Artist: Billy Squier
Album: Happy Blue
Released: 1998
Source: J-bird
Genre: Blues
Format: Eac_ape, Covers
Quote
Poor
Billy Squier: After four brilliant records, two with Piper and his
first two solos (he refers to Don't Say No in "Pursuit of Happiness."),
Squier fell victim to record company pressure and, like many '80s rock
stars, lacked the business savvy to survive in the big time (at least
he never coughed up an awful factory ballad smash). Out from under the
limelight, he hides behind nothing on this bare-bones effort: just
stark Squier and his guitar up-close and live. But Happy Blue is
anything but happy. He still suffers from outside interference, as VH1
forced him to rerecord "The Stroke" for an acoustic performance,
inadvertently instigating this project. Actually, his songwriting
skills were never questioned, but production set apart most of his
hits. Thus, on "Stroke Me Blues" the words don't fit the music.
Squier's now a tired victim of "The Stroke," and bitterness peppers the
entire album: "I don't wanna be happy/if happy means I got to be like
you/wake up in the morning/try to satisfy somebody new." He alters Joni
Mitchell's "River": "I've made a ton of money but I can't buy out this
scene." Give Squier credit for stripping down, but this release is only
for the faithful, which doesn't seem to matter to the Bostonian. He
annotates the lyric booklet with wildly pretentious explanatory
capsules: "Inferno," of course, sprang from Dante; this cut cascades
with Zeppelin flourishes and "Long Way to Fall" drops Buckingham bits.
"More than Words Can Say" (not the standard Leo Sayer covered nor the
Alias monster ballad), "Grasping for Oblivion," and "If You Would Hate
Me Less, I'd Love You More" are stunning and fit the style. Squier is
truly talented and this record creeps up on the listener. By the end of
Happy Blue, one prays the artist finds the peace he seeks. ~ Doug
Stone, All Music Guide
1 Happy Blues (5:00)
2 Pursuit of Happiness (7:42)
3 She Will (5:03)
4 Grasping for Oblivion (4:57)
5 If You Would Hate Me Less, I'd Love You More (6:28)
6 Stroke Me Blues (4:42)
7 More Than Words Can Say (3:41)
8 Inferno (Everybody Cries Sometimes) (5:46)
9 Long Way to Fall (5:08)
10 River (5:14)
11 Two (2:48)
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Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 3 from 28. July 2007
EAC extraction logfile from 26. December 2007, 9:20
Billy Squier / Happy Blue
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