MEAT JOY - s/t LP

Long out-of-print 1984 Austin classic. The group included Teresa Nervosa, later of the Butthole Surfers.

Meat Joy was difficult to categorize. They were a leaderless collective. Often improvisational, they moved fluidly among many genres seeking joy and truth. Their sound was alternately queer and straight, dark and funny, heartfelt and biting. Loud soft fast slow beautiful ugly music, sometimes all in the same song.

“MEAT JOY were the DIY jewel of the Austin weirdo punk scene of the early 80’s—essential, uncategorizable, and entirely insane.” - Steve Shelley

“MEAT JOY’s stinging, springy assault on sexual warfare has to be heard to be believed; here it’s the attitude which sounds ‘hard’… all of it’s fascinatingly weird.” - Cynthia Rose