The Muffs’ Really Really Happy Expanded Reissue
To Be Released Via Omnivore Recordings
On May 13
Expanded Double-CD/Digital edition contains 22 bonus tracks, including 16 demos; Original 17 tracks available on vinyl, plus limited-edition indie-retail colored vinyl with bonus 7” EP
March 23, 2022: “Really Really Happy is the album that kicks off the second phase of The Muffs career,” begins drummer Roy McDonald’s liner notes for the expanded reissue of the band’s fifth album. After eight years and four albums, The Muffs had written, recorded, and toured non-stop. After a break, the group was ready to do it all again, and was approached by friends (and sisters in law) Charlotte Caffey (Go-Go’s) and Anna Waronker (that dog), who had just started their own label – Five Foot Two Records. McDonald, bassist Ronnie Barnett, and singer/guitarist/songwriter Kim Shattuck had a new home, and were ready to do it all again.
Really Really Happy arrived in 2004 to rave reviews. Now, nearly two decades later, it returns as an expanded double-CD/Digital release with 22 bonus tracks, including 16 of Kim Shattuck’s original demos for the album. The original 17 tracks are also available on LP, with a limited-edition, indie exclusive version on colored vinyl, plus a 7” EP containing 6 bonus tracks, with a sleeve hand stamped by Ronnie. (Shattuck’s demos are available on vinyl as a Record Store Day pressing – New Improved Kim Shattuck Demos.)
In addition to McDonald’s liner notes, the packaging also features pieces from Barnett, Caffey, Waronker, and Shattuck’s husband Kevin Sutherland, plus photos and a new layout.
Barnett’s notes begin “Dear Kim, This is the first project we’ve put together since you went away and I can’t say it’s been easy. The task of what, if any, extra stuff to include with this reissue was daunting but you, still ever present and in your own indomitable way, somehow ended up making it easy.”
Are we glad they did it? We’re really, really happy they did.
Watch the trailer here: https://youtu.be/RyTP4XWRjhQ
Pre-Order here: www.omnivorerecordings.com/shop/really-really-happy
CD 1:
Track List:
1. Freak Out
2. A Little Luxury
3. Really Really Happy
4. Something Inside
5. Everybody Loves You
6. Don’t Pick On Me
7. And I Go Pow
8. My Lucky Day
9. Fancy Girl
10. How I Pass The Time
11. Slow
12. I’m Here I’m Not
13. The Whole World
14. My Awful Dream
15. By My Side
16. Oh Poor You
17. The Story Of Me
Bonus Tracks:
18. My Whore
19. Uh Oh
20. Under The Covers In Jammies
21. My Imagination *
22. Just The Beginning *
23. I Hate Gym *
CD 2:
New Improved Kim Shattuck Demos: *
1. Really Really Happy
2. Freak Out
3. Everybody Loves You
4. Something Inside
5. And I Go Pow
6. Don’t Pick On Me
7. The Story Of Me
8. A Little Luxury
9. By My Side
10. Fancy Girl
11. How I Pass The Time
12. I’m Here I’m Not
13. Even Now
14. Slow
15. My Lucky Day
16. Oh Poor You
* Previously Unissued
Photo Credit: Kristen Shattuck
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