{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Weird Revolution | type = Album | artist = Butthole Surfers | cover = Butthole surfers weird revolution.jpg | alt = | released = August 28, 2001 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = {{hlist|Hip hop|alternative rock|electronica}} | length = 63:42 | label = {{hlist|Surfdog|Hollywood}} | producer = {{hlist|Paul Leary|Rob Cavallo}} | prev_title = Electriclarryland | prev_year = 1996 | next_title = Humpty Dumpty LSD | next_year = 2002 | misc = {{Extra chronology| | artist = Butthole Surfers studio | type = studio | prev_title = Electriclarryland | prev_year = 1996 | title = Weird Revolution | year = 2001 | next_title = After the Astronaut | next_year = 2026 }} }}
'''''Weird Revolution''''' is the eighth studio album by the American 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 and not officially released until 2026.
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 2026, ''Weird Revolution'' remains the band's last album to date to feature brand-new material.
==Reception== {{Music ratings | MC = 46/100<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/weird-revolution/butthole-surfers|title=Weird Revolution by Butthole Surfers|website=Metacritic|access-date=19 September 2016}}</ref> | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web|title=allmusic ((( ''Weird Revolution'' > Review )))|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r546996|pure_url=yes}}|website=AllMusic|author=Kennedy, Patrick|access-date=March 17, 2010}}</ref> | rev2 = ''Alternative Press'' | rev2score = {{rating|2.5|5}}<ref>The absence of Paul Leary's drug-fried guitar is unconscionable. [Nov 2001, p.78]</ref> | rev3 = ''Blender'' | rev3score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref>The wan, wimpy Weird Revolution relies on tired drum loops and flat rap vocals. [Aug/Sep 2001, p.121] </ref> | rev4 = ''E!'' | rev4score = B<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020426045851/http://www.eonline.com/Reviews/Facts/Music/RevID/0,1107,2441,00.html|title=Butthole Surfers - Weird Revolution|website=E! Online|date=April 26, 2002|access-date=November 29, 2025}}</ref> | rev5 = ''Entertainment Weekly'' | rev5Score = C+<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Review: 'Weird Revolution |magazine=Entertainment Weekly|location=New York|date=September 7, 2001|pages=67|quote=A typical morass of computerized beat science, vague exoticism, and singer Gibby Haynes' crackpot mantras...}}</ref> | rev6 = ''The Rolling Stone Album Guide'' | rev6score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>Brackett, Nathan. "Butthole Surfers". ''The New Rolling Stone Album Guide''. November 2004. pg. 123, cited March 17, 2010</ref> | rev7 = ''Pitchfork'' | rev7score = 0.4/10<ref>DiCrescenzo, Brent. [http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/1043-weird-revolution/ "Weird Revolution"]. pitchfork.com. August 2001, Retrieved on March 17, 2010.</ref> | rev8 = ''Spin'' | rev8Score = 6/10<ref>{{cite magazine |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=XBJLecfe-rcC&dq=Butthole+Surfers&pg=PA132|title=Butthole Surfers: ''Weird Revolution'' |magazine=Spin |volume=17 |issue=10 |date=October 2001 |access-date=February 14, 2018 |last=Rotter |first=Jeffrey |pages=133–34}}</ref> }} 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== {{Track listing |title1 = The Weird Revolution |length1 = 3:36 |title2 = The Shame of Life |length2 = 3:54 |title3 = Dracula from Houston |length3 = 3:42 |title4 = Venus |length4 = 3:55 |title5 = Shit Like That |length5 = 3:18 |title6 = Mexico |length6 = 3:50 |title7 = Intelligent Guy |length7 = 3:04 |title8 = Get Down |length8 = 5:29 |title9 = Jet Fighter |length9 = 2:57 |title10 = The Last Astronaut |length10 = 4:07 |title11 = Yentel |length11 = 3:22 |title12 = They Came In |length12 = 22:23 |note12 = includes hidden track{{refn|group=note|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".}} }} '''Notes''' {{reflist|group=note}}
==Singles== "The Shame of Life" # "The Shame of Life" # "The Shame of Life" (A Cappella) # "The Shame of Life" (DJ Z-Trip Remix) # "The Shame of Life" (Bonus Beats)
"Dracula from Houston" # "Dracula from Houston (The Bike Song) (Radio Edit)" # "They Came In" # "Call Out Hook"
==Personnel==
===Butthole Surfers=== *Gibby Haynes – vocals *Paul Leary – guitars *King Coffey – drums
===Additional personnel=== *Paul Leary – production, mixing (Track 11) *Rob Cavallo – production (Tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 8), A&R *Michael Bradford – engineering (Tracks 1, 2, & 7), additional production (Track 2) *Stuart Sullivan – engineering (Tracks 1, 4–7, & 9–12), mixing (Track 11) *Allen Sides – engineering (Tracks 2, 3, & 8) *Chris Lord-Alge – mixing (Tracks 1–10 & 12) *Brian Gardner – mastering *Nathan Calhoun – bass *Chris Vrenna – additional drum programming (Track 9) *Cheryl Jenets – A&R coordination *Dave Kaplan – management *Actionfigure – art direction, design
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