MEAT PUPPETS: MIRAGE Fourth Studio Album (1999)

Mirage is the fourth studio album by the Meat Puppets, released in April 1987 by SST Records. The album was reissued in 1999 by Rykodisc with five additional bonus tracks, including early demos of “The Mighty Zero,” “I Am a Machine” and “Liquified” as well as a cover of the Elvis Presley song “Rubberneckin’, “and the previously unreleased “Grand Intro.“

As an added bonus, this album includes an “Enhanced CD” partition for play on home computers. Mirage offers the promotional video for “Get On Down.” Drummer Derrick Bostrom has referred to the album as their “psychedelic epic”.

Tracklist original album (1987)

1. Mirage
2. Quit It
3. Confusion Fog
4. The Wind and the Rain
5. The Mighty Zero (Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood)
6. Get on Down
7. Leaves
8. I Am a Machine
9. Beauty
10. A Hundred Miles
11. Love Our Children Forever
12. Liquified

CD reissue bonus tracks (1999)

13. The Mighty Zero (Demo Version) (Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood)
14. I Am a Machine (Demo Version)
15. Liquified (Demo Version) – 3:39
16. Rubberneckin’ (Dory Jones, Bunny Warren)
17. Grand Intro

Meat Puppets
Curt Kirkwood: guitar, vocals, artwork, sleeve drawings
Cris Kirkwood: bass, vocals
Derrick Bostrom: drums, cover artwork

https://meatpuppets.bandcamp.com