Meat Puppets II
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| Released | April 1984 | |||
| Studio | Total Access, Redondo Beach, California | |||
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| Length | 29:57 (original) 48:01 (reissue) | |||
| Label | SST Records | |||
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Meat Puppets II is the second studio album by American rock band Meat Puppets, released in April 1984 by SST Records. Rykodisc reissued the album in 1999 with extra tracks and B-sides, including a cover of "What To Do" by The Rolling Stones.
II is musically a departure from the Meat Puppets' debut album, which largely consisted of noise-filled hardcore punk with unintelligible vocals. While there are hardcore and punk rock-influenced songs, II encompasses a wide assortment of styles including country rock, ballads, and psychedelia.
The album is considered to be one of the best Meat Puppets albums by critics and listeners. Curt and Cris Kirkwood acoustically performed three songs from II with Nirvana for MTV Unplugged in New York, in which they played "Plateau", "Oh, Me", and "Lake of Fire".