# What is this song Beavis and Butt-head are playing on air guitar? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 22, 2012, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song-beavis-and-butt-head-are-playing-on-air-guitar/638483 "2012-10-22T02:56:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song-beavis-and-butt-head-are-playing-on-air-guitar/638483/1 "2012-10-22T02:56:24Z")
It is at 0:56 in this video: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G-NO5XHlcU) ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song-beavis-and-butt-head-are-playing-on-air-guitar/638483/2 "2012-10-22T02:58:59Z")
It’s “Duuh Duuh Duh Duh Duh-Duh. Duh-da-da-da-duuh Duh duh Duh-duh.” Turn up your speakers. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song-beavis-and-butt-head-are-playing-on-air-guitar/638483/3 "2012-10-22T03:06:53Z")
Definitely Black Sabbath, probably [War Pigs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZCyOWLrRTE), I think. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song-beavis-and-butt-head-are-playing-on-air-guitar/638483/4 "2012-10-22T03:17:28Z")
Make that [Electric Funeral](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsLkL8DTHeg&feature=related). ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song-beavis-and-butt-head-are-playing-on-air-guitar/638483/5 "2012-10-22T03:24:30Z")
I had always thought that lick was just a generic metallish thing that Mike Judge made up so as to avoid always relying on known classics. ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song-beavis-and-butt-head-are-playing-on-air-guitar/638483/6 "2012-10-22T03:50:46Z")
At first I was like Cheech n Chong no name tune…but then I was like…Black Sabbath…holy crap I cant isolate it… ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song-beavis-and-butt-head-are-playing-on-air-guitar/638483/7 "2012-10-22T04:02:23Z")
@ 1:30 [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFRjmAJgfY0) Electric Funeral…:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song-beavis-and-butt-head-are-playing-on-air-guitar/638483/8 "2012-10-22T13:58:41Z")
Thanks! I could identify all the other songs Beavis & Butt-head played on air guitar (“Paradise City,” “Smoke on the Water,” “Iron Man,” etc.), but I’ve never heard “Electric Funeral” before. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song-beavis-and-butt-head-are-playing-on-air-guitar/638483/9 "2012-10-22T14:41:06Z")
> [@Jamicat](#): > > At first I was like Cheech n Chong no name tune…but then I was like…Black Sabbath…holy crap I cant isolate it… That’s funny, it reminds me of [Earache My Eye](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy51CTN6AfE) as well! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song-beavis-and-butt-head-are-playing-on-air-guitar/638483/10 "2012-10-22T16:57:45Z")
> [@hrhomer](#): > > That’s funny, it reminds me of [Earache My Eye](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy51CTN6AfE) as well! Following that link led enabled me to track down “Fiberweed Van Theme”! I’ve been looking for that for a long time! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song-beavis-and-butt-head-are-playing-on-air-guitar/638483/11 "2012-10-22T17:11:13Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Following that link led enabled me to track down “Fiberweed Van Theme”! I’ve been looking for that for a long time! > > 😃 That is a great soundtrack! The band, IIRC, is called Yesca. Joe ---
**Author:** ![JohnnyLurg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85f322/32.png) [@JohnnyLurg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnnyLurg)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song-beavis-and-butt-head-are-playing-on-air-guitar/638483/12 "2013-01-05T18:59:38Z")
Then what is the song they play on air guitar in “Right On” at about 2:16-2:26? Other songs I’ve noticed them play include “Rooster” by Alice in Chains (when Sgt. Dick Leakey refers to himself as “The Rooster.” ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song-beavis-and-butt-head-are-playing-on-air-guitar/638483/13 "2013-01-05T19:07:30Z")
> [@JohnnyLurg](#): > > Then what is the song they play on air guitar in “Right On” at about 2:16-2:26? I’m watching that episode, but I don’t see the part where they play air guitar. I do like Beavis’s chant of “the chair! The chair! The chair!” ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song-beavis-and-butt-head-are-playing-on-air-guitar/638483/14 "2013-01-05T22:00:57Z")
> [@JohnnyLurg](#): > > Then what is the song they play on air guitar in “Right On” at about 2:16-2:26? > > Other songs I’ve noticed them play include “Rooster” by Alice in Chains (when Sgt. Dick Leakey refers to himself as “The Rooster.” It sounds like “There Goes the Neighborhood” by Body Count, a heavy metal band that used to perform with rapper Ice T. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rloidlFbi4w/hqdefault.jpg "Body Count "There Goes The Neighborhood" ‌‌ - Bohemia Afterdark") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rloidlFbi4w) ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2013, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song-beavis-and-butt-head-are-playing-on-air-guitar/638483/15 "2013-01-06T08:15:31Z")
Was the new season a couple of summers ago just a one off? I was hoping for a new season each summer, like Futurama. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2013, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song-beavis-and-butt-head-are-playing-on-air-guitar/638483/16 "2013-01-06T08:24:07Z")
> [@hrhomer](#): > > That’s funny, it reminds me of [Earache My Eye](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy51CTN6AfE) as well! Best. Song. Ever.