Meat Puppets

Years Active: 80, 90, 2000

Genres: Pop/Rock

Styles: Alternative/Indie Rock, Hardcore Punk, American Punk, Punk, Punk/New Wave, Cowpunk, Alternative Pop/Rock, College Rock, Roots Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, American Underground

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Out of all of the bands that made SST Records a towering force in the American underground during the mid-'80s, the Meat Puppets lasted the longest, surviving where other bands fell apart. The Meat Puppets never had the dedicated following of Hüsker Dü or the Minutemen -- two fellow SST bands who played the same circuit as the Puppets -- but they were able to carve out a long career where other hardcore bands could not, because they always drew from conventional hard rock as well as punk. Not only did they play hard, loud, and fast, but they ...

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