Album Review: Butthole Surfers - 'After The Astronaut'
As I write this, two real patriots have climbed the Empire State Building with a peace banner and then made out. One could say they want a love revolution. We certainly need one, and today we are also talking about the "weird" revolution alternative was supposed to usher in. Noisy brain peelers The Butthole Surfers explored many moons during their heyday, and after two and a half decades or so their "new" album After The Astronaut is a fitting long missing gem that encapsulates most facets of their journey. It is also a sort of capstone for the alternative boom in general, the band pulling out a lot of tricks up their sleeves but the label seemingly not believing in them. Add After The Astronaut (for they never peaked as close to the Sun as "Pepper" again) to the list of weird comedown records in rock, albeit perhaps inadvertently. But that was never the point with these guys. This record was basically recut with half different songs and released as Weird...
