No Questions Asked (album)

Critical reception

According to reviewer Joseph Neff from The Vinyl District:

"The Flesh Eaters’ [early output was] good, but flirtations with greatness arrived on the 1980 long-player No Questions Asked, [Chris] Desjardins refining a vocal approach comparable to a wilder West Coast Richard Hell."

For his part, Jay Hinman from Perfect Sound Forever, was of the view that:

"... The album suffers a wee bit from muted production and some discontinuity, which is not particularly surprising given that eight musicians rotated through 14 short tracks ... The sound is sharp, static bursts of punk heat, dressed up with Chris’ phantasmagoric visions of plagues, hemorrhages and rabid cops. The sound is best represented on tracks like "Impossible Crime", "Dominoes" and "Police Gun Jitters" ... It’s worth noting that Desjardins’s tales were repeatedly inspired by B-movies (the name of the band being a prime example ...), with a ghoulishness particularly heard in the lyrics of this LP. No Questions Asked marked the end of the first wave of the Flesh Eaters, and gave birth to the all-star roots/voodoo combo of 1981’s A Minute to Pray, A Second To Die."

Reissues

In February 2004, Atavistic Records released a remastered edition on CD of the original record, which was extended with ten bonus tracks, including the entire four-song debut EP Flesh Eaters from 1978, the three cuts contributed by the band to the Tooth and Nail compilation in 1979, and three previously unreleased demo recordings from 1978. Mark Wheaton was in charge of the mastering at Catasonic Studios in Echo Park, California.

1980 LP release

All tracks written by Chris Desjardins, except where noted.

2004 remastered CD edition

Extended version with 10 bonus tracks: 15 to 17 were originally released as part of the 1979 Tooth and Nail compilation, 18 to 21 were originally released in 1978 as the four-song EP Flesh Eaters, and 22 to 24 are previously unreleased material.

All tracks written by Desjardins, except where noted.