The Happy Club

The Happy Club
Studio album by Bob Geldof
Released	1992[1]
Genre	Pop, rock[2]
Length	63:20
Label	Mercury (UK) Atlantic (US)
Producer	Rupert Hine, Bob Geldof, Pete Briquette[2]
Bob Geldof chronology
The Vegetarians of Love (1990) The Happy Club (1993) Sex, Age & Death (2002)

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The Happy Club is the third solo studio album by Bob Geldof.^[3][4][5]

Track listing

UK / international version

All songs were written by Bob Geldof, except where noted.

1. "Room 19" – 5:14
2. "Attitude Chicken" – 4:36
3. "The Soft Soil" – 7:29
4. "A Hole to Fill" – 5:05
5. "The Song of the Emergent Nationalist" (Geldof, Jamie Moses) – 6:55
6. "My Hippy Angel" – 5:31
7. "The Happy Club" (Geldof, Karl Wallinger) – 4:05
8. "Like Down on Me" – 5:58
9. "Too Late God" (Geldof, Karl Hyde) – 3:46
10. "Roads of Germany (After B.D.)" – 5:14
11. "A Sex Thing" – 5:09
12. "The House at the Top of the World" (Geldof, Rick Smith) – 4:13^[1][2]

US version

All songs were written by Bob Geldof, except where noted.

1. "Room 19"
2. "A Hole to Fill"
3. "The Song of the Emergent Nationalist" (Geldof, Jamie Moses)
4. "Attitude Chicken"
5. "Yeah, Definitely"
6. "The House at the Top of the World" (Geldof, Rick Smith)
7. "The Soft Soil"
8. "A Sex Thing"
9. "My Hippy Angel"
10. "The Happy Club" (Geldof, Karl Wallinger)
11. "Like Down on Me"
12. "Too Late God" (Geldof, Karl Hyde)
13. "Roads of Germany (After B.D.)"

Personnel

• Bob Geldof – lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, harmonica
• Pete Briquette – bass guitar, keyboards, programming
• Bob Loveday – violin, penny whistle, bass guitar, recorder
• Geoff Richardson – viola, mandolin, electric and acoustic guitar, saxophone, ukulele, penny whistle
• Jamie Moses – electric and acoustic guitars
• Niall Power – drums
• Alun Dunn – accordion, piano, tin whistle, organ, one-row melodeon, keyboards
• Spike Edney – organ, piano, guitar, keyboards
• Johnny Milton – engineer
• Stephen W. Taylor – engineer^[2][6]

Singles

• "Room 19 (Sha La La La Lee)" / "Huge Birdless Silence" / "The Great Song Of Indifference" / "Sweat For You" (1992)
• "My Hippy Angel" (Edit) / "Maybe Heaven" / "Love Or Something" / "My Hippy Angel" (Full Length Version) (1992)
• "The Happy Club" / "The Great Song Of Indifference" / "This Is The World Calling" / "Roads of Germany" (1993)
• "Yeah, Definitely" (1993) (promo single - US release)

References