Biography

Formed in Arizona by brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood and their friend Derrick Bostrom, the Meat Puppets combined punk, blues, folk, and country music to bizarre yet entertaining effect. Led by guitarist/vocalist Curt, the substance-friendly band hit a creative peak in the mid-1980s, but didn't achieve mainstream success until 1994's TOO HIGH TO DIE. Shortly before this breakthrough, Puppets fan Kurt Cobain invited the Kirkwoods to play three of their songs (from MEAT PUPPETS II) with Nirvana on the renowned UNPLUGGED session. Later the group fell apart, with Cris developing a severe drug habit, Derrick handling the Puppets' legacy, and Curt forging ahead with a new line-up.

Top Tracks

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• Attacked By Monsters

• Backwards Drums

• Backwater

• Bad Love

• Beauty

• Blue-green God

• Burn The Honky Tonk Down

• Climbing

• Comin' Down

• Confusion Fog

• Endless Wave

• Enemy Love Song

• Flight Of The Fire Weasel

• Fly Like The Wind

• Get On Down

• Hour Of The Idiot

• I Quit

• Lake Of Fire

• Leaves

• Liquified

• Look At The Rain

• Love Offering

• Maiden's Milk

• Meltdown

• Not Swimming Ground

• Oh, Me

• Our Friends

• Out My Way

• Paradise

• Party Till The World Obeys

• Plateau

• Rotten Shame

• Saturday Morning

• Sewn Together

• Shave It

• She's Hot

• Swimming Ground

• This Song

• Up On The Sun

• Violet Eyes

• Walking Boss

• Way That It Are

• Why?

• You Love Me

Discography

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• Lollipop

  Megaforce

  2011

• Sewn Together

  MRI Associated Labels / Meat Puppets

  2009

• Rise to Your Knees

  Anodyne Records

  2007

• Live at Maxwell's 2.08.01

  DCN (Digital Club Network)

  2002

• Golden Lies

  Atlantic

  2000

• Live in Montana

  Rykodisc

  1999

• No Joke!

  London / London

  1995

• Too High to Die

  London / London

  1994

• Forbidden Places

  London

  1991