Huevos (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Huevos
Type = Album
Artist = Meat Puppets


Released = 1987
Recorded = August 1987
Genre = Alternative
Length = 36:25 (original)
58:05 (reissue)
Label = SST Records
Producer = Steven Escallier, Meat Puppets
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:09fpxqq5ldfe~T1 link]
Last album = "Mirage"
(1987)
This album = "Huevos"
(1987)
Next album = "Monsters"
(1989)

Huevos is an album by the Arizona alternative rock band the Meat Puppets. It is said to have a strong ZZ Top influence in terms of style (ZZ Top also have titled some of their albums in Spanish, "Tres Hombres", "Tejas", "Degüello" and "El Loco" for instance); in a "Musician" magazine interview Curt Kirkwood claimed that a fan letter he had received from ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons inspired a songwriting spree that resulted in many of "Huevos"' tracks. The album is named not only after the Spanish word for eggs, but is also a reference to the Southwestern expression "Huevos", meaning to deliver with chutzpah. Most of the songs were recorded in one take. The cover art is done by guitarist/vocalist Curt Kirkwood.

The 1999 Rykodisc re-release features 5 unreleased bonus tracks (early demos of "Sexy Music", "Paradise", "Fruit", and "Automatic Mojo" and a cover of Jimmy Reed's "Baby What Do You Want Me to Do") as well as live footage from a January 1988 concert at the Variety Arts Center in Los Angeles of "Automatic Mojo".

Track listing

All songs written by Curt Kirkwood, unless otherwise noted.

Original album

# "Paradise" - 5:00
# "Look at the Rain" - 4:20
# "Bad Love" - 3:10
# "Sexy Music" - 5:28
# "Crazy" - 4:45
# "Fruit" - 3:30
# "Automatic Mojo" - 3:19
# "Dry Rain" - 2:55
# "I Can't Be Counted On" - 3:58

CD Reissue

# "Paradise" - 4:56
# "Look at the Rain" - 4:22
# "Bad Love" - 3:13
# "Sexy Music" - 5:28
# "Crazy" - 4:44
# "Fruit" - 3:31
# "Automatic Mojo" - 3:23
# "Dry Rain" - 2:55
# "I Can’t Be Counted On" - 4:01
# "Baby What You Want Me to Be" (Jimmy Reed) - 1:29
# "Sexy Music (Demo Version)" - 6:40
# "Automatic Mojo (Demo Version)" - 3:56
# "Paradise (Demo Version)" - 4:06
# "Fruit (Demo Version)" - 5:20

*Tracks 10-14 are bonus tracks on the Rykodisc reissue.