Question: Which band formed first, Meat Puppets or Days of the New?

Context articles: Lake of Fire (song)
No Strings Attached (Meat Puppets album)
Meat Puppets (album)
You Love Me
Plateau (song)
Meat Puppets
Rare Meat
Joseph Cultice
Snow (Curt Kirkwood album)
Days of the New

"Lake of Fire" is a song by the American alternative rock band the Meat Puppets.
 It appears on their 1984 album "Meat Puppets II" and also appears as a hidden track on their 1994 album "Too High to Die".
No Strings Attached is a 1990 compilation album of Meat Puppets songs released by their ex-record label SST Records.
 It was released after the band left SST Records to join London Records.
 The compilation includes songs from their first album "Meat Puppets" (1982) through to their 1989 album "Monsters".
 The Meat Puppets had no involvement in this release.
Meat Puppets is the first album by American band the Meat Puppets, released in 1982.
 The album is unlike their later, better-known releases due to its hardcore punk sound.
You Love Me is a 1999 promotional EP by the Meat Puppets.
 This was the first release from the then new line-up of the Meat Puppets.
 It was available free only through the official Meat Puppets website to promote the band's new line-up. "
Armed and Stupid" and the title track were re-released on the 2000 album "Golden Lies".
"Plateau" is a song written by alternative rock band the Meat Puppets, which first appeared on their 1984 album "Meat Puppets II".
Meat Puppets is an American rock band formed in January 1980 in Phoenix, Arizona.
 The group's original lineup was Curt Kirkwood (guitar/vocals), his brother Cris Kirkwood (bass guitar), and Derrick Bostrom (drums).
 The Kirkwood brothers met Bostrom while attending Brophy Prep High School in Phoenix.
 The three then moved to Tempe, Arizona (a Phoenix suburb and home to Arizona State University), where the Kirkwood brothers purchased two adjacent homes, one of which had a shed in the back where they regularly practiced.
Rare Meat is a 2005 compilation CD of rare and unreleased material by the Meat Puppets, spanning approximately 1990-2000.
 It was compiled by user "nathang78" from the Meat Puppets Yahoo Message Board, and posted on founding band member Derrick Bostrom's Meat Puppets blog on July 1, 2007.
Cultice began his photography career in Phoenix, Arizona, where he was inspired by his love of rock'n roll and pop icons like KISS and David Bowie.
 His first photo shoot was with rock band The Meat Puppets.
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Snow is the first solo album by Curt Kirkwood of the alternative rock band Meat Puppets, released in 2005.
 In his solo career, short though it was, he has pursued a more countrified aspect of his music. "
Golden Lies" was originally written as the title track for the previous Meat Puppets album, however, it was ironically excluded.
 The album was recorded in only 20 days.
Days of the New is an American rock band from Charlestown, Indiana, formed in 1995.
 The band consists of vocalist/guitarist Travis Meeks and a variety of supporting musicians that briefly included future pop star Nicole Scherzinger.
 They are best known for the hit singles "Touch, Peel and Stand", "The Down Town", "Shelf in the Room", and "Enemy".