Really Really Happy

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Really Really Happy
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Studio album by
The Muffs
Released2004
Genre Pop punk [1]
Length42:25
Label Sympathy for the Record Industry (LP), Oglio Records/Five Foot Two Records (CD)
Producer Kim Shattuck
The Muffs chronology
Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow
(1999)		Really Really Happy
(2004)		 Whoop Dee Doo
(2014)

Really Really Happy is the fifth album by the American pop punk band The Muffs, released in August 2004. [1]

Pop punk is a genre of rock music that combines influences of pop music with punk rock. Fast tempos, prominent electric guitars with distortion, and power chord changes are typically played under pop-influenced melodies and vocal styles with lighthearted lyrical themes including boredom and teenage romance.

The Muffs rock band

The Muffs are an American punk rock band based in Southern California, formed in 1991. Led by singer and guitarist Kim Shattuck, the band released four full-length studio albums in the 1990s, as well as numerous singles including "Lucky Guy" and "Sad Tomorrow", and a cover version of "Kids in America". After a long hiatus beginning in 1999, the band released a fifth album in 2004 but thereafter effectively disbanded. Almost a decade later, the three core members of the band reunited and started performing again. An album, Whoop Dee Doo, was released in 2014.

Contents

Track listing

All songs were composed by Kim Shattuck. [2]

  1. "Freak Out" – 2:03
  2. "A Little Luxury" – 2:16
  3. "Really Really Happy" – 2:52
  4. "Something Inside" – 2:01
  5. "Everybody Loves You" – 2:12
  6. "Don't Pick On Me" – 2:37
  7. "And I Go Pow" – 2:38
  8. "My Lucky Day" – 3:01
  9. "Fancy Girl" – 2:39
  10. "How I Pass The Time" – 2:35
  11. "Slow" – 2:27
  12. "I'm Here I'm Not" – 2:03
  13. "The Whole World" – 3:22
  14. "My Awful Dream" – 2:45
  15. "By My Side" – 2:14
  16. "Oh Poor You" – 1:33
  17. "The Story Of Me" – 3:07

Personnel

The band's musical credits are described in the album's liner notes: [2]

Liner notes

Liner notes are the writings found on the sleeves of LP record albums and in booklets which come inserted into the compact disc jewel case or the equivalent packaging for vinyl records and cassettes.

Kimberly Dianne "Kim" Shattuck is the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the band The Muffs. From 1985 to 1990, she was a member of The Pandoras. In 2001, she was a singer, guitarist and songwriter for The Beards, a superpop side project composed of Shattuck, Lisa Marr, and Sherri Solinger.

Ronnie Barnett is given additional credit for toy piano, and session musician Brian Kehew plays organ on "My Lucky Day". Background vocals are credited to Kevin Sutherland and Greg Saunders on "Don't Pick On Me", and to Kristen Shattuck on "My Lucky Day" and "Oh Poor You". [2]

Toy piano music instrument

The toy piano, also known as the kinderklavier, is a small piano-like musical instrument. Most modern toy pianos use round metal rods, as opposed to strings in a regular piano, to produce sound. The US Library of Congress recognizes the toy piano as a unique instrument with the subject designation, Toy Piano Scores: M175 T69. The most famous example of a dedicated composition for the instrument is the "Suite for Toy Piano" (1948) by John Cage.

Brian Kehew American musician and music producer

Brian Kehew is an American, Los Angeles-based, musician and record producer. He is a member of The Moog Cookbook and co-author of the Recording The Beatles book, an in-depth look at the Beatles' studio approach.

All tracks were produced and engineered by Kim Shattuck. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Really Really Happy at AllMusic
  2. 1 2 3 4 Really Really Happy (Liner notes). The Muffs. Redondo Beach, CA: Oglio Entertainment Group. 2004–2010. OGL82029-2.

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