I actually saw the Meat Puppets live a few years ago at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in the UK. I enjoyed them, but I don't think I really appreciated it as much as I might have if I'd heard this album first.
The album was discovered by a raft of music fans in the 90s after Nirvana covered 3 tracks from it (Plateau, Oh me, and Lake of Fire) on their MTV unplugged set. That representation didn't really do justice to the pure sprawling collection of rockabilly, psychedelia, folksy ramblings and 'alt-rock on show here. I can also see why the music might have appealed to a 90s crowd, as they were operating on similar musical lines to Neil Young, "the Godfather of Grunge" and kind of predicting the whole grunge movement.
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