Meat Puppets 1

Meat Puppets 1

Editorial Reviews
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There are four early '80s American hardcore albums you must own: the debut from Flipper, the Minutemen's What Makes a Man Start Fires?, Ian MacKaye's straight-edge Minor Threat, and this, the taut, wired, explosive, and downright funny, fully realized 1982 masterpiece from Phoenix's Kirkwood brothers (Curt and Cris). Never had vocals sounded so skewed and manic, never had guitars sounded so hemmed in and angular. Hard-core fans loved the Puppets for their songs' breakneck speed. But, as they later proved, there was far more to them than the (non-)simple three-chord thrash. The fact this reissue contains 18 extra tracks (including the debut five-track single "In a Car," still one of punk's finest moments, and a terrifying, previously unreleased version of Fred Neil's tormented classic, "Everybody's Talking") is some bonus! Unmissable. --Everett True --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

<"b000000lz43999"> From the Label
Includes the In a Car EP, "Hair" from the Monitoralbum, "Meat Puppets" from the LA Free Music Society Light Bulbcassette, "H-Elenore" from the Happy Squid Keats Rides a Harleycompilation, "Unpleasant" from the Placebo Amuckcompilation, and nine previously unreleased recordings, as well as an live video performance of "Walking Boss." Also, an essay by Gregg Turkington and recording notes by Derrick Bostrom.