Happiness is the second album by Lisa Germano

Lisa Germano

Lisa Germano is an American singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has released seven albums featuring her often-hushed vocal style, confessional lyrics, and distinctive violin. Her 1994 album Geek the Girl received widespread critical acclaim, including being featured as a top album of...

. It was originally released by Capitol Records

Capitol Records

Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...

 in 1993, and re-released by 4AD Records the next year.

Track list (original 1993 Capitol release)

1. "Around the World"
2. "You Make Me Want To Wear Dresses"
3. "Happiness"
4. "Bad Attitude"
5. "Sycophant"
6. "Miamo-Tutti"
7. "Energy"
8. "Cowboy"
9. "Puppet"
10. "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'
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11. "Breathe Acrost Texas"
12. "Everyone's Victim"
13. "The Darkest Night of All"

All songs written by Lisa Germano, except 5 written by Germano/Joyce, and 10 written by Lee Hazlewood

Lee Hazlewood

Lee Hazlewood , born Barton Lee Hazlewood was an American country and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer, most widely known for his work with guitarist Duane Eddy during the late 1950s and singer Nancy Sinatra in the 1960s.Hazlewood had a distinctive baritone voice that added an ominous...

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The title of track 2 was changed to "The Dresses Song" on all subsequent re-releases of this album, while 10 and 11 have been omitted completely. Track 11 was made available on Germano's self-released compilation, Rare, Unusual or Just Bad Songs (2002), but track 10 remains unreleased elsewhere.

A music video was produced for the single "You Make Me Want To Wear Dresses", the video featured Germano in a series of places in time, on with different dresses. It is considered a classic alternative video clip, which many other artists drew inspiration from the style of the video. The video was directed by Laura Levine and can be viewed on YouTube.

Personnel

• Kenny Aronoff
  Kenny Aronoff
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   – drums
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   (tracks 7, 9)
• Malcolm Burn
  Malcolm Burn
  Malcolm Burn is a Canadian-born music producer, recording engineer and musician. In 2001, he won a Grammy Award with Jim Watts and Emmylou Harris for his work on Harris's Red Dirt Girl. -Biography:...
  
   – guitar
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   (3, 7, 10), keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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   (4, 5, 9), bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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   (10)
• Bill Dillon – guitar (1, 3, 4, 9), bass guitar (12)
• Daryl Johnson – bass guitar (1, 3, 4), djembe
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   (1), drums (12)
• Ronald Jones – drums (1, 3, 4, 12)
• Jay Joyce – guitar (2, 9, 12), keyboards (1), bass guitar (3, 5)
• John Keane
  John Keane (record producer)
  John Keane is an American record producer based in Athens, Georgia, who has worked extensively with R.E.M., Indigo Girls and Widespread Panic. He owns and operates John Keane Studios in Athens, which opened in 1981....
  
   – pedal steel
  Pedal steel guitar
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   (8), guitar (9)
• Giles Reaves
  Giles Reaves
  Giles Reaves is a multi-instrumentalist sound artist and audio engineer who has composed albums of space music. His most recognized album, Sea of Glass, 1992, peaked at #11 on the Billboard Top New Age Albums chart.-Biography:...
  
   – drums (2)
• Toby Myers – bass guitar (7, 9)

Credits

• Produced by Malcolm Burn.
• Recorded at Kingsway Studio in New Orleans; additional recording done at Champagne Studio in Nashville
  Nashville, Tennessee
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  , September Studio in Indianapolis
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  , and Germano's home.
• Engineered
  Audio engineering
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   by Malcolm Burn, Mark Howard
  Mark Howard (producer)
  Mark Howard is a Canadian record producer, engineer, and mixer. He has worked with many artistsincluding Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Lucinda Williams, Willie Nelson, Marianne Faithful, Emmylou Harris, U2, Peter Gabriel, R.E.M...
  
  , Wayne Lorenz, John Keane, and Trina Shoemaker
  Trina Shoemaker
  Trina Shoemaker is a mixer, record producer and sound engineer responsible for producing/engineering and/or mixing records for popular bands such as Queens of the Stone Age, Sheryl Crow, Emmylou Harris, Something for Kate, Nanci Griffith and many more....
  
  . Additional engineering by Giles Reaves, Mike Griffith, Paul Mahern, and Mark Hood.
• Mixed by Malcolm Burn and Wayne Lorenz at Kingsway, except 7 mixed by Paul Mahern at Pinebrook Studio in Alexandria, IN
  Alexandria, Indiana
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• Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound in New York City
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• Cover photograph by Bob Lanois
  Bob Lanois
  Bob Lanois is a Canadian sound engineer, music producer, and harmonica player. He released released his first album in 2006, Snake Road, with his brother Daniel Lanois...
  
  , coloring by Jim Merrill.
• Rear cover drawing by Haley Goethals.
• Design by Jeff Fey.

Inconsiderate Bitch

The Inconsiderate Bitch EP

Extended play

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 is the third solo release by Lisa Germano, and her first for the 4AD

4AD

4AD is a British independent record label that was started in 1979 by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent, funded by Beggars Banquet Records, and is still active today...

 label. It was one of a series of limited-edition "temporary releases" by 4AD, meant to supplement concurrent releases by the same act; in this case, Inconsiderate Bitch acted as a "teaser" for the label's re-release of Happiness, while also serving as an introduction of Germano to her new label's audience. While preparing and resequencing the album for its re-release, 4AD founder and then-president Ivo Watts-Russell

Ivo Watts-Russell

Ivo Watts-Russell was joint-founder with Peter Kent of the English indie record label 4AD. He has also produced several records, himself preferring to use the term "musical director" to explain his role in the creation....

 and engineer John Fryer

John Fryer (music)

John Fryer is an English record producer. Best known for his production work, he also branched out as a musician as one of only two constant members of This Mortal Coil , providing keyboards, strings and synthesizer sequencing for the band, and its offshoot, The Hope Blister.- Career :Starting out...

 (who had worked on Watts-Russell's This Mortal Coil

This Mortal Coil

This Mortal Coil was a gothic dream pop supergroup led by Ivo Watts-Russell, founder of the British record label 4AD. Although Watts-Russell and John Fryer were technically the only two official members, the band's recorded output featured a large rotating cast of supporting artists, many of whom...

 project) also created this suite of alternate remix

Remix

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es, with the exception of "(Late Night) Dresses", a version of "You Make Me Wanto Wear Dresses" (later retitled "The Dresses Song") remixed by the original producer, Malcolm Burn.

Track list

1. "Happiness"
2. "Energy"
3. "Puppet"
4. "Sycophant"
5. (Late Night) Dresses

All songs were written by Lisa Germano, except track 4 written by Germano/Joyce.
Tracks 2-5 were later added to an edition of Happiness re-released by 4AD in 1999, but have since been removed for subsequent editions. Track 1 remains available only on this CD; with a running time of 8:17, it is considerably extended compared to the two album versions.

Credits

Same as above, except:

• Mixed and compiled by Ivo Watts-Russell and John Fryer, except track 5 mixed by Malcolm Burn.
• Mixed at Blackwing Studios
  Blackwing Studios
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   in London
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• Cover image by Cathy Fenwick.
• Photography by Andrew Catlin
  Andrew Catlin
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• Design by Vaughan Oliver
  Vaughan Oliver
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   and Chris Bigg at v23
  23 Envelope
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Three months after releasing the Inconsiderate Bitch EP, Germano's new label, 4AD, reissued her second album, Happiness, with a resequenced track listing, two new songs replacing two from the original, and radically different artwork.

Track list (1994 4AD reissue)

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"

All songs were written by Lisa Germano, except track 10 written by Germano/Joyce.
Tracks 2 and 8 did not appear on the original Capitol version of the album; track 12 was previously titled "You Make Me Wanto Wear Dresses".
A later edition of Happiness, re-released by 4AD in 1999, contained tracks 2-5 from the Inconsiderate Bitch EP added to the end as bonus tracks, but have since been removed for subsequent editions.

A music video for the song "Puppet" was produced and can be viewed on the MUZU TV website.

Credits

Same as above, except:

• Track 2 was produced by Jay Joyce.
• Track 10 was produced by Malcolm Burn and Jay Joyce.
• Track 2 was engineered by Mike Griffith at Champagne Studios in Nashville, and mixed by Jay Joyce and Mike Griffith.
• Track 8 was engineered by Giles Reaves at Bloodsucker Studios.
• Track 3 was remixed by Malcolm Burn and Trina Shoemaker.
• Design by Vaughan Oliver
  Vaughan Oliver
  Vaughan Oliver is a British graphic designer based in Epsom, South of London. Oliver is most noted for his work with graphic design studios 23 Envelope and v23...
  
   and Adrian Philpott; images by John Weber.