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Happiness is the debut studio album, and second album overall, by English electronic group The Beloved, released in February 1990 in the United Kingdom by East West Records and in the United States by Atlantic Records the following month. The group's first album since slimming down from a four-piece to a duo comprising Jon Marsh and Steve Waddington in 1987, the two members moved away from their previous, New Order-styled sound and drew influence from the late 1980s rave scene in London and from American house music.

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  • Happiness is the debut studio album, and second album overall, by English electronic group The Beloved, released in February 1990 in the United Kingdom by East West Records and in the United States by Atlantic Records the following month. The group's first album since slimming down from a four-piece to a duo comprising Jon Marsh and Steve Waddington in 1987, the two members moved away from their previous, New Order-styled sound and drew influence from the late 1980s rave scene in London and from American house music. Recorded with producers Paul Staveley O'Duffy and Martyn Phillips, Happiness exemplifies the Beloved's new house-styled dance-pop material, becoming one of the first albums to fuse house and pop music, and features optimistic lyrics that helped it fit in with the hedonism of the UK's contemporary music scene and the second summer of love. Aided by four charting singles, including the group's breakthrough hit–the ambient-styled "The Sun Rising"–and their first Top 20 success in "Hello", Happiness reached number 14 on the UK Albums Chart and number 154 on the US Billboard 200 chart. It also received critical acclaim, and numerous magazines ranked the album among the greatest of the year. (en)
  • Happiness è un album del 1990, pubblicato dal gruppo musicale britannico pop rock e dance The Beloved, uscito su etichetta EastWest nel Regno Unito e nell'Europa continentale, e per la Atlantic negli USA. Si tratta del loro primo album in qualità di duo formato da Jon Marsh e Steve Waddington, dopo l'uscita dalla band degli altri due membri originari, e , con cui l'iniziale quartetto aveva realizzato, nel 1987, per l'etichetta indipendente , un primo album di studio, anche se, in realtà, si trattava più che altro di una compilation, che raccoglieva, in un unico 33 giri, i vari singoli a 45 giri fino ad allora realizzati dai quattro, congiuntamente alle relative B-sides, tanto che molti considerano l'album del 1990 (anche a causa del cambio di formazione, da quartetto a duo, e del radicale mutamento di genere, dal pop rock e dalla new wave alla dance e alla acid house, stili assolutamente distinti e distanti tra loro, quasi agli antipodi) come il loro vero album di debutto. Il long playing, scritto quasi tutto da Jon Marsh, insieme a Steve Waddington su due dei quattro singoli, e prodotto per lo più da Martin Phillips, con la collaborazione di Paul Staveley O'Duffy e l'apporto di Daniel Abraham, raggiunge il numero 14 nella classifica britannica, nel marzo del 1990, piazzandosi successivamente al #154 nella classifica statunitense dei Billboard 200. (it)
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  • Disc 2 - 'The Wolf Studio Recordings' (en)
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  • B-side to 1988 single "Loving Feeling" (en)
  • Remixed live by Jon Marsh in September 1990 during Mark Goodier's The Evening Session show on BBC Radio 1. Originally named "The Too Damn Goodier Mix". (en)
  • B-side to 1990 release of "Your Love Takes Me Higher" (en)
  • B-side to 1989 release of "Your Love Takes Me Higher" (en)
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  • "Above all, its smiley-faced optimism encapsulates the spirit of a time when Brit Pop went supernova: Manchester was on the rise and you could dance all night without being arrested. The liner notes thank 'anyone who has felt that 5am loving feeling' and 'Scarlet Beautiful's chorus is simply 'love/love/love'." (en)
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  • —Gareth Grundy of Select, reflecting upon Happiness in 1995. (en)
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  • Happiness is the debut studio album, and second album overall, by English electronic group The Beloved, released in February 1990 in the United Kingdom by East West Records and in the United States by Atlantic Records the following month. The group's first album since slimming down from a four-piece to a duo comprising Jon Marsh and Steve Waddington in 1987, the two members moved away from their previous, New Order-styled sound and drew influence from the late 1980s rave scene in London and from American house music. (en)
  • Happiness è un album del 1990, pubblicato dal gruppo musicale britannico pop rock e dance The Beloved, uscito su etichetta EastWest nel Regno Unito e nell'Europa continentale, e per la Atlantic negli USA. Il long playing, scritto quasi tutto da Jon Marsh, insieme a Steve Waddington su due dei quattro singoli, e prodotto per lo più da Martin Phillips, con la collaborazione di Paul Staveley O'Duffy e l'apporto di Daniel Abraham, raggiunge il numero 14 nella classifica britannica, nel marzo del 1990, piazzandosi successivamente al #154 nella classifica statunitense dei Billboard 200. (it)
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