Introducing Happiness

Rheostatics | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 23, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Elektra / Wea
• ASIN: B000008N1L
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #86,022 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Fan Letter To Michael Jackson

2. Introducing Happiness

3. One More Colour

4. Claire

5. Digital Beach

6. Earth/Monsterous Hummingbird

7. Row

8. Full Moon Over Russia

9. Take Me In Your Hand

10. Jesus Was Once A Teenager Too

11. Me And Stupid

12. Fish Tallin'

13. The Woods Are Full Of Cuckoos

14. Cephallus Worm/Uncle Harry

15. In This Town

16. Alomar

17. You Are A Treasure

18. Oniley's Strange Dream

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best, October 21, 2004

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Anglobotomy (Las Vegas, Nv United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Introducing Happiness (Audio CD)

This is one of my favorite albums of all time. The Rheostatics have a way of injecting emotion and fun into any subject. They're amazing storytellers as well as incredible musicians. Their's is just good, clean, enjoyable rock and paints the most wonderful pictures.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Novelty trumps art, June 3, 2006

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loce_the_wizard "loce_the_wizard" (Lilburn, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Introducing Happiness (Audio CD)

The Rheostatics are clever, versatile, and articulate---that much is granted. Throughout this CD, there are many good to excellent songs, but an overall tone that suggests novelty trumps art drives a wedge between listener and musician at times.

Hence, many songs, such as the wonderful Claire, radiate 5 stars but the oddities outnumber the stars in this collection. Still, any Rheostatics recording is worth more than a casual listen, and the rich, colorul artwork would be enticement enough were we talking about album-sized covers.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars amazing follow up by a uniquely canadian band, April 28, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: INTRODUCING HAPPINESS (Audio CD)

Probably the finest rock band Canada has every produced, provided you handle the style jumping which has become the rheos trademark. This album is the follow up to the undeniably superb "Whale Music", where the rheos push further their extremes, the pop songs are poppier, the wierd songs are wierder, probably a little too weird for most people's taste, but I personally love it. I must admit that at first this album took a little time to grow on me, but most good things take time. This album could do without a few tracks (the cheesy title track for one), but the more you listen the more you uncover, revealing it's hidden treasures to the attentive ear. If you like adventerous, intelligent, catchy music, and unashamed CANADIAN music, give this album a try.