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Meat Puppets II by Meat Puppets
Meat Puppets II is an album by Meat Puppets, released in 1984. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 11 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Lake Of Fire”, on 10 lists with a best position of #740.
Meat Puppets II came out on SST Records in April 1984, and it's the record where three Arizona punks wandered out into the desert and came back with something new. Their debut had been a blur of noise-scorched hardcore with vocals you couldn't make out; this time Curt Kirkwood's guitar drifts off into country rock, woozy psychedelia and honest-to-goodness ballads, his warbling voice floating over the top while brother Cris holds down the bass and Derrick Bostrom keeps the whole contraption rolling on drums. There's still some hardcore in the mix, but it's the dusty, sun-struck strangeness that sticks.
"Lake of Fire" and "Lost" are the ones rock radio found. Critics and fans alike count it among the band's finest, and it got a second life in 1993 when the Kirkwood brothers joined Nirvana on MTV Unplugged in New York to play "Plateau", "Oh, Me" and "Lake of Fire", with Kurt Cobain singing. Rykodisc reissued it in 1999 with extra tracks, among them a cover of the Rolling Stones' "What To Do".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Meat Puppets II on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lake Of Fire | 10 | #740 | – | 2007–2026 | |
| 2 | Lost | 1 | #441 | – | 1989 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.