Too Much Fun! Explained

Too Much Fun!
Type:	album
Artist:	The Holy Modal Rounders
Cover:	Holy Modal Rounders - Too Much Fun.jpg
Released:	July 13, 1999
Recorded:	Studio at Puck's Farm, Ontario, Canada
Genre:	Freak folk
Length:	43:00
Label:	Rounder
Producer:	Frazier Mohawk, Peter Stampfel
Prev Title:	Going Nowhere Fast
Prev Year:	1981
Next Title:	I Make a Wish for a Potato
Next Year:	2001

Too Much Fun! is a studio album by the psychedelic folk band the Holy Modal Rounders.^[1] It was released in 1999 through Rounder Records.^[2] ^[3] It was the band's first album in more than two decades.^[4]

Critical reception

Salon wrote that "essential to the fun of Too Much Fun! are the lack of second takes and the healthy helping of tomfoolery that disguises—or supplants—lyrics forgotten or never learned in the first place."^[5]

Personnel

The Holy Modal Rounders

Dave Reisch – bass guitar, vocals
Don Rooke – slide guitar
Peter Stampfel – fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, vocals, production
Steve Weber – guitar, vocals

Additional musicians and production

David B. Greenberger – design
Frazier Mohawk – production
Dr. Toby Mountain – mastering
Phil Sheridan – engineering, mastering
Betsy Wollheim – photography
Jeff Wolpert – engineering

Notes and References

Web site: Holy Modal Rounders Hit The Road. https://web.archive.org/web/20210929224720/http://www.mtv.com/news/821079/holy-modal-rounders-hit-the-road/. dead. September 29, 2021. MTV News.
Web site: MUSIC; Round They Go Again, as Full of Fun as Ever. Ariel. Swartley. July 18, 1999. NYTimes.com.
Web site: Grin 'n' Spin. August 25, 1999. LA Weekly.
Web site: Reviews. CMJ New Music Report. July 26, 1999. CMJ Network, Inc.. Google Books.
Web site: Sharps & flats. July 29, 1999. Salon.