The Beavis And Butt-Head Experience (1993)

Has it really been twenty years since Mike Judge first created his short film, 'Frog Baseball,' which then spawned a cultural changing cartoon on MTV called, 'Beavis And Butt-Head' a year later? Well, the answer to that question is most definitely a yes. I'll also reluctantly admit that just thinking about that makes me feel old as fucking shit.

Looking back I probably bought this compilation sometime in '94, more than likely specifically for the Megadeth and for some unexplainable reason the Nirvana, Aerosmith, White Zombie and Red Hot Chili Peppers songs too.

To be completely fourth right with you I haven’t watched the original Beavis and Butt-Head episodes since MTV pulled it off the network in the late 90's, but I have seen some of the newer ones. So sitting down with this CD and listening to a few cool bands and chuckling to some dirty B&BH humor is a nice trip back to my youthful days.

I was only twelve years old in 1993, and at the time I remember really liking this compilation and the various skits included. Who could resist the boys funny encounter with Anthrax where Scott Ian and the guys make fun of Butt-Head’s hair and Beavis does the nasty on the bands photo album of naked chicks. Also the encounter with and their weak attempt at acting "hip" in front of RUN DMC is equally funny, and although its corny the collaborative song with Cher is hilarious and it was a fairly popular video in MTVs rotation at the time, which I think also revived Cher's career too. The only problem with the various skits is that there tied into each song thus forcing the listener to either listen to the skit first or fast forward to the song. They really should have been separate tracks.

The album opens with an exclusive Nirvana song titled, ‘I Hate myself and want to die,’ which is pretty fucking grim considering what happened a year later. The Anthrax song is terrible and at the time gave me a pretty bad impression of the band, making me not even realize that they wrote thrash metal during the 80’s instead of this poor ass rap metal stuff that we see here. Megadeth’s, ’99 Ways to Die’ is easily one of the most bad ass songs they ever recorded, and its actually a little puzzling to try and figure out why this was not used on any studio album. The RUN DMC song is pretty much typical late 80’s early 90’s hip hop, and even though I generally dislike that stuff I can stomach some (NWA & Geto Boys was always fun). Aerosmith’s ,‘Deuces are Wild’ is about as bad as they come, in fact pretty much everything this band released after the 70’s ended is rather horrible if you ask me.

White Zombie’s, ‘I am Hell’ is about as typical sounding as any White Zombie song back then or Rob Zombie song nowadays, but its actually one of the better ones he's wrote and it actually made me a fan back then. Primus’ weird rocking, ‘Poetry and Prose’ is a fun little experience, with Sir Mix-a-Lot’s, ‘Monsta Mack’ being definitely one of the better hip hop songs out there. Red Hot Chili Peppers, ‘Search and Destroy’ is also admirable even though pretty much everything they made after this time was horrible, I still dig some of their stuff from the 80’s though. I also always liked Jackyl’s groovy hard rocking, ‘Mental Masturbation’ and I remember at the time trying to get my mom to buy me one of their albums, but she refused due to some of the song titles, haha. I never did hear any other Jackyl songs either, haha. Have I missed something?

I guess I've always been a little perplexed by the hip hop songs and the Cher thing, especially since I was always under the impression that Beavis & Butt-Head were suppose to be mockeries of America’s typical metal head’s that were idiots and couldn’t get laid if there life depended on it?

So overall the compilation is really just so-so and until today had been sitting on my shelf a long time without any plays. Still, there's some serious memories attached to it and it introduced me to some new music back then. So, it would be pretty damn hard to ever sell it. Its a nice way to remember my youth and once again experience those crazy ass cartoon son’s-a-bitches that single handily ruined America’s youth and turned us all into retarded zombies constantly ending each sentence with. "Ah-huh-huh-huh-huh."