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No Joke!
Rock · 1995 · 13 tracks

No Joke!

Meat Puppets

Dense, heavy desert rock that trades sun-drenched playfulness for a darker, droning psychedelic intensity. A murky masterpiece of mid-nineties alternative grit.

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It's like their classic desert sound but heavier, weirder, and drenched in 90s distortion.

A heavy, claustrophobic psychedelic trip through a darkening desert landscape.

No Joke! · vs · Meat Puppets
Brooding+4.0σ

Brooding saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 13 Tracks
01
Scum
3:53
02
Nothing
6:27
03
Head
4:18
04
Taste of the Sun
3:58
05
Vampires
4:35
06
Predator
4:31
07
Poison Arrow
3:12
08
Eyeball
4:05
09
For Free
4:29
10
Cobbler
3:25
11
Inflatable
3:29
12
Sweet Ammonia
4:17
13
Chemical Garden
4:15
Moments Worth Waiting For
The transition from the sludge-heavy opening riff of Scum into the soaring, warbling vocal harmonies of the chorus.
The sprawling, six-minute psychedelic drift of Nothing that feels like a slow-motion descent into a heat mirage.
The way Chemical Garden closes the album with an electrical, shimmering intensity that feels both apocalyptic and serene.
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