{"history":[],"article":{"id":"5ede6a6c-f275-4552-9c69-306de53d2766","title":"Meat Puppets (album)","slug":"meat-puppets-album","content":":::summary\n![Meat Puppets](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Meat///Puppets///1982.JPG)\n**Name:** Meat Puppets \n**Type:** [Album](https://bliptext.com/articles/album) \n**Artist:** [Meat Puppets](https://bliptext.com/articles/meat-puppets) \n**Released:** 1982 \n**Recorded:** November 1981 \n**Studio:** Unicorn Studios, Hollywood, California \n**Genre:** [Hardcore punk](https://bliptext.com/articles/hardcore-punk) · [hardcore thrash](https://bliptext.com/articles/crossover-hardcore) \n**Length:** 21:29 \n**Label:** [SST](https://bliptext.com/articles/sst-records) (009) \n**Prev Title:** [In a Car](https://bliptext.com/articles/in-a-car) (EP) \n**Prev Year:** 1981 \n**Next Title:** [Meat Puppets II](https://bliptext.com/articles/meat-puppets-ii) \n**Next Year:** 1984 \n:::\n\n# \n**[Meat Puppets](https://bliptext.com/articles/meat-puppets)** is the debut [studio album](https://bliptext.com/articles/studio-album) by American [rock](https://bliptext.com/articles/rock-music) band the **[Meat Puppets](https://bliptext.com/articles/meat-puppets)**, released in 1982 through [SST Records](https://bliptext.com/articles/sst-records).\nThe 1999 [Rykodisc](https://bliptext.com/articles/rykodisc) reissue features the entire [In a Car](https://bliptext.com/articles/in-a-car) EP as well as 13 other bonus tracks, many of them studio jams or outtakes, and a video clip of the band performing \"Walking Boss\" live.\nThe booklet also has liner notes by [Gregg Turkington](https://bliptext.com/articles/gregg-turkington) and recording notes by drummer [Derrick Bostrom](https://bliptext.com/articles/derrick-bostrom).\nIn the 2012 book, Too High to Die: Meet the Meat Puppets by Greg Prato, an entire chapter is dedicated to [Soundgarden](https://bliptext.com/articles/soundgarden) guitarist [Kim Thayil](https://bliptext.com/articles/kim-thayil) explaining why Meat Puppets is one of his favorite all-time albums.\n\n# Background and recording\nThe album was recorded in three to four days.\nThere are very few overdubs on the album, and many of the tracks are first takes.\nLike other early [SST](https://bliptext.com/articles/sst-records) albums the sound quality is rather spotty; there is noticeable fuzz in the background of the music.\nThe band opted for this because they felt more comfortable recording live with only a few microphones rather than employing conventional studio separation techniques.\nIn 1999, Curt Kirkwood stated, \"The first [album] was our LSD record. We were three days in the studio, and we tripped the whole time. And it was really cool, and really trying, too, because we went insane.\"\nThe original pressing of the 12\" album is engineered to be played back at 45 rpm.\n\n# Style\nUnlike the band's later releases, Meat Puppets features a [hardcore punk](https://bliptext.com/articles/hardcore-punk) sound.\nStephen Thomas Erlewine of [AllMusic](https://bliptext.com/articles/allmusic) called Meat Puppets a \"full-on [punk](https://bliptext.com/articles/punk-rock) record\".\n\n# Track listing\nAll songs written by [Meat Puppets](https://bliptext.com/articles/meat-puppets), unless otherwise noted.\n\n## Original album\n\n## 1999 CD bonus tracks\n

\"In a Car\" - 1:21

\"Big House\" - 1:07

\"Dolphin Field\" - 1:09

\"Out in the Gardener\" - 1:04

\"Foreign Lawns\" - 0:37

\"Meat Puppets\" - 1:33

\"Everybody's Talking\" ([Fred Neil](https://bliptext.com/articles/fred-neil)) - 2:42

\"H-Elenore\" (Curt Kirkwood) - 1:39

\"Hair\" (Monitor) - 1:26

\"I Got a Right\" ([Iggy Pop](https://bliptext.com/articles/iggy-pop)) - 2:40

\"I Am a Child\" ([Neil Young](https://bliptext.com/articles/neil-young)) - 2:14

\"Franklin's Tower\" ([Jerry Garcia](https://bliptext.com/articles/jerry-garcia), [Robert Hunter](https://bliptext.com/articles/robert-hunter-lyricist), [Bill Kreutzmann](https://bliptext.com/articles/bill-kreutzmann)) - 4:52\n

\"Milo Sorghum & Maize\" - 1:32

\"Electromud\" - 0:45

\"Love Offering\" - 1:03

\"Saturday Morning\" - 1:11

\"Magic Toy Missing\" (Curt Kirkwood) - 1:28

\"Unpleasant\" (Curt Kirkwood, Derrick Bostrom) - 1:02

\n\n\n# Recording\nAll the songs on the original album are recorded in November 1981.\nEngineered by SPOT at Unicorn Studio 24 November 1981.\nMixed by SPOT at Music Lab 10 May 1982 except \"The Gold Mine\" mixed by Laurie O'Connell & Ed Barger.\n\n# Personnel\nwith:\n\n# Production and other credits","current_revision":null,"created_by":"kACnuQmH5k9Nr5VNVEpVeg7XpvUmMctD","created_at":"2025-01-26T07:03:41.077Z","updated_at":"2025-01-26T07:03:41.077Z","search_vector":"'album':3 'meat':1 'puppet':2","search_content":" \n \n**Name:** Meat Puppets \n**Type:** [Album](https://bliptext.com/articles/album) \n**Artist:** [Meat Puppets](https://bliptext.com/articles/meat-puppets) \n**Released:** 1982 \n**Recorded:** November 1981 \n**Studio:** Unicorn Studios, Hollywood, California \n**Genre:** [Hardcore punk](https://bliptext.com/articles/hardcore-punk) · [hardcore thrash](https://bliptext.com/articles/crossover-hardcore) \n**Length:** 21:29 \n**Label:** [SST](https://bliptext.com/articles/sst-records) (009) \n**Prev Title:** [In a Car](https://bliptext.com/articles/in-a-car) (EP) \n**Prev Year:** 1981 \n**Next Title:** [Meat Puppets II](https://bliptext.com/articles/meat-puppets-ii) \n**Next Year:** 1984 \n \n\n# \n**[Meat Puppets](https://bliptext.com/articles/meat-puppets)** is the debut [studio album](https://bliptext.com/articles/studio-album) by American [rock](https://bliptext.com/articles/rock-music) band the **[Meat Puppets](https://bliptext.com/articles/meat-puppets)**, released in 1982 through [SST Records](https://bliptext.com/articles/sst-records).\nThe 1999 [Rykodisc](https://bliptext.com/articles/rykodisc) reissue features the entire [In a Car](https://bliptext.com/articles/in-a-car) EP as well as 13 other bonus tracks, many of them studio jams or outtakes, and a video clip of the band performing \"Walking Boss\" live.\nThe booklet also has liner notes by [Gregg Turkington](https://bliptext.com/articles/gregg-turkington) and recording notes by drummer [Derrick Bostrom](https://bliptext.com/articles/derrick-bostrom).\nIn the 2012 book, Too High to Die: Meet the Meat Puppets by Greg Prato, an entire chapter is dedicated to [Soundgarden](https://bliptext.com/articles/soundgarden) guitarist [Kim Thayil](https://bliptext.com/articles/kim-thayil) explaining why Meat Puppets is one of his favorite all-time albums.\n\n# Background and recording\nThe album was recorded in three to four days.\nThere are very few overdubs on the album, and many of the tracks are first takes.\nLike other early [SST](https://bliptext.com/articles/sst-records) albums the sound quality is rather spotty; there is noticeable fuzz in the background of the music.\nThe band opted for this because they felt more comfortable recording live with only a few microphones rather than employing conventional studio separation techniques.\nIn 1999, Curt Kirkwood stated, \"The first [album] was our LSD record. We were three days in the studio, and we tripped the whole time. And it was really cool, and really trying, too, because we went insane.\"\nThe original pressing of the 12\" album is engineered to be played back at 45 rpm.\n\n# Style\nUnlike the band's later releases, Meat Puppets features a [hardcore punk](https://bliptext.com/articles/hardcore-punk) sound.\nStephen Thomas Erlewine of [AllMusic](https://bliptext.com/articles/allmusic) called Meat Puppets a \"full-on [punk](https://bliptext.com/articles/punk-rock) record\".\n\n# Track listing\nAll songs written by [Meat Puppets](https://bliptext.com/articles/meat-puppets), unless otherwise noted.\n\n## Original album\n\n## 1999 CD bonus tracks\n \"In a Car\" - 1:21 \n \"Big House\" - 1:07 \n \"Dolphin Field\" - 1:09 \n \"Out in the Gardener\" - 1:04 \n \"Foreign Lawns\" - 0:37 \n \"Meat Puppets\" - 1:33 \n \"Everybody's Talking\" ([Fred Neil](https://bliptext.com/articles/fred-neil)) - 2:42 \n \"H-Elenore\" (Curt Kirkwood) - 1:39 \n \"Hair\" (Monitor) - 1:26 \n \"I Got a Right\" ([Iggy Pop](https://bliptext.com/articles/iggy-pop)) - 2:40 \n \"I Am a Child\" ([Neil Young](https://bliptext.com/articles/neil-young)) - 2:14 \n \"Franklin's Tower\" ([Jerry Garcia](https://bliptext.com/articles/jerry-garcia), [Robert Hunter](https://bliptext.com/articles/robert-hunter-lyricist), [Bill Kreutzmann](https://bliptext.com/articles/bill-kreutzmann)) - 4:52\n \"Milo Sorghum & Maize\" - 1:32 \n \"Electromud\" - 0:45 \n \"Love Offering\" - 1:03 \n \"Saturday Morning\" - 1:11 \n \"Magic Toy Missing\" (Curt Kirkwood) - 1:28 \n \"Unpleasant\" (Curt Kirkwood, Derrick Bostrom) - 1:02 \n \n\n# Recording\nAll the songs on the original album are recorded in November 1981.\nEngineered by SPOT at Unicorn Studio 24 November 1981.\nMixed by SPOT at Music Lab 10 May 1982 except \"The Gold Mine\" mixed by Laurie O'Connell & Ed Barger.\n\n# Personnel\nwith:\n\n# Production and other credits","revisionCount":0},"hasMore":false,"nextCursor":null}

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