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When Kurt Met Curt: Meat Puppets

Simon Reynolds, MOJO, January 1995

IF YOU WANT TO know why Meat Puppets touched Kurt Cobain so deeply that he covered not one but three of their songs for Unplugged In New York, then search out the three astonishing albums that the Phoenix, Arizona trio recorded for hardcore label SST in the early '80s.

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