Giant
1992
Mutiny
About This Album
Too Much Joy's third and final album for Giant records (after 1990's re-release of Son of Sam I Am and 1991's Cereal Killers) should have been the album to break the group on a wider commercial level. The group already had a solid college-age cult following, and Cereal Killers' brilliant single "Crush Story" had made minor radio waves, plus their 1991 arrest for playing a set of 2 Live Crew songs in a Florida nightclub as a combination publicity stunt and censorship protest had garnered them a fair amount of publicity. (This album's cover of the Records' power pop classic "Starry Eyes" rewrites the verses to commemorate this event.) The album even had a killer first single, the singalong stomper "Donna Everywhere," complete with a clever video directed by Teller (of Penn and Teller) showing the band blowing their video budget at the mall, complete with a running tally of the shoot's cost in the lower left corner. Mutiny, however, was not a commercial success, and even a certain segment of Too Much Joy's core audience felt disappointed in the album at the time, because singer Tim Quirk's lyrics were less frivolous and dryly sarcastic than before.
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