Meat Puppets - No Joke Demos 1995

Demos for No Joke that the band recorded at Phase Four Studio which is also the studio the band used to record the actual album.
These Demos are all tunes written by Curt except for a cover of Buck Owens' "Buckaroo", which was just recorded on a lark to help the band warm up in the studio. The actual album includes a couple of Cris tunes which are not present amongst the demos. Not Now was intended for release for the album but was shelved to make room for a Cris Tune. I know Cris was quite insistent on having a couple of his tunes on the album which Curt was not happy about.
The 6th song always seems to be labelled as Vaseline despite it sounding very much like Curt is saying "Gasoline" in the song.
All the photos are from the set of the "Scum" music video which is not present in the demos, but ended up being the lead single for the album. Curt actually wanted Taste of the Sun to be the lead single but their record company thought otherwise.
0:00 Poisoned Arrows
3:17 Sweet Ammonia
7:34 Buckaroo
9:24 Predator
13:31 Not Now
17:02 Vaseline
20:29 For Free
24:56 Beware of the Rustic (Vampires)
29:22 Taste of the Sun
33:20 Chemical Garden
37:57 Suck My Eyeball (Eyeball)

[@Drew823]

I do really like Scum and I can see why it was the single. All the other songs are great though and it's the end of their first era. What a run it was...

[@Sipex6484]

Curious as to what they did with all the stuff they used to make the music video when they were done. Just sayin', owning Kirkwood's street sweeper would be pretty cool 😂Nice video!

[@Kirreu]

That would be cool yeah, but I assume they just rented an actual street sweeper lol.

[@AlanCepeda-ty7hk]

Los meet pupets fueron los primeros en inventar el grounge se nota que stone temple pilots y nirvana les copearon a ellos