Mirage (Meat Puppets album)

Mirage
Studio album by Meat Puppets
Released	April 1987
Recorded	1986-1987
Genre	Alternative, Neo-psychedelia Length = 38:45 (original) 56:30 (reissue)
Label	SST Records
Producer	Steven Escallier, Meat Puppets
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Meat Puppets chronology
Out My Way (EP) (1986) Mirage (1987) Huevos (1987)

Mirage is an album by the Arizona alternative rock band Meat Puppets.

The album was reissued in 1999 by Rykodisc with five additional bonus tracks, including early demos of "The Mighty Zero," "I Am a Machine" and "Liquified" as well as a cover of the Elvis Presley song "Rubberneckin'" and the previously unreleased "Grand Intro." As an added bonus, this album includes an "Enhanced CD" partition for play on home computers. Mirage offers the promotional video for "Get On Down." Directed by Robert Tucker and featuring the Pups galavanting around the Valley of The Sun doing whacky dances, this has remained one of their most popular clips.

Drummer Derrick Bostrom has referred to the album as their "psychedelic epic".

Track listing

All songs written by Curt Kirkwood, unless otherwise noted.

Original album

1. "Mirage" – 3:30
2. "Quit It" – 2:33
3. "Confusion Fog" – 3:47
4. "The Wind and the Rain" – 2:53
5. "The Mighty Zero" – 2:50
6. "Get on Down" – 2:50
7. "Leaves" – 2:33
8. "I Am a Machine" – 4:15
9. "Beauty" – 2:55
10. "A Hundred Miles" – 3:45
11. "Love Our Children Forever" – 3:49
12. "Liquified" – 3:05

CD Reissue

1. "Mirage" – 3:41
2. "Quit It" – 2:38
3. "Confusion Fog" – 3:53
4. "The Wind and the Rain" – 2:58
5. "The Mighty Zero" – 3:18
6. "Get on Down" – 2:56
7. "Leaves" – 2:40
8. "I Am a Machine" – 4:24
9. "Beauty" – 3:04
10. "A Hundred Miles" – 3:36
11. "Love Our Children Forever" – 3:58
12. "Liquified" – 3:11
13. "The Mighty Zero (Demo Version)" (Curt Kirkwood/Cris Kirkwood) - 3:40
14. "I Am A Machine (Demo Version)" - 4:05
15. "Liquified (Demo Version)" - 3:39
16. "Rubberneckin’" (Dory Jones/Bunny Warren) - 2:46
17. "Grand Intro" - 2:03

• Tracks 13-17 are bonus tracks on the Rykodisc reissue.