Meat Puppets II | ||||
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Studio album by Meat Puppets | ||||
Released | 1984 | |||
Recorded | April - May, 1983 | |||
Genre | Alternative rock, cowpunk | |||
Length | 29:57 (original) 48:01 (reissue) |
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Label | SST Records | |||
Meat Puppets chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
Robert Christgau | (A-)[2] |
Magnet | (Favorable)[3] |
NME | (8/10)[4] |
Rolling Stone | [5] |
Spin | (Favorable)[6] |
Meat Puppets II is the second album by the Tempe, Arizona band the Meat Puppets, released in 1984. It is a departure from their self-titled debut album, which consisted largely of noisy hardcore with unintelligible vocals. It covers many genres from country-style rock ("Magic Toy Missing", "Climbing", Lost") to slow acoustic songs ("Plateau", "Oh Me") to psychedelic guitar effects ("Aurora Borealis") to hard rock ("Lake of Fire").
On the back of the original vinyl, the cover art is credited to Curt Kirkwood and Neal Holliday.
Rykodisc reissued the album in 1999 with extra tracks and b-sides, including a cover of the Rolling Stones' Aftermath-era track "What To Do."
The Meat Puppets' SST labelmates The Minutemen covered "Lost" on the EP Tour-Spiel and their last studio album, 3-Way Tie (For Last). Three of the album's songs were covered by Nirvana (as the Kirkwood brothers joined them onstage) during their "Unplugged" show for MTV ("Plateau", "Oh, Me", and "Lake of Fire").
The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die and was also #94 on Pitchfork Media's "Best Albums of the 1980's".[7] The final track "The Whistling Song" was taken as the title of Stephen Beachy's first novel. Curt Kirkwood created the cover art for the novel.
The album was performed live in its entirety at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Monticello, New York as part of the ATP Don't Look Back season, and again in December at a performance in London.
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All songs written by Curt Kirkwood, unless otherwise noted.
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