The Happy Club

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The Happy Club
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Studio album by
Released5 October 1992 [1]
StudioThe Point Studios, Belgravia, London; Joe's Garage, Clapham, London; Studio Acousti, Paris; Seaview Studios, London
Genre Pop, rock [2]
Length63:20
Label Mercury (UK)
Atlantic (US)
Producer Rupert Hine, Bob Geldof, Pete Briquette [2]
Bob Geldof chronology
The Vegetarians of Love
(1990)
The Happy Club
(1992)
Sex, Age & Death
(2002)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Happy Club is the third solo studio album by Bob Geldof. [3] [4] [5]

Contents

Track listing

UK / international version

All songs were written by Bob Geldof, except where noted.

  1. "Room 19" – 5:14
  2. "Attitude Chicken" – 4:36
  3. "The Soft Soil" – 7:29
  4. "A Hole to Fill" – 5:05
  5. "The Song of the Emergent Nationalist" (Geldof, Jamie Moses) – 6:55
  6. "My Hippy Angel" – 5:31
  7. "The Happy Club" (Geldof, Karl Wallinger) – 4:05
  8. "Like Down on Me" – 5:58
  9. "Too Late God" (Geldof, Karl Hyde) – 3:46
  10. "Roads of Germany (After B.D.)" – 5:14
  11. "A Sex Thing" – 5:09
  12. "The House at the Top of the World" (Geldof, Rick Smith) – 4:13 [1] [2]
Great Songs of Indifference re-release
  1. "Shine On" – 4:10
  2. "Huge Birdless Silence" – 3:24
  3. "Maybe Heaven" – 5:52

US version

All songs were written by Bob Geldof, except where noted.

  1. "Room 19"
  2. "A Hole to Fill"
  3. "The Song of the Emergent Nationalist" (Geldof, Jamie Moses)
  4. "Attitude Chicken"
  5. "Yeah, Definitely"
  6. "The House at the Top of the World" (Geldof, Rick Smith)
  7. "The Soft Soil"
  8. "A Sex Thing"
  9. "My Hippy Angel"
  10. "The Happy Club" (Geldof, Karl Wallinger)
  11. "Like Down on Me"
  12. "Too Late God" (Geldof, Karl Hyde)
  13. "Roads of Germany (After B.D.)"

Personnel

The Happy Clubsters

Trainee Clubster

Production

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