So Happy Together

Infobox Album |
Name = So Happy Together
Type = Album
Artist = Grifters


Released = 1992
Recorded = 1991, Easley McCain Recording, A Kitchen, Two Living Rooms and The Flower Shop, Memphis, Tennessee
Genre = Indie Rock
Length = 36:51 (CD), 17:59, (EP)
Label = Sonic Noise SON 002-2(CD)
SON 002-1(EP)
Producer = The Grifters
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3nfixqlgldfe link]
Last album = "The Kingdom of Jones" (1991)
This album = "So Happy Together" (1992)
Next album = "One Sock Missing" (1993)

"So Happy Together" is the first full-length album by Memphis indie rock band The Grifters. The album was noisier and lo-fi by even Grifters standards, much of it comprised of home recordings on 4-track. It was released on the now defunct Chicago, Illinois label, "Sonic Noise". It featured the re-recording "The Want", which debuted as a A Band Called Bud song. Originally released on vinyl as a six song mini-album, it was extended to a full twelve track album, though the album only features ten song titles. The back of the CD traylists the original tracks apart from the bonus tracks and some of the lyrics to "Wreck" are featured in an image by Greg Harwell.

Original track listing

# "Dry Bones" 1:36
# "Hate" 2:01 (vocals Taylor)
# "Tat" 4:58 (vocals Taylor)
# "Clot" 2:43 (vocals Shouse)
# "The Want" 3:01 (vocals Shouse)
# "Oar" 3:40 (vocals Taylor/Shouse)

CD track listing

# "Dry Bones" 1:36
# "Hate" 2:01 (vocals Taylor)
# "Tat" 4:58 (vocals Taylor)
# "Clot" 2:43 (vocals Shouse)
# "The Want" 3:01 (vocals Shouse)
# "Oar" 3:40 (vocals Taylor/Shouse)
# "Wreck" 3:10 (vocals Shouse)
# (untitled track) 1:32
# "Meanwhile" 4:18 (vocals Shouse)
# "10,000" 3:06 (vocals Taylor)
# (untitled track) 1:23
# (blank track) 0:28
# "Love Explosion" 4:49 (vocals Shouse)

Album information

Grifters

* Stan Gallimore (not credited)
* Tripp Lamkins (not credited)
* David Shouse (not credited)
* Scott Taylor (not credited)

Additional credits

* Album art by Greg Harwell
* Engineering on some songs by Doug Easley and Davis McCain, Scott Taylor on most

Trivia

* Sample on "Dry Bones" from The Prisoner
* "The Flower Shop" is a Memphis florist (Anything Grows), where Shouse and Gallimore both worked. The band practiced and recorded there at night.