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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Meat Puppets |
| Record Label: |
London (USA) |
| Genre: |
Rock and Pop |
| Subgenre: |
Alternative |
| Release Date: |
May 07, 2005 |
| Album Duration: |
52m:00s |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Violet Eyes
2. Never to Be Found
3. We Don't Exist
4. Severed Goddess Hand
5. Flaming Heart
6. Shine
7. Station
8. Roof With a Hole
9. Backwater
10. Things
11. Why?
12. Evil Love
13. Comin' Down |
| More Information |
| Details: |
Meat Puppets: Curt Kirkwood (vocals, guitar); Cris Kirkwood (bass); Derrick Bostrom (drums). Engineers: Stewart Sullivan, Brad Vosburg. Recorded at the Warehouse, Memphis, Tennessee. Always prone to rock music, the Meat Puppets came roaring out of the gate with 1994's TOO HIGH TO DIE, leaving the softer-edged, jazzy experimentalism of albums like UP ON THE SUN in the dust. The high-octane opener "Violet Eyes" peels off distorted riffs that would make Guns N' Roses proud. "We Don't Exist" has a crunchy, in-the-pocket punch that belies its quizzical existential message, and the band's first certified radio hit, "Backwater," lets a hard-rock boogie-rhythm carry the tune's sprightly melody. None of this is to say that the Meat Puppets have traded in their brains for brawn here. Mixing styles and surprises is still the group's forte--there are jangly angles and remarkably surreal lyrics on "Never to be Found," country-fied folk on "Shine," and loping, mid-tempo meditations on "Why?" As always, the high calibe... |
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