Meat Puppets Huevos CD

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 backup vocals, and the molten, sublime axe work that decorates "Dry Rain."

Additional Tracks

Meat Puppets: Curt Kirkwood (vocals, guitar, percussion); Cris Kirkwood (vocals, bass, percussion); Derrick Bostrom (drums).

Reissue producers: Derrick Bostrom, Tami Blevins, Ian Gilchrist, Troy Hansbrough.

Engineers: Steve Escallier, Meat Puppets, Cris & Curt Kirkwood.

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-
NME (Magazine) (4/17/99, p.37) - 8 out of 10 - "...The sheer confidence of [HUEVOS] is heady...at once intense and light of touch, a hymn to all that is sensual....the airiness of the record lending it the atmosphere of the Pups' desert homeland."