Forbidden Places

Opening with what Greg Prato described as "razor-sharp rock" on "Sam", Forbidden Places explored several styles including blues on "Nail it Down" and country on "Six Gallon Pie" and "That's How It Goes".^[1]

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Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Chicago Tribune	[2]
Christgau's Consumer Guide	[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[4]
Entertainment Weekly	A+[5]
Los Angeles Times	[6]
Spin Alternative Record Guide	8/10[7]

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AllMusic's Greg Prato proclaimed Forbidden Places to be "one of [the band's] finest albums", complementing the album's more country-informed tracks as "splendidly" showing off the Meat Puppets' "cowboy roots".^[1]

In August 1991, Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune praised Forbidden Places, awarding it three and a half-of-four stars and writing that the band's "casual brilliance becomes more dazzling with each play".^[2]

All songs written by Curt Kirkwood.

1. "Sam" – 3:05
2. "Nail It Down" – 3:32
3. "This Day" – 3:14
4. "Open Wide" – 3:11
5. "Another Moon" – 3:39
6. "That's How It Goes" – 3:24
7. "Whirlpool" – 3:31
8. "Popskull" – 3:05
9. "No Longer Gone" – 3:56
10. "Forbidden Places" – 2:59
11. "Six Gallon Pie" – 3:24

Meat Puppets

• Curt Kirkwood - guitar, vocals, cover
• Cris Kirkwood - bass, backing vocals, illustration
• Derrick Bostrom - drums, percussion

with:

• Skip Edwards - organ on "Nail It Down" and "Another Moon", piano on "That's How It Goes"
• Alex Acuña - percussion on "Another Moon", "Whirlpool" and "No Longer Gone"
• Tommy Funderburk - backing vocals on "Nail It Down"
• Peter Doell - additional backing vocals on "No Longer Gone"