Introducing Happiness is a 1994 album by Rheostatics

Rheostatics

Rheostatics was a Genie Award-winning Canadian indie rock band, active from 1980 to 2007.Although they had only one Top 40 hit, "Claire" in 1995, they were simultaneously one of Canada's most influential and unconventional rock bands, a band whose eclectic take on pop and rock music has been...

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The album includes "Claire", the band's only Top 40 hit. That song is also featured on the Whale Music soundtrack album.

Introducing Happiness was the band's second and final album for Sire Records

Sire Records

Sire Records is an American record label, owned by Warner Music Group and distributed through Warner Bros. Records.-Beginnings:The label was founded in 1966 as Sire Productions by Seymour Stein and Richard Gottehrer, each investing ten thousand dollars into the new company. Its early releases as a...

. Sire found the band's quirky indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 too quirky and too indie to market effectively despite having a Top 40 hit, and dropped the band from the label.

It was also Dave Clark

Dave Clark (Canadian musician)

-Biography:Clark is a respected studio musician and live performer, and has collaborated with such artists as Charles Spearin, Gord Downie, The Inbreds, Jane Siberry, Julie Doiron, and the Sun Ra Arkestra. He is perhaps best known for playing drums in the indie rock band Rheostatics from 1980–1995...

's last album with the band. Following this album, he left to concentrate on The Dinner Is Ruined

The dinner is ruined

The Dinner Is Ruined is a Canadian indie rock band. Formed in 1991 by Dale Morningstar, the band plays an experimental and improvisational brand of blues rock.The band members are Dale Morningstar, Dave Clark and Dr. Johnny Pee...

, and was replaced for the next several years by Don Kerr

Don Kerr

Don Kerr is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist and record producer.He was a member of Rheostatics from 1995 to May 2001. He plays in Ron Sexsmith's band, and sometimes with The Kelele Brothers. He and Sexsmith released an album together, Destination Unknown, in 2005...

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Track listing

1. "Fan Letter to Michael Jackson" (Dave Bidini
   Dave Bidini
   Dave Bidini is a Canadian musician, journalist and author originating from Etobicoke, Ontario. He is a founding member of the acclaimed rock band Rheostatics, and has published several books about music and sports. He currently performs with his band, aptly named BidiniBand. The group's first...
   
   , John Critchley) – 3:59
2. "Introducing Happiness" (Tim Vesely
   Tim Vesely
   Tim Vesely is a Canadian musician and songwriter. He is best known as the bassist for the indie rock band Rheostatics, in which he shared lead vocal duties with bandmates Dave Bidini and Martin Tielli...
   
   ) – 2:28
3. "One More Colour" (Martin Tielli
   Martin Tielli
   Martin Tielli is a Canadian singer-songwriter. He was a member of the Rheostatics, and has also released material as a solo artist and with the side project Nick Buzz. As well, he has appeared as a guest musician on albums by Barenaked Ladies, Kevin Hearn, The Waltons, Jane Siberry, Ashley...
   
   , Jane Siberry) – 3:45
4. "Claire" (Vesely, Paul Quarrington
   Paul Quarrington
   Paul Lewis Quarrington was a Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, musician and educator.-Background:...
   
   ) – 4:09
5. "Digital Beach" (Tielli) – 1:54
6. "Earth/Monstrous Hummingbird" (Bidini) – 4:50
7. "Row" (Vesely) – 4:52
8. "Full Moon Over Russia" (Dave Clark
   Dave Clark (Canadian musician)
   -Biography:Clark is a respected studio musician and live performer, and has collaborated with such artists as Charles Spearin, Gord Downie, The Inbreds, Jane Siberry, Julie Doiron, and the Sun Ra Arkestra. He is perhaps best known for playing drums in the indie rock band Rheostatics from 1980–1995...
   
   ) – 2:19
9. "Take Me in Your Hand" (Tielli) – 3:13
10. "Jesus Was Once a Teenager Too" (Bidini, Tielli) – 4:25
11. "Me and Stupid" (Bidini) – 2:33
12. "Fish Tailin'" (Tielli) – 3:10
13. "The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos" (Bidini) – 1:16
14. "Cephallus Worm/Uncle Henry" (Bidini) – 4:44
15. "In This Town" (Tielli) – 3:19
16. "Alomar" (Rheostatics) – 1:52
17. "You Are a Treasure" (Tielli) – 3:22
18. "Onilley's Strange Dream" (Bidini, Tielli) – 6:26