This was the second full length from Scarsdale New York’s Too Much Joy. I didn’t actually know them in the 80s so picked this up a bit on a whim (it sounded vaguely familiar but I couldn’t place it). Great LP of late 80s college radio alternative with some humor, as the title suggests.

My copy—via A1 Records in NYC—is an original 1988 pressing by Rainbo, which includes the Bozo the Clown sample at the beginning of “Clowns” that was removed from later pressings due to a lawsuit.

It also had the original promo letters from the PR firm “Set To Run” including gems from the “ironic PR” era:

Following up 1987’s lamely produced, barely promoted, and wildly successful Green Eggs and Crack disc, Son of Sam I Am should make TMJ—which is curiously enough also an acronym for lockjaw—famous enough to stop kissing every music-biz butt-cheek from here to Hollywood, unless of course that cheek belongs to Debbie Gibson. Recorded at Venice, California’s Radio Tokyo Studio and produced by Michael James, someone you’ve never head of, the record accurately captures the band’s trademark Lou-Reed-if-heroin-were-beer meets pre-sandbox Brian Wilson sound.