This came out in 2003 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
For a band that grew up with MTV, lasted more than a decade and influenced a generation of alt-rockers — including, perhaps most famously, Kurt Cobain — Phoenix’s Meat Puppets don’t have much of a video legacy.
Alive In The Nineties, assembled by former Puppets drummer Derick Bostrom, does its best to rectify that situation. This low-production offering stitches together a host of video odds ’n’ ends — bootleg concert films, European TV footage, in-store appearances, cable-access interviews and music video — into a visual anthology of the dusty country-punks’ career. Play it next to their most famous footage — their cameo on Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged episode — and you’ve got the whole picture.
