Butthole Surfers
by Butthole Surfers

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Butthole Surfers by Butthole Surfers
Year: 1983
Release date: 1983-07-00
Overall rank: 6,286th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 76 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1983 (91st)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (894th)
Award Best albums of all time (6,286th)

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Butthole Surfers bestography

Butthole Surfers is ranked 4th best out of 15 albums by Butthole Surfers on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Butthole Surfers is Locust Abortion Technician which is ranked number 2748 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 573.

Butthole Surfers album bestography « Higher ranked (5,390th)
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Butthole Surfers track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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1.
The Shah Sleeps In Lee Harvey's Grave
Average Rating: 75 (12 votes)Comments: View 0
2.
Hey
Average Rating: 76 (11 votes)Comments: View 0
3.
Something
Average Rating: 74 (11 votes)Comments: View 0
4.
Bar-B-Q Pope
Average Rating: 74 (9 votes)Comments: View 0
5.
Wichita Cathedral
Average Rating: 72 (8 votes)Comments: View 0
6.
Suicide
Average Rating: 73 (7 votes)Comments: View 0
7.
The Revenge Of Anus Presley
Average Rating: 70 (8 votes)Comments: View 0

Butthole Surfers rankings

Butthole Surfers rankings summary
Overall rank: 6,286th | 1980s rank: 894th | 1983 rank: 91st  Overall chart history
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Butthole Surfers ratings

Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 76 votes)
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 !		11/26/2025 18:31 spinout  Ratings distribution  3,50281/100
 
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 !		04/26/2025 16:55 Elauqsapid  Ratings distribution  2,72064/100
 
80/100
 !		04/02/2025 22:22 thepardunk  Ratings distribution  2,58769/100

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Forum mentions

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From Mercury 02/24/2023 17:35 in Greatest Metal According to Gowi/LedZep/Repo/Rocky and I!
“1983 – Some metal, some punk, a little something for the whole family! --- --- --- --- Kill ‘Em All by Metallica/Released 25 June 1983 Okay, so here we are. We made it. I made it. It’s all led up to this. When I started talking about punk and metal albums from 1977 to 1983 way, way back it was to…”
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From Purplepash 10/09/2022 08:05 in What album are you listening to right now?
“What album are you listening to right now?”
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From GlennJolson 07/20/2009 11:27 in Albums with 'No Image' available
“...The albums exist in the database but are not meant to be publicly visible on the site (there are no direct links to the album/band pages from any of the charts or from the A-Z index). However, Google may have crawled these pages so they may remain in the Google index and so appear in Google…”
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Butthole Surfers comments

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From 01/27/2020 19:07 | #247231
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From 02/15/2016 12:35 | #159787 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Great band, great debut!
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From 09/25/2014 16:21 | #122675 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Technically it's a 12" EP; not a proper full-length LP... but either way, a mighty fine debut from one of my all-time favorite bands!!
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From 06/15/2014 02:55 | #114500 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Pure insanity...in a good way.
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Best Albums of  1983
1. Murmur by R.E.M.
2. Violent Femmes by Violent Femmes
3. Power, Corruption & Lies by New Order
4. War by U2
5. Synchronicity by The Police
6. Speaking In Tongues by Talking Heads
7. Swordfishtrombones by Tom Waits
8. Kill 'Em All by Metallica
9. Let's Dance by David Bowie
10. The Final Cut by Pink Floyd