Scary, disturbing material makes up a good portion of the Buttholes' repertoire.
- Some of the cover arts can fall into this territory:
- The cover art for Independent Worm Saloon features a freaky looking worm Spiking the Camera (though it could be more Creepy Cute depending on who you ask).
- The cover art for Electriclarryland features a close up of a human head with a pencil jammed into his ear.
- The cover art for Weird Revolution features a creepy looking baby doll firing laser eyes at a bunch of spaceships.
- "Who Was In My Room Last Night?" is pretty damn creepy. It starts with a distorted voice saying, "I’m flying" over and over again, before transitioning to the actual song, which describes the protagonist wondering who was in their room last night, and he tells the authorities to no avail.
- "Pepper," which describes people dying or escaping death, and it’s to a very fun and unfitting beat on top of that.
- One part of "Jimi" sounds like a cartoon character getting raped.
- Even if you know that it's just a band member's pet pitbull, the growls that appear throughout "Mark Says Alright" can be disturbing.
- "22 Going On 23
" is basically a local Texas radio psychiatric call-in show being used as Spoken Word in Music over a sludgy Noise Rock jam that seems to have been electronically slowed down. What makes it unnerving is the combination of the music and the content: one caller discusses a traumatized reaction to sexual assault, another speaks of a loveless, emotionally abusive relationship, and the host's advice is edited down into a series of meaningless buzz words ("Medicine... Anxiety... Sleep programming... Counseling").note - "The Last Astronaut" crosses this over with Tear Jerker once you realize what's going on, which is that the titular character may be the last surviving human after a nuclear war on Earth. "Hello? My God, is there anyone left? My God! All of them, huh?".
- A Hidden Track reprise on The Weird Revolution can be interpreted as hinting that a 12 year old boy somehow survived on earth - even so, the narrator seems like he's trying to sound optimistic but doesn't hold much hope for the child's future.
