''Happiness in Magazines'' is the fifth solo album by
Graham Coxon
Graham Leslie Coxon (born 12 March 1969) is an English musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and painter who came to prominence as a founding member of the rock band Blur. As the group's lead guitarist and secondary vocalist, Cox ...
. It was produced by
Stephen Street who also produced
Blur's first five albums and is Coxon's most commercially successful album to date. ''Happiness in Magazines'' reached 19 in the UK Albums chart and was certified Gold.
Reception
''Happiness in Magazines'' was met with generally favourable reviews from
music critics
Music journalism (or music criticism) is media criticism and reporting about music topics, including popular music, classical music, and traditional music. Journalists began writing about music in the eighteenth century, providing commentary on w ...
. At
Metacritic
Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, TV shows, music albums, video games and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted average). Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc ...
, which assigns a
normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an
average
In ordinary language, an average is a single number taken as representative of a list of numbers, usually the sum of the numbers divided by how many numbers are in the list (the arithmetic mean). For example, the average of the numbers 2, 3, 4, 7 ...
score of 77, based on 23 reviews.
[
]
Track listing
All songs written by Graham Coxon.
#" Spectacular" – 2:48
#"No Good Time" – 3:21
#"Girl Done Gone" – 3:57
#" Bittersweet Bundle of Misery" – 4:53
#"All Over Me" – 4:16
#"Freakin' Out
"Freakin' Out" is a song by Graham Coxon and was released as the lead single from his fifth solo album '' Happiness in Magazines'' in 2004 (see 2004 in British music). It was released as a very limited 7" (only 5000 copies) and charted at numb ...
" – 3:42
#"People of the Earth" – 3:04
#"Hopeless Friend" – 3:22
#"Are You Ready?" – 4:42
#"Bottom Bunk" – 3:16
#"Don't Be a Stranger" – 3:29
#"Ribbons and Leaves" – 4:11
;Bonus tracks
*"Life It Sucks" (Japan)
*"Right to Pop!" (United States)
Personnel
*Graham Coxon - lead vocals, all instruments except:
*Louis Vause - organ and piano on tracks 4, 5, 8, 9 and 10
*Angie Pollock - backing vocals on tracks 4 and 11; marimba on track 11
*The Duke Street Quartet - strings on tracks 5, 8 and 9
*John Metcalf - string arrangement on tracks 5, 8 and 9; horn arrangement on track 12
*Marcus Bates - French horn on track 12
*Pip Eastop - French horn on track 12
*Phillip Woods - French horn on track 12
;Technical
* Stephen Street - producer
*Cenzo Townshend - engineer
*Alex Hutchinson - sleeve design
Singles
Four singles have been released from ''Happiness in Magazines''.
*"Freakin' Out
"Freakin' Out" is a song by Graham Coxon and was released as the lead single from his fifth solo album '' Happiness in Magazines'' in 2004 (see 2004 in British music). It was released as a very limited 7" (only 5000 copies) and charted at numb ...
", released 8 March 2004 - charted at #37
*" Bittersweet Bundle of Misery", released 3 May 2004 - charted at #22
*" Spectacular", released 26 July 2004 - charted at #32
*" Freakin' Out" / "All Over Me", released 25 October 2004 - charted at #19
Release details
The album has been released in various countries.
References
{{Authority control
2004 albums
Graham Coxon albums
Parlophone albums
Albums produced by Stephen Street