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Meat Puppets
Up On The Sun
(SST, 1985)
Arizona desert rockers tighten up and add funk to their musical melting pot.
You can’t pigeonhole Meat Puppets’ sound because each album is a self-contained evolutionary stage. Their self-titled debut is a bunch of sloppily played hardcore with barking drunkard vocals. Follow-up Meat Puppets II is deep-fried, acid-washed honky-tonk, spawning the songs that everyone knows nearly ten years before Kurt Cobain broadcast them to the world during Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged session. After that giddy trip, Up On The Sun is their sparkling hangover in the shade. It’s much poppier for a start; Curt Kirkwood’s voice is horizontally monotone but the music retains II’s country bounce through Derrick Bostrom’s metronomic drums and the Kirkwood brothers’ frenetic guitar-bass interplay. Lyrically, it’s as warped as you’d hope, with songs about animals living in people’s heads (Animal Kingdom), making love to open windows (Creator) and a man with a bucket for a head (Buckethead). Breakneck but never slapdash, it marks the inception of a funky tightness that permeates all the band’s subsequent recordings. And yet, this was the last time they were so unabashedly weird or – dare we say? – so truly unique.
Mike Lane
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 21/05/2008
Further Listening
Meat Puppets – Meat Puppets II (SST)
Camper Van Beethoven – Telephone Free Landslide Victory (Independent Projects)
The Replacements – Let It Be (Twin/Tone)
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