Meat Puppets II
by Meat Puppets

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Meat Puppets II by Meat Puppets
Year: 1984
Release date: 1984-04-00
Overall rank: 1,011th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 367 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1984 (19th)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (156th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,011th)

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Meat Puppets bestography

Meat Puppets II is ranked as the best album by Meat Puppets.

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Meat Puppets II track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Split Myself In Two
Average Rating: 81 (65 votes)Comments: View 0
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Magic Toy Missing
Average Rating: 77 (61 votes)Comments: View 0
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Lost
Average Rating: 80 (60 votes)Comments: View 0
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Plateau
Average Rating: 84 (80 votes)Comments: View 0
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Aurora Borealis
Average Rating: 81 (64 votes)Comments: View 1
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We're Here
Average Rating: 77 (55 votes)Comments: View 0
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Climbing
Average Rating: 79 (58 votes)Comments: View 0
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New Gods
Average Rating: 78 (57 votes)Comments: View 0
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Oh, Me
Average Rating: 81 (65 votes)Comments: View 0
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Lake Of Fire
Average Rating: 86 (85 votes)Comments: View 1
11.
I'm A Mindless Idiot
Average Rating: 77 (56 votes)Comments: View 0
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The Whistling Song
Average Rating: 77 (57 votes)Comments: View 0

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Meat Puppets II rankings

Meat Puppets II rankings summary
Overall rank: 1,011th | 1980s rank: 156th | 1984 rank: 19th  Overall chart history
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Meat Puppets II forum mentions

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From BestEverAlbums 09/10/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5431): By Amirkhosro
“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Amirkhosro () 1. by (1965) 2. by (1967) 3. by by (1970) 5. (2002) 6. by (1959) 7. (1966) 8. by by (1976) 10. by by (1968) 12. by (1959) 13. by (1959) 14. (1977) 16. by (1998) 18. by by (1989) 20. by (1998) 21. by (1962) 23. by (1980) 24. by…”
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From 12/04/2010 15:36 | #16786 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I'm confused by the previous statement. Aside from being on SST in the 80's, what do those bands really have in common?
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From 06/01/2013 12:56 | #77852 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I've been listening to this all night for the first time. All I can say is that this is one of the coolest albums ever. It's kind of like Wilco before Wilco was big. Maybe with Stephen Malkmus flare? Obviously, these acts came after this album, but it's easy to see that those guys certainly benefit from this album. Anyhow, this is great, I can't wait to get into it more.
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From 08/24/2015 22:23 | #148442 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Wonderfully evocative of the Arizona the band grew up in, and insinuating brilliantly the anxious state of Kirkwood's mind. A terrific set of songs, played with passion. (Edited)
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From 02/01/2012 17:14 | #36298 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
You might've first heard a few of their songs covered on nirvana's 1994 unplugged performance. In their original form, they're two steps away from a line dance at times, saved by the askew (almost strained) punk delivery and guitars. Swirling punk together with country (cowpunk, anyone?), with some songs sounding like country with punk or hard rock thrown in, is a truly unique experience as of the early 80s. A couple of songs nirvana covered, "plateau" (i love the eerie, atmospheric guitars in this one) and "lake of fire" (near-sludge, anyone?), are the best of the bunch, but songs like "aurora borealis" can be just as stunning despite, and/or because of, the unique genre mix the meat puppets perform under. From hillbilly to heavy metal, with a little psychedelic thrown in, this is punk like no other.
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From 06/16/2018 17:24 | #216882 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Pretty awesome! Love his hysteric voice, and there are some real gems here. Combining noise and punk and alt rock. Truly before their time. (Edited)
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