These are from the original online discography, written in 1995.
IN A CAR
In A Car
Big House
Dolphin Field
Out In The Gardener
Foreign Lawns
Produced and engineered by Laurie O’Connell and Ed Barger.
Cover art by Damon Bostrom and Giovanni Battista Gaulli.
Recorded 6/4/81 at Silver Lake Studio, Silver Lake, CA.
Original pressings (there were three: an initial one of a thousand andtwo subsequent ones of five hundred each) on World Imitation Records includedhand-drawn inserts by the band. The World Imitation pressings came in plasticbags and had a red label with a small hole and a picture of a rose on it.
It was rereleased in 1985 by SST Records in a regular 45-style sleeve,with a large hole and the standard SST label in yellow. this version was also released on 10 inch vinyl and on CD. The original CD was a 3 inchmini disk.
MEAT PUPPETS
Reward
Love Offreing
Blue-Green God
Walking Boss
Melons Rising
Saturday Morning
Our Friends
Tumblin’ Tumbleweeds
Milo, Sorghum, And Maize
Meat Puppets
Playing Dead
Litter Box
Electromud
The Gold Mine
Engineered by SPOT at Unicorn Studio 11/24/81.
Mixed by SPOT at Music Lab 5/10/82.
“The Gold Mine” mixed by Laurie O’Connell & Ed Barger.
Cover art by Curt Kirkwood and Damon Bostrom.
Original pressings included a lyric sheetinsert with a drawing by Cris& Curt on the back. Also released in Europe on the Red Music label(RM003).
MEAT PUPPETS II
Split Myself In Two
Magic Toy Missing
Lost
Plateau
Aurora Borealis
We’re Here
Climbing
New Gods
Oh, Me
Lake Of Fire
I’m A Mindless Idiot
The Whistling Song
Engineered by SPOT.
Recorded at Total Access, Redondo Beach, CA 4-5/83.
Mixed at Chaton, Scottsdale, AZ 11/83.
Cover art by Curt Kirkwood and Neal Holliday.
UP ON THE SUN
Up On The Sun
Maiden’s Milk
Away
Animal Kingdom
Hot Pink
Swimming Ground
Buckethead
Too Real
Enchanted Porkfist
Seal Whales
Two Rivers
Creator
Engineered by SPOT.
Recorded and mixed at Total Access, Redondo Beach, CA 1/26-28/85.
Cover art by Curt Kirkwood.
Originally released with band drawing by Derrick on inner sleeve.
OUT MY WAY
She’ Hot
Out My Way
Other Kinds Of Love
Not Swimming Ground
Mountain Line
Good Golly Miss Molly
Produced by the Meat Puppets.
Engineered by Steven Escallier.
Recorded and mixed at Chaton, Scottsdale, AZ 3 /86.
Cover art by Curt Kirkwood.
Released without a lyrics sheet.
MIRAGE
Mirage
Quit It
Confusion Fog
The Wind And The Rain
The Mighty Zero
Get On Down
Leaves
I Am A Machine
Beauty
A Hundred Miles
Love Our Children Forever
Liquified
Produced by The Meat Puppets and Steven Escallier.
Recorded and mixed at Chaton, Scottsdale, AZ 11/86 – 1/87.
Cover art by Derrick Bostrom.
Photos by Joseph Cultice.
Sleeve art by Curt Kirkwood.
HUEVOS
Paradise
Look At The Rain
Bad Love
Sexy Music
Crazy
Fruit
Automatic Mojo
Dry Rain
I Can’t Be Counted On
Produced by The Meat Puppets and Steven Escallier.
Recorded and mixed at Pantheon, Phoenix, AZ 8/3-7/87.
Cover art by Curt Kirkwood.
Photo by Joseph Cultice.
Originally released with drawings by Cris and Curt on the inner sleeve.
MONSTERS
Attacked By Monsters
Light
Meltdown
In Love
The Void
Touchdown King
Party Till The World Obeys
Flight Of The Fire Weasel
Strings On Your Heart
Like Being Alive
Produced by The Meat Puppets.
Recorded and mixed by E at For The Record, Orange, CA 4-5/89.
Cover by Curt Kirkwood.
Cover photo by Joseph Cultice.
Neon by Nina Lazutin.
Inner sleeve photos by Ian Harper, Raenie Kane, Janet McCracken, LindaEarly, and Christopher Garndiner.
NO STRINGS ATTACHED
Big House
In A Car
Tumblin’ Tumbleweeds
Reward
The Whistling Song
New Gods
Lost
Lake Of Fire
Split Myself In Two
Up On The Sun
Swimming Ground
Maiden’s Milk
Buckethead
Out My Way
Confusion Fog
I Am A Machine
Quit It
Beauty
Look At The Rain
I Can’t Be Counted On
Automatic Mojo
Meltdown
Like Being Alive
Attacked By Monters
This compilation was released after the band left SST to go to LondonRecords. The band had no input on it whatesoever, and it shows. From theslapdash cover, rife with misspellings and incorrect information, to thecrackbrained song selection, this head-scratcher stands out like the misfitthat it is. Nonetheless, it’s the only double-length Meat Puppets CD, whichmakes it a bargain as well as a good starting-point for the uninitiated. Snap it up quick, for it’s bound to be deleted in favor of a real greatest-hits package one day.
FORBIDDEN PLACES
Sam
Nail It Down
This Day
Open Wide
Another Moon
That’s How It Goes
Whirlpool
Popskull
No Longer Gone
Forbidden Places
Six Gallon Pie
Produced by Pete Anderson.
Recorded by Pete Doell & Dusty Wakeman at Capitol, Hollywood, CA3-5/91.
Mixed by Judy Clapp at Sound Castle, Holly wood, CA 5/91.
Cover art by Curt Kirkwood.
Cover photo by Michael Lavine.
Inside drawings by Cris Kirkwood.
TOO HIGH TO DIE
Violet Eyes
Never To Be Found
We Don’t Exist
Severed GOddsess Hand
Flaming Heart
Shine
Backwater
Roof With A Hole
Station
Things
Why?
Evil Love
Comin’ Down
Lake of Fire (unlisted bonus track)
Produced by Paul Leary and Meat Puppets.
Recorded by Stewart Sullivan and Brad Vosburg at The Warehouse, Memphis,TN.
Mixed by Dave Jerden at Eldorado, Hollywood, CA and by.
Paul Leary and Stewart Sullivan at Arrlyn, Austin, TX.
Cover photo by Michael Halsband.
Also released on 12 inch vinyl with 10 inch vinyl bonus record:
RAW MEAT
Up On The Sun
El Paso City
White Sport Coat
Goodnight Irene
Produced by Paul Leary and Meat Puppets.
Recorded by Stewart Sullivan and Brad Vosburg at The Warehouse, Memphis,TN.
Paul Leary and Stewart Sullivan at Arrlyn, Austin, TX.
“White Sport Coat” mixed with additional production by Pat Dillett.
BACKWATER
Backwater (from “Too High To Die”)
Open Wide (from “Forbidden Places”)
Animal (outtake from “Too High To Die”session)
Up On The Sun (from “Raw Meat”)
White Sport Coat (from “Raw Meat”)
Cover by Cris Kirkwood and Klotz.
Cover photo by Michael Halsband.
NO JOKE!
Scum
Nothing
Head
Taste Of The Sun
Vampires
Predator
Poison Arrow
Eyeball
For Free
Cobbler
Inflatable
Sweet Ammonia
Chemical Garden
Produced by Paul Leary and Meat Puppets.
Engineered and Mixed by Chris Shaw at Phase Four Studio, Phx,AZ,
Westlake Studio, L.A.,CA, and Electric Ladyland, NYC
cover by Katherine Kirkwood & Elmo Kirkwood (w/Cris Kirkwood, Derrick Bostrom, andPhil Smay)
Odds & Ends
“Meat Puppets” demo
Produced by Meat Puppets.
Engineered by Darrell DeMarco.
Recorded August 1980 at Derrick’s house.
“H-Elenore”
Produced by Meat Puppets.
Engineered by Darrell DeMarco.
Recorded Spring 1981 at Darrell’s house.
“Hair”
Produced and engineered by Laurie O’Connell and Ed Barger.
Recorded June 4, 1981 at Silver Lake Studio, Silver Lake, CA.
From the “In a Car” EP session.
“Unpleasant”
Produced by Meat Puppets.
Engineered by Sandy Lamont.
Recorded March 18, 1982 at Desert Sound Studio, Phoenix, AZ.
“No Values”
Engineered and mixed by SPOT.
Recorded November 24, 1981 at Unicorn Studio, Los Angelels, CA.
From the “Meat Puppets” LP session.
“Aroura Borealis” (live) / “Problem Child” (live)
Produced by Derrick Bostrom and Darrell DeMarco.
Engineered by Derrell DeMarco.
Recorded May 18, 1982, live at Merlin’s, Tempe, AZ.
“Teenager(s)”
Produced by Meat Puppets.
Engineered by Allen Moore.
Recorded August 31, 1982 at Cereus Studio, Scottsdale, AZ.
“I Just Want to Make Love to You”
Produced by Meat Puppets.
Engineered by Jeff Weatherby.
Recorded August 31, 1982 at Cereus Studio, Scottsdale, AZ.
“Soup”
Produced by Meat Puppets.
Recorded Fall 1982, live at Cris and Curt’s house.
“Bali Ha’i”
Produced by Meat Puppets.
Recorded May 1991 by Derrick Bostrom and Cris Kirkwood at Crisis Studio,Tempe, AZ.
Mix engineered by Allen Moore at Cereus Studio, Tempe, AZ.
“Funnel of Love” / “Rock and Roll”
Produced by Meat Puppets.
Engineered by Allen Moore.
Recorded live, Summer 1991 at Cereus Studio, Tempe, AZ.
“Fuck You”
Produced by Paul Leary and Meat Puppets
Recorded by Brad Vosburg at The Warehouse, Memphis, TN.
Mixed by Paul Leary and Stewart Sullivan at Arrlyn, Austin, TX.
From the “Too High To Die” session.
“Animal”
Produced by Paul Leary and Meat Puppets
Recorded by Brad Vosburg at The Warehouse, Memphis, TN.
Mixed by Paul Leary and Stewart Sullivan at Arrlyn, Austin, TX.
From the “Too High To Die” session.
Radio Meat!
Assembled and translated by Peter Bochan.
Recorded April 1994 at WBAI Radio, NYC, NY.
Side One:
The Meat Puppets present the following songs:
“Pop A Top” – Jim Ed Brown
“Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop” – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
“Let’s Pretend” – Germs
“The Ballad of Pee Pee The Sailor” – Bad Livers
“Begin the Beguine” – Artie Shaw
“Runaway” – Salsoul Orchestra w/ Loleatta Holloway
“Burn Rubber” – Gap Band
“El Paso City” – Marty Robbins
“Downtown” – Petula Clark
“Star Wars Theme” – Meco
Side Two:
Live acoustic performance on WBAI Radio:
Big Iron
River of the Lord
The Ballad of Pee Pee the Sailor
Another One Bites the Dust
Shine
Bud the Spud
Sam
S.W.A.T. (Get Down)
Backwater
I Wanna Be Your Dog
Gut Feeling
The Old Dope Peddler
The Ride
One Of These Days
Second guitar: Troy Meiss
“Lake of Fire” (acoustic)
Produced by John Hancock for the Westwood One Networks.
Recorded Summer 1994 in Los Angeles, CA.
Second guitar: Troy Meiss
“Lake of Fire” (live)
Recorded live while on tour somewhere in Europe, Spring 1994.
Engineered by David Claassen.
Second guitar: Troy Meiss
“House of Blue Lights”
Produced by Meat Puppets.
Engineered by Brian Krueger.
Recorded and mixed June 14, 1994 at Phase Four Studio, Tempe, AZ.
“The Price of Paradise”
Produced by Meat Puppets.
Engineered by Brian Krueger.
Recorded and mixed June 14, 1994 at Phase Four Studio, Tempe, AZ.
“Not All Right”
Produced by Meat Puppets.
Recorded Summer 1994 by Cris Kirkwood and mixed by Derrick Bostrom at Crisis Studio,Tempe, AZ.
“The Adventures of Pee Pee the Sailor”
Recorded Spring 95 at Phase Four Studio
Produced by Paul Leary and Meat Puppets.
Engineered and mixed by Chris Shaw.
“Tennessee Stud”
Recorded Spring 95 at Phase Four Studio
Produced by Paul Leary and Meat Puppets.
Engineered and mixed by Chris Shaw.
Vapourspace remix of “Scum”
Remixed 1995 by Mark Gage in Vapourspace.
“Unexplained”
Produced by Curt Kirkwood.
Engineered by Chad Fridirici.
Recorded February, 1996 at Westlake Studio, Los Angeles, CA.
“Taste of the Sun” / “Vampires” / “Chemical Garden” (live acoustic in the studio)
Recorded live 11/26/95 at Windmark Studios, Virginia Beach, VA.
Thanks to Chris Corley, Al Mitchell and everyone at Windmark Studio.
