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" – 4:11

ide two

# "Waves" – 4:07
# "Kind" – 3:56
# "Sad Day" – 4:05
# "Cruel" – 4:52
# "God's Kitchen" – 2:54

CD: 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" – 2:54

Personnel

Musicians

*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 by Mike 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 after Louis Wain
*Management by Paul Smith and John Owen Williams

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