Les Meat Puppets ne font pas semblant. Ils se mettent en danger et on prend un réel plaisir à écouter leur musique. Les deux titres: "Plateau" et "Lake of fire" que Kurt Cobain a chantés lors du Unplugged de Nirvana sont des titres mythiques.
Scritto da: Taka
Guitar sound
Very good
Scritto da: ^w^
"Nirvana" in lustig
Schaukelnder laissez fairer rock. Bekiffter und positiver als Nirvana. Schlechte Laune lässt sich einfach nicht mehr aufrecht erhalten, falls man sich als "kommerzieller Musikhörer" nicht durch Kirkwoods "fremdere" und "gedehntere" Stimme als von Cobain vertraut, irgendwie in seinem Purismus gestört fühlt oder so.. Ich persönlich finde die Scheibe schweinegeil!!! YIPPPPIIIIIEEEEE!!!!!!!!
Scritto da: John Alapick
The birth of cowpunk
Meat Puppets II has become known as the first album ever released where the laid back genre of country music met the intensity of punk music. While some may argue that Jason & The Scorchers did this first, the Meat Puppets' music was more ragged and in the punk tradition than the Scorchers were. This album was largely an underground phenomenon for many years. It was only after Nirvana covered the three best tracks here, "Lake Of Fire", "Plateau", and "Oh, Me" on their Unplugged album, when this album began to get the credit it deserves. In addition to the tracks already mentioned, other excellent tracks include the more traditional country of "Lost" and "Climbing", the intense tracks "New Gods" and "Split Myself In Two", and the instrumentals, "Aurora Boralis", "I'm A Mindless Idiot", and the killer but short country-punk of "Magic Toy Missing." The album now also contains 7 bonus tracks. However, unlike most bonus tracks, most of these are among the album's finest songs. The instrumental "I'm Not Here" is similar in style to "Magic Toy Missing" while the instrumental version of "New Gods" is more ragged and intense than the original. The slow country of "What To Do" and the chaotic turned somber "Teenager(s)" are also great tracks. One thing to mention is that while the music here is top notch, the vocals on many of the tracks, particularly the bonus tracks, are way off key, which takes a little getting used to if you're a new fan or only know them for Too High To Die. Having said that, there are so many top notch tracks here, it's hard to give this less than 5 stars. Highly recommended.
Scritto da: Amazon Customer
Five Stars
Funky little album
Scritto da: Curt A. Enos
stars in the sky and sand in your eye
I read a rave review about the Puppets in NME in the mid-80s and went with my bother to see them in a little bar in KC. From about the third note we both knew the review was correct. Totally different than any band out there before or since. Incredibly inventive and dexterious guitar playing, bizzare vocals, throbbing off-kilter bass and the drums somehow keeping it together. Up on the Sun and Out my Way were not even out yet, but some songs from those were played. Bought Meat Puppets II the next morning and it has remained one of my all-time favorite records. Brilliant record, at times shimering like a huge soap bubble, other times thrashing with the best of them, great stomping hoe down tunes, and melodic, evocative soundscapes that sound like a series of acid induced musical ephiphanies. This is definately the best recording of the 1980's and is probably unequaled since it's release. I would place it in the Pantheon of Rock Records, up there with Hendrix and the Dead, records that changed the course of music forever. Buy it, and really listen to it. It may take a while, but like eating peyote, once you get past the bitter taste and cactus needles a really good time with almost religious overtones awaits. This record is like a musical sweatlodge ceremony. Not to be missed if you are up for the challenge.
