Happiness Is Easy

Infobox Album | Name = Happiness Is Easy
Type = Album
Artist = Myslovitz


Released = May 19 2006
Genre = Rock
Length = 53:59
Label = Capitol / Pomaton EMI
Producer = M. Cieślak, R. Paczkowski
Last album = "Skalary, mieczyki, neonki" (2004)
This album = "Happiness Is Easy" (2006)
Next album = |

"Happiness Is Easy" (released on May 19, 2006) is the eighth studio album by Polish alternative rock band Myslovitz. The album overlooks "Skalary, mieczyki, neonki"'s psychedelic soundscapes and returns to sounds of 1999's "Miłość w czasach popkultury" and 2002's "Korova Milky Bar" in the first and second half of the album respectively.

The title of the album is taken from the name of the first track on Talk Talk's album The Colour of Spring. Further reference to New Wave music is found in the title of track seven, which references the Talking Heads.

The songs make multiple references to recent news stories at the time of recording, and so, "Ściąć wysokie drzewa" refers to the Beslan school hostage crisis, while "Książę życia umiera" is about George Best's "Don't die like me" message. "W deszczu maleńkich żółtych kwiatów" is notable as the first Myslovitz song to feature a female vocal, with Maria Peszek singing in duet with Artur Rojek.

Track listing

#"Fikcja jest modna" ("Fiction is fashionable") - 2:37
#"Ściąć wysokie drzewa" ("Cut down tall trees") - 4:23
#"Mieć czy być" ("To have or to be") - 3:12
#"Spacer w bokserskich rękawicach" ("A walk in boxing gloves") - 3:34
#"Kilka uścisków, kilka snów" ("A couple hugs, a couple dreams") - 4:07
#"W deszczu maleńkich żółtych kwiatów" ("In the rain of smallest yellow flowers") - 4:52
#"Gadające głowy 80-06" ("Talking Heads 80-06) - 4:30
#"Ty i ja i wszystko co mamy" ("You and I and all we have") - 3:40
#"Nocnym pociągiem aż do końca świata" ("On a night train to the end of the world") - 4:26
#"Książę życia umiera" ("The prince of life dies") - 3:41
#"Złe mi się śni" ("Bad dreams") - 3:34
#"Znów wszystko poszło nie tak" ("Everything went wrong again") - 4:25
#"Czytanka dla niegrzecznych" ("A reading-book for the rude") - 6:50

Singles

* "Mieć czy być" (won a popular vote for being the first single from the album) (2006)
* "Nocnym pociągiem aż do końca świata" (2006)
* "W deszczu maleńkich żółtych kwiatów" (2007)
* "Znów wszystko poszło nie tak" (2007)