Meat Puppets II

by Meat Puppets

Meat Puppets II cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: April 1984
  • Label: SST
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 48:07
  • Community rating: 3.87/5 from 12 ratings

Artists on this release: Derrick Bostrom, Cris Kirkwood

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Completely abandoning the frantic hardcore noise of their debut, the Meat Puppets pioneered a deeply psychedelic, sun-baked fusion of country, folk, and punk rock. The Kirkwood brothers utilize beautifully ragged, acoustic-tinged guitar interplay and off-key vocal harmonies to evoke a raw, surreal, and incredibly warm desert atmosphere. It is a highly influential, pastoral classic that laid the crucial foundation for alt-country and 90s grunge.

Genres

Descriptors: desert, jangly, unpolished, folk, sprawling, DIY, acoustic, melodic, lo-fi, eccentric

Tracklist

  1. Split Myself In Two (2:24)
  2. Magic Toy Missing (1:21)
  3. Lost (3:26)
  4. Plateau (2:22)
  5. Aurora Borealis (2:44)
  6. We're Here (2:43)
  7. Climbing (2:43)
  8. New Gods (2:12)
  9. Oh, Me (3:02)
  10. Lake of Fire (1:56)
  11. I'm A Mindless Idiot (2:29)
  12. The Whistling Song (2:57)
  13. Teenager(s) (3:36)
  14. I'm Not Here (1:55)
  15. New Gods (2:13)
  16. Lost (3:03)
  17. What To Do (2:35)
  18. 100% of Nothing (1:50)
  19. Aura Borealis (2:28)

Credits

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