The Bluebirds of Happiness Tried to Land on My Shoulder

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The Bluebirds of Happiness Tried to Land on My Shoulder
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Studio album by
Released2010
Genre Indie, Lo-fi
Label Moonflower Records
Tobin Sprout chronology
Lost Planets & Phantom Voices
(2003)
The Bluebirds of Happiness Tried to Land on My Shoulder
(2010)
The Universe & Me
(2017)

The Bluebirds of Happiness Tried to Land on My Shoulder is the fifth solo album by Guided by Voices member Tobin Sprout, released in 2010. [1] The name references the "bluebird of happiness" idiom.

Track listing

Side A

  1. "Pretty" – 2:48
  2. "She's on Mercury" – 2:59
  3. "Apple of My Eye" – 3:54
  4. "You Make My World Go Down" – 2:45
  5. "Wedding Song" – 3:40

Side B

  1. "Soul Superman" – 2:19
  2. "It's Just the Way" – 3:19
  3. "Casubury Bridge" – 3:55
  4. "Fix on the Races" – 5:28
  5. "Field in May" – 3:28

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