Meat Puppets are an American rock band formed in January 1980, in Phoenix, Arizona.

One of the more notable groups on the roster of SST Records ( who released most of their albums ), the Meat Puppets started as a punk rock band, but like most of their SST peers, the Meat Puppets established their own unique style, blending punk with country and psychedelic rock, and featuring Curt's warbling vocals.

The Meat Puppets later gained significant exposure when the Kirkwood brothers served as guest musicians on Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance in 1993.

The Meat Puppets have influenced various rock bands such as Nirvana Dinosaur Jr, and Pavement.

After briefly toying with the name The Bastions of Immaturity, they settled on the name Meat Puppets in June, 1980 after a song by Curt of the same name which appears on their first album.

Carducci suggested they sign with the label, and the Meat Puppets released their first album Meat Puppets in 1982, which among several new originals and a pair of heavily skewed Doc Watson and Bob Nolan covers, featured the songs " The Gold Mine " and " Melons Rising ", two tunes Derrick and Cris originally had written and performed as Atomic Bomb Club previously.

By the release of 1984's Meat Puppets II, the bandmembers " were so sick of the hardcore thing ," according to Bostrom.

Meat Puppets II turned the band into one of the leading bands on SST Records, and along with the Violent Femmes, the Gun Club and others, helped establish the genre called " cow punk ".

The album's sound resembled the folk-rock of The Byrds more than punk, and some of the group's fans accused Meat Puppets of sounding dangerously like hippies and abandoning their punk roots.

Over the next decade, Meat Puppets remained on SST and released a series of albums while touring relentlessly.

As numerous bands from the seminal SST label and other kindred punk-oriented indies had before them, Meat Puppets grappled with the decision to switch to a major label.

In late 1993, Meat Puppets achieved mainstream popularity when Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, who became a fan after seeing them open for Black Flag, invited Cris and Curt to join him on MTV Unplugged for acoustic performances of " Plateau ", " Oh Me " and " Lake of Fire " ( all originally from Meat Puppets II ).

Subsequently, the Nirvana exposure and the strength of the single " Backwater " ( their only charting single ) helped lift Meat Puppets to new commercial heights.

was the final album recorded by the original Meat Puppets lineup.

Curt formed a new band in Austin, TX called the Royal Neanderthal Orchestra, but they changed their name to Meat Puppets for legal reasons and released a promotional EP entitled You Love Me in 1999, Golden Lies in 2000 and Live in 2002.

* Meat Puppets II ( 1984 )

His work includes such albums as Meat Loaf's Bat out of Hell and Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell, and producing albums for Bonnie Tyler.

It appears on their 1983 album, Meat Puppets II and consists of three choruses, punctuated by two verses, in the key of G #.

While Steinman's fans acclaim it as his biggest musical success, about 70 % of the musical score written by Steinman was recycled from his earlier projects, mainly from his less-known shows like The Dream Engine and The Confidence Man ( co-written with Ray Errol Fox ), although it also features music from his widely known records like " Total Eclipse of the Heart " ( remade as " Totale Finsternis "), the melody, but not the lyric, from a Bat Out Of Hell II song called " Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are " ( remade as " Die unstillbare Gier ") and " Original Sin ", originally written for Pandora's Box album of the same name and later sung by " Meat Loaf " in Welcome to the Neighborhood ( parts of which were remade as " Gott Ist Tot " and " Einladung Zum Ball ").

** Meat Puppets – Meat Puppets II

He has appeared in Meat Loaf's video " Objects In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are " ( from Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell ) and was in Bon Jovi's video " It's My Life " with Shiri Appleby.

During World War II, units preparing heated combat rations in the Meat Can Body or canteen cup mainly used locally procured combustible materials or Sterno fuel units of jellied alcohol.

Meat Loaf-Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell album cover, illustrated by Michael Whelan.

In addition to background vocals, Sherwood sang lead on the track " Good Girls Go To Heaven ( Bad Girls Go Everywhere )," later covered by Meat Loaf on his album Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell.

Each Challenge season pits numerous cast members from past seasons of The Real World and Road Rules against each other ( only the Fresh Meat, Fresh Meat II and Cutthroat Challenges have introduced new cast members that have never appeared on either The Real World or Road Rules ), usually dividing them into separate teams according to a certain criteria, which varies from season to season.

Numerous cast members have made their first appearances on The Challenge, most of whom debuted on: The Fresh Meat Challenge and The Fresh Meat II Challenge.

* Perren, Richard, “ Farmers and Consumers under Strain: Allied Meat Supplies in the First World War ,” Agricultural History Review ( Oxford ), 53 ( part II, 2005 ), 212 – 28.

An album's worth of influential punk inflected folk / country came in 1984 when psychedelic hardcore band The Meat Puppets switched their style to a punk / country crossover for their seminal release Meat Puppets II.

Welcome to the Neighbourhood is Meat Loaf's seventh studio album, released in 1995 as follow-up to the popular album Bat out of Hell II: Back Into Hell.

" It Just Won't Quit " was a track, not released as a single, on the multi-platinum album Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell sung by Meat Loaf.

* " Wasted Youth ", a spoken-word piece performed by Jim Steinman on the 1993 Meat Loaf album Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell

Meat was consumed roasted or in soups or stews during this period.

" The response from fans was overwhelmingly positive within a couple of hours, leading to speculation of a full-blown Meat Puppets reunion in the near future.

Then the second song was played with original members Curt and Cris Kirkwood and new Meat Puppets drummer Ted Marcus.

This was in the middle of Army of Anyone's set, which they listed as Meat Puppet Theatre on the evening's set list.

It was announced in May of 2012 that the group was the subject of a fully authorized biography ( written by journalist Greg Prato ), called Too High to Die: Meet the Meat Puppets, released on June 1st.

Another Waits cover was released in 1996, as Meat Loaf covered Martha for his concept album Welcome to the Neighborhood.

Meat was also put on a bamboo spit and cooked over the fire.

Despite the outpouring of antagonistic replies to The Age of Reason, some scholars have argued that Constantin Volney's deistic The Ruins ( translations of excerpts from the French original appeared in radical papers such as Thomas Spence's Pig's Meat and Daniel Isaac Eaton's Politics for the People ) was actually more influential than The Age of Reason.

Show shorts program, which was eventually produced for Cartoon Network as " The Powerpuff Girls in: Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins " as part of World Premiere Toons.

" Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins " first aired in 1995, and was followed by a second short, " Crime 101 ", a year later.

Meat Is Murder was the band's only album ( barring compilations ) to reach number one in the UK charts.

Meat commonly preserved in fat and by smoking was mentioned by historian Jan Długosz in his annals: Annales seu cronici incliti regni Poloniae The Annales covered events from 965 to 1480, with mention of the hunting castle in Niepołomice along with King Władysław sending game to Queen Zofia from Niepołomice Forest, the most popular hunting ground for the Polish royalty beginning in 13th century.

Meat was eaten frozen, raw or roasted, and caribou was sometimes boiled in a stew.

The town was established by Caleb Fryley and Johnny Jones in 1816 as Bear Meat Cabin.

SST Records, an independent American record label that was initially founded to release Black Flag ’ s debut single, released recordings by influential bands such as Bad Brains, The Minutemen, Descendents, Meat Puppets, and Hüsker Dü.

Among them are Leonard Bernstein ( in the 1950s ), Comedian Michael Ian Black, Daryl Hall ( of Hall & Oates ), Jascha Heifetz ( in the 1940s ), Charles Ives, Hope Lange, film director Barry Levinson ( a current resident ), rock singer Meat Loaf ( Marvin Lee Aday who was Joel Barlow High School softball coach while his daughters attended the school during the 1990s ), actress Jessica Tandy and her husband Hume Cronyn ( in the 1940s and 1950s ) and Mary Travers, of Peter, Paul and Mary.

This property was later transferred to the U. S. Department of Agriculture and has been designated by Congress as the Roman L. Hruska U. S. Meat Animal Research Center.

Coffey, Clothing Store ; J. Thomasson, Edinburg Meat Market ; Skjold and Goodman, Ladies Clothing Store ; Dr. David Bell, Physician and Surgeon ( his office was over the State Bank Building ); The State Bank of Edinburg ; and The Merchants Bank of Edinburg.

In the United States, the term was particularly associated with the abrasive, distortion-heavy sounds of the Pixies, Hüsker Dü, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Dinosaur Jr., and The Replacements.

In the UK, where " MacArthur Park " did not top the chart, " Hey Jude " remained the longest number-one hit for nearly a quarter of a century, until it was surpassed in 1993 by Meat Loaf's " I'd Do Anything for Love ( But I Won't Do That )", which ran 7: 58 as a single.

Another briefly held early job was as a hot dog seller at Eddie's Meat Market, where his friend Chubby Checker also worked.