Mirage (studio album) by Meat Puppets

Mirage by Meat Puppets
Year: 1987
Overall rank: 9,455th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 24 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1987 (124th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (1,387th)
Award Best albums of all time (9,455th)
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Meat Puppets bestography

Mirage is ranked 3rd best out of 19 albums by Meat Puppets on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Meat Puppets is Meat Puppets II which is ranked number 1024 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,736.

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Mirage track list

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Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 24 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.3/100, a mean average of 72.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.1.

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From 06/23/2021 02:41
Mirage is the most elegant and melodic Meat Puppets albums. It also has some of the strongest songwriting in the Meat Puppets catalog. Gorgeous country-folk songs like Confusion Dog mingle with the silly Get on Down and I am a Machine and the melodic ballad Wind and the Rain. An essential record from their excellent SST era in the 1980s.

Track Pick: Confusion Fog
Gems: Wind and the Rain, Get on Down
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From 08/18/2017 18:23
One of the most elegant Rock albums of all time.
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