I Just Can't Be Happy Today
"I Just Can't Be Happy Today" | ||||
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Single by the Damned | ||||
from the album Machine Gun Etiquette | ||||
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Released | November 1979 | |||
Recorded | 1979 | |||
Genre | Post-punk | |||
Length | 3:34 | |||
Label | Chiswick CHIS 120 Motown CHIS 115 | |||
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The Damned singles chronology | ||||
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"I Just Can't Be Happy Today" is a song by English punk rock band the Damned from their 1979 album, Machine Gun Etiquette. Released as a single in November on Chiswick Records, it peaked at No. 46 in the UK Singles Chart.
Production
The single was heavily edited for radio airplay, removing the spoken word monologue, though the version on the record is unaltered. The first track on the B-side, a cover of Sweet's "Ballroom Blitz", was recorded with Lemmy of Motörhead fame on bass guitar. "Turkey Song" was not credited on the sleeve.
Live performances
The Damned performed "I Just Can't Be Happy Today" alongside "Smash It Up" on the BBC2 television show The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1979, where they infamously trashed the stage towards the end of the song.[1]
Track listing
- "I Just Can't Be Happy Today" (Dadomo, Scabies, Sensible, Vanian, Ward) - 2:53
- "Ballroom Blitz" (Chapman, Chinn) - 3:30
- "Turkey Song" (Scabies, Sensible, Vanian, Ward) - 1:32
Production credits
- Producers
- Roger Armstrong
- The Damned
- Musicians
- Dave Vanian − vocals
- Captain Sensible − guitar, keyboards, vocals and Mandolin on "Turkey Song"
- Rat Scabies − drums
- Algy Ward − bass
- Lemmy − bass on "Ballroom Blitz"
References
- ^ The Old Grey Whistle Test (DVD). Warner Home Video. 2003.
External links
- "I Just Can't Be Happy Today" at Discogs (list of releases)
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- Dave Vanian
- Captain Sensible
- Monty Oxymoron
- Rat Scabies
- Paul Gray
- Brian James
- Lu Edmonds
- Algy Ward
- Roman Jugg
- Bryn Merrick
- Moose Harris
- Patricia Morrison
- Stu West
- Henry Badowski
- Jon Moss
- Lemmy
- Gary Holton
- Garrie Dreadful
- Spike Smith
- Pinch
- William Granville-Taylor
- Damned Damned Damned
- Music for Pleasure
- Machine Gun Etiquette
- The Black Album
- Strawberries
- Phantasmagoria
- Anything
- Not of This Earth
- Grave Disorder
- So, Who's Paranoid?
- Evil Spirits
- Darkadelic
- Light at the End of the Tunnel
- The Radio One Sessions
- Smash It Up: The Anthology 1976–1987
- Black Is the Night: The Definitive Anthology
- Friday 13th
- Testify
- The Rockfield Files
- "New Rose"
- "Neat Neat Neat"
- "Stretcher Case Baby"
- "Problem Child"
- "Don't Cry Wolf"
- "Love Song"
- "Smash It Up"
- "I Just Can't Be Happy Today"
- "White Rabbit"
- "The History of the World (Part 1)"
- "There Ain't No Sanity Clause"
- "Wait for the Blackout"
- "Lovely Money"
- "Dozen Girls"
- "Lively Arts"
- "Generals"
- "Thanks for the Night"
- "Grimly Fiendish"
- "The Shadow of Love"
- "Is It a Dream?"
- "Eloise"
- "Anything"
- "Gigolo"
- "Alone Again Or"
- "In Dulce Decorum"
- "Fun Factory"
- "Prokofiev"
- "Shut It"
- "Little Miss Disaster"
- "Standing On the Edge of Tomorrow"
- "Devil in Disguise"
- "Look Left"
- "Procrastination"
- Band members
- Discography
- "Nasty"
- The Damned: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead
- Stiff Records
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