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Meat Puppets (Remaster) (CD)

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DISC 1 for Meat Puppets (Remaster) (CD) Album By Meat Puppets (Artist)
1   Reward
2   Love Offering
3   Blue-Green God
4   Walking Boss
5   Melons Rising
6   Saturday Morning
7   Our Friends
8   Tumblin' Tumbleweeds
9   Milo Sorghum, And Maize
10   Meat Puppets
11   Playing Dead
12   Litter Box
13   Electromud
14   Gold Mine, The
15   In A Car
16   Big House
17   Dolphin Field
18   Out In The Gardener
19   Foreign Lawns
20   Meat Puppets
21   Everybody's Talking
22   H-Elenore
23   Hair
24   I Got A Right
25   I Am A Child
26   Franklin's Tower
27   Milo Sorghum & Maize
28   Electromud
29   Love Offering
30   Saturday Morning
31   Magic Toy Missing
32   Unpleasant
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (3/26/99, p.87) - "...Part ZZ Top on peyote, part Grateful Dead on steroids, the guitar-driven trio's eccentric genius emerges on [this] souped-up rerelease..." - Rating: A-
The Wire (5/99, p.62) - "...it stood as one of the most exciting hardcore albums ever made....in this CD revision which more than doubles its length with 12 extra tracks...it becomes apparent that Meat Puppets always had a richer sense of Americana to draw from than punkthrash..."

Title Note

This 1999 remastered edition of MEAT PUPPETS is an Enhanced CD [ECD] that includes bonus tracks, the 1981 7-inch release IN A CAR and a video for "Walking Boss," filmed at a concert at Target Video in San Francisco, California.

Meat Puppets: Curt Kirkwood (vocals, guitar); Cris Kirkwood (vocals, bass); Derrick Bostrom (drums).

Additional personnel: Steve Thomsen (keyboards).

Producers include: Laurie O'Connell, Ed Barger, Montior.

Engineers include: Spot, Ed Barger, Darrell DeMarco.

Recorded between 1980 and 1999. Includes liner notes by Derrick Bostrom.

All tracks have been digitally remastered.

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.

Like their SST label-mates the Minutemen, Replacements, and Husker Du, the Meat Puppets' debut album finds them squarely in the hardcore realm. These bursts of primal fury zip along like the Tasmanian Devil, with lyrics that are about as comprehensible as that spinning id-creature's utterances. While the term "cowpunk" was often applied to the Puppets, this is about 95% punk and 5% cow. Only on "Walking Boss" and their take on the C&W classic "Tumblin' Tumbleweeds" do they demonstrate the country stylings that they would later incorporate into their music. Even in these instances, with walking tempos and discernible lyrics, the sloppy vocals and palpable sense of edginess makes for a sound that is anything but laid-back. From here on in, the Meat Puppets would transform their sound into something less overtly in-your-face, but this is where it all began. For completists, this is a must-have. The 1999 re-release contains some alternative versions, an interesting early take on "Magic Toy Missing" from MEAT PUPPETS II, and some tasty covers of Neil Young and the Grateful Dead.

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