| Out My Way | |
| Type: | EP |
| Artist: | Meat Puppets |
| Cover: | OutMyWay.jpg |
| Released: | 1986 |
| Recorded: | March 1986 |
| Genre: | Alternative rock |
| Length: | 25:49 (original) 54:12 (reissue) |
| Label: | SST |
| Producer: | Meat Puppets, Steven Escallier[1] |
| Prev Title: | Up on the Sun |
| Prev Year: | 1985 |
| Next Title: | Mirage |
| Next Year: | 1987 |
Out My Way is an EP by the alternative rock band the Meat Puppets, released in 1986.[2] [3] It features a more hard rock-oriented sound than on previous releases, leading some critics to say that the sound is similar to the southern/hard rock stylings of ZZ Top. The EP was reissued in 1999 by Rykodisc, with additional bonus tracks.
The cover art is by Curt Kirkwood.[4] The EP was issued while Curt recovered from a broken finger.[5]
AllMusic wrote that "the EP showed that the Puppets were moving on from their early punk sound to a more traditional rock direction." Robert Christgau called the EP "a departure, toward a less spacy, more bottomy hardcore-gone-folkloric." Trouser Press praised "an utterly crazed raveup of 'Good Golly Miss Molly,'” writing that it "merely caps off a diverse collection of occasionally funky, occasionally psychedelic, occasionally countryfied rock tunes."[6]
All songs written by Curt Kirkwood, unless otherwise noted.