Who Was In My Room Last Night Human Cannonball The Shame Of Life Butthole Surfers

Who Was In My Room Last Night? Album: Independent Worm Saloon (1993)
Human Cannonball Album: Locust Abortion Technician (1987)
The Shame of Life Album: Weird Revolution (2001)
by Butthole Surfers

"Who Was in My Room Last Night?" is the opening track from the sixth album, Independent Worm Saloon. A remixed version, known as the "Tate or Tot Mix", was released on the CD magazine Volume Eight.

The music video was directed by William Stobaugh, and animated by Tom Holleran and Wes Archer. The video depicts a man who drives to a bar where the Butthole Surfers are performing the song. He orders a drink from the bartender (played by Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers) and, upon consuming it, experiences some bizarre hallucinations, mostly involving the bar's waitress (played by Therese Kablan), who is depicted as the man's girlfriend, a nurse, and a series of creatures, before he apparently gets into a car crash and is last seen falling down a void of cartoon skulls.

Many of the hallucinatory images are taken from the works of artist Robert Williams.

The video for Who Was In My Room Last Night? was shown in the Beavis and Butt-head episode "No Laughing", and was received very enthusiastically by the duo.

A cover version of Who Was In My Room Last Night? was featured on the 2006 video game Guitar Hero II.

A censored version of Who Was In My Room Last Night? was used in a commercial for Nintendo's Play It Loud! campaign.

Locust Abortion Technician is the third full-length studio album released in March 1987. The album was originally released on both vinyl and CD on Touch and Go, and was remastered on CD on the band's label, Latino Buggerveil, in 1999. Track 6 is Human Cannonball (last song Side 1)

Locust Abortion Technician was the first Butthole Surfers album to not be recorded in a professional studio. After growing tired of living on the road, the band relocated to Winterville sometime in 1986, where they rented a small two-bedroom house, and used their meager savings to purchase an old Ampex 8-track tape machine and two microphones. Having set up a temporary home studio, the band set off to record what would become their third full-length LP. Despite the band downgrading from the equipment used on their previous record, guitarist Paul Leary believes that the inferior equipment forced the band to be more creative than they might otherwise have been.

Additionally, the new studio freed the band from having to worry about recording costs, allowing them to experiment even more than on previous releases. Jeff Pinkus has also said that the home studio gave them the luxury of taking extended breaks for drug use.

Many of the album's tracks also underwent extensive in-studio development as evidenced by the track Human Cannonball. Although doing this had become a Butthole Surfers tradition, Locust Abortion Technician was one of their last recordings done in such a manner; on subsequent releases the band would go into the studio with more fully formed songs. Pinkus has expressed the opinion that the earlier, more chaotic recording sessions resulted in much of the spontaneous creativity that had propelled the group's early albums.

The album received critical acclaim upon initial release, appearing in the year-end lists of noteworthy publications such as Melody Maker, NME and OOR. It would go on to feature in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die and Terrorizer magazine's "The 100 Most Important Albums of the 80s", while Alternative Press ranked it at #28 on their list of the "Top 99 Albums of '85 to '95".

"The Shame of Life" is a song from their 2001 album Weird Revolution. The song was released as a CD single in Australia and peaked at #24 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks. The chorus was written by Kid Rock, who retains a songwriting credit for the track.

The Shame of Life reached number 93 in Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2001.

A music video was made for The Shame of Life, featuring the band going to a bizarre house party that is portrayed by the lyrics sung by Gibby Haynes (e.g. "there were squirrels smoking crack" as a prop squirrel is shown smoking the drug). Throughout the video, other weird and disturbing events take place such as pigs with "Get Down" painted on their bodies, hot women dancing, anthropomorphic squirrels in suits that attack and drug the band, a man wearing a pig mask, Haynes wearing a modified glove with what appear to be hypodermic needles, a lady wearing a dress made of dollar bills, a man swinging a shovel around, and some women with their faces resembling squirrels. The video ends with Haynes being dragged outside by two of the anthropomorphic squirrels.

The Shame of Life was featured in a trailer for the 2002 film Phone Booth.