Power 96 Cool One Recap: Meat Puppets

The Meat Puppets are known for their single "Backwater," but can you name another song by them that also charted? If you could, good for you, for the rest of us I decided to see what they had to offer and luckily I own a copy of Too High to Die, the album I took yesterday's Power 96 Cool One from. The name of the song was "We Don't Exist," which is the third track and was the first promotional release from the album. It peaked at No. 28 on the U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart while the album topped out at No. 62 on the U.S. Billboard 200.

The Meat Puppets formed in 1980 in Phoenix, Ariz., by two brothers, Curt and Cris Kirkwood. I remember seeing ads promoting their shows in the Twin Cities inside City Pages while I was going to Brown Institute. The name of the band was comic fodder for my friend Dave and I, what kind of a band would give themselves such a strange name. I was kicking myself a few years later, when they had attained fame, for not going to their earlier shows.

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