Huevos (album) explained

Huevos
Type:Album
Artist:Meat Puppets
Cover:Huevos (album).jpg
Released:October 27, 1987
Recorded:August 3–7, 1987
Studio:Pantheon Studios, Phoenix, Arizona
Length:36:25 (original)
58:05 (reissue)
Label:SST (150)
Producer:Steven Escallier, Meat Puppets
Prev Title:Mirage
Prev Year:1987
Next Title:Monsters
Next Year:1989

Huevos is the fifth studio album by the Arizona alternative rock band the Meat Puppets. It was released October 27, 1987[1] on SST Records. The album title is literally the Spanish word for "eggs," although it carries a slang meaning associated with testicular fortitude. Most of the songs were recorded in one take. The cover art is done by guitarist/vocalist Curt Kirkwood.

The 1999 Rykodisc re-release features five unreleased bonus tracks (early demos of "Sexy Music", "Paradise", "Fruit" and "Automatic Mojo" and a cover of Jimmy Reed's "Baby What You Want Me to Do") as well as live footage of "Automatic Mojo" filmed at the band's January 22, 1988 concert at the Variety Arts Center in Los Angeles.

Content

Musical style

In an AllMusic biography of the band, Stephen Thomas Erlewine described the sound of Huevos as "ZZ Top-style hard rock swagger".[2] Matthew Smith Lahrman cataloged the record to be a blues rock effort.

Track listing

All songs written by Curt Kirkwood, unless otherwise noted.

Original album

  1. "Paradise" (Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood) – 5:00
  2. "Look at the Rain" – 4:20
  3. "Bad Love" (Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood) – 3:10
  4. "Sexy Music" – 5:28
  5. "Crazy" – 4:45
  6. "Fruit" – 3:30
  7. "Automatic Mojo" (Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood) – 3:19
  8. "Dry Rain" – 2:55
  9. "I Can't Be Counted On" (Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood) – 3:58

CD reissue bonus tracks

  1. "Baby What You Want Me to Do" (Jimmy Reed) – 1:29
  2. "Sexy Music" (Demo Version) – 6:40
  3. "Automatic Mojo" (Demo Version) – 3:56
  4. "Paradise" (Demo Version) – 4:06
  5. "Fruit" (Demo Version) – 5:20

Personnel

Meat Puppets

Notes and References

  1. Farrell, Ray . SST Records . The Hard Report . 30 October 1987 . 52 . 49 . 10 September 2023 . Medford Lakes, NJ, USA . English . The album "Huevos" is out on the 27th . 26 August 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200826163237/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Hard-Report/1987/Hard-1987-10-30.pdf . bot: unknown .
  2. Web site: Erlewine . Stephen Thomas . Meat Puppets Biography & History . AllMusic . 1 February 2020.