Discosadness

Time Out New York, August 1, 2002
It's a smart record, full of clever, often whispered words and a variety of bedroom sounds.

Product 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.

Discosadness

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Discosadness

Average customer rating: Subtle but powerful! Great debut from Brooklyn pop unit. GREAT booty shaking good time wowsers!

Discosadness Say Hi to Your Mom Manufacturer: Euphobia ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Lo-Fi | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Rock | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Set Yourself on Fire Carnavas Pikul At War with the Mystics Black Holes and Revelations ASIN: B00006LLH8 Release Date: 2002-08-06

Tracks:

1. The Fritz
2. They Write Books About This Sort of Thing
3. Laundry
4. The Pimp and The Sparrow
5. Kill The Cat
6. Unless The Laker Game was On
7. Dersmormos
8. Blizzard
9. Pintsized Midnight Moonbeam Workers
10. The Showdown in Goattown

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.

Customer Reviews:

Subtle but powerful!.......2006-02-27

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........2005-03-30

"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.

GREAT.......2004-03-12

just the same as the other reviews, great name. thats what really caught my attention, it is just so random that i had to preview one of the songs. good music. fits almost everymood you are in basically. well for me it does

booty shaking good time.......2003-10-25

i think that this band totally rocks. everything. name. lyrics. sound. its just really great. theyre like my new favorite.

wowsers!.......2003-01-19

I completely disagree with the last reviewer's sentiment about the band's name. I think it's awesome! Very refreshing at a time when every new band's name starts with "The." Anyway, I digress. Discosadness is definitely one of 2002's top 10 records you've probably never heard of. It's colorful, funny, emotional and rocking. What more can you ask for?

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