Consumer Guide Album

Meat Puppets: No Strings Attached [SST, 1990]
"I got a shirt that cost a dollar twenty-five/I know that I'm the best-dressed man alive," sings the same goof--well, sounds more like his brother, but only their mom cares--who gets lost on the freeway/in the breezeway and escapes Satan's lake of fire in a swimming hole that sounds like heaven itself. How did music so resilient bubble out of the desert wastes? How did music so sweet top hardcore mess? No one ever accused them of reliability, but in this astutely compiled account, having established their noisy principles and done "Tumblin' Tumbleweeds" as Sid's "My Way," they never touch the ground. Amerindie at its most blessed. A