OBCBYL: The Butthole Surfers
Continuing the Things that Are Square celebration of the 10th anniversary of Our Band Could Be Your Life: The Butthole Surfers
Weirdly, this is possibly the only band from the list that my mom would recognize the name of. But, c'mon. Once you hear the name "The Butthole Surfers," you tend not to forget it. And, improbably, these guys are the only band on the list to have a sizable radio hit or two in the last decade. And Jesus. Who the fuck would have predicted that? A bunch of acid-fried Texans playing fucked up noise rock in front of a screen showing penile reconstructive surgery becomes the band in OBCBYL with the song most recently played on KROQ.
Frankly, these dudes kind of scare me. But that's what they want. They want to shock and horrify and annoy. They're the only band on this list where, in their heyday, you may have felt in actual physical danger at one of their shows. Fire and drugs and madness whipped into a frenzy by a bunch of longhairs tripping their asses off. Behold.
Technically, I probably shouldn't include the Butthole Surfers in my little featurettes I'm doing on my radio show, since they've had songs on KROQ. But whatever. I'm a completist. And their radio hits are, obviously, light years away from this mess. Just don't narc on me.
Weirdly, this is possibly the only band from the list that my mom would recognize the name of. But, c'mon. Once you hear the name "The Butthole Surfers," you tend not to forget it. And, improbably, these guys are the only band on the list to have a sizable radio hit or two in the last decade. And Jesus. Who the fuck would have predicted that? A bunch of acid-fried Texans playing fucked up noise rock in front of a screen showing penile reconstructive surgery becomes the band in OBCBYL with the song most recently played on KROQ.Frankly, these dudes kind of scare me. But that's what they want. They want to shock and horrify and annoy. They're the only band on this list where, in their heyday, you may have felt in actual physical danger at one of their shows. Fire and drugs and madness whipped into a frenzy by a bunch of longhairs tripping their asses off. Behold.
Technically, I probably shouldn't include the Butthole Surfers in my little featurettes I'm doing on my radio show, since they've had songs on KROQ. But whatever. I'm a completist. And their radio hits are, obviously, light years away from this mess. Just don't narc on me.
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