| Don't Know How to Party | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | The Mighty Mighty Bosstones |
| Cover: | The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Don't Know How to Party.jpg |
| Released: | May 18, 1993 |
| Recorded: | 1992–1993 at Dreamland Studios, Woodstock, New York |
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| Length: | 41:07 |
| Label: | Mercury |
| Producer: | Tony Platt |
| Prev Title: | Ska-Core, the Devil, and More |
| Prev Year: | 1993 |
| Next Title: | Question the Answers |
| Next Year: | 1994 |
Don't Know How to Party is the third full-length album by the American ska punk band The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, which was released in 1993. Don't Know How to Party was The Mighty Mighty Bosstones' major label debut on Mercury Records, their first venture away from their original label Taang! Records. The album reached #187 on the Billboard 200, and spawned several singles, including the Bosstones fan favorite—"Someday I Suppose" (#19 Billboard Modern Rock Tracks). Lead singer Dicky Barret would later state that, "When we made `Don't Know How to Party', no one knew where [we] [were] coming from".[2] Bassist Joe Gittleman stated that the album was "slower than [our] other records."[3]
Gregory Perez of the Tampa Bay Times said that the album "packs quite a wallop. While it isn't all ska, as Barrett is quick to point out, it is all Bosstones. Songs such as A Man Without and Issachar maintain the harder-than-calculus anthems that make live Bosstones shows such a brutal pleasure."[4] AllMusic writer Steve Huey gave the album 2 and 1/2 stars, explaining that "the lackluster songwriting renders this album necessary for diehards only."
All tracks were written by Dicky Barrett and Joe Gittleman.