In a Car


In a Car is the Meat Puppets' first recording. It 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. It was recorded in about 12 hours. 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 "The 7 Inch Wonders of the World."
While the original EP contained 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 on the 1999 reissue of the first LP, Meat Puppets.

Critical reception

Trouser Press called the recording "shrieking thrash-punk and unrealized avant-guitar ambitions." Spin called it "tunefully abrasive."

Track listing

All songs written by Meat Puppets.
  1. "In a Car" – 1:21
  2. "Big House" – 1:07
  3. "Dolphin Field" – 1:09
  4. "Out in the Gardener" – 1:04
  5. "Foreign Lawns" – 0:37