Album · The Pursuit of Happiness
Love Junk by The Pursuit of Happiness
Love Junk is an album by The Pursuit of Happiness, released in 1988. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 25 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “I'm An Adult Now”, on 24 lists with a best position of #73.
Love Junk, the 1988 debut from Canadian power-pop outfit the Pursuit of Happiness, came out on Chrysalis with Todd Rundgren producing, and he gives the band's crunchy guitars a glossy, radio-ready sheen. It's power pop with hooks stacked on hooks and the amps turned up.
"I'm an Adult Now" is the one everybody knows, the album's biggest hit, and "Hard to Laugh" and "She's So Young" made noise as singles back home too. It became the band's best seller, going platinum in Canada, selling 125,000 copies in the US and ranking as the 12th best-selling Canadian-content album of 1989.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Love Junk on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I'm An Adult Now | 24 | #73 | – | 1988–2023 | |
| 2 | Hard To Laugh | 1 | #989 | – | 1999 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.