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{{Infobox Album | | Name = Happy Days | Type = Album | Artist = Catherine Wheel | Cover = CatherineWheelHappyDays.jpg | Released = May 1995 | Recorded = ? | Genre = Alternative rock
Shoegazing | Length = 58:03 | Label = Mercury / Fontana | Producer = Gil Norton
Rob Dickinson It's a heap of shit!!

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 | Label       = [[Mercury Records|Mercury]] / [[Fontana Records|Fontana]]
 | Producer    = [[Gil Norton]]<br />Rob Dickinson
+It's a heap of shit!!
-| Reviews     =
-*[[Allmusic]]: {{Rating|2.5|5}} ([http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:o3rc287t055a~T10 link])
-*''[[Rolling Stone]]'': {{Rating|3|5}} (№ 710) ([http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/catherinewheel/albums/album/304501/rid/5943656/ link])
-|
-| Last album  = ''[[Chrome (Catherine Wheel album)|Chrome]]''<br />(1993)
-| This album  = ''Happy Days''<br />(1995)
-| Next album  = ''[[Adam and Eve (album)|Adam and Eve]]''<br />(1997)
-}}
-'''''Happy Days''''' is the third full-length album by the [[United Kingdom|U.K.]] band [[Catherine Wheel]], released in 1995 (see [[1995 in music]]). Like its predecessor, ''[[Chrome (album)|Chrome]]'', it was produced by [[Gil Norton]], and the influences of [[grunge]] and [[hard rock]] are prevalent on this album; however, the band does retain some elements of [[shoegazing]], particularly on "Heal" and "Eat My Dust You Insensitive Fuck".
-"Judy Staring at the Sun" featured guest [[singer|vocals]] by [[Tanya Donelly]]. In the [[single (music)|single]] mix, Donelly performs the song's chorus and second verse; on the album, however, her vocals appear only in the chorus, and all verses are sung by Rob Dickinson. The single peaked at number 22 on the ''[[Billboard magazine|Billboard]]'' [[Modern Rock Tracks]] chart; second single "Waydown" peaked at number 15 on the Modern Rock chart and number 24 on the [[Mainstream Rock Tracks]] chart.
-The album peaked at number five on the ''Billboard'' [[Top Heatseekers]] chart, and was also the band's first album to chart on [[The Billboard 200]], peaking at number 163.
-==Track listing==
-#"God Inside My Head"  – 3:52
-#"Waydown"  – 3:14
-#"Little Muscle"  – 3:04
-#"Heal"  – 6:13
-#"Empty Head"  – 3:12
-#"Receive"  – 3:35
-#"My Exhibition"  – 2:27
-#"Eat My Dust You Insensitive Fuck"  – 8:06
-#"Shocking"  – 3:58
-#"Love Tips Up" – 3:55
-#"Judy Staring at the Sun"  – 3:56
-#"Hole"  – 3:49
-#"Fizzy Love"  – 3:34
-#"Kill My Soul"  – 5:10
-<div style="clear: both"></div>
-==Singles==
-* '''"Judy Staring at the Sun"''' (1995)
-** Fontana CW CD 8, 852 307-2 (UK CD single)
-**# "Judy Staring at the Sun" – 3:55
-**# "God Inside My Head" – 3:51
-**# "Glitter" – 4:06
-**# "Capacity to Change" – 4:13
-** Fontana CW 8, 852 307-0 (UK 10" vinyl single)
-**# "Judy Staring at the Sun" – 3:55
-**# "God Inside My Head" – 3:51
-**# "Waydown (live in Denver, Colorado 31 July 1995)"
-**# "Crank (live in Denver, Colorado 31 July 1995)"
-** Fontana CW DD 8, 852 309-2 (Australian CD single)
-**# "Judy Staring at the Sun" – 3:55
-**# "God Inside My Head" – 3:51
-**# "Backwards Guitar" – 5:07
-**# "Angelo Nero" – 4:21
-** Fontana CDP 1496, CDP 1496 (UK promo CD single)
-**# "Judy Staring at the Sun (w/ Tanya Donelly on vocals)" – 3:57
-**# "Judy Staring at the Sun" – 3:57
-* '''"Little Muscle"''' (1995)
-** Fontana CDP 1525 (UK promo CD single)
-**# "Little Muscle" – 3:04
-* '''"Waydown"''' (1995)
-** Fontana CW CD 7, 856 933-2 (UK CD single)
-**# "Waydown" – 3:16
-**# "Show Me Mary (XFM Radio Session Nov 1993)" – 3:23
-**# "Kill Rhythm (XFM Radio Session Nov 1993)" – 3:58
-** Fontana CW 7, 856 819-0 (UK 10" vinyl single)
-**# "Waydown" – 3:15
-**# "Crank (XFM Radio Session Nov 1993)" – 3:50
-**# "Wish You Were Here (XFM Radio Session Nov 1993), Pink Floyd cover" – 2:48
-** Fontana 852 016-2 (Europe CD single)
-**# "Waydown" – 3:15
-**# "Show Me Mary (XFM Radio Session Nov 1993)" – 3:21
-** Fontana 852 017-2 (Europe CD single)
-**# "Waydown" – 3:15
-**# "Crank (XFM Radio Session Nov 1993)" – 3:49
-**# "Broken Head (XFM Radio Session Nov 1993)" – 5:41
-**# "Chrome (XFM Radio Session Nov 1993)" – 3:54
-** Fontana CW DD 7, 856 819-2 (UK CD single)
-**# "Waydown" – 3:15
-**# "Broken Head (XFM Radio Session Nov 1993)" – 5:41
-**# "Chrome (XFM Radio Session Nov 1993)" – 3:54
-** Fontana CDP 1432, CDP 1432 (US promo CD single)
-**# "Waydown" – 3:14
-<div style="clear: both"></div>
-==Personnel==
-{{col-begin}}
-{{col-break}}
-;[[Musician]]s:
-*[[Rob Dickinson]] — [[guitar]], [[singer|vocals]]
-*Brian Futter — guitar, vocals
-*Dave Hawes — [[bass guitar|bass]]
-*Neil Sims — [[percussion instrument|percussion]]
-*[[Tanya Donelly]] — vocals
-*[[Tim Friese-Greene]] — [[Organ (music)|organ]], [[keyboard instrument|keyboards]]
-*[[Audrey Riley]] — [[string instrument|strings]], [[cello]]
-*[[Mark_Feltham_(musician)|Mark Feltham]] — [[harmonica]]
-{{col-break}}
-;[[Record producer|Production]]:
-*Rob Dickinson — producer
-*[[Gil Norton]] — producer
-*Paul Corkett — producer, [[Audio engineering|engineer]]
-{{col-end}}
-{{Catherine Wheel}}
-[[Category:Catherine Wheel albums]]
-[[Category:1995 albums]]
-[[Category:Albums with cover art by Storm Thorgerson]]
-[[Category:Albums produced by Gil Norton]]
-[[Category:Fontana Records albums]]
-[[it:Happy Days (album)]]