Happiness (Lisa Germano album)

Happiness is the second album by Lisa Germano. Released by Capitol Records in 1993, it was re-released by 4AD Records the following year. A music video was produced for the single "You Make Me Want to Wear Dresses."

Track listing
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.


 * 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'"
 * 11) "Breathe Acrost Texas"
 * 12) "Everyone's Victim"
 * 13) "The Darkest Night of All"

Personnel

 * Kenny Aronoff – drums (tracks 7, 9)
 * Malcolm Burn – guitar (3, 7, 10), keyboards (4, 5, 9), bass guitar (10)
 * Bill Dillon – guitar (1, 3, 4, 9), bass guitar (12)
 * Daryl Johnson – bass guitar (1, 3, 4), djembe (1), drums (12)
 * Ronald Jones – drums (1, 3, 4, 12)
 * Jay Joyce – guitar (2, 9, 12), keyboards (1), bass guitar (3, 5)
 * John Keane – pedal steel (8), guitar (9)
 * Giles Reaves – drums (2)
 * Toby Myers – bass guitar (7, 9)
 * Produced by Malcolm Burn.
 * Recorded at Kingsway Studio in New Orleans; additional recording done at Champagne Studio in Nashville, September Studio in Indianapolis, and Germano's home.
 * Engineered by Malcolm Burn, Mark Howard, Wayne Lorenz, John Keane, and Trina Shoemaker. 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.
 * Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound in New York City.
 * Cover photograph by Bob Lanois, coloring by Jim Merrill.
 * Rear cover drawing by Haley Goethals.
 * Design by Jeff Fey.

Inconsiderate Bitch
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.

Track listing

 * 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.

Personnel
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 in London.
 * Cover image by Cathy Fenwick.
 * Photography by Andrew Catlin.
 * Design by Vaughan Oliver and Chris Bigg at v23.

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.

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.

Personnel
Same as above, except:
 * Jay Joyce – bass (2)
 * Michael Radovsky – drums (2)
 * 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 and Adrian Philpott; images by John Weber.