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I Just Can't Be Happy Today

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Released
  
November 1979

Recorded
  
1979

Length
  
3:34

Format
  
7"

Genre
  
Post-punk

B-side
  
"Ballroom Blitz" "Turkey Song"

"I Just Can't Be Happy Today" is a song by The Damned from their 1979 album, Machine Gun Etiquette. Released as a single in November on Chiswick Records, it peaked at No. 46 in the UK Singles Chart.

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Production

The single was heavily edited for radio airplay, removing the spoken word monologue, though the version on the record is unaltered. The first track on the B-side, a cover of Sweet's "Ballroom Blitz", was recorded with Lemmy of Motörhead fame on bass guitar. "Turkey Song" was not credited on the sleeve.

Live performances

The Damned performed "Smash It Up" and "I Just Can't Be Happy Today" on the BBC2 television show The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1979.

Track listing

  1. "I Just Can't Be Happy Today" (Dadomo, Scabies, Sensible, Vanian, Ward) - 2:53
  2. "Ballroom Blitz" (Chapman, Chinn) - 3:30
  3. "Turkey Song" (Scabies, Sensible, Vanian, Ward) - 1:32

Production credits

Producers
  • Roger Armstrong
  • The Damned
    • Musicians
  • Dave Vanian: Vocals
  • Captain Sensible: Guitar, Vocals on "Turkey Song"
  • Rat Scabies: Drums
  • Algy Ward: Bass
  • Lemmy: Bass on "Ballroom Blitz"

    • References

    I Just Can't Be Happy Today Wikipedia
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