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Classic Puppets (CD)

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Meat Puppets Artist Snapshot:

Formed in Arizona by brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood and their friend Derrick Bostrom, the Meat Puppets combined punk, blues, folk, and country music to bizarre yet entertaining effect. Led by guitarist/vocalist Curt, the substance-friendly band hit a creative peak in the mid-1980s, but didn't achieve mainstream success until 1994's TOO HIGH TO DIE. Shortly before this breakthrough, Puppets fan Kurt Cobain invited the Kirkwoods to play three of their songs (from MEAT PUPPETS II) with Nirvana on the renowned UNPLUGGED session. Later the group fell apart, with Cris developing a severe drug habit, Derrick handling the Puppets' legacy, and Curt forging ahead with a new line-up.

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DISC 1 for Classic Puppets (CD) Album By Meat Puppets (Artist)
1   Foreign Lawns
2   H-Elenore
3   Blue Green God
4   Walking Boss
5   Lost
6   Plateau
7   Lake Of Fire
8   Whistling Song, The
9   Up On The Sun
10   Swimming Ground
11   Enchanted Porkfist
12   Two Rivers
13   Out My Way
14   On The Move
15   Burn The Honky Tonk Down
16   Confusion Fog
17   Get On Down
18   Look At The Rain
19   Sexy Music
20   Dough Rey Mi
21   Light
22   Strings On Your Heart
23   Meltdown
24   New Leaf
 

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Title Note

Meat Puppets: Curt Kirkwood (vocals, guitar); Chris Kirkwood (vocals, bass); Kyle Ellison (guitar); Andrew Duplants (bass); Derrick Bostrom, Shandon Sahm (drums).

Includes liner notes by Derrick Bostrom.

In a development that must be mildly depressing for a generation of college-radio fans, the Meat Puppets' genre-bending mix of hardcore, psychedelia, and country music is old-school enough to have been overlooked by legions of indie-rock kids. However, younger listeners who don't own a copy of the Puppets' UP ON THE SUN (purchased by many during the mid-to-late 1980s in that dingy little record store near campus) might appreciate the quirky group, which influenced bands from Nirvana to Wilco to Califone.

The aptly named CLASSIC PUPPETS is a smartly chosen collection of songs from the Arizona band's eight-year tenure on SST Records, concentrating on the superb 1984-87 stretch from MEAT PUPPETS II to MIRAGE, and throwing in four previously unreleased bonus tracks (of varying quality) to boot. Although the set ends with tunes from 1989's MONSTERS, and therefore omits the Puppets' glossier and more commercially successful material from their brief early-'90s flirtation with the alt-rock mainstream, it doesn't suffer from the omission. True to the title, CLASSIC PUPPETS is the Meat Puppets at their best.

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