There's No 'I' in Cherem
Studio album by
The Groggers
ReleasedAugust 29, 2011 (2011-08-29)
Genre
Length30:37
LabelCD Baby
Singles from There's No 'I' in Cherem
  1. "Get"
    Released: May 2, 2010
  2. "Eishes Chayil"
    Released: October 28, 2010
  3. "Upper West Side Story"
    Released: September 6, 2011
  4. "The Shidduch Hits the Fan"
    Released: October 3, 2011

There's No 'I' in Cherem is the debut album by American Jewish pop punk band The Groggers, released through CD Baby on August 29, 2011. Originating as a series of demos recorded by lead singer L.E. Doug Staiman in his bedroom, he formed the Groggers in early 2010 after the video for "Get" became a minor viral hit. The album was engineered by Aryeh Kunstler and features vocals from Bram Presser of the Australian Jewish punk band Yidcore.

Background

Originating as a series of demos recorded by lead singer L.E. Doug Staiman in his bedroom, he formed The Groggers in early 2010 after the video for "Get", originally made as a joke, became a minor viral hit. The album was engineered by Aryeh Kunstler (whose touring band Staiman had previously been a member of) and mixed by Jake Antelis, and features Bram Presser of the Australian Jewish punk band Yidcore on the track "Farbrengiton".

The album title is a combination of the expression "There's no 'I' in 'team'" and cherem, a Jewish communal practice of shunning those considered heretical. Speaking on the title's meaning, guitarist Ari Friedman said in 2012:

“The album title is just funny. And Doug [Staiman] had no idea why it was so deep and profound. It means you’re not alone. It’s not always about the individual, whether it’s a person or a whole sect. There’s a whole team to think about. There’s a lot of in-group-out-group sort of thing between Jews, and it’s terrible…It’s not your good deeds, it’s our good deeds. It’s not your bad deeds. It’s our bad deeds.”[1]

Reception

Binyomin Ginzberg of The Forward praised the album for its "good-natured yet sarcastic take on contemporary Judaism".[2] Blogger Heshy Fried, writing for Heeb magazine, called it "pop-punk, feel-good music that makes you bob your head in the car and forget about the stop and go traffic on your morning commute."[3]

Track listing

All tracks are written by L.E. Doug Staiman

No.TitleLength
1."Yetzer Hara"2:18
2."Farbrengiton" (feat. Bram Presser of Yidcore)2:55
3."Malka Jihad"2:50
4."One Last Shatnez"3:17
5."Friday Night Lights"2:52
6."The Shidduch Hits the Fan"2:32
7."Upper West Side Story"2:35
8."Eishes Chayil"3:22
9."Get"2:24
10."There's No 'I' in Cherem"3:47
11."Don't Play Ball on Shabbos"1:43
Total length:30:37

Personnel

The Groggers
Other

References

  1. ↑ "Meet The Groggers". The Commentator. Yeshiva University. March 21, 2012. Retrieved August 25, 2015.
  2. ↑ Ginzberg, Binyomin (Sep 19, 2011). "Monday Music: Making a Loving Mockery of Modern Orthodoxy". The Forward. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  3. ↑ Fried, Heshy (September 6, 2011). "Music Review: The Groggers". Heeb. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
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