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Independent Worm Saloon is the sixth album by alternative rock
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band Butthole Surfers
Butthole Surfers
Butthole Surfers is an American alternative rock band formed by Gibby Haynes and Paul Leary in San Antonio, Texas in 1981. The band has had numerous personnel changes, but its core lineup of Haynes, Leary, and drummer King Coffey has been consistent since 1983. Teresa Nervosa served as second...

, released in 1993 on Capitol Records.

Track listing

  1. "Who Was in My Room Last Night?
    Who Was In My Room Last Night?
    "Who Was in My Room Last Night?" is the opening track from American alternative rock band Butthole Surfers' sixth album, Independent Worm Saloon.A remixed version, known as the "Tate or Tot Mix," was released on the CD magazine Volume Eight.-Music video:...

    " – 4:09
  2. "The Wooden Song" – 3:50
  3. "Tongue" – 2:06
  4. "Chewin' George Lucas' Chocolate" – 0:43
  5. "Goofy's Concern" – 3:03
  6. "Alcohol" – 3:19
  7. "Dog Inside Your Body" – 3:06
  8. "Strawberry" – 4:08
  9. "Some Dispute Over T-Shirt Sales" 2:06
  10. "Dancing Fool" – 2:59
  11. "You Don't Know Me" – 2:41
  12. "The Annoying Song" – 2:40
  13. "Dust Devil" – 6:39
  14. "Leave Me Alone" – 2:25
  15. "Edgar" – 3:34
  16. "The Ballad of Naked Man" – 6:05
  17. "Clean It Up" – 8:39

Japanese CD reissue bonus tracks

  1. "Beat the Press" – 1:25
  2. "Ghandi" – 2:31
  3. "Neee Neee" – 4:31


These three bonus tracks were also included on a 10" vinyl promotional release sent to college radio stations.
"Ghandi" was later included on Humpty Dumpty LSD
Humpty Dumpty LSD
Humpty Dumpty LSD is the second compilation album by American experimental rock band Butthole Surfers, released in July 2002. All songs were written by the Butthole Surfers, except for "Earthquake," which is a cover version of the 13th Floor Elevators song.The album was released on the band's own...

.

Butthole Surfers

  • Gibby Haynes
    Gibby Haynes
    Gibson Jerome "Gibby" Haynes is an American musician, radio personality, and painter, and the lead singer of the group Butthole Surfers.-Early life and career:...

      – vocals
  • Paul Leary
    Paul Leary
    Paul Leary is an American musician from Austin, TX, best known as the guitarist for American rock band Butthole Surfers. He is also the producer of a number of songs and albums by other bands, including U2, Sublime, the Meat Puppets, Daniel Johnston, The Reverend Horton Heat, Pepper, Maggie...

      – guitar, vocals (tracks 10 & 16), spoken word (Track 4), "art master"
  • Jeff Pinkus
    Jeff Pinkus
    Jeff Pinkus is an American bassist, best known for his work with American punk band Butthole Surfers from 1986-1994.In 1990, he and Butthole Surfers lead vocalist Gibby Haynes released Digital Dump, the only album from their psychedelic house music side project, The Jackofficers.Upon leaving the...

      – bass
  • King Coffey
    King Coffey
    King Coffey is an American drummer, best known for being the drummer of the psychedelic/noise rock band the Butthole Surfers. He began drumming in a Fort Worth hardcore punk band called The Hugh Beaumont Experience. Around that same time he published a fanzine called Throbbing Cattle...

      – drums

Additional personnel

  • John Paul Jones
    John Paul Jones
    John Paul Jones was a Scottish sailor and the United States' first well-known naval fighter in the American Revolutionary War. Although he made enemies among America's political elites, his actions in British waters during the Revolution earned him an international reputation which persists to...

      – producer
  • Pat McCarthy – engineer, mixer
  • Helios Creed
    Helios Creed
    Helios Creed is an American guitarist, singer and bandleader. He first came to prominence in the mid 1970s with the San Francisco band Chrome. They are credited with being the godfathers of what later became known as Industrial Rock music...

      – guitar (tracks 12 & 17)
  • Heather Van Haaften – "art slave"

Charts

Album - Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

 (North America)
Year Chart Position
1993 The Billboard 200 154
Heatseekers 6


Singles - Billboard (North America)
Year Single Chart Position
1993 "Who Was In My Room Last Night?" Modern Rock Tracks 24

Trivia

  • The vocals in "Some Dispute Over T-Shirt Sales" are similar to the one in the Ministry
    Ministry (band)
    Ministry is an American industrial metal band founded by lead singer Al Jourgensen in 1981. Originally a synthpop outfit, Ministry changed its style to industrial metal in the late 1980s. Ministry found mainstream success in the early 1990s with its most successful album Psalm 69: The Way to...

     song "Jesus Built My Hotrod
    Jesus Built My Hotrod
    "Jesus Built My Hotrod" is a 1991 single by Ministry and was the band's most popular song up to that point. The track features a driving beat and speed metal guitar work backing Butthole Surfers' singer Gibby Haynes gonzo vocal stylings....

    ", possibly as an intentional reference as vocalist Gibby Haynes sung the vocals on that song. However, "Some Dispute" had appeared in the bands set lists as far back as 1990 under the name "Watlo", roughly a year before Haynes' vocals were recorded for "Jesus Built My Hotrod".
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