Happy Mood

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Happy Mood
Dessau - Happy Mood.jpg
EP by
Released1986 (1986)
StudioBelmont Studio
(Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre Industrial rock
Length14:46
Label Faction
Producer
  • Tom Der
  • Robb Earls
  • Michel Kestemont
Dessau chronology
Red Languages
(1985)
Happy Mood
(1986)
Exercise in Tension
(1989)

Happy Mood is the second EP by Dessau, released in 1986 by Faction Records. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

Music

The tracks "Europe Light" and "Imperial Hotel" were released on the 1989 compilations Music View – Radio's Alternative Talk Show No. 59 & #60 by Joseph Fox Communications, Inc. [4] and Nashville Rock (What You Haven't Heard...) by Joseph Fox Communications, Inc. [5] The songs "First Year" was originally released on the band's Red Languages EP. [6]

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Europe Light"John Elliott3:27
2."Imperial Hotel"Elliott4:42
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Unshakeable"Elliott3:06
2."First Year"
  • Elliott
  • Kim Ervin Elliott
3:31

Personnel

Adapted from the Happy Mood liner notes. [7]

Dessau

Additional performers

Production and design

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United States1986Faction LP 05

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