Meat puppets

1.ENCHANTED PORKFIST 2.TOUCHDOWN KING 3.FORBIDDEN PLACES 4.WHIRLPOOL 5.AUTOMATIC MOJO 6.POPSKULL 7.CLIMBING 8.LIGHT 9.ATTACKED BY MONSTERS 10.NAIL IT...

Meat Puppets - II

The Meat Puppets

The Meat Puppets

When the Meat Puppets released their first, eponymous album on CD, they generously included, as often happened during that era, a bunch of bonus tracks, such as, ahem, “Meat Puppets,” which had appeared on the 1981 Light Bulb “emergency cassette” compilation, and “H-Elenore,” which came from the Keats Rides a Harley comp from Happy Squid Records that also featured a track from Gun Club. Tucked in there without much fanfare was a rendition of Fred Neil’s song, which he first recorded in 1966…

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Meat Puppets scholar Matthew Smith-Lahrman, the author of The Meat Puppets and the Lyrics of Curt Kirkwood from Meat Puppets II to No Joke, has posted a number of his in-depth interviews with the band on his blog, Perspective. Toward the end of one such conversation with main Puppet Curt Kirkwood, the singer and guitarist breaks down which drugs the band used while recording each of their first five albums for SST: The first album was, “Let’s do it all on acid.” We thought that our heroes…

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Even if Kurt Cobain hadn’t sung a note, he’d have improved the world by introducing to the larger public the work of underground geniuses: Daniel Johnston, the Wipers, Scratch Acid, the Raincoats, the Butthole Surfers, the Vaselines, the Melvins and many, many others. Among those who benefited from Cobain’s imprimatur is the Meat Puppets, from […]

Meat Puppets - "Too High to Die" is the eighth studio album by Meat Puppets, released on this day (January 25) in 1994.