Any Meatheads(Meat Puppets Fans) on this Board??

JC 2K3

They're my favourite band ever, from the amazing creativity on early albums like Meat Puppets 2 and Up on the Sun to their experimental phase with Mirage and Huevos to their major label albums like Forbidden Places(gotta love "Sam") and their most popular album, Too High to Die, I love it all. Anyone else feel the same way?

deceptacon

Dude, you know what? I could really go for a huge Meat injection right now!

Tbh, only heard Nirvana covering them, like most people.

JC 2K3

deceptacon wrote:

Dude, you know what? I could really go for a huge Meat injection right now!

Tbh, only heard Nirvana covering them, like most people.

I know, it sucks, and it wasn't even Nirvana covering them, the pups guitarist, Curt Kirkwood and brother Cris Kirkwood on bass were playing while Cobain sang and Dave Grohl drummed. You should really check them out, they're a brilliant influencial band, although their earlier albums(like Meat Puppets 2, their second album - the one that inspired Kurt Cobain and has Lake of Fire, Plateau and Oh Me on it) take a bit of getting used to. You should check out Too High to Die first, that's their most famous and accessable album.

dross

nah, man, ****it, start from the start, well no, start from the second, then when you really like them get the first. and get the rykodisc reissues with the green tinted cd case and the bonus videos. what am i on? huevos i think. yeah, but golden lies was the first one i got. and montana was actually the last one.
getting meatpuppets albums is the best. every couple months you'll make this new junkie friend.

JC 2K3

dross wrote:

nah, man, ****it, start from the start, well no, start from the second, then when you really like them get the first. and get the rykodisc reissues with the green tinted cd case and the bonus videos. what am i on? huevos i think. yeah, but golden lies was the first one i got. and montana was actually the last one.
getting meatpuppets albums is the best. every couple months you'll make this new junkie friend.

Golden Lies is sh*t, Hercules - wtf?? It's not the real Meat Puppets anyway so it doesn't count.

I started with Huevos and Mirage. The one song I can't stop listening to right now is Sexy Music... I'm still short one or two albums, in buying order these are all my MP albums:

1. Mirage(1987 - It's quite different to most MP stuff, very psychadelic)
2. Huevos(1987 - Some great catchy country tunes and then ths sublime Sexy Music... good stuff)
3. Up on the Sun(1985 - One word, WOW! It's my favourite MP album, so different...)
4. Forbidden Places(1991 - A bit overproduced IMO but still great, Sam is a classic, and apart from Magic Toy Missing, Six Gallon Pie is the greatest instrumental ever!)
5. Meat Puppets 2(1982 - Amazingly influencial album, the opener, Split Myself in Two is a great punk song and the next one Magic Toy Missing is amazing. The Nirvana covers are all on this album and are very good, The Whistling Song is also great, a close second on my favourite MP album)
6. Meat Puppets(1980 - I never really listen to this, It's all right but being essentially a thrash punk album it's very different to every other album)
7. Too High to Die(1994 - I had half the songs off this album downloaded by the time I got it, my 3rd fave MP album, the most accessable MP album and their best selling, I have to admit I listen to this the most)
8. Out My Way(1986 - I downloaded this recently, I really have to buy it.... It originally was a bit too short but the Rykodisk reissue has more tracks, so it's worth getting. Being the follow up to Up on the Sun it's similar but you can also hear the band's sound evolving...)

And that's all my MP albums and mini-reviews, there's still a few I have to get, mainly Monsters and No Joke!(Also Classic Puppets and No Strings Attached, but they're compilations and hardly necessary...).

dross

hmm, see, i havn't got the too high to die period albums so idunno. i love golden lies cos it was the first i got, probably. nah, ****it, how can you call it ****? i ****ing LOVE that album. and hercules kicks ass, but only if the red hot chili peppers stole that line off curt instead of the other way around. if it's the other way round then godthat's****.
but yeah, meatpuppet's kick ass man.

nlgbbbblth

all I have is Up On The Sun on a kind of orange vinyl

it's pretty good and I've meant to buy more of their stuff
presume Meat Puppets 2 should be next

JC 2K3

dross wrote:

hmm, see, i havn't got the too high to die period albums so idunno. i love golden lies cos it was the first i got, probably. nah, ****it, how can you call it ****? i ****ing LOVE that album. and hercules kicks ass, but only if the red hot chili peppers stole that line off curt instead of the other way around. if it's the other way round then godthat's****.
but yeah, meatpuppet's kick ass man.

Well I haven't listened to it too much but TBH I'm more interested in when it was just Curt, Cris and Derrick. You should check out THTD, I suspect you'd really like it.

nlgbbbblth, Yup Meat Puppets 2 would be a great album to go for, just give it a chance, it's quite countryish and a bit hard to get into, but once you do it's brilliant....

dross

**** yeah i'm gonnna like thtd, but before i heard backwater, and i had heard II and III, i just thought golden lies was curt being ultra contemporary and assholerock, i didn't know about the progression

RE*AC*TOR

Obtained Meat Puppets II - excellent excellent album. I had only previously ever listened to Meat Puppets I, which is an acquired taste.

JC 2K3

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

Obtained Meat Puppets II - excellent excellent album. I had only previously ever listened to Meat Puppets I, which is an acquired taste.

Yeah Meat Puppets 1 was a thrash punk album, whereas from MP2 onwards they did their own thing, Derrick Bostrom said it best:

You can only go so far with making every song sound exactly the same! It's just an old punk idiom which we grew out of. We were all into punk but we weren't really punks... We all knew how to play music before punk. We weren't like people that picked up guitars because they wanted to be punks, we could already play. So we dabbled with it, thought it was pretty funny. Then we went on tour with it, ran into punk/hardcore crowds, decided we didn't like getting spit on and having **** thrown at us, because we still had long hair even though we were playing punk rock and the hardcore audience was like, "Long hair - WRONG!" [sticks thumb down] So we were like "**** that! We're going to stop playing punk rock, then."