Forbidden Places by Meat Puppets

Forbidden Places, the Meat Puppets' seventh album, came out on London Records in July 1991 with Pete Anderson producing, and it finds the Phoenix trio still running punk through the desert. Curt Kirkwood sings in that warbling voice and plays guitar, his brother Cris plays bass and sings, and Derrick Bostrom drums, the lineup that started the band in 1980.

"Sam" kicks things off as a lean, sharp rocker, and from there the record roams: "Nail It Down" leans into the blues, while "Six Gallon Pie" and "That's How It Goes" go full country, the cowboy side of the band out in the open. Greg Kot gave it three and a half stars out of four in the Chicago Tribune, and AllMusic later counted it among their finest. Too High to Die, their most successful record, came next.

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