“Up on the Sun” by Meat Puppets

"Up on the Sun" is the title track of the Meat Puppets' third album, which SST released on March 21, 1985. Curt Kirkwood wrote the song alone, words and music.

By then Curt, his brother Cris Kirkwood and Derrick Bostrom had drifted a long way from the ragged punk of their debut. The album swaps that for cleaner mixes, knottier guitar and bass lines and a psychedelic bent, while keeping the otherworldly, poetic words and country leanings of Meat Puppets II. The brothers were psychedelic rock fans; it was Bostrom who turned them on to punk, and Joe Carducci who brought them to SST, the label Black Flag called home. Fans still rank the album among the band's best.

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