Happiness (Lisa Germano album)
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| Studio album by Lisa Germano | ||||
| Released | July 27, 1993 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, dream pop, folk rock | |||
| Length | 49:26 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Producer | Malcolm Burn | |||
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| EP by Lisa Germano | |
| Released | January 17, 1994 |
| Recorded | 1993 |
| Genre | Alternative rock, dream pop, folk rock |
| Length | 25:56 |
| Label | 4AD |
| Producer | Malcolm Burn |
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| Released | April 26, 1994 |
| Genre | Alternative rock, dream pop, folk rock |
| Length | 53:44 |
| Label | 4AD |
| Producer | Malcolm Burn |
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Happiness is the second album by Lisa Germano. It was originally released by Capitol Records in 1993, and re-released by 4AD Records the next year. A music video was produced for the single "You Make Me Want To Wear Dresses."
All tracks written by Lisa Germano, except 5 written by Germano/Joyce, and 10 written by Lee Hazlewood. 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.
The Inconsiderate Bitch EP is the third solo release by Lisa Germano, and her first for the 4AD 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 and engineer John Fryer (who had worked on Watts-Russell's This Mortal Coil project) also created this suite of alternate remixes, 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.
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.
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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.
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.
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