Joy Rides for Shut-Ins is the first studio album by the American band the Cavedogs, released in 1990.

[1][2] The band supported the album by touring with the Dead Milkmen and Mojo Nixon.

[3] USA Today praised the "sass and spit-in-your-face attitude of punk [and] the melodic qualities of solid hard rock".

[5] In 1992, The New Yorker called the album "a collection of blissful power pop crunchers".

[6] Trouser Press noted that "while quotes from summer-of-love sources (Move, Floyd, Beatles and Monkees to name but a few) abound you'll also hear enough echoes of the Jam, dB's, R.E.M.