Out My Way

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Out My Way
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EP by
Meat Puppets
Released1986
RecordedMarch 1986
Genre Alternative rock
Length25:49 (original)
54:12 (reissue)
Label SST [1]
Producer Meat Puppets, Steven Escallier [2]
Meat Puppets chronology
Up on the Sun
(1985)		Out My Way
(1986)		 Mirage
(1987)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Robert Christgau B+ [4]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Spin Alternative Record Guide 6/10 [6]

Out My Way is an EP by American alternative rock band Meat Puppets, released in 1986 by SST Records. [7] [8] It features a more hard rock-oriented sound than on previous releases, leading some critics to say that the sound is similar to the southern/hard rock stylings of ZZ Top. The EP was reissued in 1999 by Rykodisc, with additional bonus tracks.

Contents

Production

The cover art is by Curt Kirkwood. [9] The EP was issued while Curt recovered from a broken finger. [10]

Critical reception

AllMusic wrote that "the EP showed that the Puppets were moving on from their early punk sound to a more traditional rock direction." [3] Robert Christgau called the EP "a departure, toward a less spacy, more bottomy hardcore-gone-folkloric." [4] Trouser Press praised "an utterly crazed raveup of 'Good Golly Miss Molly,'” writing that it "merely caps off a diverse collection of occasionally funky, occasionally psychedelic, occasionally countryfied rock tunes." [11]

Track listing

All songs written by Curt Kirkwood, unless otherwise noted.

Original album

  1. "She's Hot" (Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood) – 4:05
  2. "Out My Way" – 4:47
  3. "Other Kinds of Love" (Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood) – 4:22
  4. "Not Swimming Ground" (Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood) – 4:07
  5. "Mountain Line" – 4:20
  6. "Good Golly Miss Molly" (Robert "Bumps" Blackwell, John Marascalco) – 4:08

CD reissue bonus tracks

  2. "Good Golly Miss Molly" (Robert "Bumps" Blackwell, John Marascalco) – 2:50
  3. "I Just Want to Make Love to You" (Willie Dixon) – 3:55
  4. "On the Move" – 3:50
  5. "Burn the Honky Tonk Down" (Wayne Kemp) – 1:59
  6. "Boyhood Home" – 3:17
  7. "Backwards Drums" – 4:20
  8. "Everything is Green" – 8:39
  9. "Other Kinds of Love" (Demo Version) – 0:52

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  2. ↑ Smith-Lahrman, Matthew (October 30, 2014). The Meat Puppets and the Lyrics of Curt Kirkwood from Meat Puppets II to No Joke!. Scarecrow Press. ISBN   9780810884137 – via Google Books.
  3. 1 2 "Out My Way - Meat Puppets | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  4. 1 2 "Robert Christgau: CG: Meat Puppets". www.robertchristgau.com.
  5. ↑ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 465.
  6. ↑ Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. 1995. p. 247.
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