Normal Happiness

Normal Happiness album in studio
Artista	Robert Pollard
Pubblicazione	10 ottobre 2006
Durata	34:18
Dischi	1
Tracce	16
Genere	Rock alternativo Lo-fi
Etichetta	Merge Records; Must Destroy Music
Produttore	Todd Tobias
Registrazione	Waterloo Sound - Kent, Ohio
Formati	LP, CD
Robert Pollard - cronologia
Album precedente From a Compound Eye (2006) Album successivo Standard Gargoyle Decisions (2007)

Normal Happiness è il sesto album in studio long playing di Robert Pollard, membro fondatore dei Guided by Voices; venne pubblicato nel 2006 sia in vinile che in CD negli Stati Uniti d'America dalla Merge Records.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] È il quinto album pubblicato da Pollard nel 2006, considerati anche le sue collaborazioni con altri artisti.^[1] Come il precedente album da solista, è stato registrato da Pollard su basi di chitarra e tracce vocali, con sovraincisioni strumentali suonate del produttore Todd Tobias. Ha raggiunto il 46º posto nella classifica dei migliori album indipendenti di Billboard.

Tracce

Lato A

The Accidental Texas Who
Whispering Whip
Supernatural Car Lover
Boxing About
Serious Birdwoman (You Turn Me On)
Get a Faceful
Towers and Landslides
I Feel Gone Again

Lato B

Gasoline Ragtime
Rhoda Rhoda
Give Up the Grape
Pegasus Glue Factory
Top of My Game
Tomorrow Will Not Be Another Day
Join the Eagles
Full Sun (Dig the Slowness)

Musicisti

Todd Tobias: basso, batteria, percussioni, chitarra, tastiere
Robert Pollard: voce, chitarra

Note

^ ^a ^b (EN) Robert Pollard: Normal Happiness, su Pitchfork. URL consultato il 24 settembre 2019.
^ The History of Rock Music. Guided By Voices: biography, discography, reviews, links, su scaruffi.com. URL consultato il 23 settembre 2019.
^ (EN) Normal Happiness - Robert Pollard | Songs, Reviews, Credits, su AllMusic. URL consultato il 24 settembre 2019.
^ GBVDB - Guided By Voices Database, su gbvdb.com. URL consultato il 24 settembre 2019.
^ GBVDB - Guided By Voices Database, su gbvdb.com. URL consultato il 24 settembre 2019.

Collegamenti esterni

(EN) Normal Happiness, su Discogs, Zink Media.
(EN) Normal Happiness, su MusicBrainz, MetaBrainz Foundation.
(EN) Normal Happiness, su Metacritic, Red Ventures.

V · D · M Guided by Voices
Robert Pollard · Tobin Sprout · Doug Gillard
Album in studio	Devil Between My Toes (1987) · Sandbox (1987) · Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia (1989) · Same Place the Fly Got Smashed (1990) · Propeller (1992) · Vampire on Titus (1993) · Bee Thousand (1994) · Alien Lanes (1995) · Under the Bushes Under the Stars (1996) · Tonics & Twisted Chasers (1996) · Mag Earwhig! (1997) · Do the Collapse (1999) · Isolation Drills (2001) · Universal Truths and Cycles (2002) · Earthquake Glue (2003) · Half Smiles of the Decomposed (2004) · Let's Go Eat the Factory (2012) · Class Clown Spots a UFO (2012) · The Bears for Lunch (2012) · English Little League (2013) · Motivational Jumpsuit (2014) · Cool Planet (2014) · Please Be Honest (2016) · August by Cake (2017) · How Do You Spell Heaven (2017) · Space Gun (2018) · Zeppelin Over China (2019) · Warp and Woof (2019) · Sweating the Plague (2019) · Surrender Your Poppy Field (2020) · Mirrored Aztec (2020) · Styles We Paid For (2020) · Earth Man Blues (2021) · Crystal Nuns Cathedral (2022) · Tremblers and Goggles by Rank (2022) · La La Land (2023) · Welshpool Frillies (2023) · Nowhere to Go But Up (2023)
Mini-LP	Forever Since Breakfast (1986)
Singoli	Motor Away (1995) · The Official Ironmen Rally Song (1996) · I Am a Tree (1997) · Teenage FBI (1999) · Glad Girls (2001) · Everywhere with Helicopter (2002)
Extended play	The Grand Hour (1993) · Static Airplane Jive (1993) · Get Out of My Stations (1994) · Fast Japanese Spin Cycle (1994) · Clown Prince of the Menthol Trailer (1994) · I Am a Scientist (1994) · Tigerbomb (1995) · Plantations of Pale Pink (1996) · Sunfish Holy Breakfast (1996) · Wish in One Hand... (1997) · Plugs for the Program (1999) · Hold on Hope (2000) · Dayton, Ohio – 19 Something and 5 (2000) · Daredevil Stamp Collector (2001) · The Pipe Dreams of Instant Prince Whippet (2002) · Down by the Racetrack (2013) · Wine Cork Stonehenge (2018) · 100 Dougs (2018) · Umlaut Over the Ozone (2019) · 1901 Acid Rock (2019)
Antologie	King Shit and the Golden Boys (1995) · The Best of Guided By Voices: Human Amusements at Hourly Rates (2003)
Box set	Box (1995) · Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft (2000) · Hardcore UFOs: Revelations, Epiphanies and Fast Food in the Western Hemisphere (2003) · Suitcase 2: American Superdream Wow (2005) · Suitcase 3: Up We Go Now (2009) · Suitcase Four: Captain Kangaroo Won The War (2015)
Altro	Sing For Your Meat: A Tribute to Guided by Voices (2011, Album tributo)