Meat Puppets II [Remaster] by Meat Puppets (CD, Mar-1999, Rykodisc)

Description: The seminal Phoenix trio's self-titled debut is one of the greatest hard-core punk records ever made--but it pissed the punk kids off. Whether it was the Meat Puppets' long hair (in '81!) or their set-opener "The King and I" it was hard to say. Yet they were reviled. Still, they broadened their horizons, mixing up their weird full-on frantic hardcore style with some Tex-Mex, some bluegrass, and a little desert sun. The result? The cultural icon Meat Puppets II, a landmark album that resonates with the acid trails and heat-driven madness of southwest America. (As a whole generation of musicians, from Dinosaur Jr.'s J. Mascis to Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and downwards, can attest.) Curt Kirkwood's dislocated guitar style veers between hillbilly, heavy metal, psychedelic, and the Oak Ridge Boys. His brother's bass sound is endearingly fallible. A wonderful, eccentric record (with seven bonus tracks!). --Everett True Includes the ultra-rare "Teenager(s)", released originally on limited-edition flexi-disk, and six previously unavailable tracks, as well as the band's promotional video for "New Gods". Also, an essay by Michael Azzerad and recording notes by Derrick Bostrom."Meat Puppets II" was a 180-degree departure from its predecessor, confusing old fans and creating new ones. Kurt Loder gave it a four-star review in Rolling Stone,calling it "one of the funniest and most enjoyable albums of 1984", while a bewildered Robert Hilburn proclaimed the Puppets "far more of an acquired promising though willfully unfocused rock act" in the Los Angeles Times.For this reissue, the album has been expanded to include 7 additional tracks: 1982's "Teenager(s)", originally included on a flexi-disc insert in Take It!magazine, and the rest of the songs recorded during that session. "Teenager(s)", the Meat Puppets' first major break with "hardcore", starts off at a breakneck intro reminiscent of the band's first EP, then segues into a long spacey jam featuring one of Curt's best solos to date. The rest of the session offers runthroughs of songs that appeared on "Meat Puppets II"("Lost", "New Gods", "Aurora Borealis"), and some that make their belated debut.As an added bonus, the albums in this series include an "Enhanced CD" partition for play on home computers. "Meat Puppets II"offers the band's first-ever promotional video, made for "New Gods" by Michael Gross and Tony Allard of the Modnar Group. Not actually featuring any footage of the band, the video offers instead a high-speed tour of the pyramids in Mexico.

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