Amoeba Music

           The Meat Puppets were something of an anomaly on the roster of Southern California’s notorious hardcore punk label SST. Though the Arizona trio’s initial early-‘80s recordings were as noisy, aggressive, and in-your-face as the work of their label contemporaries Black Flag, The Minutemen, and Hüsker Dü, they quickly gravitated toward a sound that favored mutant country-rock, neo-psychedelia, and hard-rock jamming. Along the way, they influenced a host of younger bands, most notably Nirvana, and they even managed a major mid-‘90s hit of their own before drug abuse took them out of the picture for more than a decade.

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Genre:

Rock, Alternative/Indie, Country Rock

City Of Origin:

Phoenix, ,Arizona United States

Formed Date:

1980