The Sex Pistols may have vowed anarchy, but few bands have ever delivered on that promise with the crazed integrity of the Butthole Surfers.

Noisy, self-indulgent and just plain bratty, the Surfers make the sort of music that any four teenage layabouts could make--if onlythey could let loose completely, that is. Few people can, but sheer abandon has never been a problem for the Surfers: Even on a relitively coherent album like "Pioughed," the Texas quartet achieves a Dionysian frenzy if Dionysus were flipping burgersat A&W Root Beer, that is.

"Pioughed" features a few tracks that might be called songs--notably "Something," a brazen Jesus & Mary Chain replica--but more characteristic are such elements as barking dogs (on a track called "Barking Dogs"), a Walter Brennan imitation and a chant that goes "Gary Shandling, Gary Shandling, Gary, Gary." The album also has lots of country and western influences and an underwater-sounding cover of "The Hurdy Gurdy Man." The source of mind-expansion for both flower-power-era Donovan and the Surfers? Well, it's not Bud Light.

Surfers guitarist Paul Leary hasn't gone very far afield for his solo album, "The History of Dogs." As with his full-time band, Leary flirts with plagiarism ("Apollo One," cleary derived from "Fire Engine," by Texas psychedelic precursors the 13th Floor Elevators) and indulges in cornball pastiche (the blatantly bogus war-chants of "Indians Storm the Government")

But "Dogs" actually features a lyric sheet (such information is traditionally rare in Surfers' packages), which reveals that Leary is concerned about war in teh Persian Gulf. "How much longer/Till the Earth gets blowed up?" asks one song, a befuddlingly straight forward question from such a twisted rocker.

-THE BUTTHOLE SURFERS -- "Pioughed" (Rough Trade)
Paul Leary -- "The History of Dogs" (Rough Trade)