The band Butthole Surfers got their name after an announcer mistakenly introduced them using the title of one of their songs. The band formed in 1981 in San Antonio, Texas, and went by several weird names, including the Dick Clark Five and Nine-Foot Worm Makes Own Food, before settling on the one that almost guaranteed they would never be played on the radio.
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