''Out My Way'' is an EP by the

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, mainstre ...

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 Curtis Matthew "Curt" Kirkwood (born January 10, 1959) is an American musician, best known as the guitarist, singer and primary songwriter for alternative rock group Meat Puppets. Biography Curt Kirkwood formed the Meat Puppets along with hi ...

. The EP was issued while Curt recovered from a broken finger.

Critical reception

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wrote that "the EP showed that the Puppets were moving on from their early punk sound to a more traditional rock direction."

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called the EP "a departure, toward a less spacy, more bottomy hardcore-gone-folkloric." ''

Trouser Press ''Trouser Press'' was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow fan of the Who Dave Schulps and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" (a reference to ...

'' 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

, unless otherwise noted.

Original album

#"She's Hot" (Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood) – 4:05 #"Out My Way" – 4:47 #"Other Kinds of Love" (Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood) – 4:22 #"Not Swimming Ground" (Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood) – 4:07 #"Mountain Line" – 4:20 #"

Good Golly Miss Molly In most contexts, the concept of good denotes the conduct that should be preferred when posed with a choice between possible actions. Good is generally considered to be the opposite of evil and is of interest in the study of ethics, morality, ph ...

" ( Robert "Bumps" Blackwell,

John Marascalco John S. Marascalco (March 27, 1931 – July 5, 2020) was an American songwriter most noted for the songs he wrote for Little Richard. He was born in Grenada, Mississippi and died in Los Angeles, California. Career Marascalco co-wrote several of ...

) – 4:08

CD reissue bonus tracks

"Good Golly Miss Molly" (Robert "Bumps" Blackwell, John Marascalco) – 2:50 #"I Just Want to Make Love to You" (

Willie Dixon William James Dixon (July 1, 1915January 29, 1992) was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. He was proficient in playing both the upright bass and the guitar, and sang with a distinctive voice, but he ...

) – 3:55 #"On the Move" – 3:50 #"Burn the Honky Tonk Down" (

Wayne Kemp Wayne Kemp (June 11, 1940 – March 9, 2015) was an American country music singer-songwriter. He recorded between 1964 and 1986 for JAB Records, Decca, MCA, United Artists, Mercury and Door Knob Records, and charted twenty-four singles on the Ho ...

) – 1:59 #"Boyhood Home" – 3:17 #"Backwards Drums" – 4:20 #"Everything is Green" – 8:39 #"Other Kinds of Love" (Demo Version) – 0:52

References

{{Authority control Meat Puppets albums 1986 EPs SST Records EPs