I had a math teacher in high school who was blasting this at the start of school one morning. He also played stuff like The Dead Milkmen, Uncle Tupelo, Black Flag. I got him to play the Screaming Trees 'Even If and Especially When' album during each of his classes one day. One of my favorite teachers.
The teacher next door heard Curt losing his voice screaming the second verse of Love Offering and didn't report your teacher to the principal, eh. He lucked out.
well said. good art is able to distiguish and highlight between two different type of people and their level of maturity. these guys were musically technically advanced and quite aware of themselves at the time. so if anyone says they are anything other than brilliant they miss the point.
The greatest musical recording in the history of the United States of America. The best opening track ever conceived and placed upon the greatest musical recording in the history of the United States of America.
This pretty much encapsulates everything that is missing right now. I love how the Kirkwood bros have matured to where they are now, but that is only a manifestation of the desperation born from the bones of this album. I love slop. I love energy. I love how raw and bedroom based this is. I belong. I'm right in that front room where this was played, despite being born after. This is the carpet under my feet that have no place being anywhere else.
Yeah I know man. But that doesn't mean the sound borne on this record isn't from weeks of riffing in a basement or wherever and then just tossing it all in a blender and regurgitating this masterpiece onto tape in a studio. Yes, the guy above was a bit overly poetic in his explanation. But what's wrong with poetry? Doesn't some of the best music make us reminiscent for a time that never existed?
I remember hearing this on the radio in the 80s and was immediately smitten. It has it all; a purely delicious treat for the senses. If Animal of the Muppets stepped up to the mic, it couldn't be any better, but I do honestly love the "singing" - sung like no one's listening while we danced like no one was watching. Not to take away from the artistry of the musicians, equally playing with wild abandon. Instruments are played tight. There is raw, bold talent here in stark contrast to today's polished and hyper produced acts that lose it al in a sea of noise gates and auto tune. This album and this band influenced many from such humble start.
Isn't it funny how this stuff is still so enjoyable after all these years? I have plenty of records from way back when that I remember fondly but don't feel compelled to play that often - ain't so with the early Puppets! :-D
Not really hardcore tho... Kinda just noisy. That isn't what makes something hardcore. The speed doesn't either. This album is like nothing else tho that's for sure. It's great
If Neil Young, and not Greg Ginn, had started Black Flag.... This would be the result. Been in my rotation for years, glad to find it here. Thank you Santiago!
What's hilarious is here we are in the latter 20 teens, and people are still calling it shit or struggling to figure out what it is, and meanwhile it's simply pure honest homespun AZ desert punk rock, 37 years old now in 2019, yet timeless, in my mind. The first record of theirs I ever heard, on a beat up maxwell cassette rip from someone who's name I can't remember, circa 1986. To me, now, it's what I imagine the Phx sprawl sounded like when it was in full effect, the desert being bulldozed with money spent by sick people. The fallout. I appreciate that. Too bad the genre of what's now called "punk rock" didn't include this sentiment. You don't like? Tap something else on your screen, bye bye, bon voyageee
Yeah husker du did that with landspeed record each side is just one track. They don't stop between songs. I always dug that about both of these records
My cassette of this melted in AZ. Left it in the 1969 F100 pickup on the dashboard in the summertime. . ., forgot about "Tumbleweeds" cover! Fantastic!
This album was onto something that no other punk rock band ever could figure out… Second one and up on the sun are fucking amazing as well… But in the world of punk rock, this album was an anomaly I might be a bit biased because I grew up with these guys in the 80s in Tempe… But nonetheless amazing
must of been fun making this album! Love it ! cant hear what hes saying ! He sounds Drunk and tripping at the same time The guitars are slightly out of tune The vocals are out of pitch and hes really letting it fly . YEt I LOVE IT ! This album reeks of PUNK ! The last track Rules !
Listening to this masterpiece since 1984. Hard to pick a favorite but Electromud is a great candidate besides obvious hits like Tumblin Tumbleweeds and Walking Boss!
This is kind of like a Captain Beefheart album. This who like it can't really explain why exactly. it just becomes listenable in a way. Its like the Stockholm Syndrome of music.
I recently realized I like it because it sounds real - it's not overproduced and it isn't clean, though it is technical. It sounds like real people having fun and being creative. It wasn't done for fame or to appeal to anyone or to make money; it was done out of enjoyment. But that's maybe just me.
@@aaronman3352 It's not just you, what you just said is the exact reason why I love the Meat Puppets so damn much. There's so much energy in their music, so many emotions coming through the records. It truly is an amazing band
That big bass sound, fast drumming and symbol playing, 14:11, 10:55, - ITS METAL with metal guitar playing but mostly punk guitar, with that crazy vocal style and sometimes that high pitched throaty growl- 3:03.
I came to this album in the mid 90s thanks to nirvana and the fact that my 10 yr old brain thought "this one has more songs for the money" I didnt understand this at all back then. I thought it was a mistake. Like the band made a mistake the whole time they made this record. I haven't listened to it since honestly even though I olay 2 all the time. This shit is awesome and im ashamed of my 10yr old self now
It’s ok. I didn’t know what to think of them either. My only experience was the two songs On SST’s “Blasting Concept” - the whole thing was fucked up but the Pups songs were truly insane. Took me a year or so but I finally got it and became an SST addict. My favorite band is Hüsker Du.
An old client of mine saw them in the time between this and II. They were singing high and growing hair long, to make punkers mad. To really get a feel for them though you have to see them live. I great band on record, or tape, or CD, or ITUNES download, but a heck of a lot of FUN in person. I saw them on the Scum Tour with Primus myself. So check out "the Meat Puppets Live Repository" and you'll know what I'm sayin'. And no, they didn't pay me. I'm Gus Buckingham, and I support this Meat Puppets message.
I was in a band that covered "the Gold Mine", but I was only written in on the credits as an honorary member, so after I established the group while the singer was away at college. I was informed I had no right to it, but I was the one who had this particular album which resulted in him covering it. I own the remnants of it's musical off spring. Now, it's at the William Morris Agency, I submitted me playing my work, so people don't pilfer any Puppet related integrity on-line via 8 GB storage chip.
im digging it and im only 1 year older than this exploring my gen. nirvana unplugged made me surf meat puppets wish I would have know. this makes me proud to be an 80s baby
Nirvana Unplugged here, too. '92 kid myself. I feel like I was born at the end of the experimental/creative era. I have to go back for my craving of that garage grunge.
I have had this album for a long time, can't remember when or where exactly I picked it up but I was a teenager. I'm 45 now and am finally starting to get it.
@@Spectrescup Nah bro, the critics really didn’t like this one, but the fans loved it. I agree it was “nonsense”, but it’s factually accurate the music critics called this one immature. I think they’re just unable to see the brilliance here.
I had a dream about watching the timestamp of 20:36 specifically earlier this week. I saw this exact artwork in the dream, even though this is my first time ever seeing the artwork or listening to the album. Shit's been happening since 8th grade and is kinda wack. If you have a scientific explanation plz, I don't wanna know, lemme live in bliss. Thank you.
I've always loved this. Frantic, exciting, demented noise. Loads of dirty melody too. And Curt isn't far from Bad Brains' HR's more cartoony, frenetic vocal style in places. Were they really any better when they got so much more slick?
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I had a math teacher in high school who was blasting this at the start of school one morning. He also played stuff like The Dead Milkmen, Uncle Tupelo, Black Flag. I got him to play the Screaming Trees 'Even If and Especially When' album during each of his classes one day. One of my favorite teachers.
Sounds like a great guy
The teacher next door heard Curt losing his voice screaming the second verse of Love Offering and didn't report your teacher to the principal, eh. He lucked out.
Report him for what? A musician screaming unintelligble, inoffensive lyrics? Doesn't seem like a reportable offense to me.@@adderon
You learn any maths?
@@duncefunce1513 Yes, he was an excellent math teacher.
Cassette tape in my Sony Walkman, skating to high school, late 80s. Good times. Thanks for the memories.
Meat Puppets (1982) by Meat Puppets is perhaps the band's most spectacular example of guitars made to do things they're not supposed to do.
The song Meat Puppets, itself, is like skipping rope on acid
Bullshit. Guitars are made to produce sound. How these sounds are delivered is up to you.
I hate how this album gets dismissed as a half-assed effort soaked in drugs and immaturity. This is a wonderful piece of art and music history.
+matthewervvin Perfectly said
Something you wouddent understand
well said. good art is able to distiguish and highlight between two different type of people and their level of maturity. these guys were musically technically advanced and quite aware of themselves at the time. so if anyone says they are anything other than brilliant they miss the point.
i know so i listen this akbul for yrs before listening on acid i fust make so much sence you shoud try it
No reason why something can't be soaked in drugs and immaturity while also being a wonderful piece of art and music history!
The greatest musical recording in the history of the United States of America. The best opening track ever conceived and placed upon the greatest musical recording in the history of the United States of America.
This pretty much encapsulates everything that is missing right now. I love how the Kirkwood bros have matured to where they are now, but that is only a manifestation of the desperation born from the bones of this album. I love slop. I love energy. I love how raw and bedroom based this is. I belong. I'm right in that front room where this was played, despite being born after. This is the carpet under my feet that have no place being anywhere else.
Recorded in a studio in 3 days
Yeah I know man. But that doesn't mean the sound borne on this record isn't from weeks of riffing in a basement or wherever and then just tossing it all in a blender and regurgitating this masterpiece onto tape in a studio. Yes, the guy above was a bit overly poetic in his explanation. But what's wrong with poetry? Doesn't some of the best music make us reminiscent for a time that never existed?
I agree... I wish more bands or the Puppets themselves would make some interesting "slop" more often!
I remember hearing this on the radio in the 80s and was immediately smitten. It has it all; a purely delicious treat for the senses. If Animal of the Muppets stepped up to the mic, it couldn't be any better, but I do honestly love the "singing" - sung like no one's listening while we danced like no one was watching. Not to take away from the artistry of the musicians, equally playing with wild abandon. Instruments are played tight. There is raw, bold talent here in stark contrast to today's polished and hyper produced acts that lose it al in a sea of noise gates and auto tune. This album and this band influenced many from such humble start.
First heard this when I was 13, still love it now at 53. MASTERPIECE. Thank you ❤️
Isn't it funny how this stuff is still so enjoyable after all these years? I have plenty of records from way back when that I remember fondly but don't feel compelled to play that often - ain't so with the early Puppets! :-D
This is one of the best hardcore records ever made.
Not really hardcore tho... Kinda just noisy. That isn't what makes something hardcore. The speed doesn't either. This album is like nothing else tho that's for sure. It's great
All time favourite. Classic album, sorry Mum
I'm new to this band - to me it sounds great.
This album is fricking brilliant. I love his singing!
me too
One of the greatest albums of all time.
R u Kidding me? this sounds like butt , terrible production , horrible singing and performance , this is awful
Agreed. It’s sad how overlooked it is in their discography. I think it’s a killer of an album.
FIRST GROWL in hardcore 82 at 3:03, then the metal bands in 83 and over also stold their (and Discharge's) brutality and speed.
If Neil Young, and not Greg Ginn, had started Black Flag.... This would be the result. Been in my rotation for years, glad to find it here. Thank you Santiago!
Spot on! It makes so much sense. And imagining Neil Young singing like this is just great extra fun.
Even the album cover is a masterpiece
Bostrom said it's a collage, I don't recall if it was him, Curt or Cris who made it.
What's hilarious is here we are in the latter 20 teens, and people are still calling it shit or struggling to figure out what it is, and meanwhile it's simply pure honest homespun AZ desert punk rock, 37 years old now in 2019, yet timeless, in my mind. The first record of theirs I ever heard, on a beat up maxwell cassette rip from someone who's name I can't remember, circa 1986. To me, now, it's what I imagine the Phx sprawl sounded like when it was in full effect, the desert being bulldozed with money spent by sick people. The fallout. I appreciate that. Too bad the genre of what's now called "punk rock" didn't include this sentiment. You don't like? Tap something else on your screen, bye bye, bon voyageee
"Electromud... one of the best hardcore song ever!!!!
THE album of the 80s for me. Blew my head off.
I can't tell where one song ends and another begins and I like it that way.
like pink floyd
See also Husker Du's "Land Speed Record"
@@mantislake4141 SO AMAZING
Yeah husker du did that with landspeed record each side is just one track. They don't stop between songs. I always dug that about both of these records
I saw them in 2008 at Bottletree in Bham AL, THEY NEVER STOPPED PLAYING... FANTASTIC
I was there too. Great show
I love this band as a hiphop fan for 25 years!
In some ways, their best record.
The first thirty seconds of "Saturday Morning" alone beats pretty much anything, by anyone.
@Todd Hendrix attempt my ass, these songs are perfectly crafted, with the needed dirt and sweat.
@@ReggiePostlethwaite correct you are.
That beginning reminds me of Flippers wall of sound somewhat...😜
I've played it around others and they just don't understand that it's all about the energy. fun stuff.
This album really makes me appreciate their second album.
me too
Don't write this one off. I know what you're saying and everything, but it'll creep up on you.
Having listened only to Meat Puppets II and Up On The Sun, I never fully realised just how batshit-crazy the Meat Puppets were.
listen to the first ep they made, 'In a Car'
Exactly
Most of it was made while on mushrooms and peyote.. that'll do it
total mind bending spacecore from Arizona. great!!!!!!!
My cassette of this melted in AZ. Left it in the 1969 F100 pickup on the dashboard in the summertime. . ., forgot about "Tumbleweeds" cover! Fantastic!
Prove it
"my cassette of this melted in *AZ*"
how beautifully fitting.
This album was onto something that no other punk rock band ever could figure out… Second one and up on the sun are fucking amazing as well… But in the world of punk rock, this album was an anomaly
I might be a bit biased because I grew up with these guys in the 80s in Tempe… But nonetheless amazing
must of been fun making this album! Love it ! cant hear what hes saying !
He sounds Drunk and tripping at the same time
The guitars are slightly out of tune
The vocals are out of pitch
and hes really letting it fly .
YEt I LOVE IT ! This album reeks of PUNK !
The last track Rules !
Biiiiig pphhaaatttttt guitar soundssss
They recorded this tripping on LSD for 3 days in 1981 they said was a blast.
This is my new favorite-how great are these people
Darby Crash meets Black Flag...brilliant!
First time listening to this and first thing I thought was Darby Crash influence
the greatest album of all time
Honestly just pick any one haha
I listen to this album with Death and Posessed. I listen to their next album with Pixies and Sonic Youth.
lol just got done listening to kill yr idols love the Sonic
add DIE KREUZEN self titled and we on same page ... hahahah
GIGANTICCCCC
@@remanufactureff Oooh, Die kreuzen. I forgot about them. They were excellent. Seriously.
huge album. raw and weird. start of the great sst odyssey with husker du, minutemen, black flag and meat puppets. Seminal label, bands,albums.
The Meat Puppets is a great fucking band, fucking awesome
thanks for posting this brilliant debut
what planet did they come from. I don't care this was pure genius.
Lotsa drugs, they’ll tell ya.
Arizona
One of my favorite meat puppet albumns
Same. I love how raw this album sounds.
thank you for uploading my favorite albums. every time i have doubt in you i see you've uploaded the exact album i've been wanting to hear, you rule.
their ep In a Car is just as hairy-crazy or more.... but brilliant
walking boss is one of my favorite songs
That's my favorite on this album. I dont know much off other albums. I'll check out in a car. thanks
Memories! Thanks for posting this album.🎉❤
Our Friends sounds so raw it’s perfect
More relevant then ever!!! Much love and respek!
Hell yeah!!! I found it! Thank you.
Listening to this masterpiece since 1984. Hard to pick a favorite but Electromud is a great candidate besides obvious hits like Tumblin Tumbleweeds and Walking Boss!
This is kind of like a Captain Beefheart album. This who like it can't really explain why exactly. it just becomes listenable in a way. Its like the Stockholm Syndrome of music.
I recently realized I like it because it sounds real - it's not overproduced and it isn't clean, though it is technical. It sounds like real people having fun and being creative. It wasn't done for fame or to appeal to anyone or to make money; it was done out of enjoyment. But that's maybe just me.
@@aaronman3352 It's not just you, what you just said is the exact reason why I love the Meat Puppets so damn much. There's so much energy in their music, so many emotions coming through the records. It truly is an amazing band
it's like it was for me to hear "white light / white heat" for the first time.
What sold me was seeing them live... they are amazing
Couldn’t have said it better.
Oh shit, I’ve never heard this! It is HELLIFIED. Lotsa gruntn’ & slop & all, I love it.
Read along with the lyrics if you can. You’ll actually be rolling on the floor.
@@masonb9788I tried once and I couldn't do it LOL
loving the raw sound this Album has, they truly have evolved from 82 to now.
That big bass sound, fast drumming and symbol playing, 14:11, 10:55, - ITS METAL with metal guitar playing but mostly punk guitar, with that crazy vocal style and sometimes that high pitched throaty growl- 3:03.
wht ?..that is not metal..it' s old hardcore/punkrock
@@phartmann5213 and its also country.
Listen to them forever! Everything makes sense
This is the sound of the world as we know it hitting a cheese grater.
Much like Butthole Surfers, they began by mocking hardcore punk with weirdness. I still love this one.
I came to this album in the mid 90s thanks to nirvana and the fact that my 10 yr old brain thought "this one has more songs for the money" I didnt understand this at all back then. I thought it was a mistake. Like the band made a mistake the whole time they made this record. I haven't listened to it since honestly even though I olay 2 all the time. This shit is awesome and im ashamed of my 10yr old self now
It’s ok. I didn’t know what to think of them either. My only experience was the two songs On SST’s “Blasting Concept” - the whole thing was fucked up but the Pups songs were truly insane. Took me a year or so but I finally got it and became an SST addict. My favorite band is Hüsker Du.
@@masonb9788 Hüsker du for life. NDR
pretty much same here lol
Just 8 years until the 50th anniversary remaster
Music's always better when it has a comment section.
They used to play them on the radio in the mid-eighties in California along with Guns n Roses. Side by side. Weird.
it's like the GERMS mated with some acid gobblin' country band
Adorei esse tipo de som tão bom quanto nirvana 😊
Thanks man! :)
thank you mr bernhardt! your channel is a veritable gold mine! keep it up
awesome album
An old client of mine saw them in the time between this and II. They were singing high and growing hair long, to make punkers mad. To really get a feel for them though you have to see them live. I great band on record, or tape, or CD, or ITUNES download, but a heck of a lot of FUN in person. I saw them on the Scum Tour with Primus myself. So check out "the Meat Puppets Live Repository" and you'll know what I'm sayin'. And no, they didn't pay me. I'm Gus Buckingham, and I support this Meat Puppets message.
Gus Buckingham
I'm glad they did that.
I was in a band that covered "the
Gold Mine", but I was only written in on the credits as an honorary member, so after I established the group while the singer was away at college. I was informed I had no right to it, but I was the one who had this particular album which resulted in him covering it.
I own the remnants of it's musical off spring.
Now, it's at the William Morris Agency, I submitted me playing my work, so people don't pilfer any Puppet related integrity on-line via 8 GB storage chip.
this is SO great
Reward is the greatest track ever written.
im digging it and im only 1 year older than this exploring my gen. nirvana unplugged made me surf meat puppets wish I would have know. this makes me proud to be an 80s baby
Nirvana Unplugged here, too. '92 kid myself. I feel like I was born at the end of the experimental/creative era. I have to go back for my craving of that garage grunge.
SPACCANO... le ultime due canzoni proto grind!!!
I have had this album for a long time, can't remember when or where exactly I picked it up but I was a teenager. I'm 45 now and am finally starting to get it.
There's a lifetime of frustration wrangled by three early 20 somethings here
they are just as great with punk music as with their other stuff
If you close your eyes and squeeze hard enough you’ll understand that it isn’t this album that causes hernias
The critics claimed the lyrics were immature, yet when asked to utter exactly which lyrics those were, the critics were silenced.
Nonsense. Everyone loved the Meat Puppets from the start. Can't imagine what garbage you were reading.
@@Spectrescup Nah bro, the critics really didn’t like this one, but the fans loved it. I agree it was “nonsense”, but it’s factually accurate the music critics called this one immature. I think they’re just unable to see the brilliance here.
@xxyyzz8464 Critics are pretentious posers who think they know music better than normal people
this man speaks the truth
I guess I'm jaded or something this LP and the 1st 45 are my favorites and go to's still.
Sounds like a Germs Black Flag mashup.
Fuxked up and true ,it rocks
This album got me off Pink Floyd.
mr.ken haha fuqyessss ^^ to this comment
Then gawd bless this album and fuck the Pink Floyd, mr Ken you've been saved!
@Mr Gonorrhea but what..
They're both amazing bands in my opinion (but the Meat Puppets definitely hold a very special place in my heart)
Edit : grammar mistake
thank god
UP ON THE SUN ? THE BEST ALBUM IS MISSING FROM THIS LIST.
Blue Green God
This is the album you make when you force yourself to record it while on continually on LSD.
Look it up.
The Best álbum
Then came Zen Arcade and ate them all
Take that Huskers!
Husker Du were Meat Puppets Fanboys
Not 100%. It was a large community. Husker Du was great but don't forget about the Minutemen.
Briljant record!
Do people even read their own comments
Not gonna dis this album, But i really prefer all their stuff after this.
Yeah I hear the rhawrahwaRHAW and its very fitting. It doesn't bite (the Germs or Darby Crash) at all.
Thank you!
I kinda dig the vocals.
I have this album it's terrible. That's why I like it...I think
Cosmic, Timeless and it F-N Rocks!!!
They were tripping acid this whole album look it up
Prove it
That was actually the In a Car EP according to the band themselves.
This album reminds me a lot of husker du's "land speed record". Just totally fast and noisy
if ever listen to nirvana from 1986 to 1989 you can hear the meat pupets guitar work in there
Nah Kurt wishes he could "play" guitar like Curt
I had a dream about watching the timestamp of 20:36 specifically earlier this week. I saw this exact artwork in the dream, even though this is my first time ever seeing the artwork or listening to the album. Shit's been happening since 8th grade and is kinda wack. If you have a scientific explanation plz, I don't wanna know, lemme live in bliss. Thank you.
I know if I listen to this like like 6 more times I will probably love it. But its still hilarious to see people calling this crap a masterpiece
Kurt brought me here. October, 2024! 🎃
I've always loved this. Frantic, exciting, demented noise. Loads of dirty melody too. And Curt isn't far from Bad Brains' HR's more cartoony, frenetic vocal style in places. Were they really any better when they got so much more slick?
i have this on vinyl
Boognish has blessed this one. Brown af
In the key of Darby Crash
Brilliant
now this is PUNK!
In a car and this self titled mini-lp. the only good meat puppets
u dont even like "meat puppets ii"?
Not totally accurate, but I dig what you're saying.