Happy Songs for Happy People

Happy Songs for Happy People
Studio album by Mogwai
Label (s)	Play It Again Sam , Matador Records
Format (s)	CD , LP
Genre (s)	Post-rock instrumental music
Title (number)	9
running time	approx. 42 minutes
occupation	Dominic Aitchison - bass Stuart Braithwaite - guitar Martin Bulloch - drums Barry Burns - guitar, keyboard John Cummings - guitar, piano
production	Tony Doogan
Studio (s)	Cava Studios , Glasgow
chronology Rock Action 2001 Happy Songs for Happy People Mr. Beast 2006

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Happy Songs for Happy People   UK 47 06/21/2003 (2 weeks)   US 182 07/05/2003 (1 week)

Happy Songs for Happy People (dt about. Happy songs for happy people ) is the fourth studio album by the Scottish post-rock band Mogwai . It was released in 2003 on Play It Again Sam / Matador Records .

Most of the songs are instrumentals; only "Hunted by a Freak" , "Killing All the Flies" and "Boring Machines Disturbs Sleep" contain vocals that are mostly heavily distorted.

reception

The album received relatively positive critical reviews. Pitchfork Media gives the album 7.1 out of 10 possible points; Allmusic calls it "one of the band's best albums" and gives it four out of five points.

At Plattentests.de it gets 8 out of 10 and at laut.de 4 out of five points. Plattentests.de writes about the idiosyncratic album title:

"Is that now meta-irony? Or do the permanently depressed Mogwai really mean the title "Happy songs for happy people"? Of course, titles like record also work well as a swipe at all those who primarily want to hear unhappy music by and for unhappy people. With the Scots, the fun lies in playing with the false floors. But where one would expect pitfalls and other abysses, Mogwai come to us this time with, well, upright euphony. That we can still experience that. "

- Oliver thing

Charts

For the first time, a Mogwai album made it into the US album charts . In the British album charts, however, number 47 was a descent compared to the two previous albums, which reached number 29 and number 23, respectively.

Track list

1. Hunted by a Freak - 4:18
2. Moses? I Amn't - 2:59
3. Kids Will Be Skeletons - 5:29
4. Killing All the Flies - 4:35
5. Boring Machines Disturbs Sleep - 3:05
6. Ratts of the Capital - 8:27
7. Golden Porsche - 2:49
8. I know you are but what am i? - 5:17
9. Stop Coming to My House - 4:53

No singles were released.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chart sources: UK / US
2. ^ Review Pitchfork Media
3. ↑ literally: " It's one of the band's best albums, no two ways about it. "
4. ^ Allmusic Review
5. ↑ Album review at laut.de.
6. ↑ Review Plattentests.de