Floyd The Barber

by

Nirvana

Album: Bleach      Released: 1989

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This song is about a small American town where everyone has become a mass murderer. A man goes into a barber shop for a haircut and (in a more detailed way) gets a hot towel put over his face, tied to the chair, is forced to suck Floyd's privates and is cut up and slashed to death by the other people he sensed in the room. (thanks, Jeff - La Pine, OR)

The people mentioned in this song are all based on characters from The Andy Griffith Show. Kurt Cobain wrote the song thinking, "What if all these people were mad, sadistic, killers?" The guy in the song went into the barber shop for a shave, but instead gets urinated on by Floyd, cut up by Opie and Aunt Bea, and suffocated by Andy Griffith. (thanks, Jarrett - Somewhere, Canada)

The band was known as Skid Row when they first started playing this in 1987. They recorded it for the first time at KAOS, the student-run radio station of Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.

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Actually the character he got was for the andy griffen show yepp this song is soo disturbing but it makesyou think about people
- Lin-young, SOHO, NY

Actually the final line is 'I die smothered in Andy's clutch'.In accordance with the Kurt Cobain 'Journals' book.
- don't have a mind, Pleasure Town - Serbia

Foolish people, the final line is not 'I die smothered in Andy's butt' It is.. 'I die smothered in Aunt Bea's Muff' (meaning vagina) Rape, torture and lots of nasty stuff going on here, go away and really listen closely
- Micheal, Sunshine Coast, Australia

it was either Sifting or Scoff i cant remember but one of those was the song in which Kurdt expressed his feelings about his parents divorce and being shunnted from his mother. Oh, and the last verse is: i sense others in the room, Opey, Aunt Bee I presume, They take turns in cut me up, I died smothered in Andy's butt. The version from Bleach sounds so much better than the live version and is not as slurred.
- Jeff, La Pine, OR

i think this song migght be about sexual harrasment/rape? because of the lines "pee pee pressed against my lips" and "i die smothered in andy's butt" anyone else feel the same way?
- Ed, Chodania, FL

I think this song this song is about self - mutilation.
- Seph, Pittsburgh, PA

Great song. Me and my band play it every time we get together.
- Joe, Idiotville, KY

i like the part where they talk about the guy named floyd. floyd is good.
- jordan, shokan, NY

i find this song rather awsome, its definately on my top 10 nirvana songs
- zac, olive bridge, NY

I think this song is kurt's metaphorical way of expressing his feelings about his parent's divorce, and the feeling of being all alone and afraid.
- marlee, nova scotia, Canada

i love this song reminds me of my old town the midle of nowhere virgina lol
- thral, seatle, WA

very cool song...ive only heard the live version and its still really good, though i cant understand what he says in the last verse because he screams so loud
- Matt, Millbrae, CA

this song describes aberdeen perfactly. it discribes the rot of subsurface paranoia and psycosis in the facade of small town usa
- tourette, aberdeen, WA

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