History Music / ButtholeSurfers

** ''Cream Corn From The Socket of Davis'' wasn't ''meant'' to have a WST; the original idea for the cover was a drawing of Sammy Davis Jr. with his GlassEye removed and creamed corn coming out of the empty socket. The band commissioned an artist to draw it, but didn't like any of the results and scrapped it in favor of a different cover, retroactively turning the EP's name into an example.

* TheSomethingSong: "The Annoying Song" and "The Wooden Song". "Fast" is also known as "The Fart Song" among fans.

* TitleByNumber: "1401" (aka "The Colored FBI Guy"), named after the address of the home the band lived in at the time.

** "The O-Men" features elements borrowed from "Termination" by PowerMetal group Omen. The band had once been to a Music/{{Motorhead}} concert where Omen were the opening act and found the song so "ridiculous" it became something of a CreatorInJoke; Since "The O-Men" was meant to be a metal spoof, they incorporated chants of "Terminate!" and "Cyborg lust!" from "Termination".

** "The O-Men" features elements taken from "Termination" by PowerMetal group Omen. The band had once been to a Music/{{Motorhead}} concert where Omen were the opening act and found the song so "ridiculous" it became something of a CreatorInJoke; Since "The O-Men" was meant to be a metal spoof, they incorporated chants of "Terminate!" and "Cyborg lust!" from "Termination".

* EarAche: The cover for ''Electriclarryland''. Apparently it was potentially squicky enough that the "clean" version of the album substitutes a closeup of a groundhog (which is one of the pictures inside the booklet of the explicit version).
* ExtraEyes[=/=]EyesDoNotBelongThere: The cover for ''Hairway to Steven''.

* Teresa Nervosa - drums, 1983-1989, 2008-2009

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* NoPronunciationGuide: ''piouhgd'', again. An official press release stated that it was meant to be pronounced "pee-owed", as in the euphemism for "pissed off", but nothing on the actual album lets you know that. And [[WordOfGod Jeff Pinkus]] claimed that this pronunciation was fabricated by their record label without their knowledge, and that the band intended the album title to be TheUnpronounceable.

** "The O-Men" features elements taken from "Termination" by PowerMetal group Omen. The band had been to a Music/{{Motorhead}} concert where Omen were the opening act and found the song so "ridiculous" it became something of a group in-joke; Since "The O-Men" was meant to be a metal spoof, they incorporated chants of "Terminate!" and "Cyborg lust!" from "Termination".

* FightFurYourRightToParty: Played Straight ''and'' Inverted in the music video for "Shame of Life". Straight examples include a man in a pig mask who eventually gets in a bath with a nude woman while still wearing the mask, and dancers in [[UncannyValley deliberately creepy squirrel makeup]]; the inversion involves men in squirrel masks and [[BadassInANiceSuit nice suits]] coming to drag people away and ''stop'' the party.

* FightFurYourRightToParty: Played Straight ''and'' Inverted in the music video for "Shame of Life". If you're wondering, the inversion involves men in squirrel costumes and black business suits coming to drag people away and ''stop'' the party.

* CountryMatters: Subverted with their song "Kuntz" -- The clip is edited to make it sound like the other word, but it's really just the Thai word for "itch".

* ExtraEyes[=/=]EyesDoNotBelongThere: The cover for ''Hairway To Steven''.
* HiddenTrack: ''The Weird Revolution'' has a 30 second clip of Gibby Haynes speaking through a distortion effect hidden after the last track "They Came In". This is taken from an alternate version of the song "The Last Astronaut".
* NewSoundAlbum: ''The Weird Revolution'' had a more electronic sound and added more RapRock elements (as did the more experimental MissingEpisode album ''After The Astronaut'', which had different versions of many of the same songs). The new direction was hinted at by some of their late-90's soundtrack work - "Whatever (I Had A Dream)" from ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet'' was a moody trip-hop song, while "Tiny Rubber Band" from the live action ''Film/{{Spawn|1997}}'' film featured contributions from Music/{{Moby}}. A less direct precursor was The Jackofficers, an [[HouseMusic Acid House]]-influenced electronic side project of Gibby Haynes and Jeff Pinkus, who put out their only album (''Digital Dump'') in 1990.
* NoPronunciationGuide: ''piouhgd'' again. An official press release stated that it was meant to be pronounced "pee-owed", as in the euphemism for "pissed off", but nothing on the actual album lets you know that... And [[WordOfGod Jeff Pinkus]] claimed that this pronunciation was fabricated by their record label without their knowledge, and that the band intended the album title to be TheUnpronounceable.
* NoTitle: None of the songs on ''Hairway To Steven'' had titles, and were instead marked by [[StylisticSuck crudely-drawn sketches]]. However, the self-released LiveAlbum ''Double Live'' featured almost every song from ''Hairway To Steven'', and the back cover gave them actual names instead of drawings, so those are generally treated as the proper song titles. The one ''Hairway To Steven'' track that didn't appear on the live album is pretty much universally referred to as "Julio Iglesias" due to its lyrics.

** ''Hairway to Steven'' is a play on the title of the Music/LedZeppelin classic "Stairway To Heaven".

* TheCameo: Music/RedHotChiliPeppers' Flea shows up as a bartender in the "Who Was In My Room Last Night" video.

** "The O-Men" features elements taken from "Termination" by PowerMetal group Omen. The band had been to a Music/{{Motorhead}} concert where Omen were the opening act and found the song "ridiculous" so it became something of a group in-joke; Since "The O-Men" was meant to be a metal spoof, they incorporated chants of "Terminate!" and "Cyborg lust!" from "Termination".

** "The O-Men" features elements taken from "Termination" by PowerMetal group Omen. The band had been to a {{Music/Motorhead}} concert where Omen were the opening act and found the song "ridiculous" so it became something of a group in-joke; Since "The O-Men" was meant to be a metal spoof, they incorporated chants of "Terminate!" and "Cyborg lust!" from "Termination".

** Their longest track is "Jimi" from ''Hairway to Steven'' at 12:38. It beats "P.S.Y." from ''pioughd'' (12:12) by more than 30 seconds.

* ''piouhgd'' (1991) --[[ItIsPronouncedTroPay Pronounced Pee-Owed]]

* NewSoundAlbum: ''The Weird Revolution'' had a more electronic sound and added more RapRock elements (as did the more experimental MissingEpisode album ''After The Astronaut'', which had different versions of many of the same songs). The new direction was hinted at by some of their late-90's soundtrack work - "Whatever (I Had A Dream)" from ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet'' was a moody trip-hop song, while "Tiny Rubber Band" from the live action ''Film/{{Spawn}}'' film featured contributions from Music/{{Moby}}. A less direct precursor was The Jackofficers, an [[HouseMusic Acid House]]-influenced electronic side project of Gibby Haynes and Jeff Pinkus, who put out their only album (''Digital Dump'') in 1990.

** Their cover of Music/{{Donovan}}'s "Hurdy Gurdy Man" from ''pioughd'' also parodies the original version's delayed vocal effect by turning it UpToEleven, deliberately distorting it beyond comprehension.

* TitleOnlyChorus: "Kuntz" again, if you consider that to be a chorus. Also "Hay", except its the ''[[UpToEleven ENTIRE SONG.]]''

Butthole Surfers is a NoiseRock band formed in San Antonio, UsefulNotes/{{Texas}} in 1981, well known for its disturbing lyrics, heavy synthesizing, and macabre live shows. They also use a lot of BlackComedy in their lyrics.

* LongName: They come up with some... ''interesting'' titles in this vein. A good example: "I Saw An X-Ray Of A Girl Passing Gas".

* ''Butthole Surfers'' (later retitled ''Brown Reason to Live''} (1983)

* {{Joke of the Butt}}: Why else would they have chosen that name?

* ''Butthole Surfers'' (later retitled ''Brown Reason to Live'' (1983)

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Butthole Surfers is a NoiseRock band formed in San Antonio, Texas in 1981, well known for its disturbing lyrics, heavy synthesizing, and macabre live shows. They also use a lot of BlackComedy in their lyrics.

The Surfers began in 1980, when lead man Gibby Haynes met Paul Leary while going to college in Texas, where they became friends due to their shared overall weirdness and interest in strange music. They published a magazine, ''Strange V.D.'', with a lot of [[{{Squick}} pictures of strange diseases and illnesses]], long before they actually started playing in 1981. Throughout TheEighties, they built up a cult following in the college rock world through their melding of PunkRock and PsychedelicRock, plus a multi-media stage show (including a naked female dancer and grotesque film clips projected on a giant screen) that was an assault on the senses, all capped off with a twisted sense of humor.

* GratuitousSpanish: "Dracula From Houston" includes the lyric "¡Esta Noche enchiladas, pinche cabron me por nada!", which would mean "tonight enchiladas, fucking bastard me for nothing!".