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Meat Puppets II [Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered]

Meat PuppetsAudio CD
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  • Audio CD (March 16, 1999)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
  • Label: Rykodisc
  • ASIN: B00000I9KU
  • Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (66 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #116,698 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

1. Split Myself In Two
2. Magic Toy Missing
3. Lost
4. Plateau
5. Aurora Borealis
6. We're Here
7. Climbing
8. New Gods
9. Oh, Me
10. Lake Of Fire
11. I'm A Mindless Idiot
12. The Whistling Song
13. Teenager(s)
14. I'm Not Here
15. New Gods
16. Lost
17. What To Do
18. 100% Of Nothing
19. Aurora Borealis

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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

Product Description

The enhanced portion contains a video for \New gods" produced in 1984.
Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
Rating:
Release Date: 16-MAR-1999"""

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The official soundtrack of the American Southwest. November 3, 2003
Format:Audio CD
[My 100th review. Yay!]

The hardcore punkers must have regarded the Meat Puppets as if they were aliens, back in 1984 for playing this weird blend of punk, country, and bluegrass. It's an acquired taste--untrained vocals, quirky lyrics, sloppy playing, and an overall rustic feel. The band's trademark sound later became more polished on gems like Up On The Sun, but II is the source. This music was very different from the SST-label punk released back then, and definitely not to everyone's liking.

And yet, despite its rough and unpolished feel, this record is compulsively listenable and enjoyable in its dry, acid-drenched Mojave atmosphere. Curt Kirkwood's off-key vocals grate at first but quickly grow on the listener, while his guitar solos attain moments of magic that 90% of polished professional musicians would struggle to reach. Yep, guitar solos, in a "punk" band. Imagine that. Curt's brother Kris (bass) and drummer Derrick Bostrum make up a loose, easygoing backing.

From top to bottom, there are no weak tracks, and most of them are stellar. Famously, Plateau, Oh Me and Lake Of Fire were all covered by Nirvana on their '93 MTV Unplugged concert. I used to think Cobain's reworkings were superior, but now I'm not so sure. I love the shimmering electric outro found on this version of Plateau, Curt's plaintive voice on Oh Me, and the epic feel of Lake Of Fire. Other highlights included here are the frantic Split Myself In Two, the disillusioned Lost, the great instrumental Aurora Borealis, and the fine closer The Whistling Song. The bonus tracks don't really add much, nor do they take anything away from this classic album. You can hear the influence of this album all throughout the Seattle alternative and indie genres....

Overall, if I was headed on a road trip to the deserts of New Mexico, this would be the first album in the CD changer. Essential to anyone with a taste in indie or alternative. Read more ›

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars New Fan of Meat Puppets December 15, 2000
By Bruce
Format:Audio CD
First encounter with Meat Puppets was when I heard "Backwater" on the radio several years ago and decided to buy the album but never got around to it. Heard "Plateau" on Nirvana MTV unplugged and didn't think much of it the first time I heard it. Then after listening to the song several times I began to love the guitar outro. I was looking for a change from REM and Nirvana. Nirvana seems to have been influenced by the Meat Puppets. REM sounds a lot different.

I bought my first Meat Puppets album "Up On the Sun" and loved it, especially Hot Pink and Maiden's Milk. Decided to buy two more albums "Huevos" and "Too High To Die". "Backwater" is on Too High To Die" but I liked "Huevos" better. In fact I liked it so much, I bought all of the rest of the Meat Puppets CDs including the live one "Live in Montana". "Meat Puppets II" is excellent, especially the songs "Plateau", "Aurora Borealis", and "Lake of Fire". Their first album "Meat Puppets" is punk rock and too hard for me to digest (especially with the kids in the car) and "Monster" is pretty good. I am looking forward to breaking the seal on the other albums (12 CD's total).

To summarize the Meat Puppets: weird, amazing guitar playing, great songwriting, good lyrics, good (sometimes great) singing.

Thank god for the Meat Puppets.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Good gravy, this is a good record. January 12, 2000
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
Oh, I wonder-wonder hoom-a-doo-doo-who? Who has bought this album and owes it soley to the fact that Kurt Kobain and company played not 1..not 2...but THREE songs with Kris and Kurt Curkwood on MTV's Unplugged and muttered "All these songs are from their second album." ?

Cuz that's what I did. Don't expect anything like their (1994?) top-40 hit Backwater; that song's as different from the material on II as their full-length debut--an odd synthesis of slop-hardcowpunk songs that I would NOT recommend to just anyone--is. Kirkwood's off-key, troubled voice grows on one in an EXTREMELY appealing fashion, as the boys slap their instruments through these varied songs that lie somewhere between punk and country; folk and ballad (Listen at the very LEAST for the Neil Young-esque "The Whistling Song"). Awesome.

Warning: Takes several listens to fully appreciate, but once one is hooked, they will no doubt curse the rather short-length (under a half an hour? ) of this fine, fine rock masterpiece. The End.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Real Influential classic in the "Dificult Music" genre December 1, 2004
Format:Audio CD
I have just read a few reviewws of this cd, and I can understand that the uneasy hybrid of country, punk, hard rock, and psychedelic rock that this band constituted was definitely hard to swallow for a lot of people. You know, ______ them if they can't take a joke.

For those who weren't on the scene at the time, the 1980's and early 90's were a strange and fascinating time to be alive. The music and the arts were coming alive in a sense that they hadn't before in the United States, and the excitement was reflected in the number of new styles and trends emerging almost weekly -- artists of all sorts were springing up from the ground, creating new works and breaking rules no-one had even realized were rules.

"Alternative rock" was not the mainstream back then like it is nowdays, and few will remember now how subversive it was to even listen to something so mild as REM back then. The Meat Puppets were well in the spirit of those times, defying neat categories of style and sound. And for those who required the assistance of a Rolling Stone article to be able to appreciate a record, help was on the way, but a long way off still.

The bands that most blatantly defied all attempts at being filed into neat stereotypes in the late '80s were all heaped into a bin called "difficult music." All but forgotten now, they were often loosely associated with "punk rock," "hardcore," and the like, but if you want to be really ____ about it, you might do better to associate a few of these bands with the likes of Captain Beefheart, Julian Schnabel, and a handful of the more weird psychedelic and modern artists of the 20th C.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Album
I love this album and the bonus tracks that come with it are a treat. Even though this origianally came out in 1984, it still holds true.
Published 1 month ago by Barrett Fisher
5.0 out of 5 stars My experience with the Meat Puppets II CD
This is an excellent CD and one of the first two CD I've bought or owned by the Meat Puppets as I learned from a longtime friend who turned me on to the Meat Puppets as they're his... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Fahad F. Nabhan
5.0 out of 5 stars influential album
a great repressing of the Meat Puppets' magnum-opus. It's a 45-rpm pressing, and plays very well. I'd highly recommend it. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Marc
5.0 out of 5 stars A fantastic record
The second album by Meat Puppets is amazing on many levels. It was such a departure from the hardcore punk and fried sound of their debut. Read more
Published 20 months ago by dmcgurgan
5.0 out of 5 stars Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
Besides Television's Marquee Moon, this just might be one of the few punk albums to ever have honest-to-god musical roots in the music and guitar playing of the late great Jerry... Read more
Published on June 4, 2010 by BK
5.0 out of 5 stars all right boys, let's get way out there now
You will either find this unlistenable, or it will instantly become one of your favorite albums of all time. If the former, go listen again. one day you will get it. Read more
Published on April 26, 2010 by Charolais
5.0 out of 5 stars Meat Puppety Masterpiece
This is, in my opinion, the Meat Puppets' BEST album. Many fans will point to its successor, "Up on the Sun," as the artistic zenith of the Pups, but I feel that this is the one... Read more
Published on February 4, 2009 by Eric Thompson
4.0 out of 5 stars Sounds Weird...compared to what I expected.
Maybe my expectations were wrong. I bought this expecting the songs that are also on Nirvana Unplugged to sound like they do there. And, they don't.
Published on January 7, 2009 by R. Trump
5.0 out of 5 stars Nirvana fans can like it too
I'm one of those people who first heard Meat Puppets songs from the Nirvana covers, so I'll do this review from that angle since I'm sure there are many more people like me. Read more
Published on January 23, 2008 by An Expat
4.0 out of 5 stars Country rock at it's driest and realistic. Seriously
If there is one album that serves as the soundtrack to the deserts of Arizona, Utah, or New Mexico, Meat puppets II would be my first choice (yes, like Shotgun Method. Boohoo). Read more
Published on January 6, 2008 by Private Quentin Tarantino Fan
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