Weird Revolution | ||||
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Released | August 28, 2001 | |||
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Length | 63:42 | |||
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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.
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 and was featured in the Surfing Documentary "Step into Liquid", a film by Dana Brown.
As of 2025, Weird Revolution remains the band's last album to date.
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 46/100 [1] |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Entertainment Weekly | C+ [3] |
Pitchfork Media | 0.4/10 [4] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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."
No. | Title | Length |
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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
"The Shame of Life"
"Dracula from Houston"
A typical morass of computerized beat science, vague exoticism, and singer Gibby Haynes' crackpot mantras...