What's your favorite Meat Puppets album?

[Forum Refugee]

The Meat Puppets are probably the rock band I love the most, and they are very different from my other favorite bands. Although I like many of their albums, my favorite is "No Joke!" which was the last one they released before their breakup in the 90s.



I'd guess most people who've listened to a Meat Puppets album have heard "Too High To Die", possibly "Meat Puppets II", and little else...but in the off chance there are some other actual Meat Puppets fans here, what are your favorite albums?

 

[Geoff738]

II

Cheers,
Geoff

 

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[OldPup]

I only have Too High To Die and it's very good.

 

[Lotek]

Second vote for Too High To Die

 

[tfarny]

I haven't listened to them in many years, but No Joke! And Too High To Die were heavily rotated at my place back in the day.

 

[Forum Refugee]

Since this got me obsessing thinking about it, I just now tried grouping Meat Puppets albums into two piles: "like more" and "like a little less". My opinions only, of course:

like more:
II
Huevos
Forbidden Places
Too High To Die
No Joke!
Golden Lies
Rise To Your Knees
Sewn Together

like a little less:
I
Up On The Sun (though the title track might be my favorite song of theirs, period)
Mirage
Monsters
Dusty Notes

I haven't listened to "Rat Farm" or "Lollipop" enough times to have an opinion about those ones.

Their EP "Out My Way" is worth checking out too.

 

[SnidelyWhiplash]

I have a vinyl version of Up On Th Sun & Too High To Die on CD. Haven't listened in years. Need to do so.

 

[jays0n]

I think my fav is II. Might have to listen to em a bit first and come back though.

 

[Killing Floor]

Huevos maybe. Or Sun.

They were so freaking good live back then. People get wrapped up in the drama or the chemicals or the dresses and forget they could play.

 

[Forum Refugee]

Huevos maybe. Or Sun.

They were so freaking good live back then. People get wrapped up in the drama or the chemicals or the dresses and forget they could play.

Oh fo sho! I saw them in 2010 in a small club and it was one of the best shows I ever went to. They were fantastic. Before they went on, Chris was just hanging out by the merch table and I got to talk to him a little.

At that show they played "Tennessee Stud", one of their best covers. Found a recording probably from that same tour, though not the show I was at:

 

[RomanS]

Huevos - still have it on vinyl somewhere, bought it as a teen in the 80s, when I snatched up anything on SST that made it to my Central European small town record store...

 

[radiocaster]

Anything but the first one.

 

[radtz]

Second vote for Too High To Die

Me too. That's the only recording of them I ever owned so I'm biased.

 

[SuprHtr]

Mirage and Monsters are high on my list, but so is Golden Lies. Really, if I want to crank up something aggressive, I lean more toward Too High To Die or No Joke. If I'm in a laid back mood, Huevos. Come to think of it, I guess I have no favorite...

 

[421JAM]

Up on the Sun and II. Those are the only ones I know well, but the portions of their other albums that I've heard haven't connected with me. I owned Out My Way for a long time, but never liked it very much.

Hope I'll get to see them at some point.

 

[Ebling]

I like "No Joke" and "II" the best, but dig most all of their stuff. Something about those bands that were on SST in the early-mid '80s.

 

[jay4321]

Forbidden Places, II, Up on the Sun, Too High to Die all respectable.

Being honest their music hasn't held up for me as well as some of my favorites. They're okay, but if I were recommending 40 bands from the 80s or 90s they wouldn't make the cut