Meat puppets

Meat Puppets - "Too High to Die" is the eighth studio album by Meat Puppets, released on this day (January 25) in 1994.

When the Meat Puppets released their first, eponymous album on CD, they generously included, as often happened during that era, a bunch of bonus tracks, such as, ahem, “Meat Puppets,” which had appeared on the 1981 Light Bulb “emergency cassette” compilation, and “H-Elenore,” which came from the Keats Rides a Harley comp from Happy Squid Records that also featured a track from Gun Club. Tucked in there without much fanfare was a rendition of Fred Neil’s song, which he first recorded in 1966…

Shop the 1989 US CD release of Monsters by Meat Puppets at Discogs.

Meat Puppets! <3

My guest today is Derrick Bostrom, drummer for The Meat Puppets. They recorded seven albums in the 80s for the legendary SST label. They released three more albums for London Polygram in the 90s, including “Too High To Die,” for which they received a gold record and scored the hit “Backwater.”

Meat Puppets

Shop the 0 US CD release of Meat Puppets II by Meat Puppets at Discogs.

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Meat Puppets - opening act for Primus Winston Salem, NC November 1995