| Mirage | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Meat Puppets |
| Cover: | Meat Puppets Mirage.jpg |
| Released: | April 1987 |
| Recorded: | 1986–1987 |
| Studio: | Chaton Studios, Phoenix, Arizona |
| Length: | 39:57 (original) 56:10 (reissue) |
| Label: | SST (100)[1] |
| Producer: | Steven Escallier, Meat Puppets |
| Prev Title: | Out My Way (EP) |
| Prev Year: | 1986 |
| Next Title: | Huevos |
| Next Year: | 1987 |
Mirage is the fourth studio album by the Arizona alternative rock band Meat Puppets.[2]
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".
Chuck Eddy called the music of Mirage "a sideways brand of cactus-country rock", similar to the Meat Puppets' two preceding albums.[3] "Liquified" has been described as "metal-ish" and compared to the band's early work, whereas "Confusion Fog" invited comparisons to the album Meat Puppets II.
Chuck Eddy wrote in a June 1987 edition of SPIN Magazine that Mirage was "catchier and more intricate" than Meat Puppets II and Up on the Sun.
All songs written by Curt Kirkwood, unless otherwise noted.