Biography

Few bands can lay claim to a title like "most deranged band ever" in quite the same way the Butthole Surfers can. Formed in Austin, Texas, in the early 1980s, the group combined punk and metal riffage, tribal drumming, and sheer noise with singer Gibby Haynes's hallucinatory psycho-ward ramblings. The Buttholes' live shows were at times terrifying, and their early albums were challenging, exhilarating, and utterly unique, making them a long shot to ever ink a major-label deal. Nonetheless, the band released two albums on Capitol in the mid-'90s and even scored a genuine radio hit with the song "Pepper." The band jumped to Hollywood records for 2001's WEIRD REVOLUTION.

Top Tracks

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• Alcohol

• American Woman

• Bar-b-q Pope

• Butthole Surfer

• Chewin' George Lucas' Chocolate

• Creep In The Cellar

• Dracula From Houston

• Gary Floyd

• Helicopter

• Human Cannonball

• Hurdy Gurdy Man

• In The Cellar

• Intelligent Guy

• Jimi

• John E. Smokes

• Lady Sniff

• Moving To Florida

• P.s.y.

• Pepper

• Sweat Loaf

• The Hurdy Gurdy Man

• The Lord Is A Monkey

• The O-men

• The Shah Sleeps In Lee Harvey's Grave

• The Shame Of Life

• Turkey & Dressing

• Who Was In My Room Last Night?

• Wichita Cathedral

• Yentel

Discography

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• After the Astronaut

  Capitol

  1998

• Independent Worm Saloon

  Capitol/EMI Records / Capitol

  1993

• Pioughd

  Capitol

  1991

• Double Live

  Touch & Go

  1989

• Hairway to Steven

  Latino Bugger Veil / Touch & Go

  1988

• Locust Abortion Technician

  Latino Bugger Veil

  1987

• Rembrandt Pussyhorse

  Latino Bugger Veil

  1986

• Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac

  Latino Bugger Veil

  1985