Floyd The Barber - Live At The Paramount/1991

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.