So Happy Together is the first full-length album by Memphis indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 band The Grifters. The album was noisier and lo-fi by even Grifters standards, much of it being home recordings on 4-track

Multitrack recording

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. 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.

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 Prisoner
  The Prisoner is a 17-episode British television series first broadcast in the UK from 29 September 1967 to 1 February 1968. Starring and co-created by Patrick McGoohan, it combined spy fiction with elements of science fiction, allegory and psychological drama.The series follows a British former...
  
  
• The Flower Shop is a Memphis florist (Anything Grows), where Shouse and Gallimore both worked. The band practiced and recorded there at night.