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'''Christopher "Chris" Butler''' (born May 22, 1949) is an American musician, writer and artist who is best known for conceptualizing and leading the experimental new wave 1980s band [[The Waitresses]]. Among Butler's most notable songs are "[[I Know What Boys Like (song)|I Know What Boys Like]]", "No Guilt", "[[Christmas Wrapping]]"<ref name="NPR">{{cite web |last1=Urycki |first1=Mark |title=Couldn't Miss This One: Behind 'Christmas Wrapping' |url=https://www.npr.org/2014/12/24/372662676/couldnt-miss-this-one-behind-christmas-wrapping |website=Morning Edition |publisher=NPR |accessdate=2014-12-24}}</ref> and the theme song for the TV sitcom ''[[Square Pegs]]''.<ref>''The Observer'', 'Meet the Rock Star Who Lives Happily in the House Where Jeffrey Dahmer First Killed', https://observer.com/2018/02/interview-musician-chris-butler-on-owning-jeffrey-dahmers-house/.</ref>
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'''Christopher Butler''' (born May 22, 1949) is an American musician, writer, and artist who is best known for leading the 1980s [[New wave music|new wave]] band [[The Waitresses]]. His notable songs include "[[I Know What Boys Like (song)|I Know What Boys Like]]", "No Guilt", "[[Christmas Wrapping]]"<ref name="NPR">{{cite news |last1=Urycki |first1=Mark |title=Couldn't Miss This One: Behind 'Christmas Wrapping' |url=https://www.npr.org/2014/12/24/372662676/couldnt-miss-this-one-behind-christmas-wrapping |newspaper=NPR.org |publisher=NPR |access-date=2014-12-24}}</ref> and the theme song for the TV sitcom ''[[Square Pegs]]''.<ref>{{cite web|work=The Observer|title=Meet the Rock Star Who Lives Happily in the House Where Jeffrey Dahmer First Killed|date=27 February 2018|url=https://observer.com/2018/02/interview-musician-chris-butler-on-owning-jeffrey-dahmers-house/}}</ref>
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== Early life and career ==


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== Early life and career ==
Butler grew up in Ohio and majored in sociology at [[Kent State University]]. He was among a crowd of students [[Kent State shootings|fired on]] by the [[Ohio National Guard]] on May 4, 1970.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.futurefossilmusic.com/bio.htm|
Butler is of Italian and Hungarian ancestry.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Couldn't miss this one this year: The surprisingly complex legacy of the Waitresses' 'Christmas Wrapping'|url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/couldnt-miss-this-one-this-year-the-surprising-complex-story-of-the-waitresses-christmas-wrapping-212336258.html|access-date=2021-12-29|website=Yahoo.com|language=en-US}}</ref> He grew up in [[Akron]], [[Moreland Hills]], and [[Chagrin Falls]], Ohio,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1470939/bio|title=Chris Butler|website=[[IMDb]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.wksu.org/news/story/42479|title = WKSU News: Vietnam's lasting impact on the arts|website=Archive.wksu.org}}</ref> and majored in sociology at [[Kent State University]]. He was among a crowd of students [[Kent State shootings|fired on]] by the [[Ohio National Guard]] on May 4, 1970,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.futurefossilmusic.com/bio.htm|
title=Chris Butler: Biography|first=|last=|publisher=}}</ref>
title=Chris Butler: Biography|website=Futurefossilmusic.com}}</ref> and was a friend of [[Jeffrey Miller (shooting victim)|Jeffrey Miller]], one of the four students killed by Guardsmen.<ref>{{Cite web|title=WKSU News: Vietnam's lasting impact on the arts|url=https://archive.wksu.org/news/story/42479|access-date=2021-12-24|website=Archive.wksu.org}}</ref> Butler had lent Miller his [[drum kit]] before the shootings.<ref>{{cite news|first=Mark J.|last=Price|title=Akron musician Chris Butler assembles drum kit from 1960s|url=https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2023/08/17/chris-butler-reassembles-drum-kit-from-1960s-tin-huey-the-waitresses-numbers-band/70543223007/|url-access=subscription|work=[[Akron Beacon Journal]]|date=2023-08-17|access-date=2023-08-18}}</ref>


Active in the Kent, OH music and art scene that also spawned [[The James Gang]], [[DEVO]] and [[Chrissie Hynde]] ([[The Pretenders]]), Butler appeared in several films by KSU's film professor Richard Myers, and played guitar in the blues band City Lights with Jack Kidney. He followed Jack into his brother Robert Kidney's [[15-60-75]] (a/k/a [[The Numbers Band]]), [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtQHtkjVQ24 playing bass] with them from 1975-78. Butler was fired from the band for blowing off a rehearsal to attend a photo session for his fictional Waitresses band project, which were to be part of Stiff Record's "Akron: Shine On, America" compilation, that also included tracks by [[Tin Huey]], Jane Aire & The Belvederes, Rachel Sweet, The Rubber City Rebels, The Bizarros and Chi-Pig.
Butler was active in [[Kent, Ohio|Kent, Ohio's]] 1970s music and art scene that also spawned [[The James Gang]], [[Devo]], and [[Chrissie Hynde]] of [[The Pretenders]]. He appeared in several films by KSU film professor Richard Myers and played guitar in the blues band City Lights with Jack Kidney. He followed Kidney into [[The Numbers Band]], aka 15-60-75, founded by Jack's brother Robert Kidney, and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtQHtkjVQ24 played bass] with them from 1975 to 1978. Butler was fired from the band for skipping a rehearsal to attend a photo session for his Waitresses band project, which were to be part of [[Stiff Records]]' ''Akron Compilation'', which also included tracks by [[Tin Huey]], [[Liam Sternberg|Jane Aire and The Belvederes]], [[Rachel Sweet]], [[Rubber City Rebels]], [[The Bizarros]] and [[Chi-Pig]].


== 1980s ==
== 1980s ==
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In 1983, Butler went to Denmark and produced the second album by the punk/art band Sort Sol.{{citation needed|date=November 2017}}


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Starting to get work as a producer, Butler commuted daily to Water Music Studios in [[Hoboken, New Jersey]], during the recording of [[Scruffy The Cat]]'s "Tiny Days" album (1987), and [[Joan Osborne|Joan Osborne's]] "[[Relish (album)|Relish]]" EP (1995).{{Cn|date=July 2023}} He had two cars break down on the [[Interstate 495 (New York)|Long Island Expressway]].{{Cn|date=July 2023}}
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In 1983, Butler went to Denmark and produced the second album by the punk/art band Sort Sol.{{cn|date=November 2017}}


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To help songwriter [[Freedy Johnston]] get a contract with Bar None Records, Butler played drums with bassist Rich Grula. Butler later produced Johnston's 1989 album ''The Trouble Tree'' and played guitar on some of the album's tracks.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hardcafe.co.uk/waitresses/butler.htm|title=The Waitresses - Chris Butler|first=John|last=Warlow|website=Hardcafe.co.uk}}</ref>
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Starting to get work as a producer, Butler blew up two cars on the Long Island Expressway commuting daily to Water Music Studios in Hoboken, NJ, during the recording of Scruffy The Cat's "Tiny Days" album (1987), and Joan Osborne's "Relish" EP.

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After playing drums with Rich Grula on bass showcasing songwriter [[Freedy Johnston]] for Bar None Records, Butler produced Johnston's 1989 album ''The Trouble Tree'' and played guitar on some of the album's tracks.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hardcafe.co.uk/waitresses/butler.htm|title=The Waitresses - Chris Butler|first=John|last=Warlow|publisher=}}</ref>


== 1990s and after ==
== 1990s and after ==
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In 1995, Butler was hired by former Tin Huey keyboardist [[Harvey Gold]], now a TV producer in New York City, as drummer and bandleader for "Two Drink Minimum", a stand-up showcase program for Comedy Central.{{citation needed|date=November 2017}}


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He holds the 1997 Guinness Book of World Records for the longest pop song recording, a 69-minute song entitled "The Devil Glitch”.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nj.com/jerseyblogs/2008/04/writing_the_worlds_longest_son.html|title=Writing the world's longest pop song: Q&A with The Major Glitch's Chris Butler|author=Kelly Heyboer|date=April 11, 2008|website=Nj.com}}</ref> The project was expanded online as "The Major Glitch", and accepted additions to the song in the hopes that it would play for days.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://themusic.com.au/news/help-experimental-post-punk-legend-chris-butler-write-the-longest-song-ever/w_vU19bZ2Ns/08-12-16|title=Help The Waitresses' Chris Butler Write The Longest Song Ever|website=Themusic.com.au}}</ref> The song reached 3:13:32.
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In 1995, he was hired by former Tin Huey keyboardist [[Harvey Gold]], now a TV producer in New York City, as drummer and bandleader for "Two Drink Minimum", a stand-up showcase program for Comedy Central.{{cn|date=November 2017}}


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In 1997, Butler started Future Fossil Records and released his first album ''I Feel A Bit Normal Today''. In 2001, he released Kilopop!'s ''Un Petit Goûter'', a fictional European band's "Best Of". "I've always been a songwriter, and over the years I've been asked to write Waitress-y type tunes for other singers... but none of them were ever used. I had quite a pile of these, plus some fun co-writes lying around gathering dust... so I invented a fake European band that supposedly had had 'hits' with these tunes. I wanted to be a success in Europe, and since this didn't happen in reality, I decided to make it so in fantasy."{{citation needed|date=November 2017}}
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He holds the 1997 Guinness Book of World Records for the longest pop song recording in history, a 69-minute song titled "[[The Devil Glitch]]”.<ref>[http://blog.nj.com/jerseyblogs/2008/04/writing_the_worlds_longest_son.html Writing the longest pop song]</ref> The project was expanded online as "The Major Glitch", and accepted additions to the song in the hopes that it would play for days.<ref>[http://themusic.com.au/news/all/2016/12/08/help-experimental-post-punk-legend-chris-butler-write-the-longest-song-ever/ help Butler write song]</ref> The song reached 3:13:32 long.


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In 1987, Butler sold his musical gear, including "Bebe Blue", the [[Vox (musical equipment)|Vox]] Teardrop electric guitar he used to record "Christmas Wrapping", to a Manhattan music store. More than 20 years later, the store's owners told him that the guitar's latest owner, a woman in Belgium, wanted to sell it to someone who could appreciate its significance. Butler hopped on a plane and repurchased it, though he could not convince himself that the guitar was in fact the one he owned before.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6654616|title=My Guitar, My Past: A Man's Search for His Vox|newspaper=NPR.org}}</ref>
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In 1997, Butler started Future Fossil Records, and released his first full-length album "I Feel A Bit Normal Today". In 2001, he released Kilopop!'s "Un Petit Goûter", a fictional European band's "Best Of". "I've always been a songwriter, and over the years I've been asked to write Waitress-y type tunes for other singers...but none of them were ever used. I had quite a pile of these, plus some fun co-writes lying around gathering dust...so I invented a fake European band that supposedly had had 'hits' with these tunes. I wanted to be a success in Europe, and since this didn't happen in reality, I decided to make it so in fantasy."{{cn|date=November 2017}}


Butler owns the Akron house where serial killer [[Jeffrey Dahmer|Jeffery Dahmer]] grew up and killed his first victim.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Griffith |first=Carson |date=2017-11-03 |title=Anne Heche and the "My Friend Dahmer" Crew Take AD Inside the Home of the Real-Life Serial Killer |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/anne-heche-and-the-my-friend-dahmer-crew-take-ad-inside-the-home-of-the-real-life-serial-killer |access-date=2023-03-20 |website=Architecturaldigest.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Butler |first=Chris |date=October 30, 2009 |title=In Serial Killer's Former Home, A Search For Ghosts |work=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114303723}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Jeffrey Dahmer’s childhood home is up for sale for $329,000 |url=https://www.starbeacon.com/news/jeffrey-dahmer-s-childhood-home-is-up-for-sale-for-329-000/article_24e3787d-0edb-5c8c-a4e9-7d98b1a063fe.html |access-date=2023-03-20 |website=Starbeacon.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Tye |first=Chris |title=Owner of Jeffrey Dahmer's childhood home speaks out |url=https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/summit-county/owner-of-jeffrey-dahmers-childhood-home-speaks-out/95-241936115 |access-date=2023-03-20 |website=Wkyc.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
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In 1987, Butler sold his musical gear, including "Bebe Blue", the [[Vox (musical equipment)|Vox]] Teardrop electric guitar he used to record "Christmas Wrapping", to a Manhattan music store. Over twenty years later the store owners told him that the guitar's latest owner, a woman in Belgium, wanted to sell it to someone who could appreciate its significance. Butler hopped on a plane and repurchased it, though he could not convince himself that the guitar was in fact the one he owned before.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6654616|title=My Guitar, My Past: A Man's Search for His Vox|publisher=}}</ref>


==Bands that involved Chris Butler==
==Bands that involved Chris Butler==
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* [[The Numbers Band|15-60-75]] ([[The Numbers Band]])
* [[The Numbers Band|15-60-75]] ([[The Numbers Band]])
* [[Tin Huey]]
* [[Tin Huey]]
* [[The Waitresses]] <ref>[http://www.spiritmusicgroup.com/Clients/Library/Chris-Butler “SpiritMusicGroup:" Chris Butler”]</ref>
* [[The Waitresses]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.spiritmusicgroup.com/clients/chris-butler-the-waitress/|title=Chris Butler / The Waitresses|website=Spirit Music Group}}</ref>
* [[The Cranks]]
* [[The Cranks]]
* [[Half Cleveland]]
* [[Half Cleveland]]
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* [[The Wirebirds]]
* [[The Wirebirds]]
* [[Otis Ball and the Chains]]
* [[Otis Ball and the Chains]]
* [[Life in a Blender]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Don Ralph interview on working with Chris Butler and Ralph Carney in Life in a Blender|url=https://archive.org/details/LifeInABlenderOnOutsightRadioHours|work=Archive.org|publisher=Outsight Radio Hours|accessdate=22 July 2012}}</ref>
* [[Life in a Blender]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Don Ralph interview on working with Chris Butler and Ralph Carney in Life in a Blender|url=https://archive.org/details/LifeInABlenderOnOutsightRadioHours|work=Archive.org|publisher=Outsight Radio Hours|access-date=22 July 2012}}</ref>
* [[The dB's]]
* [[The dB's]]
*KILOPOP!

== Discography ==
<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chris Butler|url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/73253-Chris-Butler|access-date=2021-03-20|website=Discogs.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=CHRIS BUTLER|url=https://chrisbutler1.bandcamp.com/|access-date=2021-03-20|website=Chrisbutler1.bandcamp.com}}</ref>

=== Tin Huey ===
* ''Tin Huey'' EP (Clone Records, 1977)
* ''Breakfast with the Hueys'' EP (Clone Records, 1978)
* ''[[Contents Dislodged During Shipment]]'' ([[Warner Bros. Records]], 1979)
* ''[[English Kids]]'' EP (Clone Records, 1980)
* ''[[Disinformation (album)|Disinformation]]'' (Future Fossil Records, 1999)
* ''Sneak Peek: The Obscurity Series'' (2004)
* ''[[Before Obscurity: The Bushflow Tapes]]'' ([[Smog Veil Records]], 2009)

=== The Waitresses ===
==== Albums ====
* ''[[Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful?]]'' (1982)
* ''[[I Could Rule the World If I Could Only Get the Parts]]'' (1982)
* ''[[Bruiseology]]'' (1983)
* ''Make the Weather'' (1984)
* ''[[King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents The Waitresses]]'' (1997)

==== Compilation albums ====
* ''[[The Best of The Waitresses (1990 album)|The Best of the Waitresses]]'' (1990)
* ''[[20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of The Waitresses|20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Waitresses]]'' (2003)
* ''Your Choice of Sides − A Collection of Outtakes & Obscuriosities'' (2007)
* ''Just Desserts: The Complete Waitresses'' (2013)
* ''Deluxe Special: ZE Complete Recordings'' (2013)

=== Solo ===
* ''The Devil Glitch'' (1996)
* ''I Feel a Bit Normal Today'' (1997)
* ''Easy Life'' (2002)
* ''alt.easylife.cd'' (2002)
* ''The Museum of Me Vol. 1'' (2002)
* ''Songs for Unsung Holidays'' (2018)
* ''Got It Together!'' (2018)<ref>{{Cite web|title=GOT IT TOGETHER!, by CHRIS BUTLER|url=https://chrisbutler1.bandcamp.com/album/got-it-togehter-2|access-date=2021-12-24|website=Chrisbutler1.bandcamp.com|language=en}}</ref>

=== Kilopop! ===
* ''Un Petit Goûter'' (2001)


==References==
==References==
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== External links ==
== External links ==
* [http://jammedonon.blogspot.com/ Chris Butler's Blog]
* [http://www.futurefossilmusic.com/ Future Fossil Music Website]
* [http://www.futurefossilmusic.com/ Future Fossil Music Website]
* [http://stashdauber.blogspot.com/2013/07/chris-butlers-easy-life.html EASY LIFE: Review/The Stash Dauber]
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Chris Butler
Born (1949-05-22) May 22, 1949 (age 75)
OriginOhio, U.S.
GenresNew wave
Years active1978–1996

Christopher Butler (born May 22, 1949) is an American musician, writer, and artist who is best known for leading the 1980s new wave band The Waitresses. His notable songs include "I Know What Boys Like", "No Guilt", "Christmas Wrapping"[1] and the theme song for the TV sitcom Square Pegs.[2]

Early life and career

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Butler is of Italian and Hungarian ancestry.[3] He grew up in Akron, Moreland Hills, and Chagrin Falls, Ohio,[4][5] and majored in sociology at Kent State University. He was among a crowd of students fired on by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970,[6] and was a friend of Jeffrey Miller, one of the four students killed by Guardsmen.[7] Butler had lent Miller his drum kit before the shootings.[8]

Butler was active in Kent, Ohio's 1970s music and art scene that also spawned The James Gang, Devo, and Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders. He appeared in several films by KSU film professor Richard Myers and played guitar in the blues band City Lights with Jack Kidney. He followed Kidney into The Numbers Band, aka 15-60-75, founded by Jack's brother Robert Kidney, and played bass with them from 1975 to 1978. Butler was fired from the band for skipping a rehearsal to attend a photo session for his Waitresses band project, which were to be part of Stiff Records' Akron Compilation, which also included tracks by Tin Huey, Jane Aire and The Belvederes, Rachel Sweet, Rubber City Rebels, The Bizarros and Chi-Pig.

1980s

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In 1983, Butler went to Denmark and produced the second album by the punk/art band Sort Sol.[citation needed]

Starting to get work as a producer, Butler commuted daily to Water Music Studios in Hoboken, New Jersey, during the recording of Scruffy The Cat's "Tiny Days" album (1987), and Joan Osborne's "Relish" EP (1995).[citation needed] He had two cars break down on the Long Island Expressway.[citation needed]

To help songwriter Freedy Johnston get a contract with Bar None Records, Butler played drums with bassist Rich Grula. Butler later produced Johnston's 1989 album The Trouble Tree and played guitar on some of the album's tracks.[9]

1990s and after

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In 1995, Butler was hired by former Tin Huey keyboardist Harvey Gold, now a TV producer in New York City, as drummer and bandleader for "Two Drink Minimum", a stand-up showcase program for Comedy Central.[citation needed]

He holds the 1997 Guinness Book of World Records for the longest pop song recording, a 69-minute song entitled "The Devil Glitch”.[10] The project was expanded online as "The Major Glitch", and accepted additions to the song in the hopes that it would play for days.[11] The song reached 3:13:32.

In 1997, Butler started Future Fossil Records and released his first album I Feel A Bit Normal Today. In 2001, he released Kilopop!'s Un Petit Goûter, a fictional European band's "Best Of". "I've always been a songwriter, and over the years I've been asked to write Waitress-y type tunes for other singers... but none of them were ever used. I had quite a pile of these, plus some fun co-writes lying around gathering dust... so I invented a fake European band that supposedly had had 'hits' with these tunes. I wanted to be a success in Europe, and since this didn't happen in reality, I decided to make it so in fantasy."[citation needed]

In 1987, Butler sold his musical gear, including "Bebe Blue", the Vox Teardrop electric guitar he used to record "Christmas Wrapping", to a Manhattan music store. More than 20 years later, the store's owners told him that the guitar's latest owner, a woman in Belgium, wanted to sell it to someone who could appreciate its significance. Butler hopped on a plane and repurchased it, though he could not convince himself that the guitar was in fact the one he owned before.[12]

Butler owns the Akron house where serial killer Jeffery Dahmer grew up and killed his first victim.[13][14][15][16]

Bands that involved Chris Butler

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Discography

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Tin Huey

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The Waitresses

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Albums

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Compilation albums

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Solo

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  • The Devil Glitch (1996)
  • I Feel a Bit Normal Today (1997)
  • Easy Life (2002)
  • alt.easylife.cd (2002)
  • The Museum of Me Vol. 1 (2002)
  • Songs for Unsung Holidays (2018)
  • Got It Together! (2018)[21]

Kilopop!

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  • Un Petit Goûter (2001)

References

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  1. ^ Urycki, Mark. "Couldn't Miss This One: Behind 'Christmas Wrapping'". NPR.org. NPR. Retrieved 2014-12-24.
  2. ^ "Meet the Rock Star Who Lives Happily in the House Where Jeffrey Dahmer First Killed". The Observer. 27 February 2018.
  3. ^ "Couldn't miss this one this year: The surprisingly complex legacy of the Waitresses' 'Christmas Wrapping'". Yahoo.com. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
  4. ^ "Chris Butler". IMDb.
  5. ^ "WKSU News: Vietnam's lasting impact on the arts". Archive.wksu.org.
  6. ^ "Chris Butler: Biography". Futurefossilmusic.com.
  7. ^ "WKSU News: Vietnam's lasting impact on the arts". Archive.wksu.org. Retrieved 2021-12-24.
  8. ^ Price, Mark J. (2023-08-17). "Akron musician Chris Butler assembles drum kit from 1960s". Akron Beacon Journal. Retrieved 2023-08-18.
  9. ^ Warlow, John. "The Waitresses - Chris Butler". Hardcafe.co.uk.
  10. ^ Kelly Heyboer (April 11, 2008). "Writing the world's longest pop song: Q&A with The Major Glitch's Chris Butler". Nj.com.
  11. ^ "Help The Waitresses' Chris Butler Write The Longest Song Ever". Themusic.com.au.
  12. ^ "My Guitar, My Past: A Man's Search for His Vox". NPR.org.
  13. ^ Griffith, Carson (2017-11-03). "Anne Heche and the "My Friend Dahmer" Crew Take AD Inside the Home of the Real-Life Serial Killer". Architecturaldigest.com. Retrieved 2023-03-20.
  14. ^ Butler, Chris (October 30, 2009). "In Serial Killer's Former Home, A Search For Ghosts". NPR.
  15. ^ "Jeffrey Dahmer's childhood home is up for sale for $329,000". Starbeacon.com. Retrieved 2023-03-20.
  16. ^ Tye, Chris. "Owner of Jeffrey Dahmer's childhood home speaks out". Wkyc.com. Retrieved 2023-03-20.
  17. ^ "Chris Butler / The Waitresses". Spirit Music Group.
  18. ^ "Don Ralph interview on working with Chris Butler and Ralph Carney in Life in a Blender". Archive.org. Outsight Radio Hours. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
  19. ^ "Chris Butler". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
  20. ^ "CHRIS BUTLER". Chrisbutler1.bandcamp.com. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
  21. ^ "GOT IT TOGETHER!, by CHRIS BUTLER". Chrisbutler1.bandcamp.com. Retrieved 2021-12-24.
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