Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
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Artist: Meat PuppetsBrand: MEAT PUPPETS
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-03-16
Music Label: Rykodisc
Soundtracks:
- Split Myself In Two
- Magic Toy Missing
- Lost
- Plateau
- Aurora Borealis
- We're Here
- Climbing
- New Gods
- Oh, Me
- Lake Of Fire
- I'm A Mindless Idiot
- The Whistling Song
- Teenager(s)
- I'm Not Here
- New Gods
- Lost
- What To Do
- 100% Of Nothing
- Aurora Borealis
Music reviews of Meat Puppets II
Music Review: Real Influential classic in the "Dificult Music" genre
Rating: 5 Stars
I have just read a few reviewws of this cd, and I can understand that the uneasy hybrid of country, punk, hard rock, and psychedelic rock that this band constituted was definitely hard to swallow for a lot of people. You know, ______ them if they can't take a joke.
For those who weren't on the scene at the time, the 1980's and early 90's were a strange and fascinating time to be alive. The music and the arts were coming alive in a sense that they hadn't before in the United States, and the excitement was reflected in the number of new styles and trends emerging almost weekly -- artists of all sorts were springing up from the ground, creating new works and breaking rules no-one had even realized were rules.
"Alternative rock" was not the mainstream back then like it is nowdays, and few will remember now how subversive it was to even listen to something so mild as REM back then. The Meat Puppets were well in the spirit of those times, defying neat categories of style and sound. And for those who required the assistance of a Rolling Stone article to be able to appreciate a record, help was on the way, but a long way off still.
The bands that most blatantly defied all attempts at being filed into neat stereotypes in the late '80s were all heaped into a bin called "difficult music." All but forgotten now, they were often loosely associated with "punk rock," "hardcore," and the like, but if you want to be really ____ about it, you might do better to associate a few of these bands with the likes of Captain Beefheart, Julian Schnabel, and a handful of the more weird psychedelic and modern artists of the 20th C.
I have jokingly referred to the Meat Puppets as "Grateful Dead on Speed" before, and I recall thinking of them as sort of a hybrid of, say, Yes (Old Yes, back when they were kinda good, 1970s and before) and Merle Haggert. No, Meat Puppets weren't punk rock, and yes, they were on an eminent punk label. But with a band that tight, somebody had to publish them.
Chris and Kurt are like the rare brother or sister duo found in bluegrass music now and then that have a gift of harmony so natural, from a life of playing and singing together since early childhood. But they grew up listening to Van Halen, and then got on the SST label, of all things! Life takes some funny turns, and sometimes raw talent can't be suppressed.
Rock and roll from the west side of things was always changing, and nothing if not eclectic. The skills and talent of the trio, and the elegant guitar stylings of Kurt, (Kurt is a phenomenal guitar player.) all created an album here that is unique and outstanding. If you never buy any other Meat Puppets album, this is the one to get. If you do get another, "Too High to Die" and "Up on the Sun" are the best, I think.
Side note: I was moved to see Kurt Cobain playing some of my favorite songs years later, when he invited the Pups onstage in the "Unplugged" album. really tickled. To me, Cobain couldn't touch the Meat Puppets' rendering, but it was a real nice job and gave me a new appreciation for him.
Description of Meat Puppets II
The enhanced portion contains a video for \New gods" produced in 1984.Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 16-MAR-1999"""
The seminal Phoenix trio's self-titled debut is one of the greatest hard-core punk records ever made--but it pissed the punk kids off. Whether it was the Meat Puppets' long hair (in '81!) or their set-opener "The King and I" it was hard to say. Yet they were reviled. Still, they broadened their horizons, mixing up their weird full-on frantic hardcore style with some Tex-Mex, some bluegrass, and a little desert sun. The result? The cultural icon Meat Puppets II, a landmark album that resonates with the acid trails and heat-driven madness of southwest America. (As a whole generation of musicians, from Dinosaur Jr.'s J. Mascis to Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and downwards, can attest.) Curt Kirkwood's dislocated guitar style veers between hillbilly, heavy metal, psychedelic, and the Oak Ridge Boys. His brother's bass sound is endearingly fallible. A wonderful, eccentric record (with seven bonus tracks!). --Everett True
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