There's No 'I' in Cherem

There's No 'I' in Cherem
There's No 'I' in Cherem
Studio album by The Groggers
Released	August 29, 2011
Genre	Jewish rock; pop punk;
Length	30:37
Label	CD Baby
Singles from There's No 'I' in Cherem
	"Get"; Released: May 2, 2010; "Eishes Chayil"; Released: October 28, 2010; "Upper West Side Story"; Released: September 6, 2011; "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by lead singer L.E. Doug Staiman in his bedroom, he formed The Groggers in early 2010 after the video for "Get", originally made as a joke, became a minor viral hit.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.	Title	Length
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

L.E. Doug Staiman – lead vocals, guitar, songwriting
Ari Friedman – lead guitar, vocals
C.J. Glass – bass guitar
Chemy Soibelman – drums

Other

Jake Antelis – mixing
Aryeh Kunstler – engineering
Bram Presser – guest vocals ("Farbrengiton")

References

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

[yu-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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