by Mark Deming Sometimes when a band calls its album Musick to Insult Your Intelligence By and hides the phrase "Once Again You Gave Us Money" inside the CD jewel case, you can only wonder if the line between humor and unexpected candor has been purposefully crossed. After 15 years in the "Where Are They Now" file, Green Jelly, the heavy metal puppet show and video production team who scored a surprise hit with "Three Little Pigs" in 1993, have suddenly re-emerged with their third album, and it's as if they never went away. Trouble is, that's something short of a compliment; Green Jelly have not changed all that much with the passage of time, but they also haven't noticeably improved, and their jokes are not one iota smarter or funnier after a decade and a half in the woodshed. (If you don't have anything better as a punch line for your album than "I've got blisters on my scrotum," you really need to go back to the drawing board.) The musicians on this album (curiously … » Read more