The 1984 Listening Post - Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II

#76

April 1984

Meat Puppets

Meat Puppets II

4.25 out of 5

Highlights:

Split Myself in Two

Climbing

Lake of Fire

Meat Puppets get it. Its about songs. It doesn’t matter if you sound like you’re falling apart. It doesn’t matter how hard you thrash or if you can even keep time. Rock is about falling apart. Rock is about organized disorganization. It’s about disorganized organization. It’s about so much that is out of control. Controlled chaos? Sure. Am I saying the same thing over and over but in slightly different ways? Yes. Because that, too, is rock. 

So much of alternative music can be found in the second two Meat Puppets records (I was not a fan of their first go round). They can be intrusively ugly (“We’re Here”) and then drunkenly attempt beauty (“Climbing”) and while they fail they succeed in the rawness of that failure. On the other hand, Meat Puppets are probably more responsible for Nirvana than any other band.

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