Plateau (song)
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| "Plateau" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Meat Puppets | |
| from the album Meat Puppets II | |
| Released | November 1, 1984 |
| Genre | |
| Length | 2:22 |
| Label | SST Records |
| Songwriter | Curt Kirkwood |
| "Plateau" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Nirvana | |
| from the album MTV Unplugged in New York | |
| Released | November 1, 1994 |
| Genre | Alternative rock |
| Length | 3:37 |
| Label | DGC |
| Songwriter | Curt Kirkwood |
| Producers | Alex Coletti, Scott Litt, Nirvana |
| MTV Unplugged in New York track listing | |
13 tracks | |
"Plateau" is a song by alternative rock band the Meat Puppets, written by vocalist and guitarist, Curt Kirkwood. It appears on the band's second album, Meat Puppets II, released by SST Records in April 1984.[2]
The song was popularized when Curt and his brother, Meat Puppets vocalist and bassist Cris Kirkwood, performed it with American rock band Nirvana at their MTV Unplugged appearance in November 1993.
Matthew Blackwell of Pitchfork wrote that the song's lyrics describe "striving toward the afterlife as scaling a grand plateau where 'holy ghosts and talk show hosts are planted in the sand/To beautify the foothills and shake the many hands.' But our narrator remains unbothered; he knows that 'there's nothing on the top but a bucket and a mop/And an illustrated book about birds', nothing to meet the newly deceased at their goal other than mundanity."[3]
Reception
The song was included in The Pitchfork 500, a book published by online music publication Pitchfork in 2008, featuring their list of the "greatest songs" from 1977 to 2006.
