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Meat Puppets
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Product Details

  • Audio CD (September 26, 2000)
  • Original Release Date: September 26, 2000
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Atlantic / Wea
  • ASIN: B00004Y6Q2
  • Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #99,341 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Five years after the release of No Joke!, the Meat Puppets return with Golden Lies and a new Austin-based cast under the direction of guitarist and singer Curt Kirkwood. The five years have been dreadful by most accounts, with bassist-cofounder (and Curt's brother) Cris devastated by acute, prolonged heroin addiction and the death by overdose of his wife--a story too detailed and sordid to deliver here. So Curt's back with additional guitarist Kyle Ellison, bassist Andrew Duplantis, and drummer Shandon Sahm, and the band is as steeped in desert-scorched psychedelia as they were in their early-'90s London Records days. And though it's hard to chart growth with a band that started their career with the brilliance of Meat Puppets II, Kirkwood shows not only the warpy ambition he crowned fans with in the mid-1980s but also a knack for using the studio as instrumental in creating a depth befitting the band that many have cited as one of American punk's greats. Kirkwood's laconic, deadpan voice matches wits with his and Ellison's thicker, artfully compressed, guitar attack. There are rave-ups ("Take Off Your Clothes"), deep-listening background dynamics, and even a very odd mottle of pop and choked-vocal guitar buzz on "Push the Button." Easily as good as any of the London-era Meat Puppets material, Golden Lies sounds like the dawn of a new meaty era. --Andrew Bartlett

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5.0 out of 5 stars Meat Puppets Golden Lies, December 11, 2000
By will mccord (Tennessee) - See all my reviews
I have read reviews that are negative about this CD because Bostrum and brother Kirkwood are no longer in the band, reviews that claim it is not the 'real' Meat Puppets. I have been a fan of the Puppets since the the mid 80's and I have got to tell you, this is 'real'. I haven't been this impressed with a new release from the Puppets since Monsters. As I listen, I find myself smiling with amusement and enthusiasm at the direction this album takes the Meat Puppets. It is different, but all so familiar. Just goes to show that the person steering this band in all it's different creative directions all along was Curt Kirkwood. Do yourself a favor and buy it!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars MP Version 2.0-A version worth keeping, September 28, 2000
By Lee Schiller (Philadelphia, PA United States) - See all my reviews
Sometimes the misery and healing that comes with five years of personal struggle can rejuvenate. Other times it can send one onto a downward path to despair and self destructiveness. In the case of the resurrected Meat Puppets, it has done the former. Curt Kirkwood's songs look to the past and the future for their inspiration but never lose sight of the road once traveled. Tarantula resembles the song structure of Huevos with its fretboard work, and Push The Button harkens to the earlier threesome. But the must listen to songs on this recording are the revealing and beautiful Endless Wave and the dark and lovely Pieces of Me. Unfortunately, the single Armed And Stupid may be the worst track here with its dull radio ready hooks resembling Scum from No Joke. But there are enough reasons to recommend this release to long time fans and introduce this band to the uninitiated.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Curt Kirkwood still knows how to rock, April 8, 2002
By Pen Name? "fluxus" (Pittsburgh, PA United States) - See all my reviews
  
For me, this is the Meat Puppet's best effort since leaving SST, slightly edging out Too High To Die. Endless Wave is every bit as good as Backwater, and would deserve to have reached the same success. If you are into the Meat Puppets last couple of albums, I can't see how you wouldn't get into this one. The new band is excellent and should be accepted on their own terms. The lyrics feature the same style of absurdities and anomalies mixed with existential pondering which has been commonplace to the band since they began using real words. Don't be stubborn! Believe in the Lies!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Curt rises to the occasion again
OK, sure. Given the choice I would prefer to hear these songs recorded by the original line-up. The thing is, we weren't given the choice. Curt wasn't given the choice. Read more
Published on August 29, 2007 by M. McAulay

5.0 out of 5 stars Curt Kirkwood's Later Day Meat Puppets We're Great Too
The album is adventurous and different from any other Meat Puppets album. But you could pretty much say the same thing about any Meat Puppets album. Read more
Published on April 17, 2003 by Daniel C. Alward

2.0 out of 5 stars disappointing
i know about the predictament that chris is in and i know that the band is only called the Meat Puppets because they owe more records under the name Meat Puppets but if you choose... Read more
Published on December 25, 2001

4.0 out of 5 stars The endless wave that crashes over me.
I'm really tired of hearing all the old-school Mup's fans dragging this album through the mud. Oh sure, it's different. Even 'slickly produced', if you had to. But... Read more
Published on July 13, 2001 by Marc (with a 'c')

4.0 out of 5 stars These lies are golden, indeed
The return of the legendary guitar hero, Curt Kirkwood, to the recording studio is marked by the fine release "Golden Lies". Read more
Published on May 24, 2001 by Mountain Meat Freak

4.0 out of 5 stars whatever that something should be
like all kids brought up on alternative radio in the mid nineties i have been some what aware of the meatpuppets for a long time now. Read more
Published on March 30, 2001 by YLD

2.0 out of 5 stars buy the reissued classics instead
i have been as big a meat puppets fan as anybody for as long as i can remember, but i can't stomach this album. Read more
Published on November 13, 2000 by Kepros

2.0 out of 5 stars buy the reissued classics instead
I have been as big a meat puppets fan as anybody for as long as I can remember, but i can't stomach this album. Read more
Published on November 13, 2000 by Kepros

4.0 out of 5 stars Good album, from a Great band!!
I originally started to follow the Meat Puppets when I first heard the song "We Don't Exist" off of the Too High To Die album. Read more
Published on November 2, 2000 by Brian Cowan

4.0 out of 5 stars Great New Puppets!
A new Pups disc without Cris or Derrick sounded like heresy to me. And they are based in Austin, TX?! I was skeptical, but one listen changed my mind. Read more
Published on October 21, 2000 by Dmitri Ulinov

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