Meat Puppets - Too High To Die [Limited Neon JazzBerry Vinyl]

Meat Puppets bring their Arizona-bred, desert-bent alternative rock into a more radio-visible shape on Too High To Die, the album produced by Paul Leary and the band. The album ties Curt Kirkwood's songwriting to heavier guitars, melodic choruses, and the off-center humor that had already made the group impossible to file under one style. This limited edition RSD Essential indie exclusive presses the album as a Neon JazzBerry colored vinyl record.

"Backwater" is the obvious entry point, with its rolling chorus and the band's most widely recognized hook. "We Don't Exist" hits harder, pushing the guitars forward while keeping the vocal phrasing clipped and uneasy. "Severed Goddess Hand" uses a sharper title and faster movement to keep the album from settling into mid-tempo rock, while "Roof With A Hole" shifts toward a blues-based guitar figure. "Comin' Down" closes the listed sequence after the album moves through heavier, stranger, and more melodic material.

The original LP sequence is the important album-specific detail here, because it differs from the CD configuration and places "Backwater" near the end of Side A. The album also includes "Violet Eyes," "Never To Be Found," "Shine," "Station," "Things," "Why?," and "Evil Love," showing how wide the Meat Puppets' version of alternative rock had become during the mid-1990s run.

• Format: Vinyl LP
• Standout tracks: "Backwater," "We Don't Exist," "Roof With A Hole," "Comin' Down"
• Pressing details: Limited Edition, RSD Essential: 073, Indie Exclusive, Neon JazzBerry Colored Vinyl, remastered from the original 1/4" production master tape, original LP sequence
• Genre/style: Alternative Rock, Grunge, Hard Rock, Psychedelic Rock
• UPC: 602478159503

This pressing was remastered from the original 1/4" production master tape and issued as RSD Essential: 073. The Neon JazzBerry vinyl LP gives Too High To Die a distinct indie-store variant while retaining the album's original LP running order and side split.

* The Spotify track list may not exactly represent the tracks and audio of this LP edition.

Track List:

Side A:

1. Violet Eyes
2. Never To Be Found
3. We Don't Exist
4. Severed Goddess Hand
5. Flaming Heart
6. Shine
7. Backwater

Side B:

1. Roof With A Hole
2. Station
3. Things
4. Why?
5. Evil Love
6. Comin' Down
7. Lake Of Fire