In a Car
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 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".
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| Released | 1981 | |||
| Genre | Hardcore punk | |||
| Length | 5:18 | |||
| Label | 1981: World Imitation 1985: SST (044) | |||
| Producer | Meat Puppets | |||
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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 was not 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.
Track listing
All songs written by Meat Puppets.
- "In a Car" – 1:21
- "Big House" – 1:07
- "Dolphin Field" – 1:09
- "Out in the Gardener" – 1:04
- "Foreign Lawns" – 0:37