No Strings Attached is a 1990 compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 of Meat Puppets

Meat Puppets

The Meat Puppets are an American rock band formed in January 1980, in Phoenix, Arizona. The group's original lineup was Curt Kirkwood , his brother Cris Kirkwood , and Derrick Bostrom . The Kirkwood brothers met Bostrom while attending Brophy Prep High School in Phoenix...

 songs released by their ex-record label SST Records

SST Records

SST Records is an American independent record label formed in 1978 in Long Beach, California by musician Greg Ginn. The company was initially called Solid State Transmitters through which Ginn sold electronics equipment...

. The compilation was released after the Meat Puppets left SST Records to join London Records. The compilation includes songs from their first album Meat Puppets

Meat Puppets (album)

Meat Puppets is the first LP by the Meat Puppets, released in 1982. The album is unlike their later, more well-known releases due to its hardcore punk sound....

(1982) through to their 1989 album Monsters. The Meat Puppets had no involvement in this release.

Track listing

All songs written by Curt Kirkwood

Curt Kirkwood

Curtis Matthew Kirkwood is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, but currently resides in Austin, Texas....

, unless otherwise noted.

1. "Big House" (Meat Puppets) - 1:04
2. "In a Car" (Meat Puppets) - 1:19
3. "Tumblin' Tumbleweeds" (Bob Nolan
   Bob Nolan
   Bob Nolan was a Canadian-born American singer, songwriter, and actor. He was a founding member of the Sons of the Pioneers, and composer of numerous Country music and Western music songs, including the standards "Cool Water" and "Tumbling Tumbleweeds." He is generally regarded as one of the...
   
   ) - 2:02
4. "Reward" (Meat Puppets) - 1:08
5. "The Whistling Song" - 2:56
6. "New Gods" - 2:10
7. "Lost" - 3:25
8. "Lake of Fire
   Lake of Fire (song)
   "Lake of Fire" is a song by the American alternative rock band the Meat Puppets. It appears on their 1983 album, Meat Puppets II and consists of three choruses, punctuated by two verses, in the key of G#....
   
   " - 1:55
9. "Split Myself in Two" - 2:22
10. "Up on the Sun" - 4:01
11. "Swimming Ground" - 3:04
12. "Maiden's Milk" (Curt Kirkwood/Cris Kirkwood) - 3:16
13. "Bucket Head" - 2:20
14. "Out My Way" (Meat Puppets) - 4:49
15. "Confusion Fog" - 3:48
16. "I Am a Machine" - 4:21
17. "Quit It" - 2:35
18. "Beauty" - 2:59
19. "Look At the Rain" - 4:19
20. "I Can't Be Counted On At All" - 3:58
21. "Automatic Mojo" - 3:20
22. "Meltdown" - 3:06
23. "Like Being Alive" - 4:42
24. "Attacked by Monsters" - 4:41

Song origins

• Tracks 1 and 2 are from the In a Car
  In A Car
  In a Car is the Meat Puppets' first recording and was originally issued on L.A. art collective/record label World Imitation records as a 5 track 7" EP. It was recorded in Silver Lake studio in Los Angeles on the June 4, 1981 with Ed Barger...
  
   EP.
• Tracks 3 and 4 are from Meat Puppets
  Meat Puppets (album)
  Meat Puppets is the first LP by the Meat Puppets, released in 1982. The album is unlike their later, more well-known releases due to its hardcore punk sound....
  
  .
• Tracks 5-9 are from Meat Puppets II
  Meat Puppets II
  Meat Puppets II is the second album by the Tempe, Arizona band the Meat Puppets, released in 1984. It is a departure from their self-titled debut album, which consisted largely of noisy hardcore with unintelligible vocals...
  
  .
• Tracks 10-13 are from Up on the Sun
  Up on the Sun
  Up on the Sun is the third album by the Meat Puppets, released in 1985 by SST Records. In 1999 the album was reissued on Rykodisc with bonus tracks and recording notes...
  
  .
• Track 14 is from the Out My Way
  Out My Way
  Out My Way is a mini-album released by the alternative rock band the Meat Puppets in 1986. It features a more hard rock oriented sound than the band usually has, leading some critics to say that the sound is similar to southern/hard rock stylings of ZZ Top...
  
   EP.
• Tracks 15-18 are from Mirage
  Mirage (Meat Puppets album)
  Mirage is an album by the Arizona alternative rock band Meat Puppets.The album was reissued in 1999 by Rykodisc with five additional bonus tracks, including early demos of "The Mighty Zero," "I Am a Machine" and "Liquified" as well as a cover of the Elvis Presley song "Rubberneckin'" and the...
  
  .
• Tracks 19-21 are from Huevos
  Huevos (album)
  Huevos is an album by the Arizona alternative rock band the Meat Puppets. It is said to have a strong ZZ Top influence in terms of style ; in a Musician magazine interview Curt Kirkwood claimed that a fan letter he had received from ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons...
  
  .
• Tracks 22-24 are from Monsters.

External links

• [ Allmusic No Strings Attached Overview]
• 1990 Entertainment Weekly Review