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Post subject: The best place I ever found: A Meat Puppets Thread
Posted: Thu October 25, 2018 3:39 pm
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Enough interest to merit a thread? I hope so. Like most music fans of a certain age, Nirvana's Unplugged and "Backwater" introduced me to this band. I bought II and loved it. Same for Too High to Die. I never really dug deeper, though. Now I'm going down the rabbit hole. Anyone care to tag along?
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Post subject: Re: The best place I ever found: A Meat Puppets Thread
Posted: Thu October 25, 2018 7:54 pm
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I always saw the Meat Puppets as the sleepy southern version of the Minutemen: Lots of twang and some really poetic lyrics, but for some reason they were always lumped in with these punk bands when they were sort of their own thing.
I went through a period where I went through their catalog, but these days if I reach for anything at all, it will undoubtedly be II.
Post subject: Re: The best place I ever found: A Meat Puppets Thread
Posted: Fri October 26, 2018 1:50 am
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run2death wrote:
Meat Puppets through Forbidden Places is really great, but grunge and recognition didn't do them any favors.
Their sound changed (starting with Too High to Die) and Cris was out of control.
As I mentioned in another thread, them and Butthole Surfers were chewed up and spit out by major labels during the grunge era.
I don't really fault them, but they had a crazy great sound before switching to stock alt-rock.
I wonder if I should even bother with their post THTD output.
So much texture and interplay on those early albums. I know nothing of their personalities. Were they calculated in their major label move or was this just a case of naive geniuses getting into a bad deal?
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Post subject: Re: The best place I ever found: A Meat Puppets Thread
Posted: Fri October 26, 2018 1:50 am
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The problem with MP albums are that some of them are super unpolished, and not in an awesome Pavement/Husker Du kinda way. Just in a completely muddled/"what the fuck is going on?" kinda way.
The records between Up on the Sun and Forbidden Places sound like total shit.
Post subject: Re: The best place I ever found: A Meat Puppets Thread
Posted: Fri October 26, 2018 1:51 am
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Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 11:28 pm Posts: 14542 Location: Space City
run2death wrote:
The problem with MP albums are that some of them are super unpolished, and not in an awesome Pavement/Husker Du kinda way. Just in a completely muddled/"what the fuck is going on?" kinda way.
The records between Up on the Sun and Forbidden Places sound like total shit.
Mirage sounds pretty good to my ears.
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Post subject: Re: The best place I ever found: A Meat Puppets Thread
Posted: Fri October 26, 2018 1:55 am
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washing machine wrote:
run2death wrote:
Meat Puppets through Forbidden Places is really great, but grunge and recognition didn't do them any favors.
Their sound changed (starting with Too High to Die) and Cris was out of control.
As I mentioned in another thread, them and Butthole Surfers were chewed up and spit out by major labels during the grunge era.
I don't really fault them, but they had a crazy great sound before switching to stock alt-rock.
I wonder if I should even bother with their post THTD output.
So much texture and interplay on those early albums. I know nothing of their personalities. Were they calculated in their major label move or was this just a case of naive geniuses getting into a bad deal?
Golden Lies and Rat Farm are probably their best latter albums.
Post subject: Re: The best place I ever found: A Meat Puppets Thread
Posted: Fri October 26, 2018 2:10 am
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washing machine wrote:
run2death wrote:
The problem with MP albums are that some of them are super unpolished, and not in an awesome Pavement/Husker Du kinda way. Just in a completely muddled/"what the fuck is going on?" kinda way.
The records between Up on the Sun and Forbidden Places sound like total shit.
Mirage sounds pretty good to my ears.
Some of the songs sound too Zen Arcade-like, super treble-y, a weird echo and weak drums.
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