Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun
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Artist: Meat PuppetsEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-03-16
Music Label: Rykodisc
Soundtracks:
- Up On The Sun
- Maiden's Milk
- Away
- Animal Kingdom
- Hot Pink
- Swimming Ground
- Buckethead
- Too Real
- Enchanted Porkfist
- Seal Whales
- Two Rivers
- Creator
- Hot Pink
- Up On The Sun
- Mother American Marshmallow
- Embodiment Of Evil
- Hot Pink
Music reviews of Up on the Sun
Music Review: Beyond categorization.....and brilliant!!!
Rating: 5 Stars
Up On The Sun is the Meat Puppets' third album and the followup to their now legendary Meat Puppets II which introduced the world to cowpunk, a mixture of country and punk music. While that album as well as several of their releases are easy to define (ex...Meat Puppets I is their punk album, Huevos, the power-trio album, Monsters, the heavy album), Up On The Sun is beyond categorization. It is also their most cohesive listen and ranks with Meat Puppets II and Too High To Die as their best work.
While their first two albums were furious and very ragged, the songs here are much tighter. Their brand of cowpunk is replaced by songs that are equally based on mood and melody and the results are stunning. Curt Kirkwood's vocals are very somber and this along with his moody guitar work truly carry the album. The excellent tracks "Away", "Buckethead", and "Swimming Ground" are both upbeat and catchy while "Animal Kingdom" has a strong new-wave vibe with Curt's unique guitar work providing the appropriate background. Songs like "Hot Pink" and the title track are very laid back and feature creative interplay between Curt and his bass-playing brother Cris. The tracks "Enchanted Pork Fist" and "Creator" offer glimpses of their punk sound but are much more structured than tunes like "New Gods" and "Split Myself In Two" from their previous release. The band continue to write great instrumentals as both "Maiden's Milk" and "Seal Whales" add to the album's low-key vibe. Other strong tracks include the haunting "Two Rivers" and "Too Real." As with all of their remastered releases, Rykodisc has added several bonus tracks. There are two additional versions of "Hot Pink", a looser version that's pretty decent, and a longer and weirder instrumental version that drags on for over 8 minutes. There's also a killer instrumental called "Embodiment of Evil" and "Mother American Marshmallow" which is essentially a strung out version of "Maiden's Milk." All told, this is a great and very original album which is at its best when listened to in its entirety. If you know the band for Too High To Die or Meat Puppets II, this album may catch you off guard. However, as their longtime fans know, the Meat Puppets change gears with each album, and Up On The Sun is one of their best. Highly recommended.
Description of Up on the Sun
The high watermark of their early years, ""Up on the Sun"" remains as most Meat Puppets fans' all-time favorite. Recorded in just three days back in early 1985, the album recieved universal praise. For this edition, the album has been expanded to include five additional tracks, including very different demo versions of ""Hot Pink,"" ""Up on the Sun,"" and ""Maiden's Milk,"" plus the previously unreleased ""Embodiment of Evil."" Also included is the original extended instrumental of ""Hot Pink."" Also includes an essay by Scott Schinder and recording notes by Derrick Bostrom.This is the album where most fans agree that Curt, Cris, and Derrick came into their own as a totally original artistic force, where the intricate wordplay of Curt's heat-driven visions is finally matched by the tricky rhythmic exchanges and turbulent, trippy melodicism emanating from the instruments. When listening to songs such as the whistle-led "Maiden's Milk," the outrageously Talking Heads-funky "Away," or the giddy, rollicking "Seal Whales," it becomes almost impossible to believe that only three instruments could create such a delicate, textured record. It truly seemed that this Phoenix trio had managed to capture the sound of the desert on vinyl--the sense of echoing loneliness, the cactus prickliness, the vast open spaces. This reissue (originally released in 1985) includes five bonus eight-track demos. --Everett True
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