Weird Revolution

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Weird Revolution
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Studio album by
Butthole Surfers
ReleasedAugust 28, 2001
Genre
Length63:42
Label
Producer
Butthole Surfers chronology
Electriclarryland
(1996)		Weird Revolution
(2001)		 Humpty Dumpty LSD
(2002)

Weird Revolution is the eighth studio album by the alternative rock band Butthole Surfers, released in 2001 on Surfdog Records and Hollywood Records. It is in large part a rerecorded version of an earlier album, tentatively entitled After the Astronaut, that was abandoned in 1998.

Contents

The initial release of this album featured a lenticular cover and jewel case that shows the baby's limbs moving and shooting a beam at other aircraft on the cover. The song "They Came In" was featured on the soundtrack to Mission: Impossible 2 . The song "The Shame of Life" was featured in the trailer for Phone Booth . The song "Dracula From Houston" was featured in an episode of the NBC comedy series Scrubs.

As of 2024, Weird Revolution remains the band's last album to date.

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 46/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Entertainment Weekly C+ [3]
Pitchfork Media 0.4/10 [4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Spin 6/10 [6]

The album was met with mixed-to-negative reviews. Pitchfork Media was particularly negative about it, saying "The thin music seems to emanate from a TV you can't turn off. Each song putters on a weak beat that jangles and blips as if they dumped the ambient sounds of a Midway arcade over some Black Grape outtakes."

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."The Weird Revolution"3:36
2."The Shame of Life"3:54
3."Dracula from Houston"3:42
4."Venus"3:55
5."Shit Like That"3:18
6."Mexico"3:50
7."Intelligent Guy"3:04
8."Get Down"5:29
9."Jet Fighter"2:57
10."The Last Astronaut"4:07
11."Yentel"3:22
12."They Came In" (includes hidden track [note 1] )22:23

Notes

  1. ↑ The song "They Came In" ends at minute 4:02. After 17 minutes and 50 seconds of silence, at minute 21:52 begins a hidden track: it's a reprise of the song "The Last Astronaut".

Singles

"The Shame of Life"

  1. "The Shame of Life"
  2. "The Shame of Life" (A Cappella)
  3. "The Shame of Life" (DJ Z-Trip Remix)
  4. "The Shame of Life" (Bonus Beats)

"Dracula from Houston"

  1. "Dracula from Houston (The Bike Song) (Radio Edit)"
  2. "They Came In"
  3. "Call Out Hook"

Personnel

Butthole Surfers

Additional personnel

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References

  1. ↑ "Weird Revolution by Butthole Surfers". Metacritic . Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  2. ↑ Kennedy, Patrick. "allmusic ((( Weird Revolution > Review )))". AllMusic . Retrieved March 17, 2010.
  3. ↑ "Review: 'Weird Revolution". Entertainment Weekly . New York. September 7, 2001. p. 67. A typical morass of computerized beat science, vague exoticism, and singer Gibby Haynes' crackpot mantras...
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