Punk Rock Monday

Well, maybe not exactly, but close enough for our purposes.

We're dipping into the SST stable again this week, a label near-and-dear to my heart. SST bands sound like my musical coming of age. And while I probably didn't know this song until about five years after it's release, "New Gods" - the whole Meat Puppets II album, actually - was in heavy rotation during high school:


Watching this performance of "Up on the Sun," I think my embrace of the Meat Puppets' particularly hallucinogenic country-punk hybrid might have presaged a more decided turn into neo-hippie-dom a few years later. Don't let that stop you from enjoying a great song: