These are not your older brother's Meat Puppets. Hell, at first, they weren't anybody's Meat Puppets. When the psychedelic metal-punk trio from Arizona went on hiatus in the mid-'90s, singer-guitarist Curt Kirkwood moved to Austin and started the Royal Neanderthal Orchestra. Now that it's obvious his old bandmates aren't coming back -- drummer Derrick Bostrom is heavy into multimedia; Curt's bassist brother Cris is heavy into heroin -- Kirkwood has reclaimed his old band name. And why not? Since he wrote most of the Puppets' material, Golden Lies has all the bleached-bones, desert-dry twang and fuzzed-out sunstroke haze of later albums like Too High to Die. No, the new players (including Doug Sahm's son Shandon on drums) can't replace of the original band, espcially when it comes to the band's trademark harmony vocals. Still, better some adopted 'Pups than none at all.

Track Listing 1.Intro
  02.Armed And Stupid
  03.I Quit
  04.Lamp
  05.Hercules
  06.Batwing
  07.Take Off Your Clothes
  08.You Love Me
  09.Pieces Of Me
  10.Push The Button
  11.Tarantula
  12.Endless Wave
  13.Wipeout
  14.Fatboy/Fat/Requiem