The original was written, performed, and recorded the first day I got my Roland VS-880, when I was living in my sister's basement in 1997. Since I'm a freak over liner notes, here's the whole skinny on this fucking tune:
I had this wack-ass homemade 'drum set' in my room. It was just a bunch of wood with pads all nailed and screwed together. The pads were triggered up to an Alesis D4. The kick drums were these brown pimp-boots that had the triggers duct-taped to the heels.
I started with a random drum lick, which I looped. That became the basis of the song. I then put down an improvised bass track (my bitchin' blue G&L ASAT, in drop D), followed by 2 improvised guitar parts (both on my Kramer American w/ sustainer pickup, maybe direct using the VS-880's built-in FX, maybe through a Korg 506 bass pedal- I don't remember). Then I put on the keys (Casio CT-610, top of the line muthafucka) and an acoustic guitar part (my Ovation before it was painted green, tuned to Open D minor- I forget the exact tuning).
Finally I pulled dialog from some video tapes of Buttafüko getting shitfaced after our first show. Voila!! Instant Crap.
lyrics
Jeremy: One good thing about being an old man is your balls get really long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long.
Willie: Ohhhohhh-Heyyahhhhayyyyyyyyyahhhhhhoohhhh…
Hodgy: Hey!
Jeff: Hey- Hey- Everybody-
Willie: Ahhahahayieeeeahhhaahh!!!
Jeff: On the count of three, let’s get a big Buttafüko. One, Two, Three:
Everybody: BUTTAFÜKO!!!
Jeff: Hey! Buku…
Hodgy: Fuck you…BUKU…
Jeff: Wait, wait.
Hodgy: Hey- hey, Buku…Fuck
Jeff & Hodgy: You…
Jeff: What’d you think of the gig tonight?
Hodgy: I think Buku Fuck You kicked- wait- Buttafüku-
Jeff: Buttafüko kicked ass.
Hodgy: Buttafüko kicked ass.
Jeff: Essa… We’re gonna be rockin’ your town soon!
Hodgy: We rocked the world, man.
Jeremy: We’ll rock your pants off.
Hodgy: Why aren’t we signed already?
Jeff: Green Jello’s signed, why can’t we get signed?
Jeremy: Hahahaha, he DID taste it! Hahahaha, he DID taste it! Hahahaha, he DID taste it! Hahahaha, he DID taste it!
Jeff: I’m out of control, yet in Chaotic Control, out of control…
Jeremy: Hang on, ya Prick!!
Jeff: …simply out of control, out of control, I’m in Chaotic Control.
Somebody: Hey-
Jeff: BUTTAFÜKO! BUTTAFÜKO! BUTTAFÜKO! BUTTAFÜKO! BUTTAFÜKO! BUTTAFÜKO! BUTTAFÜKO!
Jeremy: One good thing about being an old man is your balls get really long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long.
Willie: Ohhhohhh-Heyyahhhhayyyyyyyyyahhhhhhoohhhh…
Hodgy: Hey!
Jeff: Buttafüko- Hey!
Jeremy: Hey!
Willie: Buttafüko...
Jeff: BUTTAFÜKO!
Willie: ... Is the domain of the wiz, which is extinct.
Bill: Good, man!
Some girl: Hey-
Hodgy: Hey, man, you guys kicked ass.
Jeremy: Thanks, man. I know.
Hodgy: Christ, I thought Willie went to bed, bed, bed, bed, bed, bed.
credits
from The Black Album,
released February 9, 2010
Written by Hodgy
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