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Meat Puppets is an alternative rock artist from Phoenix, Arizona, USA formed in 1980. 39 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Alternative Rock · Phoenix, Arizona, USA · Best alternative rock albums
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Too High to Die
1994
Golden Lies
2000
Lollipop
2011
Rise to Your Knees
2007
Huevos
1987
Forbidden Places
1991
No Joke!
1995
Live in Montana
2025
Camp Songs
2023
Lofty Glory (Live)
2023
Live in Santa Monica - Part One (Live)
2021
Touch Down In San Monica (Live)
2021
Automatic Maniac (Live)
2021
The Meltdown (Live)
2021
Down In El Paso (Live)
2020
The Monster Hunt (Live)
2020
Live in Santa Monica - Part Three (Live)
2020
Invasion In The City (Live)
2020
The Attack (Live)
2020
Monster Attack (Live)
2020
Live in Santa Monica - Part Two (Live)
2020
High Enough To Fly (Live)
2020
Dusty Notes
2019
Meltdown / Attacked By Monsters (Remastered) (Live Radio Sessions At KCRW Studios, Santa Monica, 1988 & 1993)
2016
Rat Farm
2013
Sewn Together
2009
Meat Puppets Live
2003
Monsters
1989
Mirage
1987
Up on the Sun
1985
Meat Puppets II
1984
Meat Puppets
1982
The Meat Puppets are an American rock band formed in January 1980, in Phoenix, Arizona. The group's original lineup was Curt Kirkwood (guitar/vocals), his brother Cris Kirkwood (bass guitar), and Derrick Bostrom (drums). The Kirkwood brothers met Bostrom while attending Brophy Prep High School in Phoenix. The three then moved to Tempe, Arizona (a Phoenix suburb and home to Arizona State University) where the Kirkwood brothers purchased two adjacent homes, one of which had a "shed" in the back where they regularly practiced. One of the more notable groups on the roster of SST Records (who released most of their albums), the Meat Puppets started as a punk rock band, but like most of their SST peers, the Meat Puppets established their own unique style, blending punk with country and psychedelic rock, and featuring Curt's warbling vocals. The Meat Puppets later gained significant exposure when the Kirkwood brothers served as guest musicians on Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance in 1993. The band's 1994 album Too High to Die subsequently became their most successful release. The band broke up twice, in 1996 and 2002, but reunited again in 2006. The Meat Puppets have influenced variou…
