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Mirage (Meat Puppets album)

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Released
  
April 1987

Mirage (1987)
  
Huevos (1987)

Release date
  
April 1987

Recorded
  
1986-1987

Artist
  
Meat Puppets

Label
  
SST Records

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Length
  
39:57 (original) 56:10 (reissue)

Producer
  
Steven Escallier, Meat Puppets

Genres
  
Alternative rock, Psychedelic music

Similar
  
Huevos, Monsters, Forbidden Places, No Joke!, Golden Lies

Meat puppets mirage 1987 full album


Mirage is an album by the Arizona alternative rock band Meat Puppets.

Contents

The album was reissued in 1999 by Rykodisc with five additional bonus tracks, including early demos of "The Mighty Zero," "I Am a Machine" and "Liquified" as well as a cover of the Elvis Presley song "Rubberneckin'" and the previously unreleased "Grand Intro." As an added bonus, this album includes an "Enhanced CD" partition for play on home computers. Mirage offers the promotional video for "Get On Down." Drummer Derrick Bostrom has referred to the album as their "psychedelic epic".

Meat puppets mirage


Track listing

All songs written by Curt Kirkwood, unless otherwise noted.

Original album

  1. "Mirage" – 3:40
  2. "Quit It" – 2:36
  3. "Confusion Fog" – 3:49
  4. "The Wind and the Rain" – 2:57
  5. "The Mighty Zero" (Curt Kirkwood/Cris Kirkwood) – 3:18
  6. "Get on Down" – 2:55
  7. "Leaves" – 2:38
  8. "I Am a Machine" – 4:21
  9. "Beauty" – 3:02
  10. "A Hundred Miles" – 3:34
  11. "Love Our Children Forever" – 3:56
  12. "Liquified" – 3:11

CD Reissue

  1. "Mirage" – 3:40
  2. "Quit It" – 2:36
  3. "Confusion Fog" – 3:49
  4. "The Wind and the Rain" – 2:57
  5. "The Mighty Zero" – 3:18
  6. "Get on Down" – 2:55
  7. "Leaves" – 2:38
  8. "I Am a Machine" – 4:21
  9. "Beauty" – 3:02
  10. "A Hundred Miles" – 3:34
  11. "Love Our Children Forever" – 3:56
  12. "Liquified" – 3:11
  13. "The Mighty Zero (Demo Version)" (Curt Kirkwood/Cris Kirkwood) - 3:40
  14. "I Am A Machine (Demo Version)" - 4:05
  15. "Liquified (Demo Version)" - 3:39
  16. "Rubberneckin’" (Dory Jones/Bunny Warren) - 2:46
  17. "Grand Intro" - 2:03
  • Tracks 13-17 are bonus tracks on the Rykodisc reissue.

    • Songs

    1Mirage3:42
    2Quit It2:38
    3Confusion Fog3:53

    References

    Mirage (Meat Puppets album) Wikipedia
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