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Up On The Sun (Remaster) (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 Up On The Sun (Remaster) (CD) Album By Meat Puppets (Artist)
1   Up On The Sun
2   Maiden's Milk
3   Away
4   Animal Kingdom
5   Hot Pink
6   Swimming Ground
7   Buckethead
8   Too Real
9   Enchanted Porkfist
10   Seal Whales
11   Two Rivers
12   Creator
13   Hot Pink - (bonus track)
14   Up On The Sun - (bonus track)
15   Mother American Marshmellow - (bonus track)
16   Embodiment Of Evil - (bonus track)
17   Hot Pink - (bonus track)
 

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Review

Spin (4/99, p.165) - "...Expansive acoustic guitars and fat, melodic bass lines swim in liquid distortion -- finding a place where Carl Perkins meets the Clash-- as the band rolicks through choreographed stringbusters and dreamy discourses..."
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-
Alternative Press (7/95, p.83) - Ranked #30 in AP's list of the `Top 99 Of '85-'95' - "...UP ON THE SUN is by far the Meat Puppets' best record....The Puppets' brand of nonsense lyrics and blissed-out rockitude never sharper, UP ON THE SUN is perhaps the only truly great record that no one ever says is truly great....a damn fine drinking record, too..."

Title Note

This remastered edition of UP ON THE SUN is an Enhanced CD containing both a full audio program as well as multimedia computer files. Includes bonus and previously unreleased tracks.

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

Reissue Producers: Derrick Bostrom, Tami Blevins, Ian Gilchrist & Troy Hansbrough.

Recorded in May 1983 & November 1984 through January 1985. Includes liner notes by Steve Schinder, Derrick Bostrom, Richard Grabel & Steve Appleford.

Digitally remastered by Stuart Sullivan (Arkadelphia's House Studio, November 1998).

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

The Meat Puppets' masterpiece, UP ON THE SUN, is an enduring delight that sounds like nothing else in this world. It's very much a guitar-lover's record, with Curt Kirkwood lysergic lines and ornate filigrees floating over chiming chords or undulating across crunchy strummed chords. The Meats typically have a rather laissez faire relationship with the concept of singing on-key, but the laid-back, almost hushed singing here is one of the record's unabashed delights.

UP ON THE SUN juxtaposes loose and lazy vocals with trippy wordplay and solid, skilled musicianship. Joyous, chiming gems like "Maiden's Milk," with its happy insane-asylum whistling, and the glistening "Swimming Ground," sound like music for Peanuts characters on acid, loose and shambling and ecstatically sunny. The delightfully named "Enchanted Porkfist" features tight riffery that strongly echoes the Allman Brothers. But amid the happily stoned atmosphere is an undercurrent of seriousness, especially on the wistful title track and the minor-key "Two Rivers," which has a Zen-like simplicity to its lyrics, and a haunting melody that shimmers, eddies, and swirls most hypnotically. The 1999 reissue contains some interesting early mixes, which should please the record's many devotees.

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