Miss Happiness

Miss Happiness is the debut studio album by the American alternative rock band Walt Mink, released in 1992. It contains a cover of Nick Drake's "Pink Moon". The band supported the album with a North American tour.

Critical reception
USA Today wrote: "An idiosyncratic Cream for the '90s, Walt Mink adds daring innovation to the power trio formula." The St. Petersburg Times called the album a "kooky concoction of psychedelia and heavy metal."

The Orlando Sentinel determined that Walt Mink "has the chops and creativity of King's X but with more concision and without all the artsy overambition and concept baggage." Stereo Review labeled Miss Happiness "a mixture of guitar-driven sass and twee-voiced smarm."

AllMusic deemed the album "one of the brightest debuts of the '90s."

Track listing
All songs written by John Kimbrough except Pink Moon, written by Nick Drake.
 * 1) "Miss Happiness" – 3:26
 * 2) "Chowder Town" – 3:02
 * 3) "Love You Better" – 3:55
 * 4) "Showers Down" – 4:08
 * 5) "Quiet Time" – 3:32
 * 6) "Pink Moon" – 3:15
 * 7) "Smoothing the Ride" – 3:09
 * 8) "Croton-Harmon (local)" – 3:32
 * 9) "Twinkle and Shine" – 3:03
 * 10) "Factory" – 5:53

Personnel

 * John Kimbrough – guitar, vocals
 * Candice Belanoff – bass guitar, backing vocals
 * Joey Waronker – drums, percussion, backing vocals


 * Doug "Mr Colson" Olson – production, engineering, mix
 * Brian Anderson – engineering
 * Daniel Corrigan – cover photograph
 * Jen Schmid – painting