Meat Puppets- In A Car

Label: MegaForce

Reissued 10/6/2023, Originally released 1981

The Puppets—Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood and Derrick Bostrom—originally released seven albums on Greg Ginn’s influential LA-based SST, beginning in 1981 through 1989’s Monsters. “Our back catalog is an American treasure and should be in the Smithsonian,” says bassist and co-founder Cris Kirkwood. “Megaforce is doing a huge service to the planet to make sure our music continues to get into the hands of everyone who needs to have the coolest record collection on the block.”  Formed in Phoenix,1980, Meat Puppets exploded onto the scene with the blazing untitled 7” EP, In a Car. Originally released on World Imitation Records, the recording took place in a single day, June 4, 1981, with each song around  a minute long.  “In a Car is the best representation of what we sounded like live, back when we first started out. We were definitely on,” says  Bostrom. “We began to make such a hellacious racket that we knew we were on to something.” The 7” caught the attention of SST Records, and countless others. "The Meat Puppets' first record was pretty amazing to us when it came out," adds J. Mascis, leader of Dinosaur Jr. 

Track listing:

1. In a Car
2. Big House
3. Dolphin Field
4. Out in the Gardener
5. Foreign Lawns