# Meat Puppets discography

The Meat Puppets are an American rock band formed in January 1980 in Tempe, Arizona.

## Albums
### Studio albums

| Title | Album details |
| Meat Puppets | Released: 1982 Label: SST (SST 009) |
| Meat Puppets II | Released: 1984 Label: SST (SST 019) |
| Up on the Sun | Released: 1985 Label: SST (SST 039) |
| Mirage | Released: 1987 Label: SST (SST 100) |
| Huevos | Released: 1987 Label: SST (SST 150) |
| Monsters | Released: 1989 Label: SST (SST 253) |
| Forbidden Places | Released: July 9, 1991 Label: London (828 254) |
| Too High to Die | Released: January 25, 1994 Label: London (828 424) |
| No Joke! | Released: October 5, 1995 Label: London (828 665) |
| Golden Lies | Released: September 26, 2000 Label: Atlantic (83402-2) |
| Rise to Your Knees | Released: July 17, 2007 Label: Anodyne |
| Sewn Together | Released: May 12, 2009 Label: Megaforce |
| Lollipop | Released: July 17, 2011 Label: Megaforce |
| Rat Farm | Released: April 16, 2013 Label: Megaforce |
| Dusty Notes | Released: March 8, 2019 Label: Megaforce |

### Live albums

| Title | Album details |
| Live in Montana | Released: 1999 Label: Rykodisc |
| Meat Puppets Live | Released: 2002 Label: DCN Digital Club Network (DCN CD 1003) |
| Mountains Made of Sand (Live 1986) | Released: 2020 Label: Shockwaves |
| Live Manchester 2019 | Released: 2022 Label: DC-Jam Records (DCJ21002) |
| Camp Songs | Released: 2023 Label: Meat Puppets Music (MPM010LP) |

### Compilation albums

| Title | Album details |
| No Strings Attached | Released: 1990 Label: SST (SST 265) |
| Meat Puppets 8 | Released: 1999 Label: Rykodisc (RBX 00005) |
| Classic Puppets | Released: 2004 Label: Rykodisc (RCD 10648) |

## EPs

| Title | EP details |
| In a Car | Released: 1981 Label: SST (SST 044) |
| Out My Way | Released: 1986 Label: SST (SST 049) |
| Raw Meat | Released: 1994 Label: London |
| You Love Me | Released: 1999 Label: London (PRO 74691-2) |
| "Multiply" EP | Released: 2020 Label: Megaforce Records (MEGA 3064) |

## Singles

| Year | Title | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Album |
| Year | Title | US | US Main. | US Alt | UK Vinyl | Album |
| 1985 | "Swimming Ground" | — | — | — | x | Up on the Sun |
| 1987 | "Get on Down" | — | — | — | x | Mirage |
| 1987 | "I Am a Machine" | — | — | — | x | Mirage |
| 1987 | "I Can't Be Counted On" | — | — | — | x | Huevos |
| 1989 | "Light" | — | — | — | x | Monsters |
| 1991 | "Sam" | — | — | 13 | x | Forbidden Places |
| 1991 | "Whirlpool" | — | — | — | x | Forbidden Places |
| 1994 | "Backwater" | 47 | 2 | 11 | x | Too High to Die |
| 1994 | "We Don’t Exist" | — | 28 | — | x | Too High to Die |
| 1994 | "Roof with a Hole" | — | — | — | x | Too High to Die |
| 1994 | "Lake of Fire" | — | — | — | x | Too High to Die |
| 1995 | "Scum" | — | 20 | 23 | x | No Joke! |
| 1996 | "Taste of the Sun" | — | — | — | x | No Joke! |
| 2000 | "Armed and Stupid" | — | — | — | x | Golden Lies |
| 2009 | "Rotten Shame" | — | — | — | x | Sewn Together |
| 2014 | "(Hey Baby) Que Paso"/"Cathy's Clown" | — | — | — | — | Split single with Cass McCombs |
| 2021 | "One of These Days" | — | — | — | 34 | Split single with Mudhoney |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. |||||||

## Soundtrack and compilation appearances

* 1981 – Light Bulb ("Meat Puppets")
* 1981 – Keats Rides a Harley ("H-Elenore" and "The Losing End")
* 1981 – Amuck ("Unpleasant")
* 1983 – The Blasting Concept ("Tumblin' Tumbleweeds" and "Meat Puppets")
* 1983 – Bethel ("Soup")
* 1984 – Basic Sampler ("Aroura Borealis" and "Problem Child")
* 1983 – Leather Chaps and Lace Petticoats ("Magic Toy Missing")
* 1986 – Lovedolls Superstar ("No Values")
* 1986 – The 7 Inch Wonders of the World (In a Car EP)
* 1986 – The Blasting Concept Vol. 2 ("I Just Want to Make Love to You")
* 1990 – Duck and Cover ("Good Golly Miss Molly")
* 1990 – The Edge of Rock ("Light")
* 1991 – Stereophonic ("That’s How It Goes")
* 1991 – Aural Fixations ("Funnel of Love")
* 1994 – Chasers ("Sam")
* 1994 – Fast Track to Nowhere ("House of Blue Light")
* 1994 – Cream of Cuts ("Backwater")
* 1994 – Love and a .45 ("Animal")
* 1995 – White Man's Burden ("Animal")
* 1995 – Alterno-Daze 90's Natural Selection ("Sam")
* 1995 – X Factor ("This Day")
* 1995 – Songs in the Key of X ("Unexplained")
* 1995 – Our Band Could Be Your Life: A Tribute to D Boon and the Minutemen ("The Price of Paradise")
* 1995 – UMPF ("Backwater")
* 1996 – A Small Circle of Friends ("Not All Right")
* 1996 – Barb Wire ("Scum" (Vapourspace remix))
* 1996 – Big Ones of Alternative Rock vol. 1 ("Backwater")
* 1997 – Alternative Rock Cafe ("Backwater")
* 1999 – Alt.Country Exposed Roots ("Lost")
* 1999 – Southern Edge Vol. 1 ("Sam")
* 2000 – Crime + Punishment in Suburbia ("Two Rivers")
* 2004 – Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the '80s Underground ("Lake of Fire")
* 2011 – Newermind: A Tribute to Nirvana ("Smells Like Teen Spirit")

## Music videos

| Year | Title | Director | Album |
| 1984 | "New Gods" | | Meat Puppets II |
| 1987 | "Get On Down" | Robert Tucker | Mirage |
| 1989 | "Light" | Bill Taylor | Monsters |
| 1991 | "Sam" | | Forbidden Places |
| 1994 | "Backwater" | | Too High to Die |
| 1994 | "We Don't Exist" | | Too High to Die |
| 1995 | "Scum" | David Markey | No Joke! |
| 2009 | "Rotten Shame" | David Markey | Sewn Together |
| 2011 | "Orange" | Michael Etoll | Lollipop |
| 2011 | "Damn Thing" | Michael Etoll | Lollipop |
| 2019 | "Warranty" | | Dusty Notes |
| 2019 | "Nine Pins" | Steve Moramarco | Dusty Notes |

### Video albums

* Alive in the Nineties (2003)
* A History Lesson Part 1 (2010)