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No Strings Attached (Meat Puppets Album)
''No Strings Attached'' is a 1990 compilation album of Meat Puppets songs released by their ex-record label SST Records. It was released after the band left SST Records to join London Records. The compilation includes songs from their first album '' Meat Puppets'' (1982) through to their 1989 album ''Monsters''. The Meat Puppets had no involvement in this release. Track listing All songs written by Curt Kirkwood, unless otherwise noted. #"Big House" (Meat Puppets) - 1:04 #"In a Car" (Meat Puppets) - 1:19 #"Tumblin' Tumbleweeds" ( Bob Nolan) - 2:02 #"Reward" (Curt Kirkwood, Derrick Bostrom) - 1:08 #"The Whistling Song" - 2:56 #"New Gods" - 2:10 #"Lost" - 3:25 #" Lake of Fire" - 1:55 #"Split Myself in Two" - 2:22 #"Up on the Sun" - 4:01 #"Swimming Ground" - 3:04 #"Maiden's Milk" (Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood) - 3:16 #"Bucket Head" - 2:20 #"Out My Way" (Meat Puppets) - 4:49 #"Confusion Fog" - 3:48 #"I Am a Machine" - 4:21 #"Quit It" - 2:35 #"Beauty" - 2:59 #"Look at the Rain" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meat Puppets
Meat Puppets are an American rock band formed in January 1980 in Phoenix, Arizona. The group's original lineup was Curt Kirkwood (guitar/vocals), his brother Cris Kirkwood (bass guitar/vocals), and Derrick Bostrom (drums). The Kirkwood brothers met Bostrom while attending Brophy Prep High School in Phoenix. The three then moved to Tempe, Arizona (a Phoenix suburb and home to Arizona State University), where the Kirkwood brothers purchased two adjacent homes, one of which had a shed in the back where they regularly practiced. Meat Puppets started as a punk rock band, but like most of their labelmates on SST Records, they established their own unique style, blending punk with country and psychedelic rock, and featuring Curt's warbling vocals. Meat Puppets later gained significant exposure when the Kirkwood brothers served as guest musicians on Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance in 1993. The band's 1994 album '' Too High to Die'' subsequently became their most successful releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meat Puppets Albums
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Huevos (album)
''Huevos'' is the fifth studio album by the Arizona alternative rock band the Meat Puppets. It was released October 27, 1987 on SST Records. The album title is literally the Spanish word for "eggs," although it carries a slang meaning associated with testicular fortitude. Most of the songs were recorded in one take. The cover art is done by guitarist/vocalist Curt Kirkwood. The 1999 Rykodisc re-release features five unreleased bonus tracks (early demos of "Sexy Music", "Paradise", "Fruit" and "Automatic Mojo" and a cover of Jimmy Reed's "Baby What You Want Me to Do") as well as live footage of "Automatic Mojo" filmed at the band's January 22, 1988 concert at the Variety Arts Center in Los Angeles. Content Musical style In an ''AllMusic'' biography of the band, Stephen Thomas Erlewine described the sound of ''Huevos'' as "ZZ Top-style hard rock swagger". Matthew Smith Lahrman cataloged the record to be a blues rock effort. Track listing All songs written by Curt Kirkwood, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirage (Meat Puppets Album)
''Mirage'' is the fourth studio album by the Arizona alternative rock band Meat Puppets. The album was reissued in 1999 by Rykodisc with five additional bonus tracks, including early demos of "The Mighty Zero," "I Am a Machine" and "Liquified" as well as a cover of the Elvis Presley song "Rubberneckin'" and the previously unreleased "Grand Intro." As an added bonus, this album includes an "Enhanced CD" partition for play on home computers. ''Mirage'' offers the promotional video for "Get On Down." Drummer Derrick Bostrom has referred to the album as their " psychedelic epic". Music Chuck Eddy called the music of ''Mirage'' "a sideways brand of cactus-country rock", similar to the Meat Puppets' two preceding albums. "Liquified" has been described as "metal-ish" and compared to the band's early work, whereas "Confusion Fog" invited comparisons to the album ''Meat Puppets II''. Reception Chuck Eddy wrote in a June 1987 edition of ''SPIN Magazine'' that ''Mirage'' was "catchie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Out My Way
''Out My Way'' is an EP by the alternative rock band the Meat Puppets, released in 1986. It features a more hard rock-oriented sound than on previous releases, leading some critics to say that the sound is similar to the southern/hard rock stylings of ZZ Top. The EP was reissued in 1999 by Rykodisc, with additional bonus tracks. Production The cover art is by Curt Kirkwood. The EP was issued while Curt recovered from a broken finger. Critical reception AllMusic wrote that "the EP showed that the Puppets were moving on from their early punk sound to a more traditional rock direction." Robert Christgau called the EP "a departure, toward a less spacy, more bottomy hardcore-gone-folkloric." ''Trouser Press'' praised "an utterly crazed raveup of 'Good Golly Miss Molly,'” writing that it "merely caps off a diverse collection of occasionally funky, occasionally psychedelic, occasionally countryfied rock tunes." Track listing All songs written by Curt Kirkwood, unless otherwise no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Up On The Sun
''Up on the Sun'' is the third album by the Meat Puppets, released in 1985 by SST Records. The album features a cleaner and more technical sound with a more psychedelic rock feel, in contrast to the sloppy punk approach of their first album (1982), while continuing with the mystical, poetic lyrics and country-inflected songwriting of '' Meat Puppets II'' (1984). Background Brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood were interested in psychedelic rock. The pair often indulged in recreational drug use with Derrick Bostrom, who came from an affluent, politically liberal family in Arizona and who introduced them to punk rock. During a trip to Los Angeles, the group got into the underground post-punk scene there. Joe Carducci invited the group to join SST Records, a record label associated with the early hardcore punk scene and home to Black Flag. The Meat Puppets' first EP '' In a Car'' (1981) and first seven albums appeared through SST. ''Meat Puppets'' (1981) featured fast-paced th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meat Puppets II
''Meat Puppets II'' is the second album by the Phoenix, 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" and Lost") to slow acoustic songs ("Plateau" and "Oh, Me") to psychedelic guitar effects ("Aurora Borealis" and "We’re Here"). The cover art is by 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 Minutemen covered "Lost" on the live 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"). Reception Kurt Loder in an Apri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cris Kirkwood
Christopher "Cris" Kirkwood (born October 22, 1960) is an American musician who is the bassist and a founding member of the Meat Puppets, an alternative punk rock band. Biography Raised in Paradise Valley, Arizona, Cris took up the banjo after seeing ''Deliverance'', moved on to guitar, and ultimately picked up the bass when he started playing together in bands with his older brother Curt. In 1980 the brothers and their friend Derrick Bostrom, a drummer, decided to form a band, which they eventually named the Meat Puppets. Besides playing bass Kirkwood's role in the band grew over the years to include singing and songwriting. The Meat Puppets songs that Cris has been credited with co-penning have included the majority of the group's self-titled debut, as well as "Maiden's Milk," "Animal Kingdom," "She's Hot," "Other Kinds of Love," "Not Swimming Ground," and "The Mighty Zero," "Paradise," "Bad Love," "Automatic Mojo," and "I Can't Be Counted On," while being solely credited f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Nolan
Bob Nolan (born Clarence Robert Nobles; April 13, 1908 – June 16, 1980, name changed to Robert Clarence Nobles in 1929) was a Canadian-born American singer, songwriter, and actor. He was a founding member of the Sons of the Pioneers, and composer of numerous Country music and Western music songs, including the standards " Cool Water" and "Tumbling Tumbleweeds." He is generally regarded as one of the finest Western songwriters of all time. As an actor and singer he appeared in scores of Western films. Early years Nolan was born April 13, 1908 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada to Harry Nobles and Flora Elizabeth Hussey Nobles. The couple separated in 1915, and Flora raised her two little boys in Winnipeg. In the summer of 1916, Flora temporarily moved her children to her husband's parents' home in Hatfield Point, New Brunswick, but due to the machinations of his father, Nolan never saw his mother again. In the summer of 1919, Nolan went to live with his aunt in Boston, Massachus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Rock
Alternative rock, or alt-rock, is a category of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1970s and became widely popular in the 1990s. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from Popular culture, mainstream or commercial rock or pop music. The term's original meaning was broader, referring to musicians influenced by the musical style or independent, DIY ethic, DIY ethos of late-1970s punk rock.di Perna, Alan. "Brave Noise—The History of Alternative Rock Guitar". ''Guitar World''. December 1995. Traditionally, alternative rock varied in terms of its sound, social context, and regional roots. Throughout the 1980s, magazines and zines, college radio airplay, and word of mouth had increased the prominence and highlighted the diversity of alternative rock's distinct styles (and music scenes), such as noise pop, indie rock, grunge, and shoegaze. In September 1988, Billboard (magazine), ''Billboard'' introduced "alternative" into their charting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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