## Track listing

- All songs written by Butt Trumpet.

1. "Clusterfuck" 1:51
1. "Funeral Crashing Tonight" 2:02
1. "I've Been So Mad Lately" 2:16
1. "Dicktatorship" 3:24
1. "Classic Asshole" 2:27
1. "Decapitated" 0:40
1. "Dead Dogs" 1:08
1. "I Left My Flannel in Seattle" 1:32
1. "I'm Ugly and I Don't Know Why" 3:10
1. "The Grindcore Song" 0:49
1. "Primitive Enema" 2:01
1. "I Left My Gun in San Francisco" 1:14
1. "Shut Up" 1:58
1. "Ten Seconds of Heaven" 1:22
1. "Yesterday" 2:33
1. "Ode to Dickhead" 0:52
1. "Pink Gun" 1:35
1. "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](/source/Compact_Disc) and [cassette tape](/source/Cassette_tape) mastered By Dave Collins, Patricia Sullivan & Thom Bone; [vinyl](/source/Gramophone_Record) mastered By Bill Lightner & Thom Bone at A&M Studios and K-Disc in Hollywood, CA
- All Songs Published By Buttwrenching Music.

## References

1. Phalen, Tom (16 Dec 1994). "An Alternative to 'Jingle Bells'". *The Seattle Times*. p. 13.

1. Cummings, Sue (Aug 18, 1994). "A Day in the Life of Butt Trumpet". *LA Weekly*. p. 48.

1. Thompson, Dave (2000). *Alternative Rock*. Miller Freeman Books. p. 815.

1. Earles, Andrew (May 2010). "The Majors Get Weird". *Spin*. Vol. 26, no. 4. p. 80.

1. Guilfoy, Christine (1 Mar 1995). "Mother seeks curb on explicit lyrics". *Telegram & Gazette*. p. A1.

1. Locey, Bill (9 Mar 1995). "Punk Show Promises to Be Rude, Crude and Not for Prudes". *Los Angeles Times*. p. J6.

1. Ross, Paige (3 Nov 2000). "Ready to rock". *Corpus Christi Caller-Times*. p. E4.

1. Robbins, Ira. ["Butt Trumpet"](https://trouserpress.com/reviews/butt-trumpet/). *Trouser Press*. Retrieved 19 June 2024.

1. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. ["Primitive Enema- Butt Trumpet"](https://www.allmusic.com/album/primitive-enema-mw0000626258). *AllMusic*. Retrieved October 25, 2018.

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