Forbidden Places

Forbidden Places
Studio album by Meat Puppets
Released	July 1, 1991
Recorded	1990–1991
Studio	Capitol Studios, Hollywood, California
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	37:00
Label	London
Producer	Pete Anderson
Meat Puppets chronology
No Strings Attached (1990) Forbidden Places (1991) Too High to Die (1994)
Singles from Forbidden Places
"Sam" Released: 1991 "Whirlpool" Released: 1991

Forbidden Places is the seventh studio album by American rock band Meat Puppets, released in 1991. It is their first release on London Records.

Music

Opening with what Greg Prato described as "razor-sharp rock" on "Sam", Forbidden Places explored several styles including blues on "Nail it Down" and country on "Six Gallon Pie" and "That's How It Goes". ^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Chicago Tribune	[2]
Christgau's Consumer Guide	[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[4]
Entertainment Weekly	A+ [5]
Los Angeles Times	[6]
Spin Alternative Record Guide	8/10 [7]

AllMusic's Greg Prato proclaimed Forbidden Places to be "one of [the band's] finest albums", complementing the album's more country-informed tracks as "splendidly" showing off the Meat Puppets' "cowboy roots". ^[1]

In August 1991, Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune praised Forbidden Places, awarding it three and a half-of-four stars and writing that the band's "casual brilliance becomes more dazzling with each play". ^[2]

Track listing

All songs written by Curt Kirkwood.

1. "Sam" – 3:05
2. "Nail It Down" – 3:32
3. "This Day" – 3:14
4. "Open Wide" – 3:11
5. "Another Moon" – 3:39
6. "That's How It Goes" – 3:24
7. "Whirlpool" – 3:31
8. "Popskull" – 3:05
9. "No Longer Gone" – 3:56
10. "Forbidden Places" – 2:59
11. "Six Gallon Pie" – 3:24

Personnel

Meat Puppets

• Curt Kirkwood - guitar, vocals, cover
• Cris Kirkwood - bass, backing vocals, illustration
• Derrick Bostrom - drums, percussion

with:

• Skip Edwards - organ on "Nail It Down" and "Another Moon", piano on "That's How It Goes"
• Alex Acuña - percussion on "Another Moon", "Whirlpool" and "No Longer Gone"
• Tommy Funderburk - backing vocals on "Nail It Down"
• Peter Doell - additional backing vocals on "No Longer Gone"

References

1. Prato, Greg. "Forbidden Places - Meat Puppets Review". AllMusic . Retrieved 2017-10-22.
2. Kot, Greg (1991-08-01). "Meat Puppets Forbidden Places (London)". Chicago Tribune . Archived from the original on October 6, 2017. Retrieved 2017-10-22.
3. Christgau, Robert (2000-10-15). "Meat Puppets: Forbidden Places". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. Macmillan Publishing. p. 202. ISBN   9780312245603.
4. Larkin, Colin (2011-05-27). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN   9780857125958.
5. Arnold, Gina (1991-07-19). "Forbidden Places". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved 2017-10-22.
6. Cromelin, Richard (1991-08-25). "Record Rack". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2017-12-22.
7. Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig (1995). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. ISBN   9780679755746.