Meat Puppets
Meat Puppets are an American rock band formed in January 1980 in Phoenix, Arizona. The group's original lineup was Curt Kirkwood (guitar/vocals), his brother Cris Kirkwood (bass guitar), and Derrick Bostrom (drums). The Kirkwood brothers met Bostrom while attending Brophy Prep High School in Phoenix. The three then moved to Tempe, Arizona (a Phoenix suburb and home to Arizona State University) where the Kirkwood brothers purchased two adjacent homes, one of which had a shed in the back where they regularly practiced.
Meat Puppets started as a punk rock band, but like most of their labelmates on SST Records, they established their own unique style, blending punk with country and psychedelic rock, and featuring Curt's warbling vocals. Meat Puppets later gained significant exposure when the Kirkwood brothers served as guest musicians on Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance in 1993. The band's 1994 album Too High to Die subsequently became their most successful release. The band broke up twice, in 1996 and 2002, but reunited again in 2006.
Meat Puppets (album)
Meat Puppets is the first album by American band the Meat Puppets, released in 1982. The album is unlike their later, better-known releases due to its hardcore punk sound.
The album was recorded in a matter of days, there are very few overdubs and many of the tracks are first takes. Like other early SST albums the sound quality is rather spotty; there is noticeable fuzz in the background of the music. The band opted for this because they felt more comfortable recording live with only a few microphones rather than employing conventional studio separation techniques. In 1999, Curt Kirkwood stated, "The first [album] was our LSD record. We were three days in the studio, and we tripped the whole time. And it was really cool, and really trying, too, because we went insane."
The 1999 Rykodisc reissue features the entire In a Car EP as well as 13 other bonus tracks, many of them studio jams or outtakes, and a video clip of the band performing "Walking Boss" live. The booklet also has liner notes by Gregg Turkington and recording notes by drummer Derrick Bostrom.
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ALBUMS
- Rat Farm released: 2013
- Lollipop released: 2011
- Sewn Together released: 2009
- Rise to Your Knees released: 2007
- Classic Puppets released: 2004
- Golden Lies released: 2000
- Live in Montana released: 1999
- Up on the Sun released: 1999
- Meat Puppets released: 1999
- Mirage released: 1999
- No Joke! released: 1995
- Too High to Die released: 1994
- Meat Puppets II released: 1993
- Forbidden Places released: 1991
- No Strings Attached released: 1990
- Monsters released: 1989
- Huevos released: 1987
- Portland 200 released:
- 1982: Meat Puppets Live released:
- Live at the Roxy, L. A. 1995 released:
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Classic Puppets
Released 2004- Foreign Lawns
- H-Elenore
- Blue Green God
- Walking Boss
- Lost
- Plateau
- Lake of Fire
- The Whistling Song
- Up on the Sun
- Swimming Ground
- Enchanted Porkfist
- Two Rivers
- Out My Way
- On the Move
- Burn the Honky Tonk Down
- Confusion Fog
- Get on Down
- Look at the Rain
- Sexy Music
- Dough Rey Mi
- Light
- Strings on Your Heart
- Meltdown
- New Leaf
Meat Puppets
Released 1999- Reward
- Love Offering
- Blue‐Green God
- Walking Boss
- Melons Rising
- Saturday Morning
- Our Friends
- Tumblin’ Tumbleweeds
- Milo Sorghum and Maize
- Meat Puppets
- Playing Dead
- Litter Box
- Electromud
- The Gold Mine
- In a Car
- Big House
- Dolphin Field
- Out in the Gardener
- Foreign Lawns
- Meat Puppets
- Everybody’s Talking
- H‐Elenore
- Hair
- I Got a Right
- I Am a Child
- Franklin’s Tower
- Milo Sorghum & Maize
- Electromud
- Love Offering
- Saturday Morning
- Magic Toy Missing
- Unpleasant
No Strings Attached
Released 1990- Big House
- In a Car
- Tumbling Tumbleweeds
- Reward
- The Whistling Song
- New Gods
- Lost
- Lake of Fire
- Split Myself in Two
- Up on the Sun
- Swimming Ground
- Maiden's Milk
- Bucket Head
- Out My Way
- Confusion Fog
- I Am a Machine
- Quit It
- Beauty
- Look at the Rain
- I Can't Be Counted on at All
- Automatic Mojo
- Meltdown
- Like Being Alive
- Attacked by Monsters
Portland 200
- Automatic Mojo
- Forbidden Places
- Leaves
- Another Moon
- Six Gallon Pie
- Enchanted Porkfist
- Lake of Fire
- Popskull
- This Day
- Maiden's Milk
- Lost
- Open Wide
- That's How It Goes
- No Longer Gone
- Swimming Ground
- Look at the Rain
- Help Me Make It Through the Night
- Good Golly Miss Molly
- I Fall to Pieces
- I Wanna Be Your Dog
- Fuck You
- Liquified
1982: Meat Puppets Live
- Up On the Sun
- Maiden's Milk
- Creator
- Swimming Ground
- Away
- Enchanted Porkfist
- Animal Kingdom
- Too Real
- Buckethead
- Lake of Fire
- Lost
- Oh Me
- the Whistling Song
- Magic Toy Missing
- Polk Salad Annie
- Two Rivers
- Hot Pink
- Good Golly Miss Molly
- Paralyzed
- Down the Road Apiece
- CC Rider
- Country Road
- Bar-B-Q
- Move It On Down the Line
- Dixie/ Battle Hymn of the Republic
- Split Myself In Two
- Child of the Moon
- Around the Bend
- Come Together
- Trouble
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Reward*
by: Meat PuppetsWe played for you and you did not dance
we wailed and you did not listen
and John came neither eating nor drinking
and you said he is possessed by a demon
the son of man came eating and drinking
and you said he is a friend of tax collectors
but what can I say about you?
You are like children in the marketplace
Shouting to your playmates
he who receives a prophet because he is a
prophet will receive the prophets reward
he who receives a righteous man because he is a
righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward
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