Up on the Sun

Infobox Album | Name = Up on the Sun
Type = Album
Artist = Meat Puppets


Released = March 1985
Recorded = January 26 - 28 1985
Genre = AlternativeCollege rockIndie
Length = 33:30 (original) 57:02 (reissue)
Label = SST Records
Producer = SPOT
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:2srz28vq05ja~T1 link]
*"Rolling Stone" (NR) [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album?id=322862 link]
Last album = "Meat Puppets II" (1983)
This album = "Up on the Sun" (1985)
Next album = "Out My Way" (EP) (1986)

"Up on the Sun" is the third album by the Meat Puppets, released in 1985 by SST Records. In 1999 the album was reissued on Rykodisc with bonus tracks and recording notes.

Whereas their first album was an unrehearsed punk/thrash assault, and their second was a somewhat ragged but splendid country-punk milestone, Up on the Sun sees the band relaxing a little, and even though it maintains quite a raw feel, there are passages of rather startling musicianship (even if the Kirkwoods hadn't gotten around to singing completely in tune yet), and the record is certainly no less surreal than its predecessors. It is sometimes compared with the Grateful Dead, though The Dead were probably never as tongue-in-cheek or strange as this. Fact|date=July 2008

Track listing

All songs written by Curt Kirkwood, unless otherwise noted.

Original album

# "Up on the Sun" - 3:58
# "Maiden’s Milk" (Curt Kirkwood/Cris Kirkwood) - 3:17
# "Away" - 3:30
# "Animal Kingdom" (Curt Kirkwood/Cris Kirkwood) - 1:23
# "Hot Pink" - 3:22
# "Swimming Ground" - 3:05
# "Buckethead" - 2:19
# "Too Real" - 2:08
# "Enchanted Porkfist" - 2:48
# "Seal Whales" - 2:16
# "Two Rivers" - 3:15
# "Creator" - 2:09

CD Reissue

# "Up on the Sun" – 4:04
# "Maiden's Milk" (Curt Kirkwood/Cris Kirkwood) – 3:20
# "Away" – 3:27
# "Animal Kingdom" (Curt Kirkwood/Cris Kirkwood) – 1:24
# "Hot Pink" – 3:27
# "Swimming Ground" – 3:06
# "Buckethead" – 2:22
# "Too Real" – 2:13
# "Enchanted Pork Fist" – 2:29
# "Seal Whales" – 2:19
# "Two Rivers" – 3:21
# "Creator" – 2:09
# "Hot Pink (Demo Version 1)" - 3:56
# "Up on the Sun (Demo Version)" - 4:29
# "Mother American Marshmellow" (Curt Kirkwood/Cris Kirkwood) - 4:28
# "Embodiment of Evil" - 1:53
# "Hot Pink (Demo Version 2)" - 8:35

*Tracks 13-17 are bonus tracks on the Rykodisc reissue.

Recording

Tracks 13-16 engineered by Darrell de Marco, November 1984 – January 1985.

Track 17 recorded by Cris and Curt Kirkwood, Mary 1983.

Tracks 13-17 remixed by Derrick Bostrom, David Nicolas and Mike Hissong at Living Head Studio, August 1998.

Personnel

* Curt Kirkwood - Guitar, Vocals
* Cris Kirkwood - Bass, Vocals
* Derrick Bostrom - Drums