Too Much Joy

Too Much Joy is the name of an indie music group formed in the early 1980's in Scarsdale, New York by high school acquaintances inspired by the music of The Clash. Their first LP, entitled Green Eggs and Crack, was self-released in 1987. Too Much Joy's 1991 LP Cereal Killers met with some notoriety on college radio rotations all over the US with the single "Good Kill" featuring the rising hip-hop star KRS-ONE. TMJ was compared to musical contemporaries They Might Be Giants and Barenaked Ladies because of its unconventional style, grassroots fan appeal, and quirky yet honest and insightful lyrics like:

Related Topics:
Too Much Joy - Indie - Scarsdale, New York - The Clash - Green Eggs and Crack - Cereal Killers - KRS-ONE - They Might Be Giants - Barenaked Ladies

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We sleep on floors and live on crumbs,

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we're a bunch of ugly bums.

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A great idea when we were smashed...

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turning anger into cash.

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To create, you must destroy.

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Smash a glass and cry... too much joy

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Theme Song, (Cereal Killers, 1991)

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After the release of Cereal Killers, TMJ went on to release several other studio albums, but none approached the popular success of Cereal Killers. In 1997, TMJ announced a hiatus from the music business, citing that the commercialism of the music business had taken the "joy" out of performing. Too Much Joy reunited in 1999 and 2001 to produce the studio album Gods and Sods in and the live album Live at Least. Although the original 4-member incarnation of TMJ remains defunct, its members have since formed the overlapping subprojects Surface Wound, The ITS, and Wonderlick.

Related Topics:
Cereal Killers - Too Much Joy - Surface Wound - The ITS - Wonderlick

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