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Meat Puppets II Studio album by Meat Puppets Released 1984 Recorded April - May, 1983 Genre Alternative rock, cowpunk Length 29:57 (original)
48:01 (reissue)Label SST Records Meat Puppets chronology Meat Puppets
(1982)Meat Puppets II
(1983)Up on the Sun
(1985)Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic [1]
Robert Christgau (A-)[2] Magnet (Favorable)[3] NME (8/10)[4] Rolling Stone [5]
Spin (Favorable)[6] Meat Puppets II is the second album by the Tempe, Arizona band the Meat Puppets, released in 1984. It is a departure from their self-titled debut album, which consisted largely of noisy hardcore with unintelligible vocals. It covers many genres from country-style rock ("Magic Toy Missing", "Climbing", Lost") to slow acoustic songs ("Plateau", "Oh Me") to psychedelic guitar effects ("Aurora Borealis") to hard rock ("Lake of Fire").
On the back of the original vinyl, the cover art is credited to Curt Kirkwood and Neal Holliday.
Rykodisc reissued the album in 1999 with extra tracks and b-sides, including a cover of the Rolling Stones' Aftermath-era track "What To Do."
The Meat Puppets' SST labelmates The Minutemen covered "Lost" on the EP Tour-Spiel and their last studio album, 3-Way Tie (For Last). Three of the album's songs were covered by Nirvana (as the Kirkwood brothers joined them onstage) during their "Unplugged" show for MTV ("Plateau", "Oh, Me", and "Lake of Fire").
The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die and was also listed on Pitchfork Media's "Best Albums of the 1980's".[7] The final track "The Whistling Song" was taken as the title of Stephen Beachy's first novel. Curt Kirkwood created the cover art for the novel.
The album was performed live in its entirety at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Monticello, New York as part of the ATP Don't Look Back season, and again in December at a performance in London.
Contents
Track listing
All songs written by Curt Kirkwood, unless otherwise noted.
- "Split Myself in Two" – 2:22
- "Magic Toy Missing" – 1:20
- "Lost" – 3:24
- "Plateau" – 2:22
- "Aurora Borealis" – 2:44
- "We're Here" – 2:40
- "Climbing" – 2:41
- "New Gods" – 2:09
- "Oh, Me" – 2:59
- "Lake of Fire" – 1:54
- "I'm a Mindless Idiot" – 2:26
- "The Whistling Song" – 2:56
1999 CD bonus tracks
- "Teenager(s)" (Meat Puppets) - 3:36
- "I'm Not Here" - 1:55
- "New Gods" (Demo Version) - 2:13
- "Lost" (Demo Version) - 3:03
- "What to Do" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards) - 2:35
- "100% of Nothing" - 1:50
- "Aurora Borealis" (Demo Version) - 2:28
Personnel
- Curt Kirkwood - guitar, vocals
- Cris Kirkwood - bass, vocals
- Derrick Bostrom - drums
References
Cris Kirkwood · Curt Kirkwood · Shandon Sahm
Derrick Bostrom · Andrew Duplantis · Kyle Ellison · Ted MarcusStudio albums Meat Puppets · Meat Puppets II · Up on the Sun · Mirage · Huevos · Monsters · Forbidden Places · Too High to Die · No Joke! · Golden Lies · Rise to Your Knees · Sewn Together · LollipopSingles "Swimming Ground" · "I Am a Machine" · "I Can't Be Counted On" · "Sam" · "Whirlpool" · "Backwater" · "We Don’t Exist" · "Tender Cuts" · "Meat Puppets Promo" · "Roof with a Hole" · "Lake of Fire" · "Scum" · "Taste of the Sun" · "Armed and Stupid"EPs Other albums Related articles Categories:- Meat Puppets albums
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- SST Records albums
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