Genres: Alternative Pop/Rock, Hardcore Punk, Cowpunk, American Punk, College Rock, American Underground Active: 80's, 90's, 2000's Formed: 1980
Neil Young, ZZ Top, Black Flag, The Clash, Johnny Cash, Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, Hank Williams, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, Led Zeppelin, Grateful Dead, The Germs, Funkadelic, Crazy Horse, Big Star, George Jones, The Stooges Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr., fIREHOSE, Hüsker Dü, Sonic Youth, Minutemen, The Replacements, Giant Sand, They Might Be Giants, X, Soundgarden, Ween, Beck, Foo Fighters, Dieselhed, Social Distortion, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pixies, Mr. Bungle Dinosaur Jr., Nirvana, Soundgarden, Field Trip, Blind Melon, Pavement, Beck, Foo Fighters, Dieselhed, Peter Walker, Trainwreck Riders, Rugburns, Anomoanon, Mountaineers, The Heavenly States, The Narrator, By the End of Tonight |  |
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.
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Release: July 17, 2007
Label: Anodyne
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Release: February 3, 2004
Label: Rykodisc
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