No Strings Attached (Meat Puppets album)

No Strings Attached
Compilation album by
ReleasedNovember 1990
GenreAlternative rock
Length1:13:40
LabelSST (265)
Meat Puppets chronology
Monsters
(1989)
No Strings Attached
(1990)
Forbidden Places
(1991)

No Strings Attached is the debut compilation album by American rock band Meat Puppets, released in November 1990, by SST Records.

Background

It was released after the band left SST Records to join London Records. The compilation includes songs from their debut album up to Monsters (1989). The Meat Puppets had no involvement in this release.

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Robert ChristgauA[1]

Track listing

All songs written by Curt Kirkwood, unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Big House" (Meat Puppets) - 1:04
  2. "In a Car" (Meat Puppets) - 1:19
  3. "Tumblin' Tumbleweeds" (Bob Nolan) - 2:02
  4. "Reward" (Curt Kirkwood, Derrick Bostrom) - 1:08
  5. "The Whistling Song" - 2:56
  6. "New Gods" - 2:10
  7. "Lost" - 3:25
  8. "Lake of Fire" - 1:55
  9. "Split Myself in Two" - 2:22
  10. "Up on the Sun" - 4:01
  11. "Swimming Ground" - 3:04
  12. "Maiden's Milk" (Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood) - 3:16
  13. "Bucket Head" - 2:20
  14. "Out My Way" (Meat Puppets) - 4:49
  15. "Confusion Fog" - 3:48
  16. "I Am a Machine" - 4:21
  17. "Quit It" - 2:35
  18. "Beauty" - 2:59
  19. "Look at the Rain" - 4:19
  20. "I Can't Be Counted On" (Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood) - 3:58
  21. "Automatic Mojo" (Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood) - 3:20
  22. "Meltdown" - 3:06
  23. "Like Being Alive" - 4:42
  24. "Attacked by Monsters" - 4:41

Song origins

References

  1. ^ Christgau, Robert (2000). Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. Macmillan. p. 202. ISBN 0312245602. Retrieved September 5, 2014.