Track Listings (10) - Disc #1| All Artists: Say Hi To Your Mom Title: Discosadness Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Euphobia Original Release Date: 8/6/2002 Release Date: 8/6/2002 Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock Style: Indie & Lo-Fi Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPCs: 660662286626, 615493010360 |
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The debut full-length from New York indie outfit Say Hi To Your Mom, Discosadness is a compelling batch of catchy odes to computer-geek spies, big city vampires, laundry day and games of Twister in the snow. It is where ja... more » |
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Album Description The debut full-length from New York indie outfit Say Hi To Your Mom, Discosadness is a compelling batch of catchy odes to computer-geek spies, big city vampires, laundry day and games of Twister in the snow. It is where jangly guitars, whisper-quiet vocals, soft Moog and sparse drum beats team up to create a quirky combination of minimalist bedroom pop and sly indie sensibility. Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsHot stuff mama Michael Stack | 12/26/2002 (5 out of 5 stars) "WOW!! Eric Elbogen, of LoveRuckus fame, has put together quite an album. It's awesome!! Everyone should own it and love it cause I do and my hands are freezing." Subtle but powerful! Christoper Daugherty | FL, USA | 02/26/2006 (5 out of 5 stars) "These guys should have their picture next to the Lo-Fi Music entry on Wikipedia. They define the Lo-Fi alternative rock genre. Their music is subtle yet powerful. The music just flows! Keep it up!" Great debut from Brooklyn pop unit. Michael Stack | North Chelmsford, MA USA | 03/30/2005 (4 out of 5 stars) ""Discodsadness" is the debut album by Say Hi To Your Mom, a project by Eric Elbogen, a Brooklyn pop musician. While its not quite as good as its followup, its a really great record.
Elbogen has found a lo-fi vibe that works well, sort of the primitive '70s guitar sound meets early '80s new wave keyboards, with his half mumbled, half sung vocals on top of it. Of extraordinary note are Elbogen's lyrics, which somehow manage in their goofiness to capture a mood that perfectly matches his music-- he knows he's producing fun music, and even with its generally melancholy feel, its loosened nicely by the lyrics ("we could play some Pac-Man or go to the library / we can order some Pad Thai without the MSG", he croons in "They Write Books About This Sort of Thing"). Invariably, its a capturing of the life of a geeky guy in Brooklyn-- fact is, I suspect a lot of music geeks, myself included, will feel a strange kinship with Elbogen, between his bizarre pop culture references and his almost lazy attitude about pursuing love. What makes "Discosadness" fall short of "Numbers and Mumbles" (the second album and thus far Say Hi To Your Mom's masterpiece) is that the arrangements are a bit sparse-- there's times you'd hope to hear some more instrumentation, or a bit denser keyboard overlay on a song. Now mind you, that isn't to say there's not just brilliant moments on the album (the sublime opener, "The Fritz", the largely synth-driven "Kill the Cat" and the extraordinary paean to love-but not at the expense of basketball, "Unless the Lakers Game Was On"), but Elbogen got his formula perfected next album-- start with "Numbers & Mumbles", then come back to this. If you've already got that one, then by all means, grab this disc, its superb." |
