Out My Way

Out My Way
EP by
Meat Puppets
Released1986
RecordedMarch 1986
GenreAlternative rock
Length25:49 (original)
54:12 (reissue)
LabelSST[1]
ProducerMeat Puppets, Steven Escallier[2]
Meat Puppets chronology
Up on the Sun
(1985) 		Out My Way
(1986) 		Mirage
(1987)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Robert ChristgauB+[4]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide[1]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[5]
Spin Alternative Record Guide6/10[6]

Out My Way is an EP by American alternative rock band Meat Puppets, released in 1986 by SST Records.[7][8] 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.

Production

The cover art is by Curt Kirkwood.[9] The EP was issued while Curt recovered from a broken finger.[10]

Critical reception

AllMusic wrote that "the EP showed that the Puppets were moving on from their early punk sound to a more traditional rock direction."[3] Robert Christgau called the EP "a departure, toward a less spacy, more bottomy hardcore-gone-folkloric."[4] 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."[11]

Track listing

All songs written by Curt Kirkwood, unless otherwise noted.

Original album

  1. "She's Hot" (Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood) – 4:05
  2. "Out My Way" – 4:47
  3. "Other Kinds of Love" (Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood) – 4:22
  4. "Not Swimming Ground" (Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood) – 4:07
  5. "Mountain Line" – 4:20
  6. "Good Golly Miss Molly" (Robert "Bumps" Blackwell, John Marascalco) – 4:08

CD reissue bonus tracks

  2. "Good Golly Miss Molly" (Robert "Bumps" Blackwell, John Marascalco) – 2:50
  3. "I Just Want to Make Love to You" (Willie Dixon) – 3:55
  4. "On the Move" – 3:50
  5. "Burn the Honky Tonk Down" (Wayne Kemp) – 1:59
  6. "Boyhood Home" – 3:17
  7. "Backwards Drums" – 4:20
  8. "Everything is Green" – 8:39
  9. "Other Kinds of Love" (Demo Version) – 0:52

References

  1. ^ a b MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 741.
  2. ^ Smith-Lahrman, Matthew (October 30, 2014). The Meat Puppets and the Lyrics of Curt Kirkwood from Meat Puppets II to No Joke!. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810884137 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ a b "Out My Way - Meat Puppets | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  4. ^ a b "Robert Christgau: CG: Meat Puppets". www.robertchristgau.com.
  5. ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 465.
  6. ^ Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. 1995. p. 247.
  7. ^ "Meat Puppets | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  8. ^ "PUPPETS IN ORBIT". Los Angeles Times. June 1, 1986.
  9. ^ Harrington, Richard (February 2, 2001). "Meet the New Meat Puppets" – via www.washingtonpost.com.
  10. ^ "MEAT PUPPETS biography". The Great Rock Bible.
  11. ^ "Meat Puppets". Trouser Press. Retrieved 18 November 2020.