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  Meat Puppets - Biography - AOL Music
Unlike the Kirkwoods' earlier bands, the Meat Puppets were directly inspired by punk rock; they were so committed to keeping the music punk that they refused to rehearse.
The Meat Puppets didn't develop their own distinctive voice until their second album, Meat Puppets II, which was released in 1984.
Golden Lies, the Meat Puppets' first new album in five years, was released in the fall of 2000.
music.aol.com /artist/meat-puppets/4883/biography   (1151 words)

  
 The Austin Chronicle: Music: Meat Puppets Reissues
Whereas Meat Puppets had been punk to the core, only the core of Meat Puppets II could be considered punk; this was tumbling tumbleweed music, a shambling, twangin' 'n' bangin' utterly disarming dose of Southwestern roots rock that twinkled with lysergic glee.
In contrast to the first album, for which Bostrom had written the majority of the lyrics, Meat Puppets II was notable in the outing of Curt Kirkwood as the group's principal songwriter, a supremely talented guitarist who is credited with all the music and lyrics on the second album.
The fact that we had recorded Meat Puppets II and were unable to mix it until months later, which was very frustrating to us, and not something we were happy about at all, meant that when we went to record Up on the Sun, we were finished with it.
www.austinchronicle.com /issues/vol18/issue32/music.meatpuppets.html   (4194 words)

  
 Meat Puppets
For the uninitiated, the Meat Puppets are a power trio from the Arizona desert who grew out of the early 80s punk scene and managed to survive the subsequent decade of bad music surrounding them to come out strong in the Grunge revolution.
Meat Puppets home page maintained by Derrick Bostrom is a must.
An early incarnation of the meat puppets, this record establishes their hardcore and "punk-country" roots.
www.warr.org /puppets.html   (1525 words)

  
 TrouserPress.com :: Meat Puppets
The Puppets' first album (a full-length disc that spins at 45 rpm) similarly mixes intriguing instrumental experimentation and a bit of restrained country into sloppy blurs of noisy punk.
Meat Puppets II marked the first of many shifts — into radical country-punk.
Their eccentricities notwithstanding, the Meat Puppets were arguably the most major-label-ready act on the SST roster when they signed to the London label.
www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=meat_puppets   (1183 words)

  
 Meat Puppets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
One of the more notable groups on the roster of SST Records (who released most of their albums), the Meat Puppets could be broadly classified as punk rock, but like most of their SST peers, the Meat Puppets established their own unique style, blending punk with country and psychedelic rock, and featuring Curt's warbling vocals.
The Meat Puppets' burgeoning musicality led to more intricate and melodic efforts on 1985's Up on the Sun, which was a cohesive collage of songs that further demonstrated their abilities to capture a sound that had all of the wonder of the desert.
The band's sound and vision became closely aligned with the legacy of The Byrds; some of the group's fans accused the Meat Puppets of becoming dangerously hippy-sounding (this appreciation of "hippy" music was hardly a sudden development: Curt's guitar solos were, from the beginning of his career, often reminsicent of Jerry Garcia).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Meat_Puppets   (1384 words)

  
 The History Of: Meat Puppets | Guitar Columns @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
Their next effort, 1983's "Meat Puppets II", has gone down in rock history as a classic album due to its revolutionary fusing of mellow country, folk and psychedelia with the edge of hardcore thrash.
During these years the Meat Puppets also cemented their reputation as a great live act, and although occasionally criticised for never being able to recreate the "magic" of their albums, they won people over by their solid yet outlandish performances.
It was clear that if the Meat Puppets wanted to continue making music, as well as making a living out of doing it, they would have to make a stab at joining the "major league" too.
www.ultimate-guitar.com /columns/the_history_of/the_history_of_meat_puppets.html   (2230 words)

  
 Meat Puppets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Meat Puppets, released the following year on the influential hardcore label SST Records, offered a mix of thrash punk with hints of country, captured to perfection on the alternative cowboy classic, "Tumbling Tumbleweeds".
Their affection for roots music was fully realized on Meat Puppets II, a captivating set marked by dramatic shifts in mood and Curt Kirkwood's uncertain, but expressive, vocals.
Surprisingly the Meat Puppets then disbanded, re-forming in 1991, buoyed by continued interest in their work and a contract with London Records.
musicstore.mymmode.com /artist.do?artistID=6863   (449 words)

  
 Meat Puppets: Golden Lies: Pitchfork Record Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In fact, it's questionable whether the words "Meat Puppets" should even appear on this album's artwork, since the artist behind it is the only remaining member of the band's original lineup, guitarist Curt Kirkwood.
On early Meat Puppets records, he alternated between an unsteady croon and a throaty mumble.
Curt Kirkwood and the Meat Puppets have built a long career out of both disappointing and surprising, and have still managed to turn out a fair share of enduring works.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/19805/Meat_Puppets_Golden_Lies   (977 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Meat Puppets II: Music: Meat Puppets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Like Neil Young (a strong influence), the Meat Puppets were blessed with a totally natural sense of strangeness that allowed them to be both ofthe earth and beyond it simultaneously.
Although i'd say this should be your first Meat Puppet album, i would'nt say it is their best work (a close 2nd to 'Up On The Sun', which is, in it's own way, the ultimate 'chill' album).
The meat puppets were a greatly undervalued band off the 80's and this cd shows off some of their best work.
www.amazon.co.uk /Meat-Puppets-II/dp/B00000I9KU   (1086 words)

  
 POPsmear 20.0 | Chris Kirkwood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Yet as the lens of retrospection contracts, their band, the Meat Puppets, is viewed as one of the most influential groups of the past two decades of rock music, and arguably the most.
Before the Meat Puppets toured with Stone Temple Pilots, they went on the road with chart darlings Blind Melon, whose lead singer, Shannon Hoon, died of a cocaine overdose in his tour bus the next October.
Meat Puppet." The couple became known for throwing intense, all-night parties, where Michelle would make the rounds in her lamb's wool jacket, literally pushing pills on people.
www.popsmear.com /popculture/features/20/meat.html   (5440 words)

  
 Meat Puppets: Monsters ---Ink Blot Magazine
The Meat Puppets were one of the most eccentric combos to participate in the SST records punk scene during the early 80s.
By the time the Meat Puppets recorded this record in the spring of 1989, they had been on the indie-rock treadmill of incessant touring and barely-compensated recording for half a decade...and they were tired.
Because it preserves the Meat Puppets' desert-refracted sense of hemp- addled wonder, and hitches said vision to a handful of indelible tunes.
www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Meat_Puppets_Monsters.htm   (331 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Meat Puppets: Music: Meat Puppets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
"Meat Puppets" was released in Summer of 1982 to near unanimous praise from the rock press.
As far as I understand, the Meat Puppets never considered themselves a punk band, but just kind of let themselves be carried along, no pretense otherwise, but no real intention, by whatever they felt inside, whatever they liked and whatever resonated with them that was around them.
Thus the Meat Puppets could be these insane monsters on this first ep and lp (and bonus early recordings) and then easily move on to being 'stoner country' (or something) and kind of funky, finger picking and dreamy, and 'college rock' (or something), and whatever else later in their 'career'.
www.amazon.com /Meat-Puppets/dp/B00000I5EJ   (1556 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Meat Puppets II: Music: Meat Puppets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Whether it was the Meat Puppets' long hair (in '81!) or their set-opener "The King and I" it was hard to say.
The hardcore punkers must have regarded the Meat Puppets as if they were aliens, back in 1984 for playing this weird blend of punk, country, and bluegrass.
And if their first Meat Puppets still has the rash and hardcore garage feeling (i like it but it's true, the singing is terrible, drunk-drugged for sure), in this second Meat Puppets, the words now are intelligible and intelligent, by the way.
www.amazon.com /Meat-Puppets-II/dp/B00000I9KU   (1475 words)

  
 The Meat Puppets spin article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
he Meat Puppets have improbably turned out to be the most enduring band to emerge from the stellar class of '84.
As a result, the Meat Puppets' records have held up as magnificently as Curt's cheekbones, which is to say, like a wonder of nature.
The Meat Puppets might be genetically incapable of sucking, but a more likely explanation for their staying power is that they've got a groove.
www.angelfire.com /rock/mp/spin.html   (596 words)

  
 Meat Puppets
My old group, the Meat Puppets, started out on a shoestring, and clocked an awful lot of miles before a brief run at the top of the heap.
Unfortunately, there were those who viewed our efforts as a betrayal of “the form.” Coincidentally or not, “Meat Puppets II” languished unfinished for six months.
“Meat Puppets II” wasn’t released until the spring of 1984.
www.meatpuppets.com /puppets   (2006 words)

  
 Meat Puppets (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Meat Puppets is the first LP by the Meat Puppets.
The album is unlike any of their later, and more well-known, releases due to its hardcore punk sound.
It is often overshadowed by the their classic second album, Meat Puppets II, but many argue that this album is unique in its own right.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Meat_Puppets_(album)   (317 words)

  
 Meat Puppets II - Meat Puppets - Song Listings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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...
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 the sparkling sounds of country.
www.mp3.com /albums/646161/summary.html   (435 words)

  
 Meat Puppets - This Might Be A Wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Meat Puppets are a cow punk band which formed during the mid 80's.
They Might Be Giants sang back up vocals on the song White Sport Coat, which appeared on the 10" single Raw Meat and the cd single Backwater.
They Might Be Giants recorded a horn-filled version of the Meat Puppets song, Whirlpool, for the Why Does the Sun Shine EP.
www.tmbw.net /wiki/index.php/Meat_Puppets   (104 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Too High To Die by Meat Puppets at Epinions.com
The Meat Puppets consist of a trio of gents from Arizona.
This is one of the strongest tracks on the album and it also exemplifies the fact that the Meat Puppets have a very diverse sound.
The Meat Puppets music is hard, fast and rockin' yet includes elements of classic rock and for that matter blues.
www.epinions.com /content_37305880196   (1201 words)

  
 Meat Puppets Discography at CD Universe
Spin (4/99, p.165) - "...the Meat Puppets conjured a distinct, hybrid style- dubbed country punk - and througout the 80's made some of the decade's most free-thinking, vital music....on MEAT PUPPETS...
Formed in Arizona by brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood and their friend Derrick Bostrom, the Meat Puppets combined punk, blues, folk, and country music to bizarre yet entertaining effect.
Shortly before this breakthrough, Puppets fan Kurt Cobain invited the Kirkwoods to play three of their songs (from MEAT PUPPETS II) with Nirvana on the renowned UNPLUGGED session.
cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/artist/Meat+Puppets/a/Meat+Puppets.htm   (257 words)

  
 Meat Puppets: Album Reviews, Biography - MOG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Meat Puppets 2 is absent of the rabid, feral punk they played before.
No one knew about the meat Puppets before Nirvana, but if not for the Meat Puppets, maybe none of us would have ever met Kurt Cobain, maybe none of us would have never been pushed down the path we find ourselves on now.
meat puppets ii (which features the songs that nirvana covered: ‘plateau’ and ‘lake of fire’) and up on the sun are fantastic, legendary records.
mog.com /music/Meat+Puppets   (2515 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/curtkirkwood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Meat Puppets may very well be the "best-known underground band" of all time which, of course, is a complete contradiction in terms.
In 1993, the Meat Puppets were introduced to a much larger audience as featured performers on Nirvanas sold-out In Utero tour.
After nearly 20 years of constant touring and a dozen albums, the Meat Puppets decided to take, as Kirkwood describes it, a "sabbatical." As the frontman and main songwriter for the band, Kirkwood found that he couldnt sit still for long, craving an artistic outlet.
profile.myspace.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=7730952   (1730 words)

  
 Wohlers.org - Meat Puppets Live Repository   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Meat Puppets - 688 Club, Atlanta, GA 14 May, 1985
Meat Puppets - The Fillmore, San Francisco - October 29, 1994
Meat Puppets - The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA - 5 May, 1995
www.wohlers.org /puppets   (454 words)

  
 Irradiation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Clinton endorsed irradiation, and the FDA responded in December by approving the process for red meat.
The real problem, as Jacobson sees it, is that irradiation is being viewed by the meat industry as a quick and easy fix for long-term, systemic problems.
In a very real sense, for instance, irradiated meat is the apotheosis of the "industrialized food" addiction he rails against.
www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/features/98/02/12/IRRADIATION.html   (3557 words)

  
 Meat Puppets » Blog Archive » Assorted Color Photos
There’s too much about that I could say about the importance of Meat Puppets in my life… Living now in a big city, full of trash and loneliness, these great songs are so good, songs of hope when the things are going bad… Meat Puppets wil be in my heart forever.
The Meat Puppets and Nirvana before they hit the big time were the only bands i knew.
Well, seeing as how this seems to be the hotspot for the younger generations to express their love for the Meat Puppets, I thought that I’d might as well do the same.
meatpuppets.com /puppets/?p=31   (1559 words)

  
 Meat Puppets
At this point in their career, the band was at its noisiest, playing furious hardcore with avant-garde leanings.
This shift toward conventional hard rock continued throughout the late '80s, as the band gradually sanded away their rougher, punk edges.
The Meat Puppets released No Joke!, their follow-up to Too High to Die, in the fall of 1995.
www.findthefun.com /bands/lists/..\b01\b0018357.htm   (1094 words)

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