7" Meat Puppets In A Car EP original '81 World Imitation with drawing insert

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Meat Puppets "In A Car"  EP - original World Imitation pressing!

(note the photo makes the cover seem lighter than it is. This IS an original pressing)

Their crazed debut which enamored The Meat Puppets momentarily to the hardcore scene due to the records speed and velocity - which they soon shed because at heart this was a desert-damaged psychedelic punk band of the first order - I used to see them in Tucson quite a bit around this time.

This original self-released pressing comes with a band-drawn insert. Sleeve is vg ++ or better, some yellowing on one side from age very slight creasing but no bends, folds or nicks

7" is nm- on side A and nm - - or vg + + on b due to three very small surface only marks that are inaudible - there is only one light spindle mark on one side of the label leading me to belive that only one side was played before. Vinyl is shiny like new!

In a Car is the Meat Puppets' first recording and was originally issued on L.A. art collective/record label World Imitation records as a 5 track 7" EP. It was recorded in Silver Lake studio in Los Angeles on the June 4, 1981 with Ed Barger (who had engineered several early Devo singles). In a Car was first re-issued as a 7" on SST Records in 1985 after the success of their early LPs. The EP was also included on an SST compilation cassette (and later cd) "The 7 Inch Wonders of the World".

While the original EP featured only five tracks, six tracks were recorded at the session including the song "Hair" written by fellow World Imitation band Monitor. It was released as a lone Meat Puppets track on the first Monitor LP on World Imitation records. It wasn't on any Meat Puppets release until Rykodisc issued the song as a bonus track (with the entire first EP and many outtakes) on the 1999 reissue of the first LP, Meat Puppets.

The EP contains 5 songs in as many minutes and is the band's most hardcore release. On first listen, many of the lyrics sound like unintelligible screaming and (with the exception of the instrumental "Out In The Gardener") the songs are thrashed through at breakneck speed. The group would begin to move away from this sound on their first album Meat Puppets, and completely abandon it on all subsequent releases.

Although the band are often associated with the early 80's U.S. hardcore scene, during their initial tenure in L.A., when In a Car was recorded, they were more closely aligned with the post-punk and art-rock community which spanned groups like the Urinals and Human Hands through to the L.A.F.M.S..

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