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This 1999 remastered edition of MEAT PUPPETS is an Enhanced CD [ECD] that includes bonus tracks, the 1981 7-inch release IN A CAR and a video for "Walking Boss," filmed at a concert at Target Video in San Francisco, California.
Recorded between 1980 and 1999. Includes liner notes by Derrick Bostrom.
Like their SST label-mates the Minutemen, Replacements, and Husker Du, the Meat Puppets' debut album finds them squarely in the hardcore realm. These bursts of primal fury zip along like the Tasmanian Devil, with lyrics that are about as comprehensible as that spinning id-creature's utterances. While the term "cowpunk" was often applied to the Puppets, this is about 95% punk and 5% cow. Only on "Walking Boss" and their take on the C&W classic "Tumblin' Tumbleweeds" do they demonstrate the country stylings that they would later incorporate into their music. Even in these instances, with walking tempos and discernible lyrics, the sloppy vocals and palpable sense of edginess makes for a sound that is anything but laid-back. From here on in, the Meat Puppets would transform their sound into something less overtly in-your-face, but this is where it all began. For completists, this is a must-have. The 1999 re-release contains some alternative versions, an interesting early take on "Magic Toy Missing" from MEAT PUPPETS II, and some tasty covers of Neil Young and the Grateful Dead.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
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Meat Puppets: Curt Kirkwood (vocals, guitar); Cris Kirkwood (vocals, bass); Derrick Bostrom (drums).
Producers include: Laurie O'Connell, Ed Barger, Montior.
Engineers include: Spot, Ed Barger, Darrell DeMarco.
Additional personnel: Steve Thomsen (keyboards).
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.Entertainment Weekly (3/26/99, p.87) - "...Part ZZ Top on peyote, part Grateful Dead on steroids, the guitar-driven trio's eccentric genius emerges on [this] souped-up rerelease..." - Rating: A-
The Wire (5/99, p.62) - "...it stood as one of the most exciting hardcore albums ever made....in this CD revision which more than doubles its length with 12 extra tracks...it becomes apparent that Meat Puppets always had a richer sense of Americana to draw from than punkthrash..." Meat Puppets Music Review Purchase Meat Puppets CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Meat Puppets II CD (1984)
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This remastered edition of MEAT PUPPETS II is an enhanced audio CD which contains regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files, as well as bonus and previously unreleased tracks.
Recorded in 1983. Includes liner notes by Michael Azerrad, Derrick Bostrom, Robert Azerrad & Tom Carson.
Digitally remastered by Stuart Sullivan (Arkadelphia's House Studio, November 1998).
The early-1980s post-punk musings of the Meat Puppets give new meaning to the term "alternative country." Instead of adding a country flavor to traditional rock, or overdriving a honky-tonk sound, the group achieved a genuine marriage of avant-rock weirdness and earthy Americana on this, their defining release. The frenzied two-step of "Magic Toy Missing" and "Lost" mates hoedown with electric freakout. The group's tripping-in-the-desert sense of neo-psychedelia is displayed at its apex on the twisted classic "Plateau" and the acid-drenched country-punk of "New Gods." Like Neil Young (a strong influence), the Meat Puppets were blessed with a totally natural sense of strangeness that allowed them to be both of the earth and beyond it simultaneously. This reissue's generous helping of bonus tracks helps sweeten an already immensely appealing pot.
The Meat Puppets' second album, 1984's appropriately titled Meat Puppets II, has since gone down in the rock history books as an all-time classic, and rightfully so. The Meat Puppets were one of the first punk acts to inject different musical styles into their sound, something that was an absolute no-no at the time -- especially ...
| | Meat Puppets Out My Way CD (1986) Bonus Tracks; Remastered; Enhanced CD
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This remastered edition of OUT MY WAY is an Enhanced CD featuring 7 bonus tracks along with a video of the band playing Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing."
Recorded from Summer 1982 through Summer 1986. Includes liner notes by Greg Kot, Theo & Derrick Bostrom.
Digitally remastered by Stuart Sullivan (Arkadelphia's Studio, November 1998.)
When originally released in 1986, the six-track Out My Way EP was supposed to be a stop-gap release -- guitarist/singer Curt Kirkwood had broken his finger, and needed time to recover. Musically, the EP showed that the Puppets were moving on from their early punk sound to a more traditional rock direction. But the band's originality was still offered in abundance; for example, the album-opening "She's Hot" sounds like a jam session between ZZ Top and the Talking Heads. Also included was the spacious sounds of the title track, the carefree "Not Swimming Ground," and an explosive reading of Little Richard's "Good Golly Miss Molly." The 1999 Rykodisc reissue more than doubled the original's track listing, containing such standout rarities as a Black Sabbath-esque reading of "I Just Want to Make Love to You" (from 1982), a fragile cover of the country classic "Burn the Honky Tonk Down" (originally popularized by George Jones), plus the experimental "Backwards Drums." ~ Greg Prato
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| | Meat Puppets Up On The Sun CD (1985)
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This remastered edition of UP ON THE SUN is an Enhanced CD containing both a full audio program as well as multimedia computer files. Includes bonus and previously unreleased tracks.
Recorded in May 1983 & November 1984 through January 1985. Includes liner notes by Steve Schinder, Derrick Bostrom, Richard Grabel & Steve Appleford.
Digitally remastered by Stuart Sullivan (Arkadelphia's House Studio, November 1998).
The Meat Puppets' masterpiece, UP ON THE SUN, is an enduring delight that sounds like nothing else in this world. It's very much a guitar-lover's record, with Curt Kirkwood lysergic lines and ornate filigrees floating over chiming chords or undulating across crunchy strummed chords. The Meats typically have a rather laissez faire relationship with the concept of singing on-key, but the laid-back, almost hushed singing here is one of the record's unabashed delights.
UP ON THE SUN juxtaposes loose and lazy vocals with trippy wordplay and solid, skilled musicianship. Joyous, chiming gems like "Maiden's Milk," with its happy insane-asylum whistling, and the glistening "Swimming Ground," sound like music for Peanuts characters on acid, loose and shambling and ecstatically sunny. The delightfully named "Enchanted Porkfist" features tight riffery that strongly echoes the Allman Brothers. But amid the happily stoned atmosphere is an undercurrent of seriousness, especially on the wistful title track and the minor-key "Two Rivers," which has ...
| | Meat Puppets Huevos CD (1987) Bonus Tracks; Remastered; Enhanced CD
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This remastered edition of HUEVOS is an Enhanced CD containing 5 bonus tracks as well as a video of a live performance of "Automatic Mojo" recorded in 1988.
Recorded in 1986 and 1987. Includes liner notes by Gina Arnold, Derrick Bostrom & Bill Wyman.
Digitally remastered by Stuart Sullivan (Arkadelphia's House Studio, November 1998).
Huevos means "eggs" in Spanish. It also, slangily, refers to balls. It's clear which connotation the Meat Puppets were alluding to when they named this record. It's as if they traded in their stoner VW bus for a muscle car. To push the metaphor further, it's as if they put away the hallucinogens in favor of Jack Daniels. There are far fewer overtly psychedelic touches on HUEVOS than on previous records. Whereas the group's records used to travel a circuitous path, on HUEVOS, the Puppets stick to the main road.
You know you're not listening to your grandfather's Meat Puppets from the opening notes of "Paradise," which bears the unmistakable mechanized churning of MTV-era ZZ Top. The sound is altogether thicker, and the vocals are less from the upper chest than the lower diaphragm. But amid the balls-to-the-wall rockers like "Automatic Mojo" are starbursts of color, most notably "Fruit," with its jiggly beat and sighing ...
| | Meat Puppets Mirage CD (1987)
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The remastered edition of MIRAGE is an Enhanced CD containing both a full audio program as well as multimedia computer files, including the 1987 video for "Get On Down." Contains five bonus tracks.
Includes liner notes by Derrick Bostrom, Marc Weingartena and Joe Sasfy.
In 1987, when the Meat Puppets released their first full-length LP after their 1985 gem UP ON THE SUN, the Arizona trio was a college-radio favorite whose raucous, high-energy gigs earned them a modest-sized yet passionate following.
Stylistically, MIRAGE isn't a huge departure from UP ON THE SUN. The Meats continued to mix country and psychedelic influences in their rock-trio cauldron, but the Southern boogie flavor that would become increasingly prevalent on subsequent records began creeping in, notably on "Quit It" and "Get On Down," which also features the gruffer vocal style of later releases. Curt Kirkwood hadn't yet plunged headlong into Z.Z. Top-style guitar heroics; instead, the lambent arpeggios of "A Hundred Miles" and the hyper-speed plucking of "Beauty" are the guitar-lover's moments of choice here. The thoroughly countrified romp "Confusion Fog" boasts some nifty bluegrass-style picking, and an opening line ("I lost my mind/a couple of gals ago") worthy of Hank Williams. The mood shifts between upbeat rockers and more introspective, idiosyncratic numbers like "Leaves" and the title track. Finally, ...
| | Gossip CD (2000)
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With their junk-punk blues and the guttural wail of vocalist Beth Ditto, the Gossip proved one of the freshest and most fun debuts of 2000 when they launched their first nationwide tour opening for Sleater-Kinney. This four-song, six-minute EP was barely even available when they hit the road that May, but the Olympia, WA-based trio quickly made a name for themselves as they stomped and stamped through their 20-minute, dance-'til-you-drop sets of sin, skin, sweat, and scandal. This EP features four of those earliest, rowdiest romps, from the hip-swingin' "Redd Hott" ...
| | John Denver Whose Garden Was This CD (1970) Japan
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This rerelease of the artist's 1970 recording features 11 songs, including "Tremble If You Must."
Perhaps John Denver's worst-selling album, Whose Garden Was This, is largely a record of cover songs, starting with the Tom Paxton-penned environmentalist anthem that is the title track, and including Denver versions of such songs as the Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," Jerry Jeff Walker's "Mr. Bojangles," The Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby," and "Golden Slumbers." Denver's own contributions included the awkward "I Wish I Could Have Been There (Woodstock)." Though Denver ...
| | Blackwood Brothers Rock-A-My-Soul CDs (2002) (Import) Germany
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| | Guerrilla Jukebox Vol. 1 CD (2003)
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The infamous Tee Pee Records has proudly been releasing high-octane rock & roll, neo-'70s metal experiments, and THC-laced stoner music since 1995. Guerrilla Jukebox, Vol.1 is a testament to the label's lofty ideals, featuring 18 tracks from veterans, newcomers, and future rockers, all for a budget price of around eight dollars. It's insane how heavy some of these songs are. Atomic Bitchwax, Nebula, Hermano, and Bad Wizard all channel the glory days of '70s sludge and metal, collectively resembling what it would sound like to punch the buttons on an AM radio in a hellbound 1972 Plymouth Duster. The cowpunk of Little Better and Highstrung helps the flow of this compilation, offering a lull from the chugging riffs and harmonized guitars of Gibson Flying V enthusiasts like Boulder. But just when it was thought that it could not get any heavier, Guerrilla Jukebox gets its heaviest. San Jose's Sleep was the penultimate stoner rock band, incorporating more doom and sludge into their music than any rocker with a hemp guitar strap had dared to before. After two mind-blowing albums, Sleep took a year's worth of bong hits before issuing the one-track, 52-minute burnout epic Jerusalem. It was panned by their label and never released. That is, until Tee Pee Records came on the scene. Guerrilla Jukebox includes an excerpt from the recording, now carrying its working title of Dopesmoker. Worlds will be swallowed in its murky depths. Emerging from the primordial ooze of Sleep, Guerrilla Jukebox presents the L7-influenced Lost Goat and High on Fire's rave-up rock & roll. Core is yet another band indebted to the rhythms of Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, but since other groups on Tee Pee and this compilation update that sound with more precision or originality, Core's "Fleetwood" ends up sounding a bit flat. But this is minor, as each group on Tee Pee contributes to the sleazy genius of the label with its own particular hybrid of heavy ...
| | Superficials Everybody's Girl CD (2005)
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Imagine a band that combined everything you liked about rock n' roll. With songs that would be equally at home on an Austin Powers soundtrack or a Tony Hawk skateboarding video game. From the retro-hip of the mid-60s to the alternative edge of today, The Superficials have mixed their favorite ingredients in a rock n' roll blender and created an utterly fresh brand of music that can only be described as superficial.Josh Millman and Michael Page are the main ingredients in this "soup". Each one is a standout singer/songwriter in their own right, yet their collaborative efforts have created a buzz around this Lennon/McCartney-esque partnership. Seamlessly sharing the lead vocal responsibilities and acting as co-frontmen, Millman and Page have an undeniable chemistry that breaks the confines of the traditional band lineup. They found their Ringo in drummer Rob Nelson, whose powerful pulse and stage antics round out the trio's personality.The Superficials' debut album "oldschool" was lauded for it's "chiming guitars, buoyant melodies, and sweet harmonies" and its "lushly tuneful gems that linger in the mind" (The Oregonian). The band's sophomore effort "Everybody's Girl" received even more critical acclaim. "Simply put, one of the finest indie pop CDs you'll hear in 2004. Grade A and extremely highly recommended!" (Not Lame Records). "The new CD from Portland, Oregon's The Superficials has it all. Everything from Elvis Costello pop sense to Jellyfish harmonies, as well as the new wave energy of The Knack, which shows just how versatile and talented this band is! An awesome debut from one of the most promising new acts of 2004!" (popbang radio)But what about the single? You know the RADIO HIT. Where to begin? How about with "Silver Plated" a song Page co-wrote for Geoff Byrd that's being played in heavy rotation on Entercom and Clear Channel radio stations around the country. Or then there's Millman's commercial music and jingle outings that have made their way onto countless TV and radio spots. No- what we're talking about here are The Superficials' songs, any one of which would fit a variety of modern rock radio formats. Hot on the heels of "Everybody's Girl", The Superficials are already back in the studio recording their next full-length album. With their brand new single "Reality TV", a quirky commentary on America's current obsession, Millman and Page once again reveal their consistent high standards of excellence. Add the hard-driving "Gasoline", the sexed-up "Do It All The Time" and the mournful ballad "Hey Candy", and the indelible voice of The Superficials is loud and clear.Who's hearing it? "I need to get into band management because these guys have it...Every song is a hit...They f...in' rock!" (Liz Wilde, national radio personality ). And she's not the only one who thinks so. "The Superficials kicked my royal butt with their own brand of hard paced originals, cool guitars, and non-stop stage action, great great band indeed!" (Two Louies Magazine). Budweiser seems to thinks so too, having ...
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