In 2003, Ross and I had just finished our first year of college and released this poppy, silly album which we are totally embarrassed of. Not everybody hates it as much as we do.
From
Allmusic.com's 4-star review :
Big Fun sounds like a final project at the They Might be Giants fantasy camp. It's not, but Ted Blanks and Ross Harman
-- known collectively as the Gaskets -- have made a record as wry,
poppy, and naïve as such an assignment would need to be if it expected
an A+. Working mainly with a jumble of drum machines and synthesizers
(guitar and piano wink in the margins), the Gaskets build ditties
infused with humor and melody ... [and] infuse every inch of their debut with enthusiasm and a
jokey shuffle that's refreshingly genuine and entirely universal.It's long out of print, and while we're not putting any more physical copies of it out there, you can still
get it at the iTunes store.