Artist Wiki - all about artists


Meat Puppets
Meat Puppets pictures
Meat Puppets biography
Meat Puppets songs
Meat Puppets albums

Meat Puppets is tagged as: grunge, alternative, punk, alternative rock, rock

The Meat Puppets are a rock band formed in Phoenix, Arizona in 1980. The band’s best known lineup consisted of Curt Kirkwood (vocals, guitar), Cris Kirkwood (bass) and Derrick Bostrom (drums) (a lineup that lasted from its inception to 1996). They began rehearsing together by learning songs from Bostrom’s collection of punk rock 45s. After briefly toying with the name “the Bastions of Immaturity,” they settled on the name Meat Puppets in June, 1980, after a song by Curt of the same name which appears on their first album.
Their early works (the In A Car EP and Meat Puppets LP) were wholeheartedly punk, with vocals so feral in their delivery they were often indecipherable, but ultimately humorous and clever once deciphered. The musicianship was mostly thrash, yet the songs were tinged with a subtle, haunting element like that of a long abandoned ghost town. Their brand of cathartic, explosive hardcore attracted the attention of legendary punk label SST, who released their first record in 1982.
Unsatisfied with the result, the band spent plenty of time in the studio before the release of 1983’s Meat Puppets II. The band’s exciting experimentation with psychedelia, acid rock, and quieter tunes on top of a core western-style thrash sound, gav...
Read More About Meat Puppets Biography...

Send Meat Puppets ringtones to your cell

Top 10 Meat Puppets Songs
Lake of Fire
Plateau
Backwater
Aurora Borealis
Split Myself in Two
Lost
Magic Toy Missing
I'm a Mindless Idiot
New Gods
Oh, Me
More Meat Puppets Songs
Top 10 Meat Puppets Albums
Rough Trade Shops: Country 2
Piece Of Cake - 20 Years
Too High To Die
Meat Puppets I
Meat Puppets II
Monsters
No Joke!
Out My Way
Up on the Sun
Forbidden Places
More Meat Puppets Albums
Similar Artists
MudhoneyMudhoney
MinutemenMinutemen
FlipperFlipper
Butthole SurfersButthole Surfers
Hüsker DüHüsker Dü
Scratch AcidScratch Acid
soul seven;kim wilson / jeffrey wright;bill sims, jr. / g-funk / master.p / aicelle santos / gretchen barreto / soldiers of fortune / spectrals / grupo salvaje / congotronics vs rockers
Copyright © ArtistWiki.com 2009 - 2022 - All Rights Reserved 0.004 - privacy policies | contact