Meat Puppets- Up On The Sun

Label: MegaForce

Reissued 10/6/2023, Originally released 1985

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.”  Recorded and mixed over three days, 1985’s Up on the Sun is the high-desert psychedelic followup to Meat Puppets II. Curt remembers, “I was trying to get outside of style, if anything. I always thought it was a pretty different album for us, one that stands out.  I love the sound of it.”  “It was just like magic,” says Curt, of the SST years. “You could make a record, with no thought to how much it will cost. There were no time worries, no money—but it wasn’t required. There wasn’t any production. You just go in and play. It was like you were doing a gig. Then we kind of figured out how to mess around with production, when we produced Up on the Sun. But even that was done in three days.  No one was trying to figure out how to make things sell, they were just letting you do it.” 

Track listing:

1. Up on the Sun

2. Maiden's Milk

3. Away

4. Animal Kingdom

5. Hot Pink

6. Swimming Ground

7. Buckethead

8. Too Real

9. Enchanted Porkfist

10. Seal Whales

11. Two Rivers

12. Creator

13. Hot Pink (demo)*

14. Up on the Sun (demo)*

15. Mother American Marshmallow (demo)*

16. Embodiment of Evil (demo-previously unreleased)*

17. Hot Pink (demo)*

CD Only*