Out My Way [Enhanced, Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered]

Meat Puppets | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 6, 1999)
• Original Release Date: 1986
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced, Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Label: Rykodisc
• ASIN: B00000IGSH
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #217,735 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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It was often hard to pin the Meat Puppets down: just when you thought they were hard-core thrash (1981's Meat Puppets), or an electrifying blend of desert country, hillbilly, and psychedelia (1985's seminal Up on the Sun), the Kirkwood brothers would come out with something like 1986's six-track Out My Way. Much more classic rock and country than their previous offerings, it still gave their fans a typically warped perspective--particularly on the sing-along title track and a completely maniacal version of Little Richard's "Good Golly Miss Molly." If guitarist Curt was by now wanting to move a little more towards accessibility, it sure didn't show. The seven bonus tracks here (recorded around the same time) include the self-descriptive Orb-like "Backwards Drums" and a Mekons-esque rambling version of George Jones's "Burn the Honky Tonky Down." By this point, the Phoenix trio were cruising on easy. --Everett True

Product Description

The Meat Puppets stretch their legs on 1986's "Out My Way," jamming their way through 6 tunes, including the title track, "She's Hot," and "Good Golly Miss Molly." Rolling Stone's David Fricke called it "a decisive step in the Meat Puppets' march away from one-dimensional punk to hearty, heartfelt pan-American rock and roll." Originally released as an EP running at approximately 25 minutes, "Out My Way" has been expanded to nearly an hour by the inclusion of 7 bonus tracks: their classic version of "I Just Want to Make Love to You" as well as 6 previously unreleased recordings. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the Great Underrated Meat Puppets Album, December 8, 1999

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This review is from: Out My Way (Audio CD)

"Out My Way" was already pretty good; unfortunately it ended abruptly after six songs, leaving this listener with some blank cassette time to fill. Now, the band has stretched a good EP into one of The Great Rock Efforts. Yeah, it's polished, but it's also utterly psychedelic without a single wasted note. I love jamming, but they don't even need to jam to astrally transport you, here. On "Other Kinds of Love" the band sounds as though they require Eastern melodies simply to accomodate their expanded definition of love. "Not Swimming Ground" and "Mountain Line" are perfect hybrids of bluegrass and rock; at the end of the former, one can faintly make out the guitarist muttering, "I played my head on that one," meaning it. One wonders how they left "On the Move" off the original album, since it is so catchy you'll swear you must have already purchased a product that it was advertising. On "Everything is Green," the band does stretch it out at long last, and it might make you wonder why the Grateful Dead needed so many members. "Out My Way" simply takes rock to another level and, shrugging, drops it there, announcing, "This is what the music can be; now what do we do, next?" OK?

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Some of the Pups' best stuff, or anyone's, for that matter, October 11, 2000

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acujimmy (Eastern USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Out My Way (Audio CD)

The stuff added onto the reissue is very cool -- makes you want to fire up your own jam session -- but the original six tracks still constitute a terrific EP in their own right. Basically, this EP bridges the subtlety of "Up On The Sun" and the punch of "Huevos" (overlooking "Mirage", where despite some fine tracks the muse felt a little forced). And its best tracks have a certain "magical" quality that is impossible to describe, but instantly recognizable. Agree w/ previous reviewer re "Out My Way" -- simply an amazing, hypnotic spin on so-called "classic rock". "Down in its cave/My heart lays/Its own sun/Lights the day". Incredible stuff. Also superb is "Not Swimming Ground", with a wondrous solo and joyous bass, seriously threatening to get you a speeding ticket. These two alone are among the very best stuff by the band, probably among the most transcendent hundred-odd rock songs I know of (from "Rubber Soul" up through the present -- I admit I kind of lost track of most stuff after "Too High To Die" or so. Maybe because I turned 30 around then or something). "Other Kinds of Love" is the other standout, a psychedelic gem, and the rest range from solid to fun, with nary a dog in the bunch.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Borderline Favorite, December 1, 2006

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Dmilmax (UT, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Out My Way (Audio CD)

I must say that this EP comes very close to being my favorite work by the Meat Puppets (and I really like the cover art!). The consistency of "Out My Way," "Other Kinds of Love," "Not Swimming Ground," and "Mountain Line" is just wonderful. Creative guitar work (of course), awesome lyrics...excellent in every regard. I'm also fond of the added songs "On the Move," "Burn the Honky Tonk Down," "Backwards Drums," and "Everything is Green" (the latter two being musicals). However, even with the addition of these great songs, it still doesn't *feel* like an album, which is perhaps the only reason I wouldn't rank it above other Meat Puppet's works such as "II," "Up On the Sun," or "Monsters." Still, an awesome work by the Pups, and one that I have likely listened to more than anything else by this wonderful band. Definitely a must-own.