Golden Lies

Golden Lies is a 2000 album by the Meat Puppets. After the You Love Me EP, in 1999, this was the second (and final) studio release from the second line-up of the Meat Puppets.

Golden Lies
Studio album by Meat Puppets
Released	September 26, 2000
Genre	Hard rock[1]
Length	58:36
Label	Breaking Records / Atlantic Records
Meat Puppets chronology
You Love Me (EP) (1999) Golden Lies (2000) Live (2002)

Reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	60/100 link
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Rolling Stone	link
Sno Cone	(not rated) link
Pitchfork Media[1]	(4.3/10)

Al Shipley of Pitchfork was largely dismissive of the record, describing the album as settling "into a series of unremarkable mid-tempo hard rock tunes", describing the song "Hercules" in particular to be a "clear sign that something is terribly wrong".[1]

Track listing

All songs written by Curt Kirkwood, unless otherwise noted.

1. "Intro" – 0:51
2. "Armed and Stupid" – 3:21
3. "I Quit" – 3:01
4. "Lamp" – 5:53
5. "Hercules" – 3:34
6. "Batwing" – 3:08
7. "Take Off Your Clothes" – 4:00
8. "You Love Me" – 3:51
9. "Pieces of Me" – 3:46
10. "Push the Button" – 4:52
11. "Tarantula" – 4:05
12. "Endless Wave" – 4:30
13. "Wipeout" – 3:54
14. "Fatboy/Fat/Requiem" – 9:50

References

1. Shipley, Al (26 September 2000). "Meat Puppets: Golden Lies Album Review". Pitchfork. Pitchfork. Retrieved 29 January 2020.