Meat Puppets’ 1994 document Too Excessive To Die is out there on vinyl for the primary time in years. The basic different LP has been remastered from the unique ¼” manufacturing grasp tape.
Too Excessive To Die (its identify a parody of The Ramones’ Too Robust To Die) was produced by Paul Leary, guitarist of Butthole Surfers. The album acquired usually optimistic evaluations upon launch, and boasted excessive gross sales due to the success of the one “Backwater,” arguably the group’s largest hit. “Backwater” reached quantity two on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, whereas Too Excessive To Die reached the highest spot on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. The album was licensed Gold by the RIAA only some months after launch, on October sixth, 1994.
Along with “Backwater,” the album’s 13 tracks embody “We Don’t Exist,” “Roof With A Hole,” and the album nearer “Comin’ Down,” which options an alternate model of their 1984 track “Lake of Fire” as a hidden observe.
“Lake of Fire” was famously coated by Nirvana as a part of their November 1993 MTV Unplugged efficiency. That iconic session noticed Meat Puppets’ Curt and Cris Kirkwood backing the group on guitar and bass for “Lake of Fire” in addition to two extra Meat Puppets covers, “Plateau” and “Oh Me.”
In 2014 Curt Kirkwood instructed Tone Deaf that he’s nonetheless happy with Too Excessive To Die, sharing: “My favourite things about [the album] are the production and the diversity of the material…there’s lots of fun stuff to play from that record and the mixes sound pretty unique.” He continued, “I wouldn’t change a thing… I think it’s as good as it could be.”
He moreover shared that his favourite songs off the document on the time have been “Flaming Heart,” “‘Never To Be Found,” and “Why.”
Store for the Meat Puppets’ music on vinyl now.
