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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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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.
ebm
5,165 posts
 
Say who??
cwinfrey
16 posts
 
I agree with loomisjonnson about meat puppets II and up on the sun but mirage and huevos are credible, although I found the change of style not exactly to my taste. Probably the only live show I've walked out of. After some moments genius they went on and on and on at the end of a show at Mcabe's with Spot on the ukulele.
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