Joy Rides for Shut-Ins explained

Joy Rides for Shut-Ins
Type:	Album
Artist:	the Cavedogs
Cover:	Cavedogs_-_Joy_Rides_for_Shut-Ins.jpg
Released:	1990
Recorded:	1990
Genre:	Rock, power pop
Length:	38:48
Label:	Enigma
Producer:	Ed Stasium
Next Title:	Soul Martini
Next Year:	1992

Joy Rides for Shut-Ins is the first studio album by the American band the Cavedogs, released in 1990.^{[1] [2]} The band supported the album by touring with the Dead Milkmen and Mojo Nixon.^[3]

Critical reception

USA Today praised the "sass and spit-in-your-face attitude of punk [and] the melodic qualities of solid hard rock".^[4]

In 1992, The New Yorker called the album "a collection of blissful power pop crunchers".^[5] Trouser Press noted that "while quotes from summer-of-love sources (Move, Floyd, Beatles and Monkees to name but a few) abound you'll also hear enough echoes of the Jam, dB's, R.E.M. and the Smithereens to know the Boston-based trio has progressed past pure paisley."^[6]

Track listing

All songs written by the Cavedogs

1. "Tayter Country" – 2:16
2. "Leave Me Alone" – 3:37
3. "Bed of Nails" – 3:22
4. "Proud Land" – 3:44
5. "What in the World?" – 3:06
6. "Right on the Nail" – 4:33
7. "Step Down" – 3:37
8. "Baba Ghanooj" – 4:22
9. "Calm Him Down" – 3:52
10. "Taking Up Space" – 3:28
11. "La La La" – 2:37
12. "[Hidden Track]" – 0:24

Personnel

• The Cavedogs – Producer, Engineer
• Mike Denneen – Piano
• Paul Hamingson – Engineer, Remix Assistant
• Paul Q. Kolderie – Engineer
• John Lupfer – Producer, Engineer
• Michael McLaughlin – Photography
• Suzanne Mueller – cellist (Baba Ghanooj)
• Carl Plaster – Engineer
• Mark Rivers – Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Vocals, Producer
• Sean Slade – Engineer
• Todd Spahr – Guitar, Vocals, Bells, Producer, Sleigh Bells
• Ed Stasium – Producer, Engineer, Remixing
• Brian Stevens – Bass, Harmonica, Vocals, Producer

Charts

Singles

Billboard (North America)

References

1. Gordon . Robert . Spins . Spin . Dec 1990 . 6 . 9 . 84–85.
2. Music . Orange Coast . Mar 1991 . 17 . 3 . 163.
3. News: Del Porto . Brett . Dead Milkmen, Nixon, Cavedogs to Run 'Amuck' in S.L. . Deseret News . December 5, 1990 . C7.
4. News: Oermann . Robert K. . A Taste of What's Singing for Summer . USA Today . May 24, 1991.
5. Nightlife . The New Yorker . May 18, 1992 . 10.
6. Web site: Schulps . Dave . Cavedogs . Trouser Press . 29 July 2024.
7. Book: Whitburn . Joel . Joel Whitburn Presents Rock Tracks 1981-2008 . 2008 . Record Research . 49.