What Neil Young albums sound like the Meat Puppets?

I'm on a Meat Puppets kick lately, especially after having seen them live last week. I keep reading reviews of them that suggest that they sound like Neil Young, which I don't hear at all. But then, I'm not a big Neil Young fan and am not familiar with his albums. What albums of Neil Young sound like the Meat Puppets?

And actually, what bands in general sound like the Meat Puppets?

there's this track on a monitor album that sounds just like the meat puppets

also I think "neil young" is code for "yowling out of tune vocals"

I could make a case that Young's Rust Never Sleeps shares similarities with Meat Puppets II, in the loud and quiet and impressionistic subject matter; and that Meat Puppets Up on the Sun shares characteristics with Grateful Dead American Beauty/Workingman's Dead in the harmonies and instrumental interplay.

Some say ZZ Top, but that was just one guitar style he used for a while.

what bands in general sound like the Meat Puppets?

Some earlier Talking Heads sounds a little bit like Up On The Sun-era Pups.

Some Sun City Girls sorta.

King Crimson ca. Discipline?

^ I'm thinking of 'Mirage' and stuff there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMbEgE5ySmA

Maybe some Thin White Rope?

nirvana's unplugged sounds like meat puppets 2 isnt it...

i'd say some of neil young folk songs sounds like meat puppets in a way:
don't let it bring you down for example..
also, i can think of some Beck and butthole surfers stuff..

Early ZZ Top (or so they say).

I don't know as much as I should about Young, but For the Turnstiles sounds a lot like Meat Puppets. I also agree with parts of Rust Never Sleeps. Ride My Llama no doubt.

I've read more than one interview with Doug Martsch where the interviewer asks about Neil Young influences on Built to Spill where Doug responds that he was more influenced by the Meat Puppets. But then they did a Neil Young cover, so that must be there too.

the evolution:
neil young-dinosaur jr-built to spill

I think there was a Nikki Sudden album with Rowland S. Howard that sounds very much like Neil Young? (Or I think the bonus live disc on it did???) And so transitively sounds like the Meat Puppets?

All I got.

(Hey BigLurks if yr readin this what album am I talking about???? Kthx)

I seem to recall Chuck Eddy comparing 'em to Crazy Horse in his review of the self-titled in Stairway to Hell.

Neil Young's album Zuma has "Cortez the Killer" and "Danger Bird" which both remind me a lot of Meat Puppets II.

now you mention it, "Don't Let It Bring You Down" sounds a LOT like the Meat Puppets, and the other day my friends and I were discussing how this is the most stereotypical Neil Young song, ie it could be a parody if it wasn't one of his best songs (but maybe he's got a lot of songs like that???) anyway, the unhelpful answer might be that the two are similar in essence but not in execution. I think Rust Never Sleeps might be the closest bet, though.

there's this track on a monitor album that sounds just like the meat puppets

I think it *is* the meat puppets.

I think "neil young" is code for "yowling out of tune vocals"

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, June 2, 2009 3:09 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

troo

the meat puppets are so great and so is neil young but they only sound kinda sorta similar

I think it *is* the meat puppets.

― gnarly sceptre, Wednesday, June 3, 2009 11:02 AM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it is