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013: Meat Puppets - Forbidden Places (1991)

Discord and Rhyme: An Album Podcast

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Meet Puppets - Is That Really What They're Doing?

This is one of the tracks that really stood out to me as a highlight and made me take notice. The musicianship is definitely up from meet puppets too. It's just so varied too, that it's a wide display of what they can do on one album. So they're clearly connecting with a lot of different sounds with a lots of different people, really effectively. Just not effectively enough for a 1991 radio listener is apparently. They'd been keeping their head down and just sort of touring and recording consistently for the entire 80s. According to Kurt, the majors had been sniffing around for a few years by this point. London Records was the first one that sort of felt like

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