So Happy Together (album)

So Happy Together is the first full-length album by Memphis indie rock band Grifters.[1][5] The album was noisy and lo-fi, even by Grifters standards.[6] It was released on the now defunct Chicago label Sonic Noise.

So Happy Together
Studio album by
Grifters
Released1992
Recorded1991, Easley McCain Recording, A Kitchen, Two Living Rooms and The Flower Shop, Memphis, Tennessee
GenreIndie Rock, lo-fi
Length36:51 (CD), 17:59, (EP)
LabelSonic Noise[1]
SON 002-2(CD)
SON 002-1(EP)
ProducerThe Grifters
Grifters chronology
The Kingdom of Jones
(1991)		 So Happy Together
(1992)		 One Sock Missing
(1993)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide[4]

It contains the re-recording "The Want," which debuted as an 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 shows ten song titles. The back of the CD tray lists the original tracks apart from the bonus tracks and some of the lyrics to "Wreck" are featured in an image by Greg Harwell.

Critical reception

Trouser Press called the album "a bit overbearing in its negativity, but songs like the droning 'Hate' (a litany of antipathies that basks in self-loathing) glean their subtext from the stirring interplay between guitarists Dave Shouse and Scott Taylor."[7]

Original track listing
  1. "Dry Bones" 1:36
  2. "Hate" 2:01 (vocals Taylor)
  3. "Tat" 4:58 (vocals Taylor)
  4. "Clot" 2:43 (vocals Shouse)
  5. "The Want" 3:01 (vocals Shouse)
  6. "Oar" 3:40 (vocals Taylor/Shouse)

CD track listing
  1. "Dry Bones" 1:36
  2. "Hate" 2:01 (vocals Taylor)
  3. "Tat" 4:58 (vocals Taylor)
  4. "Clot" 2:43 (vocals Shouse)
  5. "The Want" 3:01 (vocals Shouse)
  6. "Oar" 3:40 (vocals Taylor/Shouse)
  7. "Wreck" 3:10 (vocals Shouse)
  8. (untitled track) 1:32
  9. "Meanwhile" 4:18 (vocals Shouse)
  10. "10,000" 3:06 (vocals Taylor)
  11. (untitled track) 1:23
  12. (blank track) 0:28
  13. "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

Notes
  • The Flower Shop is a Memphis florist (Anything Grows), where Shouse and Gallimore worked. The band practiced and recorded there.[8]

References
  1. Earles, Andrew (September 15, 2014). Gimme Indie Rock. Voyageur Press. ISBN 9781627883795 – via Google Books.
  2. So Happy Together at AllMusic
  3. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Volume 4: MUZE. p. 14.CS1 maint: location (link)
  4. MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 511.
  5. "Grifters | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  6. Staff, SF Weekly (July 5, 1995). "Recordings". SF Weekly.
  7. "Grifters". Trouser Press. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
  8. "IT'S NOT LACK OF CONFIDENCE THAT MAKES THE GRIFTERS WANT TO HIDE". mcall.com.



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