Meat Puppets - Huevos
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Artist: Meat PuppetsEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-04-06
Music Label: Rykodisc
Soundtracks:
- Paradise
- Look At The Rain
- Bad Love
- Sexy Music
- Crazy
- Fruit
- Automatic Mojo
- Dry Rain
- I Can't Be Counted On
- Medley: Baby What You Want Me To Do/I Can't Be Counted On
- Sexy Music
- Automatic Mojo
- Paradise
- Fruit
Music reviews of Huevos
Music Review: Their power-trio album
Rating: 4 Stars
On Huevos, the Meat Puppets continued to expand their musical palette. While their previous release Mirage was a more diverse but less focused affair, Huevos saw the band concentrating on blues-based hard rock. While many have called Huevos the band's ode to ZZ Top, the band makes the sound truly their own as the spirited performances show a sense of urgency lost on their previous album.
Every track here is very solid. The tracks "Paradise", "Bad Love", "Dry Rain", and "Automatic Mojo" are great hard rockers driven by Curt Kirkwood's meaty riffs and his loud and occassionally off-key lead vocals. His solos do sound similar to ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons on many songs, getting more feeling out of a few notes than most bands do out of their 100 mph excursions. The songs "Fruit", "Look At The Rain", and "Crazy" are more rooted in melody and are very good as well. "I Can't Be Counted On" is another great track featuring a catchy melody and chorus. Ironically, the best track here is the only one that's not a hard rocker. "Sexy Music" is one of their best tracks featuring great work from bassist Cris Kirkwood and drummer Derrick Bostrom, great vocals and lyrics from Curt, and a simple keyboard line which adds to the moodiness of the song. The bonus tracks includes four instrumental versions of the album's original tracks. The tracks "Paradise", "Sexy Music", and "Automatic Mojo" are a little heavier than the vocal versions with "Automatic Mojo" actually being stronger than the original. The final track "Fruit" is a showcase for Curt as he solos nearly the entire track, proving he could also play 100 mph if he so chooses. A fine album, it's probably their least diverse release as they stick to hard rock for the most part. If you like great power-trio hard rock, it's an essential purchase. Newcomers may want to check out Too High To Die, Meat Puppets II, or Up On The Sun first.
Description of Huevos
Hard driving riff rock, Meat Puppets style. ""Huevos"" was recorded in four days and released less than six months after ""Mirage"". But where that album was spacey and lush, ""Huevos"" is rough and spontaneous. For this edition, the album has been expanded to include five additional tracks, featuring early demos of ""Sexy Music"", ""Paradise"", ""Fruit"", and ""Automatic Mojo"", as well as a cover of Jimmy Reed's ""Baby What Do You Want Me to Do"".By their fourth album (1987), the Phoenix trio had turned into a full-fledged roots-rock band, leaving their old hard-core peers far behind and instead occupying the territory more commonly associated with the full-on boogie of ZZ Top or the Grateful Dead's wanton self-indulgence. Of course, you still had Curt Kirkwood's innate feel for the desert coming through on songs such as the rollicking "Look at the Rain" and the plangent "Crazy." Listening to the heat-evocative "Sexy Music," you can hear the Meat Puppets' influence on 1998's generation of alt-country rockers, from Mike Ireland and Holler to the Pernice Brothers and upwards. Only occasionally do the trio degenerate into their old warped style (the bonus track "I Can't Be Counted On"); mostly they play it straight. Includes five unreleased bonus tracks. --Everett True
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