Happiness in Magazines
Studio album by Graham Coxon
Released	May 17, 2004
Recorded	?
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	45:01
Label	Transcopic, Parlophone
Producer(s)	Stephen Street
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Pitchfork Media (7.5/10) link PopMatters (7/10) link Q (June 2004) Prefixmag (6/10) link
Graham Coxon chronology
The Kiss of Morning (2002)	Happiness in Magazines (2004)	Love Travels at Illegal Speeds (2006)

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Track listing

All tracks, words and music by Graham Coxon.

1. "Spectacular" – 2:48
2. "No Good Time" – 3:21
3. "Girl Done Gone" – 3:57
4. "Bittersweet Bundle of Misery" – 4:53
5. "All Over Me" – 4:16
6. "Freakin' Out" – 3:42
7. "People of the Earth" – 3:04
8. "Hopeless Friend" – 3:22
9. "Are You Ready?" – 4:42
10. "Bottom Bunk" – 3:16
11. "Don't Be a Stranger" – 3:29
12. "Ribbons and Leaves" – 4:11

Bonus track(s)

• "Life It Sucks" (Japan)
• "Right to Pop!" (United States)

Personnel

• Graham Coxon - everything except:
• Louis Vause - organ and piano on tracks 4, 5, 8, 9 and 10
• Angie Pollock - backing vocals on tracks 4 and 11; marimba on track 11
• The Duke Street Quartet - strings on tracks 5, 8 and 9
• John Metcalf - string arrangement on tracks 5, 8 and 9; horn arrangement on track 12
• Marcus Bates - French horn on track 12
• Pip Eastop - French horn on track 12
• Phillip Woods - French horn on track 12
• Stephen Street - producer
• Cenzo Townshend - engineer
• Alex Hutchinson - sleeve design

Stephen Street is a music producer best known for his work with The Smiths in the 1980s and Blur in the 1990s. ...

Singles

Four singles have been released from Happiness in Magazines.

• "Freakin' Out", released March 8, 2004 - charted at #37
• "Bittersweet Bundle of Misery", released May 3 2004 - charted at #22
• "Spectacular", released July 26 2004 - charted at #32
• "Freakin' Out" / "All Over Me", released October 25 2004 - charted at #19

Freakin Out is a song by Graham Coxon and was released as the first single from his fifth solo album Happiness in Magazines in 2004 (see 2004 in music). ... March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in Leap years). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bittersweet Bundle of Misery is a song by Graham Coxon and was released as the second single from his fifth solo album Happiness in Magazines in 2004 (see 2004 in music). ... May 3 is the 123rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (124th in leap years). ... Spectacular is a song by Graham Coxon and was released as the third single from his fifth solo album Happiness in Magazines in 2004 (see 2004 in music). ... July 26 is the 207th day (208th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 158 days remaining. ... Freakin Out / All Over Me was a double a-sided single released by Graham Coxon as the last single from his fifth solo album Happiness in Magazines in 2004 (see 2004 in music). ... October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Release details

The album has been released in various countries.