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Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets

Facts

Artist(s)Meat Puppets
StudioRykodisc
Release DateFebruary 23, 1999
UPC Code014431046629
 

About Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets

There are four early '80s American hardcore albums you must own: the debut from Flipper, the Minutemen's What Makes a Man Start Fires?, Ian MacKaye's straight-edge Minor Threat, and this, the taut, wired, explosive, and downright funny, fully realized 1982 masterpiece from Phoenix's Kirkwood brothers (Curt and Cris). Never had vocals sounded so skewed and manic, never had guitars sounded so hemmed in and angular. Hard-core fans loved the Puppets for their songs' breakneck speed. But, as they later proved, there was far more to them than the (non-)simple three-chord thrash. The fact this reissue contains 18 extra tracks (including the debut five-track single "In a Car," still one of punk's finest moments, and a terrifying, previously unreleased version of Fred Neil's tormented classic, "Everybody's Talking") is some bonus! Unmissable. --Everett True Amazon.com

Tracks

  1. Reward - Meat Puppets, Bostrom, Derrick
  2. Love Offering - Meat Puppets, Bostrom, D.
  3. Blue-Green God - Meat Puppets, Bostrom, D.
  4. Walking Boss - Meat Puppets, Watson, Arvel
  5. Melons Rising - Meat Puppets, Bostrom, D.
  6. Saturday Morning - Meat Puppets, Bostrom, Derrick
  7. Our Friends - Meat Puppets, Bostrom, D.
  8. Tumbling Tumbleweeds - Meat Puppets, Nolan, Bob
  9. Milo, Sorghum, and Maize - Meat Puppets, Bostrom, D.
  10. Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets, Bostrom, D.
  11. Playing Dead - Meat Puppets, Bostrom, D.
  12. Litterbox - Meat Puppets, Bostrom, D.
  13. Electromud - Meat Puppets, Bostrom, D.
  14. The Gold Mine - Meat Puppets, Bostrom, D.
  15. In a Car - Meat Puppets,
  16. Big House - Meat Puppets,
  17. Dolphin Field - Meat Puppets,
  18. Out in the Gardener - Meat Puppets,
  19. Foreign Lawns - Meat Puppets,
  20. Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets,
  21. Everybody's Talking - Meat Puppets,
  22. H-Elenore - Meat Puppets,
  23. Hair - Meat Puppets,
  24. I Got a Right - Meat Puppets,
  25. I Am a Child - Meat Puppets,
  26. Franklin's Tower - Meat Puppets,
  27. Milo Sorghum and Maize - Meat Puppets,
  28. Electromud - Meat Puppets,
  29. Love Offering - Meat Puppets,
  30. Saturday Morning - Meat Puppets,
  31. Magic Toy Missing - Meat Puppets,
  32. Unpleasant - Meat Puppets,

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User Reviews

Average user review: 3.5 (22 reviews)

rating: 3 QuoteAt the very least, one of the weirdest "hardcore" albums I've heard.Quote
This is nothing like the band that brought us Up On The Sun or Too High To Die, and there's only the slightest tantalizing hints of the country-punk of Meat Puppets II (there are a couple of country covers, plus "Milo, Sorghum and Maize" is a little like one of the Meat Puppets II instrumentals, except with a wasted Greg Ginn on lead guitar). Nominally, it's a "hardcore" album, but a darn strange one: the riffs feature some pretty screwy note combinations (often made even screwier by the fact that Curt Kirkwood frequently starts playing his own guitar lines completely wrong after a few repetitions), Curt Kirkwood shrieks, gibbers, and mumbles unintelligibly like a cross between Darby Crash and a muppet, and often Derrick Bostrom's tight drumming is the only thing keeping any given song from being complete arrhythmic cacophony. There's something of an oddball charm to it all though. March 27, 2008

rating: 5 QuoteCLASSIC Hard Core Punk with a Country FlareQuote
The first time I heard this album, it was quite reminiscent of the first time I heard the Dead Kennedy's In God We Trust Album when a friend of mine tried 33 RPM and 45 RPM since it just didn't sound quite right. This album IS punk rock at its raw unnerving and disturbing fiery passion. This Meat Puppet's album just simply continued to grow and grow on me. I originally put it on one side of a 60 minute cassette (am I dating myself or what?!?) with the Suicidal Tendencies first album on the other side. This tape played over and over in our tissue culture area of our research laboratory at UCLA. This is how I kept my sanity listening to these albums. Even the polished Institutionalized was an eternal favorite, the Meat Puppets album became the timeless classic of pure raw punk beauty. Every track of this album stands alone. Buy it and you will not regret it. And beware, it is not for the squeamish. July 17, 2007

rating: 5 Quotealt.country.hardcoreQuote
This cd is a great catalog of the early, more hardcore, works of the Alt/Country pioneers, the Meat Puppets. The tracks from the actual Meat Puppets LP are completely out of control. The dissonant and bizarre guitar style of Kurt Kirkwood is the standout sound. The manic drums plus the production work of SPOT make these tracks have a sound like early Husker Du, while the puppets songwriting keeps things fresh. Standout tracks include "Electromud", "Tumblin' Tumbleweeds", and "Blue-Green God". The bonus tracks are also great, including the seminal "In a Car" 7 in. EP, demo versions of songs on the LP, a sick-nasty cover of the Stooges' "I Got a Right", and a haunting version of "Everybody's Talking".

All in all, raw, powerful, trippy, still light years ahead of what hardcore-punkers are up to. Buy this. NOW! February 2, 2007

rating: 2 QuoteYou loved "Up on the Sun" so you bought thisQuote
And then you were left checking the two CDs to see if they were made by the same band. It is hard to believe the many different sounds that came from one truly weird band. Sometimes they were punk, sometimes pop, sometimes country, sometimes noise, often times insane. Well, God bless them, they really put out some great albums, but this really is not one of them. This is kind of avant garde crazy noise. October 25, 2006

rating: 3 QuoteBWAAPA MAURHYTGHPPPPPTHQuote
BWAAA! JEKOLIMONYFHTPTHHTTPPTHHH....ZAKASOWERYU TIUN Y HUIY BWAAAAAAHHHHHPPPPHH!
There's your prize for buying this little stinker. Completely incoherent jizzmajazz set to fast and squirrely music. The music's great. The vocals twist and squirm through mazes of mush. Make your own soundtrack! You get to decide what the hell's going on with the lyrics.
Besides that, Meat Puppets struck a reverberating originality chord here. Get your friend to buy it first and then laugh and enjoy it together.
October 7, 2006

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