History Music / ButtholeSurfers

* SurrealMusicVideo: The video for "Who Was In My Room Last Night".

* BlackSheepHit: You'd never know by listening to "Pepper" that the band's repertoire is mostly disturbing lyrics, shrill/distorted voices and bordering-on-surreal riffs. The song dropped out of their live sets entirely for a while, but now a small portion of it gets played as a medley with "Lady Sniff".

* BlackSheepHit: You'd never know by listening to "Pepper" that the band's repertoire is mostly disturbing lyrics, shrill/distorted voices and bordering-on-surreal riffs.

* {{all lower case letters}} The title of ''pioughd'' is always rendered this way.
* EarAche: The cover for ''Electriclarryland''.

** "Hurdy Gurdy Man" from ''pioughd''.

* NoPronunciationGuide: The album ''piouhgd.'' It's supposed to be pronounced [[WordOfGod "Pee-Owed"]], but the album doesn't let you know that.

* NewSoundAlbum: ''The Weird Revolution'' had a more electronic sound and added some 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 ''WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet'' and "Tiny Rubber Band" (with {{Moby}}) from the live action ''{{Spawn}}'' film.

* NewSoundAlbum: ''The Weird Revolution'' had a more electronic sound and added some 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 ''WilliamShakespeare'sRomeoAndJuliet'' and "Tiny Rubber Band" (with {{Moby}}) from the live action ''{{Spawn}}'' film.

* RecycledLyrics: Recycled ''{{scatting}}'', actually - Much of Gibby Haynes' manic {{scatting}} on {{Ministry}}'s "Jesus Built My Hot Rod" was taken from a Butthole Surfers song called "Watlo" - "Watlo" was being played live before "Jesus Built My Hot Rod" was released, but a studio version didn't come out until afterward (it appears on ''Independent Worm Saloon'' as "Some Dispute Over T-Shirt Sales").

** They've also covered The Lovin' Spoonful's "Summer In The City" for the benefit album ''M.O.M., Vol. 3: Music for Our Mother Ocean'', and the ''{{WesternAnimation/Underdog}}'' theme for ''Saturday Morning Cartoons' Greatest Hits''.

* VomitIndescretionShot: An audio version can be found in "Clean It Up" from the ''Independent Worm Saloon'' album.

* RecycledLyrics: Recycled ''{{scatting}}'', actually - Much of Gibby Haynes' manic {{scatting}} on {{Ministry}}'s "Jesus Built My Hot Rod" was taken from "Watlo" - "Watlo" was being played live before "Jesus Built My Hot Rod" was released, but a studio version didn't come out until afterward (it appears on ''Independent Worm Saloon'' as "Some Dispute Over T-Shirt Sales").

** They've also covered The Lovin' Spoonful's "Summer In The City" for the benefit album ''M.O.M., Vol. 3: Music for Our Mother Ocean'', and the {{WesternAnimation/Underdog}} theme for ''Saturday Morning Cartoons' Greatest Hits''.

* DeliberateMonochrome: The video for "Pepper".

* BlackComedy: A lot. Especially "Pepper".

* NonAppearingTitle: "Pepper¨", "Human Cannonball", "The Annoying Song", "Sweat Loaf".

* CoverVersion: Of a more interesting version, "Sweat Loaf" is a sort-of cover of BlackSabbath's "Sweet Leaf", and uses the same guitar riff. Also, "Kuntz" is a remix/cover of a song by an uncredited Thai artist.

* SurrealMusicVideo: The video for ''Who Was In My Room Last Night''
* DeliberateMonochrome: The video for ''Pepper''

* CoverVersion: Of a more interesting version, "Sweat Loaf" is a sort-of cover of BlackSabbath's "Sweet Leaf", and uses the same guitar riff. Also, ''Kuntz'' is a remix/cover of a song by an uncredited Thai artist.

The Surfers began in 1970 when lead man Gibby Haynes met Paul Leary while going to college in Texas, where they became freinds due to their shared overall wierdness 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. They were small names until their album ''Electriclarryland'' and their first big hit, Pepper, came out on top of the charts. Afterwards, they became featured on many movie soundtracks, such as ''WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet'' and JohnCarpenter's ''Film/EscapeFromLA''

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* CoverVersion: Of a more interesting version, Sweat Loaf is a sort-of cover of BlackSabbath's ''Sweet Leaf'', and uses the same guitar riff. Also, ''Kuntz'' is a remix/cover of a song by an uncredited Thai artist.

* EarAche: The cover for ''Electriclarryland''.

* SurrealMusicVideo: the video for ''Who Was In My Room Last Night''

* NoPronunciationGuide: The album ''piouhgd.'' It's supposed to be pronounced [[WordOfGod "Pee-Owed"]], but the album doesn't let you know that.