Meat Puppets Live

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Live
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Live album by
ReleasedApril 9, 2002
RecordedFebruary 8, 2001 at Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ and February 11, 2001 at Higher Ground, Winooski, VT
Genre Alternative rock
Length75:44
Label DCN Digital Club Network [1]
Producer Brad Navin, Usher Winslett
Meat Puppets chronology
Golden Lies
(2000)
Live
(2002)
Classic Puppets
(2004)
Professional ratings
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Pitchfork Media (2.7/10) [4]

Live is a 2002 live album by American rock band Meat Puppets. [5] It is also known as Live at Maxwell's. [3] The album includes a previously unreleased song, "Way That It Are."

Contents

Track listing

All songs by Curt Kirkwood unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Intro" (Kirkwood, Kyle Ellison) – 4:35
  2. "Armed and Stupid" – 3:01
  3. "Wipe Out" – 3:39
  4. "I Quit" – 3:01
  5. "Hercules" (Kirkwood, Shandon Sahm) – 3:13
  6. "Oh, Me" – 3:11
  7. "Push the Button" – 4:35
  8. "Lamp" – 5:36
  9. "Pieces of Me" – 3:32
  10. "Up on the Sun" – 7:21
  11. "Take Off Your Clothes" (Kirkwood, Ellison) – 4:49
  12. "Fatboy / Fat / Requiem" (Kirkwood, Ellison) – 9:41
  13. "Lake of Fire" – 2:38
  14. "Way That It Are" (Kirkwood, Ellison) – 4:08
  15. "You Love Me" (Kirkwood, Ellison, Andrew Duplantis) – 3:51
  16. "Plateau" – 2:47
  17. "Touchdown King" – 6:02

Personnel

Meat Puppets

Production and other credits

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