Like Flies on Sherbert is the first solo album released by American pop rock musician Alex Chilton.

The album was originally released in fall 1979 in a batch of 500 copies by Peabody Records, a label run by Memphis singer and guitarist Sid Selvidge.

Before that I'd been into careful layerings of guitars and voices and harmonies and things like that, and Dickinson showed me how to go into the studio and just create a wild mess and make it sound really crazy and anarchic.

"[3] With its deliberately below-par sound quality and performances, reviews of Like Flies on Sherbert differ as to whether the effect is positive or merely substandard.

"[6] However, more recently, AllMusic critic Steve Leggett revisited the album and gave it a three-and-a-half-star review, saying, "In retrospect, Flies isn't quite the car wreck it once appeared to be.

"[7] Rolling Stone's Ken Tucker described the album as "a small masterpiece of crudity and split-second invention", adding that "Chilton achieves his most startling, moving effects at precisely those moments when he seems least in control.

"[8] Critic Robert Christgau stated that "this long-time advertisement for self-abuse doesn't prove craziness is universal.