Huevos (album)

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Huevos
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Studio album by
Meat Puppets
ReleasedOctober 27, 1987
RecordedAugust 3–7, 1987
StudioPantheon Studios, Phoenix, Arizona
Genre
Length36:25 (original)
58:05 (reissue)
Label SST (150)
Producer Steven Escallier, Meat Puppets
Meat Puppets chronology
Mirage
(1987)		Huevos
(1987)		 Monsters
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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New Musical Express 6/10 [3]
The Village Voice A− [4]

Huevos is the fifth studio album by the Arizona alternative rock band the Meat Puppets. It was released October 27, 1987 [5] on SST Records. The album title is literally the Spanish word for "eggs," although it carries a slang meaning associated with testicular fortitude. Most of the songs were recorded in one take. The cover art is done by guitarist/vocalist Curt Kirkwood.

Contents

The 1999 Rykodisc re-release features five unreleased bonus tracks (early demos of "Sexy Music", "Paradise", "Fruit" and "Automatic Mojo" and a cover of Jimmy Reed's "Baby What You Want Me to Do") as well as live footage of "Automatic Mojo" filmed at the band's January 22, 1988 concert at the Variety Arts Center in Los Angeles.

Content

Musical style

In an AllMusic biography of the band, Stephen Thomas Erlewine described the sound of Huevos as "ZZ Top-style hard rock swagger". [2] Matthew Smith Lahrman cataloged the record to be a blues rock effort. [1]

Track listing

All songs written by Curt Kirkwood, unless otherwise noted.

Original album

  1. "Paradise" (Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood) – 5:00
  2. "Look at the Rain" – 4:20
  3. "Bad Love" (Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood) – 3:10
  4. "Sexy Music" – 5:28
  5. "Crazy" – 4:45
  6. "Fruit" – 3:30
  7. "Automatic Mojo" (Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood) – 3:19
  8. "Dry Rain" – 2:55
  9. "I Can't Be Counted On" (Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood) – 3:58

CD reissue bonus tracks

  2. "Baby What You Want Me to Do" (Jimmy Reed) – 1:29
  3. "Sexy Music" (Demo Version) – 6:40
  4. "Automatic Mojo" (Demo Version) – 3:56
  5. "Paradise" (Demo Version) – 4:06
  6. "Fruit" (Demo Version) – 5:20

Personnel

Meat Puppets

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References

  1. 1 2 Smith-Lahrman, Matthew (2014). The Meat Puppets and the Lyrics of Curt Kirkwood from Meat Puppets II to No Joke!. Scarecrow Press. p. 104. ISBN   9780810884137.
  2. 1 2 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Meat Puppets | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  3. ↑ Barron, Jack (28 November 1987). "Meat Puppets: Heuvos[ sic ]". New Musical Express . p. 33.
  4. ↑ Christgau, Robert (February 23, 1988). "Christgau's Consumer Guide". The Village Voice . New York. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
  5. ↑ Farrell, Ray (30 October 1987). "SST Records" (PDF). The Hard Report. Medford Lakes, NJ, USA (52): 49. Archived from the original on 26 August 2020. Retrieved 10 September 2023. The album "Huevos" is out on the 27th{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)


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