Happy Hour, new wave

New Wave music

New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...

 band Humans

Humans (band)

Humans were a Santa Cruz new wave band, formed in 1976 as The Mysterious People. They changed their name to Humans in 1979. Leader Sterling Storm's style was similar to that of Wall Of Voodoo's Stan Ridgway, while bassist Eric Gies wrote mostly quirky ballads...

' debut full-length album, was released in 1981 on I.R.S. Records

I.R.S. Records

I.R.S. Records was a record label, started in the United States in 1979 by Miles Copeland III along with Jay Boberg and Carl Grasso. Miles was also the manager of Wishbone Ash, The Police, and later, Sting, as well as other bands. I.R.S. was the sister label of Copeland's Illegal Records .I.R.S...

. Recorded at the famed Automatt studio in San Francisco. The songs Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark/Get You Tonight and Lightning were released on a radio station promo single. Lead singer Sterling Storm directed a longform music video

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

 based on this album. The videotape, entitled Happy Hour with the Humans, was distributed by Mike Nesmith's pioneering company, Pacific Arts Video.

Track listing

All tracks written by S. Storm, except #3 & #8 by E. Gies.

1. Get You Tonight (3:09)
2. Lightning (4:02)
3. Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark (3:09)
4. Change (3:44)
5. Foreign Culture (4:43)
6. Invisible Man (3:40)
7. Waiting At The Station (3:04)
8. You Don't Want To Know (3:09)
9. Lost Control (3:45)
10. Obituary (6:10)