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“22 Going On 23” by Butthole Surfers
From the album Locust Abortion Technician (1987)
“22 Going On 23” by Butthole Surfers appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1987. It was first released in 1987 on the album Locust Abortion Technician. Its best result is #44 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1987. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #261 alternative song of 1987.
"22 Going On 23" is a three-way write by Jeff Coffey, Gibby Haynes and Paul Leary, and it turns up on Locust Abortion Technician, the third Butthole Surfers album, which Touch and Go released in March 1987.
It belongs to the band's first record made outside a professional studio. Fed up with living on the road, they holed up in Winterville in 1986, renting a small two-bedroom house and sinking their meager savings into an old Ampex 8-track and two microphones. The step down in gear didn't slow them; Leary reckons it forced them to get more creative, and with no studio bill ticking away they were free to push the experiments further than ever, which goes a long way toward explaining how unhinged the whole record sounds.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 44 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1987 | 50 |
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