| Meat Puppets discography | |
|---|---|
 Meat Puppets performing in 2014 | |
| Studio albums | 15 |
| EPs | 4 |
| Live albums | 2 |
| Compilation albums | 3 |
| Singles | 16 |
The Meat Puppets are an American rock band formed in January 1980 in Tempe, Arizona.
Albums
Studio albums
| Title | Album details |
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| Meat Puppets |
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| Meat Puppets II |
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| Up on the Sun |
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| Mirage |
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| Huevos |
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| Monsters |
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| Forbidden Places |
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| Too High to Die |
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| No Joke! |
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| Golden Lies |
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| Rise to Your Knees |
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| Sewn Together |
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| Lollipop |
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| Rat Farm |
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| Dusty Notes |
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Live albums
| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| Live in Montana |
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| Meat Puppets Live |
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| Mountains Made of Sand (Live 1986) |
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| Live Manchester 2019 |
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| Camp Songs |
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Compilation albums
| Title | Album details |
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| No Strings Attached |
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| Meat Puppets 8 |
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| Classic Puppets |
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EPs
| Title | EP details |
|---|---|
| In a Car |
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| Out My Way |
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| Raw Meat |
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| You Love Me |
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| "Multiply" EP |
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Singles
| Year | Title | Peak chart positions | Album | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | US Main. | US Alt | UK Vinyl | |||||||
| 1985 | "Swimming Ground" | — | — | — | x | Up on the Sun | ||||
| 1987 | "Get on Down" | — | — | — | x | Mirage | ||||
| "I Am a Machine" | — | — | — | x | ||||||
| "I Can't Be Counted On" | — | — | — | x | Huevos | |||||
| 1989 | "Light" | — | — | — | x | Monsters | ||||
| 1991 | "Sam" | — | — | 13 | x | Forbidden Places | ||||
| "Whirlpool" | — | — | — | x | ||||||
| 1994 | "Backwater" | 47 | 2 | 11 | x | Too High to Die | ||||
| "We Don’t Exist" | — | 28 | — | x | ||||||
| "Roof with a Hole" | — | — | — | x | ||||||
| "Lake of Fire" | — | — | — | x | ||||||
| 1995 | "Scum" | — | 20 | 23 | x | No Joke! | ||||
| 1996 | "Taste of the Sun" | — | — | — | x | |||||
| 2000 | "Armed and Stupid" | — | — | — | x | Golden Lies | ||||
| 2009 | "Rotten Shame" | — | — | — | x | Sewn Together | ||||
| 2014 | "(Hey Baby) Que Paso"/"Cathy's Clown" | — | — | — | — | Split single with Cass McCombs | ||||
| 2021 | "One of These Days" | — | — | — | 34 | Split single with Mudhoney | ||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | ||||||||||
Soundtrack and compilation appearances
- 1981 – Light Bulb ("Meat Puppets")
- 1981 – Keats Rides a Harley ("H-Elenore" and "The Losing End")
- 1981 – Amuck ("Unpleasant")
- 1983 – The Blasting Concept ("Tumblin' Tumbleweeds" and "Meat Puppets")
- 1983 – Bethel ("Soup")
- 1984 – Basic Sampler ("Aroura Borealis" and "Problem Child")
- 1983 – Leather Chaps and Lace Petticoats ("Magic Toy Missing")
- 1986 – Lovedolls Superstar ("No Values")
- 1986 – The 7 Inch Wonders of the World (In a Car EP)
- 1986 – The Blasting Concept Vol. 2 ("I Just Want to Make Love to You")
- 1990 – Duck and Cover ("Good Golly Miss Molly")
- 1990 – The Edge of Rock ("Light")
- 1991 – Stereophonic ("That’s How It Goes")
- 1991 – Aural Fixations ("Funnel of Love")
- 1994 – Chasers ("Sam")
- 1994 – Fast Track to Nowhere ("House of Blue Light")
- 1994 – Cream of Cuts ("Backwater")
- 1994 – Love and a .45 ("Animal")
- 1995 – White Man's Burden ("Animal")
- 1995 – Alterno-Daze 90's Natural Selection ("Sam")
- 1995 – X Factor ("This Day")
- 1995 – Songs in the Key of X ("Unexplained")
- 1995 – Our Band Could Be Your Life: A Tribute to D Boon and the Minutemen ("The Price of Paradise")
- 1995 – UMPF ("Backwater")
- 1996 – A Small Circle of Friends ("Not All Right")
- 1996 – Barb Wire ("Scum" (Vapourspace remix))
- 1996 – Big Ones of Alternative Rock vol. 1 ("Backwater")
- 1997 – Alternative Rock Cafe ("Backwater")
- 1999 – Alt.Country Exposed Roots ("Lost")
- 1999 – Southern Edge Vol. 1 ("Sam")
- 2000 – Crime + Punishment in Suburbia ("Two Rivers")
- 2004 – Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the '80s Underground ("Lake of Fire")
- 2011 – Newermind: A Tribute to Nirvana ("Smells Like Teen Spirit")
Music videos
| Year | Title | Director | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | "New Gods" | Meat Puppets II | |
| 1987 | "Get On Down" | Robert Tucker | Mirage |
| 1989 | "Light" | Bill Taylor | Monsters |
| 1991 | "Sam" | Forbidden Places | |
| 1994 | "Backwater" | Too High to Die | |
| "We Don't Exist" | |||
| 1995 | "Scum" | David Markey | No Joke! |
| 2009 | "Rotten Shame" | Sewn Together | |
| 2011 | "Orange" | Michael Etoll | Lollipop |
| "Damn Thing" | |||
| 2019 | "Warranty" | Dusty Notes | |
| "Nine Pins" | Steve Moramarco |
Video albums
- Alive in the Nineties (2003)
- A History Lesson Part 1 (2010)
References
- "Meat Puppets – "Rotten Shame" (Video / Tour dates), PopMatters". 18 September 2009.
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