Meat Puppets Appreciation Thread

[D.o.S.]

Confession: I've never listened to minutemen or meat puppets other than what friends put on when i was drunk and had friends. Play for my ears the songs that are supposed to get me into them.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdkUWKdb1wQ[/youtube]

Play it loud enough to piss off your neighbors. On Repeat.

[Jwar]

If you've ever been a Nirvana fan, you're a Meat Puppets fan and just don't know it.

Which years do you dig Meat Puppets the most?

I always found it interesting how different let's say Meat Puppets II was versus Too High to Die. Especially since they both had Lake of Fire, but sound completely fucking different.

[maggot]

Too High To Die and Monsters have their adherents, but I'd say that mid-80s SST era is their high-point: II, Up on the Sun, Out My Way, Mirage (if you can stand the ultra-clean recording) and Huevos. If you can get used to the singing, there's not much to dislike.

[lost in music]

Mirage made me love shitty 80s chorus.

[lost in music]

This fucking song though:

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[lost in music]

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I was at this show. I had been a fan of the Meat Puppets for a couple years, ordering Up on the Sun at random from the back of the SST catalog in a quest to find more music that sounded like Black Flag lol. Hadn't been a fan of "Backwater" when it started going all over the radio though. It seemed a little tame during the huge alternative influx of crap that was bombarding the airways in those days and at that point I hadn't heard anything that they'd done since 1985. This performance changed all that for me though. So loud. So much energy. There was a large amount of weed burning in the pit.

[voerking]

As rewritable media it was pretty versatile & impressive for its time, useful for amateur recording.

i used it as a mixdown/editing medium in the latter part of the 90's, because, at the time, cd recorders were clunky & expensive, and computer recording wasn't really an option.
i still have a crapload of the old discs. i think the only player i have left is a little portable 'discman' kind of thing.

i still think they look kind of cool.

also, i just remembered: a friend of mine had a minidisc EIGHT TRACK recording console. it used odd sized discs that i'm sure would be impossible to find now. I recorded some stuff with him that i wish i could remix, but there's no way to get the info off the discs...


aaaand: UP ON THE SUN is a masterpiece.