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3:12am Plateau by Meat Puppets
#KJAC #TheColoradoSound #MeatPuppets

5:31pm Backwater by Meat Puppets
#KJAC #TheColoradoSound #MeatPuppets

10:50am Up on the Sun by Meat Puppets from Up on the Sun
#KJAC #TheColoradoSound #MeatPuppets

An image of the cover of the album 'Up on the Sun' by Meat Puppets

3:08pm Lost by Meat Puppets from Meat Puppets II
#KJAC #TheColoradoSound #MeatPuppets

An image of the cover of the album 'Meat Puppets II' by Meat Puppets

Meat Puppets - Mirage - 1987
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#MeatPuppets #Mirage

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Meat Puppets - Too High to Die

I think I fell off the Meat Puppets train too early at the time (namely, after the shambolic 1st album): too much other music around to bother.

Clearly a mistake, since II was actually great. And this, probably their best... certainly wouldn't have expected, after the first, that they'd go *here*.

These days, bored hardcore bands go emo and then shoegaze. Then...alt-psych-country!

#nowplaying #vinyl #MeatPuppets #AltIndie #AltPop #AltCountry #psychedelic

Meat Puppets - Too High to Die LP cover.

A band member in what looks like Dorothy's dress, face blasted out with overexposure, save for mouth and chin.

Scrawled over it - artist and title.

The black LP plays on a vintage, restored Bang & Olufsen Beogram 4000 linear-tracking turntable to the right.

Yet again listening to one of the greatest albums ever recorded to get my morning going

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ntY1sjMMLYEj2KFPN8gtLHfpH_vCUxGEs&si=gffaE4hE30itP0vP

#MeatPuppets #90s #90sMusic #PsychRock #AltCountry

The pink and white cover of the Meat Puppets masterpiece Too High to Die from 1994

Not the first time or the last that I bought an album on the strength of a single song, but one of the ones I've least regretted because every single track has that certain je ne sais quoi.

Here's the single in question: "Backwater" by the Meat Puppets, off Too High to Die.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MjpHdg2CCk

#ThrowbackThursday #MeatPuppets

MEAT PUPPETS
Too High To Die
2025 U.S. reissue

Oh man. This had been on my want list for a very long time, and I finally got one.

One of my most listened to albums in high school; a great one start to finish.

My HS band even had a few attempts at “Backwater”, to no avail. We could never quite get it. Stupid teenagers. 😂

A lot of these 90s records are getting reassessed; due to a lot of them pushing 30+ years old, and this reissue was looooong overdue.
Sounds pretty damn good too!

#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #alternative #1990s #90smusic #90s #meatpuppets #toohightodie

Huge thanks to whoever gave me this link to when Curt and Cris from the Meat Puppets played acoustic songs on Tempe, Arizona radio station KUKQ in 1990 (so young - only a band for about 10 years at this point, but still, preparing to play with Peter Murphy).

https://youtu.be/9w4-UCIF1aU

They do a few songs with a mini interview - the first song is an instrumental version of a song they'd later record with lyrics, 'That's How It Goes' that Curt had JUST written, it didn't even have a title at that point- and he plays it on a 12 string he wasn't even familiar with. Just fuckin awesome. Then they do 'Plateau', 'One of These Days', 'If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time' (the interview) and 'Candy Hearts', a George Jones cover. And the host Jonathan mentions a Smithereens CD at the end! Epic.

#MeatPuppets #90s #90sMusic #PsychRock #GeorgeJones #Arizona #Tempe #radio #TempeArizona #AZ

Sitting on the floor too long to put together this record shelf is what made my sciatica flare up and threw out my back for over a week, but as you can see, the results are worth it. 😂

#vinyl #records #MeatPuppets @brian @HailsandAles @bendaubney @hl

A photo of my new record shelf and turntable with Meat Puppets record Too High to Die on the turntable, and various knicknacks below, Britney, Taylor, etc

Today I was listening to "Out My Way" by Meat Puppets (1986)
#music #listening #MeatPuppets

Album cover art for "Out My Way" by Meat Puppets

“We Don’t Exist” by Meat Puppets (1994)

https://youtu.be/FH7ZUL5Czxg?si

Reminder to self. Patience is a virtue and (almost) everything gets a repress eventually.

Made my Friday to receive this fantastic album, its first release on vinyl since 1994.

This was nearly daily listening for me then.

The riffs. Those Kirkwood harmonies. Curt’s solos.

Man, this takes me back. Memories. Dusty feelings I’d forgotten. I swear, music is a Time Machine. 🎵 ❤️

#NowPlaying #Vinyl #MeatPuppets

Album cover for Too High To Die by Meat Puppets, featuring a blurry, color-stained photo of a man wearing a dress, from torso up, but his face is obscured.

Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets (Remastered & Expanded) - 1982
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#MeatPuppets #MeatPuppetsremasteredExpanded

CD inserts ftw. I already have an old copy of this, of course, since it's my favorite album, but I found this MINTY CD copy of Too High to Die at thrift the other day, and as a rule, I had to grab it.

#MeatPuppets #90s #90sRock #90sAlbums #90sRecords #TooHighToDie #1990s #90sMusic #PhysicalMedia

A CD copy of Meat Puppets' 1994 LP Too High to Die with its case open so you can see the green monster art on the CD itself, and the booklet is showing its interior with lyrics, art and photos of the band.

This week's #ThursdayFiveList is #MusicOfTheMountains, and two each of Zep and Puppets just happened. That's how it goes sometimes.

Led Zeppelin - Misty Mountain Hop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6M3YQ_EF2E

Meat Puppets - Love Mountain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3DfFrRghJQ

Hannah Cohen - Earthstar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwbu8QCXcc

Led Zeppelin - The Ocean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqAmnEKlIZw

Meat Puppets - Comin' Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFF8X8KfCjU

#LedZeppelin #MeatPuppets #HannahCohen #PsychRock #psych #folk #FolkRock #ClassicRock

Meat Puppets - Huevos (Remastered & Expanded) - 1987
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#MeatPuppets #HuevosremasteredExpanded

#ThursdayFiveList this week is #SupportYourLocals, as in, local artists. There are SO MANY amazing Arizona artists, how do I pick just five?!? Tough to narrow this down (runners up were Jimmy Eat World and RiTchie)

Meat Puppets - Violet Eyes (best opener to anything ever)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MunJTk6fqxQ

Gorgeous Jefe - Like That
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6ca66eWOcs

Misanthropic - Spectral Dominion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmZMClUrVBk

Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkPWOL5L0zA

Splash Fuego/2girls1valley - Nina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ctfDNj_ifo

#Arizona #AZ #psych #rap #PsychRock #hiphop #Phoenix #Tempe #PhoenixArizona #TempeArizona #MeatPuppets #GorgeousJefe #GinBlossoms #SplashFuego

This week's #ThursdayFiveList is #MoonMusic. I got some for that.

The Lillingtons - I Saw the Apeman (On the Moon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BovrCTxbqZ4

Meat Puppets - Another Moon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4OuiZCROkA

Mudhoney - Shoot the Moon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne6kQ13VhAc

Type O Negative - Wolf Moon (including Zooanthropic Paranoia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e1gkynGXXM

Nick Drake - Pink Moon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXnfhnCoOyo

#punk #PunkRock #folk #AltCountry #MeatPuppets #Mudhoney #TypeONegative #NickDrake #fuzz

Desert sounds: Meat Puppets II/Up On the Sun

My latest Substack instalment includes a snippet about Meat Puppets, a three-piece cowpunk band that emerged (or so it seemed) fully formed from the Arizona desert haze in the early 1980s. I first heard of the band when Kurt Cobain got founding members (and brothers) Curt and Kris Kirkwood up on stage during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged performance to play three songs off Meat Puppets' second—and probably best—album, 1984’s Meat Puppets II. I spent the next 15 years studiously […]

https://daveydreamnation.com/non-fiction/reviews/desert-sounds-meat-puppets-ii-up-on-the-sun/

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