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So Happy Together

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Released
  
1992

Producer
  
The Grifters

Genre
  
Indie Rock

Recorded
  
1991, Easley McCain Recording, A Kitchen, Two Living Rooms and The Flower Shop, Memphis, Tennessee

Length
  
36:51 (CD), 17:59, (EP)

Label
  
Sonic Noise SON 002-2(CD)SON 002-1(EP)

So Happy Together is the first full-length album by Memphis indie rock band The Grifters. The album was noisier and lo-fi by even Grifters standards, much of it being home recordings on 4-track. It was released on the now defunct Chicago, Illinois label, Sonic Noise. It featured the re-recording "The Want", which debuted as an A Band Called Bud song. Originally released on vinyl as a six-song mini-album, it was extended to a full twelve-track album, though the album only features ten song titles. The back of the CD tray lists the original tracks apart from the bonus tracks and some of the lyrics to "Wreck" are featured in an image by Greg Harwell.

Contents

Original track listing

  1. "Dry Bones" 1:36
  2. "Hate" 2:01 (vocals Taylor)
  3. "Tat" 4:58 (vocals Taylor)
  4. "Clot" 2:43 (vocals Shouse)
  5. "The Want" 3:01 (vocals Shouse)
  6. "Oar" 3:40 (vocals Taylor/Shouse)

CD track listing

  1. "Dry Bones" 1:36
  2. "Hate" 2:01 (vocals Taylor)
  3. "Tat" 4:58 (vocals Taylor)
  4. "Clot" 2:43 (vocals Shouse)
  5. "The Want" 3:01 (vocals Shouse)
  6. "Oar" 3:40 (vocals Taylor/Shouse)
  7. "Wreck" 3:10 (vocals Shouse)
  8. (untitled track) 1:32
  9. "Meanwhile" 4:18 (vocals Shouse)
  10. "10,000" 3:06 (vocals Taylor)
  11. (untitled track) 1:23
  12. (blank track) 0:28
  13. "Love Explosion" 4:49 (vocals Shouse)

Grifters

  • Stan Gallimore (not credited)
  • Tripp Lamkins (not credited)
  • David Shouse (not credited)
  • Scott Taylor (not credited)

    • Additional credits

  • Album art by Greg Harwell
  • Engineering on some songs by Doug Easley and Davis McCain, Scott Taylor on most

    • Trivia

  • Sample on Dry Bones from The Prisoner
  • The Flower Shop is a Memphis florist (Anything Grows), where Shouse and Gallimore both worked. The band practiced and recorded there at night.

    • References

    So Happy Together Wikipedia
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