The next Weasels album, Uranus or Bust, was three years in the making. Behind striking cover art by Oatman, Fun (billed as Racer Fun), Weasell (billed as Chairman Wow) and Graf (now Sir Mixalot of Ice-T) offered 16 new compositions (one hidden) produced and engineered at Graf’s Big Saucy Sound Studio. Berger, Maynard and Okey returned to the band, and were joined by keyboardist Adrian Cohen, brother of Weasel emeriti Jordan and Jon, the latter of whom guests on Uranus, as do drummers Candlen, Petrocelli and Larry Levine, Amy Abdou (violin), Rena Graf (vocals), Mike Pauley (bass) and “some Russian friend of Candlen’s” (voices).
Two of Uranus’ songs were commissioned as part of multimedia art installations created by Oatman. “Hall of Pain” (about this album’s representative Notorious Killer, nineteenth-century Troy, New York’s Andress Hall) was composed as part of “Awful Disclosures: The Life and Confessions of Andress Hall,” while “Monument Road” appeared in conjunction with “Henry Perkins and the Eugenics Survey of Vermont.” Maynard composed the music for one song on the album, “Dumber Than Me,” while the Larry Trilogy continues with “Ou Est Monsieur Crane?”, which was also performed live by the Clown Punchers, a side project featuring Weasell and Mike Goudreau, VH1 staff writer for such programs as I Love the '80s and Before They Were Rock Stars. In May 2006, "Mr. Yamamoto" (a.k.a. "Jimmy's Talking Pants") was selected for broadcast on Doctor Demento's internationally syndicated radio show.
Uranus or Bust included the following songs:
- “Harvey Loped Along”
- “Something Wicked”
- “Onan Spilled His Seed”
- “Small Engine Repair”
- “MacNeice”
- “Alison Wonderbread”
- “Ou Est Monsieur Crane?”
- “Monument Road”
- “Lemons”
- “A Million Vacations”
- “Dumber Than Me”
- “Crogolin Grange”
- “Jimmy’s Talking Pants” (sometimes listed as “Mr. Yamamoto”)
- “Hale-Bopp (Recorded Live at the Village Gate, NYC, November 23, 1961)”
- “Hall of Pain”
- “Rachel” (a hidden track)
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