Released on Alternative Tentacles in July 1983, the resulting EP

Released on Alternative Tentacles in July 1983, the resulting EP, Butthole Surfers (also known as Brown Reason to Live and Pee Pee the Sailor ), offered songs with provocatively absurd titles like “The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey’s Grave” and “Bar-B-Q Pope”, alternately sung by Haynes and Leary. (Haynes would become the band’s primary singer by the time of their first LP .) The album cover, like the many bizarre illustrations that would accompany Surfers’ succeeding work, was designed by the band itself. Teeming with humor, Butthole Surfers laid the foundation for what was to come. It influenced at least one future superstar in Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain , who listed it as one of his ten favorite albums in his Journals . Cobain later went on to list the album Pee Pee the Sailor by Butthole Surfers as one of the fifty most influential albums for Nirvana’s sound. Cobain would later meet his wife, Courtney Love of Hole , at a Butthole Surfers/ L7 concert in 1991.