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Any Meat Puppets Fans Out There?

I fairly recently discovered these guys and they get alot of play on my system and in my car. IMHO their best albums were "Up On The Sun" and "Mirage" released in the mid-80's. Now they've just released an album called "Volcano". At $9.99 from Long Beach Records you can't beat it and its great! Curt Kirkwood is terrific with a guitar. Any one else heard it?
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cwinfrey
16 posts
 
The above bands are some of my favourites as well and a great time and place in music. The small venue shows of the 80's were excellent. I found some the best live performances were by fIREHOSE.

The Meat Puppet Rykodisc remasters with extra tracks are a worthwhile upgrade from the original SST release.
chadnliz
3,736 posts
 
I found them through the Nirvana Unplugged....bought a few discs. Some cool music for sure.
biffrythm
42 posts
 
My favorites are Up on the Sun and Forbidden places. One of the few bands I can listen to in any mood.
loomisjohnson
1,526 posts
 
incredible, albeit troubled band. to my ears, meat puppets ii and up on the sun were their classics; after that they aspired to sound like their idols, zz top, and to actually sing in tune. seen 'em live a bunch of times--they could be fantastic or horrendous, sometimes within the same show. curt kirkwood really is a guitar god.
bongofury
1,160 posts
 
I saw them tour with REM around their Monster album. Very good live. I think they defined the cow punk genre with the Beat Farmers.
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