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Out My Way
EP by Meat Puppets
Released	1986
Recorded	March 1986
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	25:49 (original) 54:12 (reissue)
Label	SST
Producer	Meat Puppets, Steven Escallier
Meat Puppets chronology
Up on the Sun (1985) Out My Way (1986) Mirage (1987)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Robert Christgau	B+
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide
The Rolling Stone Album Guide
Spin Alternative Record Guide	6/10

Out My Way is an EP by American alternative rock band Meat Puppets, released in 1986 by SST Records. It features a more hard rock-oriented sound than on previous releases, leading some critics to say that the sound is similar to the southern/hard rock stylings of ZZ Top. The EP was reissued in 1999 by Rykodisc, with additional bonus tracks.

Production

The cover art is by Curt Kirkwood. The EP was issued while Curt recovered from a broken finger.

Critical reception

AllMusic wrote that "the EP showed that the Puppets were moving on from their early punk sound to a more traditional rock direction." Robert Christgau called the EP "a departure, toward a less spacy, more bottomy hardcore-gone-folkloric." Trouser Press praised "an utterly crazed raveup of 'Good Golly Miss Molly,'” writing that it "merely caps off a diverse collection of occasionally funky, occasionally psychedelic, occasionally countryfied rock tunes."

Track listing

All songs written by Curt Kirkwood, unless otherwise noted.

Original album

1. "She's Hot" (Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood) – 4:05
2. "Out My Way" – 4:47
3. "Other Kinds of Love" (Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood) – 4:22
4. "Not Swimming Ground" (Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood) – 4:07
5. "Mountain Line" – 4:20
6. "Good Golly Miss Molly" (Robert "Bumps" Blackwell, John Marascalco) – 4:08

CD reissue bonus tracks

7. "Good Golly Miss Molly" (Robert "Bumps" Blackwell, John Marascalco) – 2:50
8. "I Just Want to Make Love to You" (Willie Dixon) – 3:55
9. "On the Move" – 3:50
10. "Burn the Honky Tonk Down" (Wayne Kemp) – 1:59
11. "Boyhood Home" – 3:17
12. "Backwards Drums" – 4:20
13. "Everything is Green" – 8:39
14. "Other Kinds of Love" (Demo Version) – 0:52

References

1. ^ MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 741.
2. Smith-Lahrman, Matthew (October 30, 2014). The Meat Puppets and the Lyrics of Curt Kirkwood from Meat Puppets II to No Joke!. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810884137 – via Google Books.
3. ^ "Out My Way - Meat Puppets | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
4. ^ "Robert Christgau: CG: Meat Puppets". www.robertchristgau.com.
5. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 465.
6. Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. 1995. p. 247.
7. "Meat Puppets | Biography & History". AllMusic.
8. "PUPPETS IN ORBIT". Los Angeles Times. June 1, 1986.
9. Harrington, Richard (February 2, 2001). "Meet the New Meat Puppets" – via www.washingtonpost.com.
10. "MEAT PUPPETS biography". The Great Rock Bible.
11. "Meat Puppets". Trouser Press. Retrieved 18 November 2020.

• Meat Puppets albums
• 1986 EPs
• SST Records EPs