MEAT PUPPETS – MEAT PUPPETS II - CD •

UPC: 020286242574 Label: MEGAFORCE Format: CDRelease Date: February 9, 2024In stock items ship within 48 hours Meat Puppets II was a bit star-crossed. "Here we had this record which was going to absolutely be completely different, not just for us, but for what most people thought about punk rock," says Bostrom. "We were going to bust the whole, thing wide open." Various screw-ups prevented Meat Puppets II from being released until April, 1984. In the meantime, some of the record's fire had been stolen by genre-busting masterpieces like Hüsker Dü's Zen Arcade, the Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime, Black Flag's My War and the Replacements' Let It Be. Up until then, punk rock, especially hardcore, was anti-historical - it didn't seem to come from anywhere. Meat Puppets II proved you could embrace old forms and still be punk, that you didn't have to reject the ancient in order to be" modern. Hardcore lived on but barely evolved, while the indie underground followed the lead of Meat P