On This Day: April 11, 1988 – Butthole Surfers Released Hairway to Steven

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On This Day: April 11, 1988 – Butthole Surfers Released Hairway to Steven.

On this day April 11, 1988, Butthole Surfers released their fourth studio album Hairway to Steven, a chaotic and noisy but strangely melodic ride that captured the band’s surreal energy at full force. Known for pushing boundaries with sound and performance, this album showed a more structured side of the band without losing their signature weirdness.

Hairway to Steven reached number 6 on the UK Indie chart and remains one of the band’s most talked about records. None of the songs were...
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