I Just Can't Be Happy Today

"I Just Can't Be Happy Today" is a song by The Damned from their 1979 album, Machine Gun Etiquette. Released as a single in November on Chiswick Records, it peaked at No. 46 in the UK Singles Chart.

Production

The single was heavily edited for radio airplay, removing the spoken word monologue, though the version on the record is unaltered. The first track on the B-side, a cover of Sweet's "Ballroom Blitz", was recorded with Lemmy of Motörhead fame on bass guitar. "Turkey Song" was not credited on the sleeve.

Live performances

The Damned performed "Smash It Up" and "I Just Can't Be Happy Today" on the BBC2 television show The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1979.^[1]

Track listing

"I Just Can't Be Happy Today" (Dadomo, Scabies, Sensible, Vanian, Ward) - 2:53
"Ballroom Blitz" (Chapman, Chinn) - 3:30
"Turkey Song" (Scabies, Sensible, Vanian, Ward) - 1:32

Production credits

Producers

Roger Armstrong
The Damned

Musicians

Dave Vanian: Vocals
Captain Sensible: Guitar, Vocals on "Turkey Song"
Rat Scabies: Drums
Algy Ward: Bass
Lemmy: Bass on "Ballroom Blitz"

References

↑ The Old Grey Whistle Test (DVD). Warner Home Video. 2003.

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

The Damned

Dave Vanian Captain Sensible Monty Oxymoron Pinch Stu West Brian James Rat Scabies Lu Edmonds Dave Berk Henry Badowski Jon Moss Lemmy Algy Ward Gary Holton Paul Gray Roman Jugg Bryn Merrick Paul Shepley Kris Dollimore Alan Lee Shaw Moose Harris Garrie Dreadful Patricia Morrison Spike Smith

Studio albums	Damned Damned Damned Music for Pleasure Machine Gun Etiquette The Black Album Strawberries Phantasmagoria Anything Not of This Earth Grave Disorder So, Who's Paranoid?

Live albums	Live Shepperton 1980 Live at Newcastle The Captain's Birthday Party Not the Captain's Birthday Party? Final Damnation Ballroom Blitz – Live at the Lyceum Molten Lager Live at the 100 Club

Compilation albums	Light at the End of the Tunnel The Radio One Sessions Smash It Up: The Anthology 1976–1987

EPs	Friday 13th EP Testify

Singles	"New Rose" "Neat Neat Neat" "Stretcher Case Baby" "Problem Child" "Don't Cry Wolf" "Love Song" "Smash It Up" "I Just Can't Be Happy Today" "White Rabbit" "The History of the World (Part 1)" "There Ain't No Sanity Clause" "Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" "Wait for the Blackout" "Lovely Money" "Dozen Girls" "Lively Arts" "Generals" "Thanks for the Night" "Grimly Fiendish" "The Shadow of Love" "Is It a Dream?" "Eloise" "Gigolo" "Anything" "Alone Again Or" "In Dulce Decorum" "Fun Factory" "Prokofiev" "Shut It" "Little Miss Disaster"

Associated acts	Masters of the Backside London SS The Lords of the New Church Dave Vanian and the Phantom Chords Naz Nomad and the Nightmares

Related articles	Discography "Nasty" The Damned: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead

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