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
- Butckethead
- Too Real
- Enchanted Pork Fist
- Seal Whales
- Two Rivers
- Creator
- Hot Pink [*][Version]
- Up on the Sun [*][Version]
- Mother American Marshmallow [*]
- Embodiment of Evil [*]
- Hot Pink [*][Version]
Music reviews of Up on the Sun
Music Review: Absolute Masterpiece
Rating: 5 Stars
After Meat Puppets I, the indie fans expected another raspy punk rant and they got a psychedelic, country-rock excursion. When the fans were then expecting the same on their 3rd effort, this is what happened: Up on the Sun. A beautifully interwoven mix of undistorted guitars playing almost jazzy, occasionally complex, tweed-pop licks. Amazing bass lines, interplaying perfectly with the guitar. And lyrics that make you cock your head and wonder what these guys were smoking. (Up in my head there's an animal kingdom, I am the king of the animals there)
This is an album whose style, in the history of music, has never been duplicated or even attempted. Even those that don't care for it must admit to its originality. You may find it too weird or different for your liking, but that's the way Curt & co. like it. Weird. Original. Like nothing else you've ever heard. They never cared if it wasn't accessible to the public. Sorry if that upsets some people, but that's what they're about.
So for me, this is THE perfect example of why the Meat Puppets are the greatest band the world will never appreciate. Totally original, musically amazing, never compromising. Please expose yourself to their genius.
Description of Up on the Sun
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 TrueGeneral CDs
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