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GOLDEN LIES
Meat Puppets
(Breaking / Warner)
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