Consumer Guide Album

Meat Puppets: Meat Puppets [SST EP, 1981]
These Phoenix boys not only realize L.A. punk's no-wave proclivities in brief, doomy noise songs that sound like DNA meeting the Marx Brothers, they cover "Tumblin' Tumbleweeds." And include a dancy lyric sheet featuring lines like "You are like children in the marketplace/Shouting to your playmates" and "We get stones like it's going out of style." None of which they go so far as to pronounce over or under the hardcore roar. B