Sunday, December 7, 2014

Lisa Germano - Happiness (1994)


Her second studio album, Happiness was a watershed moment for Germano. Surpassing by far her debut in every way, it's where her idiosyncratic musical vision first truly congealed -- lushly layered arrangements and a sardonic sense of humor applied to fuzzy, melancholy, alt-rock- and folk-laced dream pop.

Note: Happiness was originally released in 1993, then was reissued the next year by 4AD with reworked mixes and track order. And as much as I like to root for OGs, in this case, the reissue version is superior, so that's what you're getting here.

Track listing:
1. Bad Attitude
2. Destroy the Flower
3. Puppet
4. Everyone's Victim
5. Energy
6. Cowboy
7. Happiness
8. The Earth
9. Around the World
10. Sycophant
11. Miamo-Tutti
12. The Dresses Song
13. The Darkest Night of All

You wish it was sunny
But it's not, ha-ha-ha

4 comments:

  1. You are showing the capitol records-version of the album, but the 4AD version track list (the capitol version has a different track sequence and a version of "these boots are made for walking"). Anyway, they're both fine albums

    Thanks for a nice blog!

    ReplyDelete
  2. YA!!! LISA G!! Nobody and I mean NOBODY knows about her..is it possible that I know you OrigPoster? Somewhere in the NW in a dark dark bar.....hahahahahah -- no matter..THNAK YOU-- been a while --- WHAT"S AROUND THE WORLD -- I love this record!!!!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Please can you re-up this on Zippy? Mega never works here :(

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Doesn't look like I can access Zippyshare, sorry

      Delete