Happiness in Magazines

Release type:What's this?
studio album
First released:
May 17 2004

Overview Edit

Happiness in Magazines is the fifth solo album by Graham Coxon. It was produced by Stephen Street who also produced Blur's second, third, fourth and fifth albums and is Coxon's most commercially-successful album to date. Happiness in Magazines reached 19 in the UK Albums chart.

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Record label:
Catalog number:
unknown
Release dates:
  • Jan 5 2005 in United States

Genres

Britpop, Indie. Vote on Genres

What do Amazon.com customers think?

4 stars It's honestly surprising how good this record is.
It might be sad, it might not, but the best Blur album since 'Parklife' is probably Graham Coxon's new album 'Happiness in Magazines.' It's a guitar frenzy of 3 minute pop songs that make his contributions to Blur extraordinarily obvious--he wasn't just guitar riffs, he was also melody and movement.

Graham's solo albums up until now have been indie-rock experiments with only a nod or two to his populist past, though you could feel him starting to become comfortable with actually recording "song…
Written by J.E. Beal
3 stars Decent Comeback
Where Graham Coxon, former Blur guitarist, returns to writing simple songs and learns that writing simple songs isn't so simple but kind of succeeds anyway. After three solo outings where Coxon chafed at the pop accessibility Blur perverted yet flaunted, Coxon decided it was time to return to basics, so he hired Blur producer Stephen Street to help out and penned a bunch of three-minute punk-pop ditties.

God bless Coxon! The world needs fewer six-minute dirges and more three-minute pop songs. E…
Written by Hapworth

Track listing Edit

Credits Edit

  1. arranger

  2. engineer

    1. Bunt Stafford-Clark [mastering]
  1. performer

    1. Louis Vause [instrument]
  2. producer

Other versions Edit

Happiness in Magazines 12 tracks format: 1 x CD
release dates: May 24 2004
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Happiness in Magazines 12 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: Transcopic Records
catalog number: 5775192
release dates: May 17 2004 in United Kingdom
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Happiness in Magazines 13 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: Astralwerks
release dates: Jan 25 2005
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