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“The Shame of Life” by Butthole Surfers
From the album Weird Revolution (2001)
“The Shame of Life” by Butthole Surfers appears on 9 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 2001 and 2002. It was first released in 2001 on the album Weird Revolution. Its best result is #13 on the CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2001. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #94 alternative song of 2001 and #7,595 alternative song of all time.
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"The Shame of Life" comes from Weird Revolution, the Butthole Surfers' 2001 album, and it makes for an unlikely crossover: the band handing their chorus over to Kid Rock, who kept a writing credit for it. Rob Cavallo produced it with Paul Leary, and Nathan Calhoun plays the bass.
Gibby Haynes narrates a party that gets weirder by the minute, and the video took him at his word: a house full of pigs daubed with "Get Down", squirrels in business suits who drug the band, a woman in a dress of dollar bills, and Haynes finally hauled out the door by two of the squirrel men. It climbed to 24 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks, landed at 93 in Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2001, and later scored a trailer for the 2002 film Phone Booth.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 68 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2001 | 91 |
| 2001 | 67 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2001 | 101 |
| 2001 | 65 | WFNX Boston, MA | WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2001 | 100 |
| 2001 | 82 | 107.7 The End Seattle, WA | The End Top 107 Songs of 2001 | 107 |
| 2001 | 13 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2001 | 101 |
| 2001 | 36 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2001 | 103 |
| 2001 | 93 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2001 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 1975 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 1992 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
Also listed as: Shame of Life.
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