Can't You Take a Joke?

Mucky Pup | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 8, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: CDBY
• ASIN: B0012K56OC
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #454,693 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Can't Muck With the Pup, February 4, 2009

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G. Vehar "g_vehar" (Aurora, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Can't You Take a Joke? (Audio CD)

This is their first release, and my favorite. The easiest description for the music at this time is short, humorous hardcore. But it's actually got some crossover/thrash mixed in with the sound, and some nimble bass grooves. The lyrics are snotty, profane and in extremely poor taste. But that's a plus, you understand. The whole album clocks in at half an hour or less, and the songs range from 40 seconds to three minutes. The shorter songs still have a recognizable song structure, though, and are not just formless sonic blurs. Musically, think metal/hardcore hybrid S.O.D., but instead of their fat guitar sound, it's more high-end Slayerish-sounding with some razor-sharp leads in a few places. All in all, a very accomplished, original-sounding release for a band that was either still in high school or just recently graduated... and they're from Jersey, no less!

Mucky Pup is of course famous for performing the B-side "U Stink But I Love U" on the Bloom County Billy & The Boingers Bootleg flexi-disc. It's a great little song, but it's not on this album... it was re-recorded for the second album (which made MTV airplay, introduced on Headbanger's Ball by a denim-jacketed Adam Curry!) The original album was re-released with some extra live tracks, but what Mucky Pup needs to do is put their early demo on the end of this release... it's got a few tunes that made the album and a few that didn't, which I'd love to get on CD.