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The Meat Puppets effectively brought together punk, alternative rock, and country-rock into a style entirely of their own.
They sometimes sounded like Neil Young playing hardcore punk in fast-forward, while at other times sounded like Johnny Cash's
younger, whinier sibling singing thoughtful folk pieces. Throughout all of the songs, both a steady percussive beat and a
solid bass line back intricate guitar plucking and emotive, high-pitched vocals. When Meat Puppets II came out in the mid-80s,
its mix of country and punk was unlike anything else around in underground rock. While the album starts off with a couple
of zippy tunes, it's not indicative of its sound as a hole. It successfully fluctuates between slow mellow songs and livelier,
denser pieces. The Meat Puppets established a sound that was ahead of their time, eventually affecting alternative musicians
and bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pavement, and Beck.
Key Tracks:
Split Myself In Two
Lost
Aurora Borealis
Final Verdict: 8.5
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