Happy Days, Sweetheart
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Happy Days, Sweetheart was the 1993 debut and only album for Industrial music
dance group Ethyl Meatplow
. The album was released on Chameleon Records, distributed by Elektra Entertainment and produced by Barry Adamson
. The album received praise by many critics, but did not fare very well commercially.
The video for "The Devil's Johnson" was once featured on an episode of Beavis & Butt-head.
Industrial music
Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...
dance group Ethyl Meatplow
Ethyl Meatplow
Ethyl Meatplow was an American alternative/industrial music band best known for their sole album, Happy Days, Sweetheart, released in 1993 by Dali Records, a division of Chameleon Music Group and distributed by Elektra Entertainment...
. The album was released on Chameleon Records, distributed by Elektra Entertainment and produced by Barry Adamson
Barry Adamson
Barry Adamson is a British rock musician who has worked with rock bands such as Magazine, Visage, The Birthday Party, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and the electronic musicians Pan sonic and Depeche Mode. Adamson created the seven-minute opus "Useless " remix for the latter band in 1997...
. The album received praise by many critics, but did not fare very well commercially.
The video for "The Devil's Johnson" was once featured on an episode of Beavis & Butt-head.
Track listing
- "Opening Precautionary Instructions" - 0:44
- "Suck" - 4:08
- "Devil's Johnson" - 3:13
- "Car" - 2:26
- "Queenie" - 3:35
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" - 3:29 - "Tommy" - 4:36
- "Mustard Requiem" - 1:44
- "Abazab" - 4:27
- "Ripened Peach" - 4:30
- "Feed" - 5:25
- "Rise" - 4:53
- "For My Sleepy Lover" - 0:51
- "Sad Bear" - 5:06
- "Untitled" - 6:18
Chart positions
SinglesSingle | Chart (1993) | Position |
---|---|---|
"Queenie" | US Hot Dance Club Songs | 3 |
Personnel
- Barry AdamsonBarry AdamsonBarry Adamson is a British rock musician who has worked with rock bands such as Magazine, Visage, The Birthday Party, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and the electronic musicians Pan sonic and Depeche Mode. Adamson created the seven-minute opus "Useless " remix for the latter band in 1997...
- Producer, Additional Vocals (Tracks 2, 9 & 14) - David Brown - Alto Sax (Track 2)
- Carla BozulichCarla BozulichCarla Bozulich is an American musician based in Los Angeles, known for her work as the lead singer, lyricist and founder of both The Geraldine Fibbers and and as a founding member of Ethyl Meatplow. Her 2006 album, Evangelista, was released by Constellation Records, that label's first release by a...
- Vocals, Trumpet - Chris Fuhrman - Engineering
- Sayuri Kawada - Violin
- Daniel Keenan - Additional Vocals (Tracks 2)
- Eeda Kitto - Violin
- John Napier - Drums
- Harold Barefoot Sanders - Vocals, Guitar
- Albert Wing - Tenor Sax (Track 2)