The Muffs - Really Really Happy [Vinyl]

Format: 12" Vinyl
Catalogue No.: OVLP463
Barcode: 810075111132
Release Date: 13 May 2022
Genre: Alternative

Expanded reissue of The Muffs’ fifth album CD/Digital contain 22 bonus tracks, including 16 demos Original 17 tracks available on LP, with an limited-edition indie-retail coloured vinyl variant with bonus 7” EP “Really Really Happy is the album that kicks off the second phase of The Muffs career.” So begins 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. There will also be a very limited edition of the LP available only at indie retail on coloured vinyl with a 7” EP containing 6 bonus tracks, with a sleeve hand-stamped by Ronnie. The demo recordings on Disc 2 of the CD will be available on vinyl as a special 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.

Tracklisting
1. Freak Out
2. Fancy Girl
3. How I Pass The Time
4. A Little Luxury
5. Slow
6. Really Really Happy
7. Something Inside
8. I’m Here I’m Not
9. The Whole World
10. Everybody Loves You
11. My Awful Dream
12. Don’t Pick On Me
13. By My Side
14. And I Go Pow
15. Oh Poor You
16. My Lucky Day
17. The Story Of Me