Genres: Alternative Pop/Rock, Hardcore Punk, Cowpunk, Alternative/Indie Rock, Punk/New Wave, American Punk, College Rock, American Underground Active: 80's, 90's, 2000's Formed: 1980
The Clash, Neil Young, Black Flag, ZZ Top, Led Zeppelin, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, Johnny Cash, Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, Hank Williams, Grateful Dead, The Germs, George Jones, Big Star, Crazy Horse, Funkadelic, The Stooges Giant Sand, Dinosaur Jr., fIREHOSE, Hüsker Dü, The Replacements, X, Ween, Pixies, Mr. Bungle, Dieselhed, Volcano Suns, Flipper, Sonic Youth, R.E.M., Soul Asylum, Butthole Surfers, The Mekons, Sunbirds Dinosaur Jr., Nirvana, Dark Tooth Encounter, Field Trip, Beck, Blind Melon, Pavement, Dieselhed, Peter Walker, Trainwreck Riders, Oakley Hall, The Narrator, The Heavenly States, Anomoanon, Gun Outfit, Grandaddy, Modest Mouse, Eels, Scrawl |  |
Out of all of the bands that made SST Records a towering force in the American underground during the mid-'80s, the Meat Puppets lasted the longest, surviving where other bands fell apart. The Meat Puppets never had the dedicated following of Hüsker Dü or the Minutemen -- two fellow SST bands who played the same circuit as the Puppets -- but they were able to carve out a long career where other hardcore bands could not, because they always drew from conventional hard rock as well as punk. Not only did they play hard, loud, and fast, but they also had elements of the blues-rock of ZZ Top, the ambling folk-rock of the Grateful Dead, and Neil Young's country-rock and hard rock. As they grew older, the band matured musically, developing an accomplished instrumental technique and moving closer to the traditional hard rock that was always underneath their punk.
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Release: May 12, 2009
Label: Meat Puppets, Megaforce
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Release: July 17, 2007
Label: Anodyne Records
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