I liked their first two albums a lot, but this one was too..."fun" for me. True, Mucky Pup's first album (Can't You Take a Joke) is much lighter than, say, The Exploited, but the guitars and drums had a hard edge. Compare "Hippies Hate Water" and "Three Dead Gophers" on NOW with "Nazichizm" and "Innocents" on JOKE. Their next album, A Boy in a Man's World, continued losing that serious edge and, on the album NOW, the edge is gone completely. (They hit a sweet spot with Man's World, in my opinion). Finally, to add to the levity, the snare drum on NOW is tuned like Primus', who put out "Suck On This" the previous year. Primus is also "fun," but I like Primus' fun better than Mucky Pup's.
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