''So Happy Together'' is the first full-length album by Memphis

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band Grifters. The album was noisy and

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, even by Grifters standards. It was released on the now defunct

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label ''Sonic Noise''. It contains the re-recording "The Want," which debuted as an A Band Called Bud song. Originally released on vinyl as a six-song mini-album, it was extended to a full twelve-track album, though the album only shows ten song titles. The back of the CD tray lists the original tracks apart from the bonus tracks and some of the lyrics to "Wreck" are featured in an image by Greg Harwell.

Critical reception

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'' called the album "a bit overbearing in its negativity, but songs like the droning “Hate” (a litany of antipathies that basks in self-loathing) glean their subtext from the stirring interplay between guitarists Dave Shouse and Scott Taylor."

Original track listing

CD track listing

Album information

Grifters

* Stan Gallimore (not credited) * Tripp Lamkins (not credited) * David Shouse (not credited) * Scott Taylor (not credited)

Additional credits

* Album art by Greg Harwell * Engineering on some songs by Doug Easley and Davis McCain, Scott Taylor on most

Notes

* ''The Flower Shop'' is a Memphis florist (Anything Grows), where Shouse and Gallimore worked. The band practiced and recorded there.

References

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