1989Released
2:18

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Interesting facts and trivia about Floyd The Barber. By Songfacts®.

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, is tied to the chair, forced to suck Floyd's privates, and is cut up and slashed to death by the other people he senses in the room. The musical equivalent of a slasher movie.

The people mentioned in this song are all based on characters from The Andy Griffith Show, a wholesome family sit-com from the '60s. Kurt Cobain wrote the song thinking, "What if all these people were mad, sadistic, killers?" The guy in the song goes 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. Now you know how Kurt Cobain wrote fan fiction!

The band was known as Skid Row when they first started playing "Floyd The Barber" in 1987. They recorded it for the first time at KAOS, the student-run radio station of Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, and released it on their debut album, Bleach, in 1989.

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Floyd The Barber.
G♯Key
MinorMode
4/4Time Signature
137BPM

Album

The album Floyd The Barber is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released Floyd The Barber.
Sub Pop Records
1989 Sub Pop Records
1989 Sub Pop Records

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