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I don't beleive this: I've spent ages trying to find a copy of P5's deleted Happy End... album for a friend's birthday as they really like the version of Contact on my (promo) copy. Anyway, I found one the other day & bought it, only to find that the song isn't on it any more. Can anyone shed any light?

Thanks in advance

Jez

― Jez (Jez), Thursday, 13 March 2003 17:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

man, i can't find a good active p5 discography on the web right now. Plus, the matador site doesn't even have Happy End... on it anymore. On Amazon though, contact isn't listed. I have to go look at my copy. Wiat, now I found one (http://www.newmusicmachine.com/pizzi5/discography/)

conatct was originally on Romantique 96 it looks like. Happy End... was the first actual P5 album issued by matador (the others were comps really) - so i wonder why it was on the promo. Anyway, I believe a lto of stuff was fairly recently reissued in japan so you should be able to get them from amazon japan for instance. I have been thinking about oicking up some of the Japanese albums myself, they were a great band...

― g (graysonlane), Thursday, 13 March 2003 17:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

The "official" edition of Happy End of the World (one of my ten favorite records) didn't contain "Contact." I can't imagine it with any different tracklisting; where did it fit on your version?

Oh, and has any label sold out its own artist more than Matador did with P5? That shit was just shameful. Not only did they do like no PR for any of the records after "Twiggy" was a minor hit--Happy End and Playboy/Playgirl could have / should have been huge monster hits, even in their original form--but they held up release of the last one and blamed the group because the cover art was slow, which was lameness indeed.

― Neudonym, Thursday, 13 March 2003 18:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

well, as far as matador, they didn;t make it that obvious that the first couple discs were comps so that was a bit annoying. But they did expose p5 to a big audience outside japan, they did nice packaging on the first couple CDS too, so can't complain. I doubt they were really selling many copies (could be because they had the early/mid 90s problem of distributing way too many promos)

― g (graysonlane), Thursday, 13 March 2003 21:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

The track comes after Mon Amour Tokyo on the promo - it's great...I don't understand why it was removed. Playboy/Playgirl is also a corker - I utterly adore that Lovers' Concerto-style track (can't remember the title - the one with the oboes). I didn't realise Made in USA was a comp. either, btw.

― Jez (Jez), Thursday, 13 March 2003 23:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

There is a new book/career retropspective out that I am dreaming of laying down $49 for -- happy end of the world indeed.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 06:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

five years pass...

The Audrey Hepburn Complex

― tony orlando and dawng (PappaWheelie V), Sunday, 21 September 2008 23:06 (fifteen years ago) link

five years pass...

<3 <3

― brimstead, Friday, 4 October 2013 20:51 (ten years ago) link

seven years pass...

very grateful for Happy End of the World today, exactly the album I needed to put on

― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Saturday, 23 January 2021 22:14 (three years ago) link

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