Meat Puppets: Next Steps

Though they're renowned for introducing country twang to the indie lexicon, the Meat Puppets could beef up their sound to match their deceptively metal-sounding name. “Split Myself in Two” from 1984 is a furious hit of punk rock that gets shot into space via Curt Kirkwood's brain-scrambling, feedback-screeched guitar solo; a decade later, the sand-blasted boogie of “Violet Eyes” hit like a nuke test in the desert.