Huevos (album)

Huevos
Studio album by Meat Puppets
Released	October 1987
Recorded	August 1987
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	36:25 (original) 58:05 (reissue)
Label	SST Records
Producer	Steven Escallier, Meat Puppets
Meat Puppets chronology
Mirage (1987)Mirage1987 Huevos (1987) Monsters (1989)Monsters1989

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The Village Voice	A–

Huevos is an album by the Arizona alternative rock band the Meat Puppets. It is said to have a strong ZZ Top influence in terms of style (ZZ Top also have titled some of their albums in Spanish, "Tres Hombres", "Tejas", "Degüello" and "El Loco" for instance); in a Musician magazine interview Curt Kirkwood claimed that a fan letter he had received from ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons inspired a songwriting spree that resulted in many of Huevos' tracks. The album is named not only after the Spanish word for eggs, but is also a reference to the Southwestern expression "Huevos", meaning to deliver with chutzpah. Most of the songs were recorded in one take. The cover art is done by guitarist/vocalist Curt Kirkwood.

The 1999 Rykodisc re-release features 5 unreleased bonus tracks (early demos of "Sexy Music", "Paradise", "Fruit", and "Automatic Mojo" and a cover of Jimmy Reed's "Baby What Do You Want Me to Do") as well as live footage from a January 1988 concert at the Variety Arts Center in Los Angeles of "Automatic Mojo".

Track listing

All songs written by Curt Kirkwood, unless otherwise noted.

Original album

1. "Paradise" – 5:00
2. "Look at the Rain" – 4:20
3. "Bad Love" – 3:10
4. "Sexy Music" – 5:28
5. "Crazy" – 4:45
6. "Fruit" – 3:30
7. "Automatic Mojo" – 3:19
8. "Dry Rain" – 2:55
9. "I Can't Be Counted On" – 3:58

CD Reissue

1. "Paradise" – 4:36
2. "Look at the Rain" – 4:22
3. "Bad Love" – 3:13
4. "Sexy Music" – 5:28
5. "Crazy" – 4:44
6. "Fruit" – 3:31
7. "Automatic Mojo" – 3:23
8. "Dry Rain" – 2:55
9. "I Can’t Be Counted On" – 4:01
10. "Baby What You Want Me to Be" (Jimmy Reed) – 1:29
11. "Sexy Music (Demo Version)" – 6:40
12. "Automatic Mojo (Demo Version)" – 3:56
13. "Paradise (Demo Version)" – 4:06
14. "Fruit (Demo Version)" – 5:20

• Tracks 10–14 are bonus tracks on the Rykodisc reissue.