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Originally Posted by swa(y)
well...the first meat puppets record was almost completely straight ahead hardcore...the whole dixie-fried punk/country hybrid (i suppose "cow punk" works, even though around here they wouldnt be labled as that) didnt start till the second album, "meat puppets II" < which is an amazing album.
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Amazing, you're actually clarifying rather than just contradicting.
Thing is, while the first album was
more hardcore than country, and II met both genres half way, the country kernel really was there from the beginning ("Tumblin' Tumbleweeds" being the obvious track) even if it didn't pop quite as loud until later.
And, yeah, they weren't as "cow punk" by definition as say
Rank and File, that's probably mostly because they didn't fit very neatly in
any genre. Sure they came out of hardcore, but that hardly means they sounded much like the Germs or DOA either.
In the end, all I'm doing is saying that a Sonic Youth fan who wants to check out some country music, has a very probable chance of getting into the early Meat Puppets records - and the first one is likely included in that.