Happy Families (album)
Encyclopedia
Happy Families is the debut album
by Blancmange
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Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
by Blancmange
Blancmange (band)
Blancmange are a British synthpop band who came to prominence with a string of hits in the early to mid 1980s.-Biography:Blancmange was formed in Harrow, Middlesex in 1979 by singer Neil Arthur and instrumentalists Stephen Luscombe and Laurence Stevens...
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Side one
- "I Can't Explain" – 4:00
- "Feel Me" – 5:07
- "I've Seen the Word" – 3:00
- "Wasted" – 4:17
- "Living on the CeilingLiving on the CeilingLiving on the Ceiling is a song by Blancmange which appeared as the fifth track on their 1982 album Happy Families. It was released in 1982 as the third single from the album. It was a surprise hit for the band, reaching #7 on the UK charts and #5 on the Australian Singles Chart .Blancmange...
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Side two
- "Waves" – 4:07
- "Kind" – 3:56
- "Sad Day" – 4:05
- "Cruel" – 4:52
- "God's Kitchen" – 2:54
Side one
- "Waves" – 4:07
- "Feel Me" – 5:07
- "I've Seen the Word" – 3:00
- "Wasted" – 4:17
- "Living on the Ceiling" – 4:11
Side two
- "Blind Vision" - 4:20
- "I Can't Explain" – 4:00
- "Kind" – 3:56
- "Sad Day" – 4:05
- "Cruel" – 4:52
- "God's Kitchen" – 2:54
CD: 810 123–2
- "I Can't Explain" – 4:00
- "Feel Me" – 5:07
- "I've Seen the Word" – 3:00
- "Wasted" – 4:17
- "Living on the Ceiling" – 4:11
- "Waves" – 4:07
- "Kind" – 3:56
- "Sad Day" – 4:05
- "Cruel" – 4:52
- "God's Kitchen" – 2:54
CD: EDSS 1026 (2008 Remastered & Extended Edition)
- "I Can't Explain" – 4:03
- "Feel Me" – 5:07
- "I've Seen the Word" – 3:00
- "Wasted" – 4:17
- "Living on the Ceiling" – 4:02
- "Waves" – 4:09
- "Kind" – 3:58
- "Sad Day" – 4:04
- "Cruel" – 4:52
- "God's Kitchen" – 2:57
- "Living on the Ceiling [Extended Version]" - 5:40
- "God's Kitchen [12" Mix]" - 4:29
- "Feel Me [Extended 12" Version]" - 7:01
- "Feel Me [7" and 12" Instrumental]" - 5:10
- "Business Steps" - 4:28
- "Feel Me [US 12" Instrumental]" - 5:22
Musicians
- Neil Arthur - VoiceSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
, GuitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
s and Electronics - Stephen Luscombe - SynthesizerSynthesizerA synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
s and KeyboardsElectronic keyboardAn electronic keyboard is an electronic or digital keyboard instrument.The major components of a typical modern electronic keyboard are:...
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Additional musicians
- David Rhodes - Guitar (1, 2, 4, 7, 9, 10)
- Dinesh - TablaTablaThe tabla is a popular Indian percussion instrument used in Hindustani classical music and in popular and devotional music of the Indian subcontinent. The instrument consists of a pair of hand drums of contrasting sizes and timbres...
(5) - Deepak - SitarSitarThe 'Tablaman' is a plucked stringed instrument predominantly used in Hindustani classical music, where it has been ubiquitous since the Middle Ages...
(5) - James Lane - DrumDrumThe drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
s (5, 7) - Stevie Lange and Joy Yates - Backing VoicesBacking vocalistA backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
(1, 7) - Stevie Lange and Madeline Bell - Backing Voices (2, 6)
Production
- Recorded in London February/August 1982 at CBS and Battery Studios
- Produced by Mike HowlettMike HowlettMike Howlett is a Fijian-born musician, Grammy Award winning producer and teacher based in the United Kingdom and Australia....
- Engineered by Walter Samuel, Roberto Arendse and Mark Chamberlain (CBS)
Nigel Green and Andrew Warwick (Battery) - "Living on the Ceiling" and "Kind" remixed at Odyssey StudiosOdyssey StudiosOdyssey Studios was a recording studio based near Marble Arch in London and opened in 1979. It was set up by Wayne Bickerton as an extension from State Records, the label he had set up with Tony Waddington and John Fruin in 1975...
by Denis Weinrich - "Waves" remixed by Denis Weinrich and John Owen Williams
- Strings arranged by Linton Naiff
- Painting by Michael Brownlow after Louis WainLouis WainLouis Wain was an English artist best known for his drawings, which consistently featured anthropomorphised large-eyed cats and kittens. In his later years he suffered from schizophrenia, which, according to some psychologists, can be seen in his works.- Life and work :Louis William Wain was...
- Management by Paul Smith and John Owen Williams