| No Joke! | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Meat Puppets |
| Cover: | No_Joke!.gif |
| Released: | October 3, 1995 |
| Recorded: | 1995 |
| Studio: | Phase Four Studio, Phoenix, Arizona, Westlake Studio, Los Angeles, California |
| Length: | 54:51 |
| Label: | London |
| Producer: | Meat Puppets, Paul Leary |
| Prev Title: | Too High to Die |
| Prev Year: | 1994 |
| Next Title: | Live in Montana |
| Next Year: | 1999 |
No Joke! is the ninth studio album by the Meat Puppets. The album was released on October 3, 1995, by London Records. It was the follow-up to the band's album Too High to Die and was the last Meat Puppets album with bassist Cris Kirkwood (until his reunion on 2007's Rise to Your Knees) and drummer Derrick Bostrom (until 2019's Dusty Notes). A video was filmed for the song "Scum", directed by Dave Markey.
The cover art "no joke" used on the album was originally created by Curt Kirkwood's daughter, which the band chose to use as the album's title and cover art.
In September 2000, Al Shipley wrote that No Joke! had a "droning alt-metal sensibility".[1]
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic described No Joke! as an "average" Meat Puppets record, explaining that although the songs were "competent", it lacked the "wild spark" and "bizarre sense of humour" that characterised their 1980s work.
Eric Flaum of American music publication Rolling Stone was more praising, awarding the album 4-out-of-5 stars and stating that No Joke! showed the band's creativity at "full throttle".
All songs written by Curt Kirkwood, unless otherwise noted.
Album - Billboard (North America)