'' The Happy Club'' is the third solo studio album by Bob Geldof.

Track listing

UK / international version

All songs were written by Bob Geldof, except where noted. # "Room 19" – 5:14 # "Attitude Chicken" – 4:36 # "The Soft Soil" – 7:29 # "A Hole to Fill" – 5:05 # "The Song of the Emergent Nationalist" (Geldof,

Jamie Moses Jamie Moses (born 30 August 1955) is an English rock and pop singer and guitarist. He was formerly a member of The Brian May Band, Queen + Paul Rodgers, Mike & the Mechanics and Broken English. Biography The son of an American father (a ...

) – 6:55 # "My Hippy Angel" – 5:31 # "The Happy Club" (Geldof,

Karl Wallinger Karl Edmond De Vere Wallinger (born 19 October 1957, Prestatyn, Wales) is a Welsh musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for leading the band World Party and for his mid-1980s stint in the Waterboys. He also wrote and origi ...

) – 4:05 # "Like Down on Me" – 5:58 # "Too Late God" (Geldof,

Karl Hyde Karl Hyde (born 10 May 1957) is an English musician and artist. He is a founding member of British electronic group Underworld. Hyde has also released a solo album, made albums with Brian Eno and Matthew Herbert, and contributed towards the sco ...

) – 3:46 # "Roads of Germany (After B.D.)" – 5:14 # "A Sex Thing" – 5:09 # "The House at the Top of the World" (Geldof, Rick Smith) – 4:13 ;''Great Songs of Indifference'' re-release #

"Shine On" – 4:10 # "Huge Birdless Silence" – 3:24 # "Maybe Heaven" – 5:52

US version

All songs were written by Bob Geldof, except where noted. # "Room 19" # "A Hole to Fill" # "The Song of the Emergent Nationalist" (Geldof,

) # "Attitude Chicken" # "Yeah, Definitely" # "The House at the Top of the World" (Geldof, Rick Smith) # "The Soft Soil" # "A Sex Thing" # "My Hippy Angel" # "The Happy Club" (Geldof,

) # "Like Down on Me" # "Too Late God" (Geldof,

) # "Roads of Germany (After B.D.)"

Personnel

The Happy Clubsters

* Bob Geldof – lead vocals, acoustic and

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gu ...

s, harmonica *

Pete Briquette Patrick Martin Cusack (born 2 July 1954), known by the stage name Pete Briquette, is an Irish bassist, record producer and composer. He is a member of the Boomtown Rats and has also played in Bob Geldof's band. Boomtown Rats He was born in B ...

–

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

, keyboards, programming * Bob Loveday –

violin The violin, sometimes known as a '' fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone ( string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument ( soprano) in the family in regu ...

, penny whistle, bass guitar,

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* Geoff Richardson –

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, mandolin, electric and acoustic guitar,

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...

ukulele The ukulele ( ; from haw, ukulele , approximately ), also called Uke, is a member of the lute family of instruments of Portuguese origin and popularized in Hawaii. It generally employs four nylon strings. The tone and volume of the instrumen ...

, penny whistle *

– electric and acoustic guitars * Niall Power – drums * Alan Dunn – accordion,

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

tin whistle The tin whistle, also called the penny whistle, is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument. It is a type of fipple flute, putting it in the same class as the recorder, Native American flute, and other woodwind instruments that meet such criteria ...

, organ, one-row

melodeon Melodeon may refer to: * Melodeon (accordion), a type of button accordion *Melodeon (organ), a type of 19th-century reed organ *Melodeon (Boston, Massachusetts), a concert hall in 19th-century Boston * Melodeon Records, a U.S. record label in the ...

, keyboards *

Spike Edney Philip "Spike" Edney (born 11 December 1951) is an English musician who, since the 1960s, has performed with a number of bands, most notably with Queen in their live concerts, where his participation started in 1984 during Queen's The Works t ...

– organ, piano, guitar, keyboards

Trainee Clubster

- guitar, drums, vocals, keyboards

Production

* Johnny Milton –

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* Stephen W. Taylor – engineer

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Happy Club, The 1992 albums Bob Geldof albums Albums produced by Rupert Hine Mercury Records albums