- Happy Families (album)
Infobox Album |
Name = Happy Families
Type =Album
Artist = Blancmange
Released = 1982
Recorded = February – August 1982
Genre =Synthpop
Length = 40:29
Label =London Records
Producer =Mike Howlett
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:et3m961o3ep6 link]
Last album =
This album = "Happy Families" (1982)
Next album = "Mange Tout " (1984)"Happy Families" (1982) is the debut
album by Blancmange.Track listing
All songs written by
Neil Arthur &Stephen Luscombe .LP: SH 8552
ide one
# "I Can't Explain" – 4:00
# "Feel Me" – 5:07
# "I've Seen the Word" – 3:00
# "Wasted" – 4:17
# "Living on the Ceiling" – 4:11ide two
# "Waves" – 4:07
# "Kind" – 3:56
# "Sad Day" – 4:05
# "Cruel" – 4:52
# "God's Kitchen" – 2:54CD: 810 123–2
# "I Can't Explain" – 4:00
# "Feel Me" – 5:07
# "I've Seen the Word" – 3:00
# "Wasted" – 4:17
# "Living on the Ceiling" – 4:11
# "Waves" – 4:07
# "Kind" – 3:56
# "Sad Day" – 4:05
# "Cruel" – 4:52
# "God's Kitchen" – 2:54Personnel
Musicians
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Neil Arthur - Voice, Guitars and Electronics
*Stephen Luscombe - Synthesizers and Keyboards.Additional musicians
*David Rhodes - Guitar (1, 2, 4, 7, 9, 10)
*Dinesh -Tabla (5)
*Deepak -Sitar (5)
*James Lane - Drums (5, 7)
*Stevie Lange and Joy Yates - Backing Voices (1, 7)
*Stevie Lange and Madeline Bell - Backing Voices (2, 6)Production
*Recorded in London February/August 1982 at CBS and Battery Studios
*Produced byMike Howlett
*Engineered by Walter Samuel, Roberto Arendse and Mark Chamberlain (CBS)
Nigel Green and Andrew Warwick (Battery)
*"Living on the Ceiling" and "Kind" remixed at Odyssey Studios by Denis Weinrich
*"Waves" remixed by Denis Weinrich and John Owen Williams
*Strings arranged by Linton Naiff
*Painting by Michael Brownlow afterLouis Wain
*Management by Paul Smith and John Owen WilliamsAudio sample
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