Not Everybody Gets a Happy Ending

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Not Everybody Gets a Happy Ending
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Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 25, 2008
Recorded2005-2007
StudioCriterion Studios
Genre Alternative metal
Length47:20
Label Parole Records
Producer Mark Williams, Drew Richards, & Pat Collier
Die So Fluid chronology
Spawn of Dysfunction
(2004)
Not Everybody Gets a Happy Ending
(2008)
The World Is Too Big For One Lifetime
(2010)

Not Everybody Gets a Happy Ending is the second full-length album by Die So Fluid. It was recorded at Criterion Studios, London, and released through an independent label, Parole Records, in the United Kingdom in 2008. It was distributed by Cargo Records. It was released in the USA several months later through Renaissance Recordings by KOCH Entertainment Distribution.

Contents

Track listing

Music by Die So Fluid, Lyrics by Grog

UK Edition (original release)
No.TitleLength
1."Gang of One"5:29
2."Test Confessional"3:18
3."Existential Baby"4:13
4."Kiss and Then the Kick"3:30
5."Happy Hallowe'en"4:18
6."Vorvolaka"5:54
7."Pigsy"4:41
8."Something to Say"3:02
9."Throw You Away"6:53
10."Swam Beneath Me"0:50
11."Not Everybody Gets a Happy Ending"5:16

Personnel

Band
Additional Performers
Production

Singles

"Happy Hallowe’en" and "Existential Baby" were released as digital singles in support of the album.

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