Mutiny (Too Much Joy album)

Mutiny is an album by American power pop band Too Much Joy. It was released on September 12, 1992 on Giant Records, and was the third and last album Too Much Joy released on this label.[2]

Mutiny
Studio album by
Too Much Joy
ReleasedSeptember 12, 1992 (1992-09-12)[1]
GenrePower pop
Length47:38
LabelGiant Records
ProducerWilliam Wittman
Too Much Joy chronology
Cereal Killers
(1991)		 Mutiny
(1992)		 Finally
(1996)

Critical reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Entertainment WeeklyA–[3]
People(very favorable)[4]
Robert Christgau[5]

Critics generally gave Mutiny favorable reviews. For example, People described it as "multifaceted" and "the band’s best yet."[4] Similarly, in a retrospective review, Stewart Mason of AllMusic wrote that "In retrospect, this is probably Too Much Joy's best album, and certainly their most consistently listenable."[2] Not every critic was so favorable, however; for example, Robert Christgau gave it a "neither" rating, which corresponds to an album that "may impress once or twice with consistent craft or an arresting track or two. Then it won't."[5] Another less-than-favorable review came from Chris Heim, who described it as "a mix of forced humor and bare-faced commercial lunging at today's star-making grunge audience."[6] Patrick Schabe wrote in 2006 that the album, because it was "in many ways a more mature and superior rock album" than its predecessor, Cereal Killers, "alienated fans who were drawn to the goof-ball humor" of Cereal Killers.[7] Ira Robbins agreed that it was Too Much Joy's most mature album, writing that compared to their previous work, it was "marginally more serious, placing as much emphasis on straightforward melodicism and sly style-mongering as chucklehead topical indulgences."[8] Mark Jenkins of the Washington Post wrote that the most memorable song on the album was "Donna Everywhere".[9]

Track listing
  1. Parachute – 2:21
  2. Donna Everywhere – 3:48
  3. What It Is – 5:40
  4. Just Like A Man- 2:42
  5. Sin Tax – 3:33
  6. Starry Eyes – 3:26
  7. Stay At Home – 3:18
  8. Magic – 2:44
  9. In Perpetuity – 3:59
  10. Sort Of Haunted House – 3:46
  11. I Don't Know – 2:45
  12. Unbeautiful – 2:49
  13. Strong Thing – 4:22
  14. Sorry – 2:22

Personnel
  • Bass, Vocals – Sandy Smallens
  • Drums, Vocals, Percussion – Tommy Vinton
  • Engineer – Geoff Daking
  • Guitar, Vocals – Jay Blumenfield
  • Mastered By – George Marino
  • Producer – William Wittman
  • Vocals – Tim Quirk
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gollark: This is a values problem, not an economic system one.
gollark: The expected value of demanding for communism appears substantially lower than that of actually helping people with malaria.
gollark: Yet they do not do this, and instead ineffectually demand communism which would totally make everything great and wonderful.
gollark: Consider: the people complaining about wanting communism could probably work in a well-paying job, obtain money, and donate it to effective charities like the Against Malaria Foundation.

References
  1. Whitburn, Joel (2008). Joel Whitburn Presents Rock Tracks 1981-2008. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 263.
  2. Mason, Stewart. "Mutiny Review". AllMusic.
  3. Zacharek, Stephanie (1992-10-09). "Mutiny". EW.com. Retrieved 2017-07-31.
  4. People Staff (1993-01-18). "Picks and Pans Review: Mutiny". People.
  5. Christgau, Robert. "Too Much Joy".
  6. Heim, Chris (1993-03-19). "A Rare Visit From English Folk Performer Maddy Prior". Chicago Tribune. p. 2.
  7. Schabe, Patrick (2006-05-19). "Too Much Joy, Cereal Killers (1991)". PopMatters.
  8. Robbins, Ira. "Too Much Joy". Trouser Press.
  9. Jenkins, Mark (1993-01-29). "Lots of Power Pop In Too Much Joy". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2018-11-18.
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