Spin magazine wins this weeks (I’m sure they’d win every week if I paid any attention) idiotic review award, for their vanilla glossing of the Meat Puppets. Let’s get one thing clear here first off, I love me some Meat Puppets, and I own their first few singles released way back when they were not seemingly stuck in a rut of mediocre college rock sounding nonsense, if you like that, well fine, they are certainly GOOD at it. The review states that this new release will show why “Kurt Cobain was a fan boy”. I call utter bullshit on that statement and you can compare as I found this really great old video of a home rehearsal from 1983, the sound quality is what you’d expect, but hang with it, it’s pretty great. I’d have to think Kurt Cobain was a pretty sharp guy, at least when it came to the MUSIC…I think what made him a “fanboy” (fucking lame description of anyone) was the hyper spastic noise punk with the over the top insanity that really pushed the early Meat Puppets stuff out of the normal sphere of Punk Rock. This is a band that has gone through a number of total sound renovations over the years, however there are clearly elements of the early stuff that would have been influential to a young Cobain, the later stuff…not so much methinks.

New Track “Dissapear”-

Youtube Video- Meat Puppets Home Rehearsal 1983

Spin- Review

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