Introducing Happiness by The Rheostatics

Introducing Happiness, the Rheostatics' fifth studio album, came out on Sire in 1994, cut at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas with Michael Phillip Wojewoda producing. Dave Bidini said the idea was something wild and bursting with color, in the spirit of XTC's Oranges and Lemons, and the Canadian oddballs deliver: songs that swerve, lurch and blow wide open, pop smarts run through a restless, mischievous streak.

"Claire", also on the Whale Music soundtrack, won the Genie Award for Best Original Song and was the closest thing they had to a hit. It didn't save them at Sire, though: the label decided the band was too odd and too far off the beaten path to market, and this was their second and last album there. It was also Dave Clark's farewell; he left to focus on The Dinner Is Ruined, and Don Kerr took over for the next few years.

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