Happy Landings and Lost Tracks explained

Happy Landings and Lost Tracks
Type:compilation
Artist:the Fixx
Cover:Happy Landings and Lost Tracks.jpg
Released:11 December 2001
Recorded:26 February – 28 April 1996
Genre:Pop / rock
Length:51:10
Label:Beyond/Rainman
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Producer:Martin Rex
Prev Title:Extended Versions
Prev Year:2000
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Next Year:2002

Happy Landings and Lost Tracks is a compilation album by the Fixx released on 11 December 2001.

Happy Landings 1996 planned album release

The Happy Landings and Lost Tracks compilation comprises tracks recorded during sessions that commenced at Fairless Masterman's flat, Castellain Road, Maida Vale, London on 26 February 1996 and concluded on 28 April, for the planned Happy Landings album to be released later that year with the following track listing (other tracks recorded during these sessions included "House Arrest" and "Prove Yourself"):

  1. "Modern World" – 4:08
  2. "Two Different Views" – 5:11
  3. "Going Without" – 4:41
  4. "Freeman" – 6:06
  5. "Happy Landings" – 4:25
  6. "Ocean Blue" – 6:05
  7. "We Once Held Hands" – 7:48
  8. "Sweet Pandemonium" – 4:01
  9. "Mayfly" – 5:42
  10. "Elected" – 2:54

Happy Landings 1997 planned album release

The 1996 version of the Happy Landings album was not released, but eight of the tracks were subsequently re-recorded/remixed by Stephen W. Tayler and Sadia Sadia during February and March 1997 for a planned release of the album later that year, with the newly recorded tracks of "Lonely As A Lighthouse" (recorded 10–12 February 1997 at Route One Studios, London) and "Life's What's Killing Me" replacing "Mayfly" and "Elected" (another track under development at this time was titled, "Peace Louise"):

  1. "Modern World"
  2. "Two Different Views"
  3. "Going Without"
  4. "Happy Landings"
  5. "Freeman"
  6. "We Once Held Hands"
  7. "Lonely As A Lighthouse"
  8. "Ocean Blue"
  9. "Life's What's Killing Me"
  10. "Sweet Pandemonium"

Additional personnel

Six of the 1997 session tracks ("Two Different Views", "Going Without", "Happy Landings", "We Once Held Hands", "Ocean Blue" and "Life's What's Killing Me") were subsequently re-recorded/remixed/edited for the Elemental album released on 7 April 1998.

The 1997 version of "Sweet Pandemonium" was made available as a digital download.[1]

Happy Landings 1997 five-track EP

A limited edition (1000 copies) five-track EP of "tracks from the forthcoming album Happy Landings" was pressed and made available for sale on the band's tour commencing on 10 July 1997.[2] The versions of these five tracks are unique to this EP, except for "Two Different Views" and "Going Without", which also appeared on the 3 July 2001 re-release of the "Missing Links" compilation on the Fuel 2000 label. This version of "Two Different Views" also appeared on the Ultimate Collection compilation album released on 9 November 1999.

  1. "Two Different Views" – 5:50
  2. "Going Without" – 4:58
  3. "Happy Landings" – 5:03
  4. "Freeman" – 4:33
  5. "We Once Held Hands" – 8:23

Additional notes

Happy Landings and Lost Tracks marks the first time all ten session tracks from 1996 have been released as originally recorded, five* for the first time,[3] although "Modern World" and "Elected" had previously been available as digital downloads.[4]

Of the ten tracks re-recorded/remixed with Stephen W. Tayler and Sadia Sadia in early 1997, only "Modern World", "Lonely As A Lighthouse", "Ocean Blue" and "Life's What's Killing Me" remain unreleased.

A new version of “Lonely As A Lighthouse” was recorded and released on the Every Five Seconds album on 3 June 2022.

"House Arrest" and "Peace Louise" remain unreleased in any form whatsoever and truly are "lost" tracks.

An earlier (1991–1994) recorded version of "Mayfly" (written by Cy Curnin and Stuart Zaltz) appears on the same-titled first solo album by Cy Curnin released on 22 February 2005.

Track listing

  1. "Modern World" – 4:08*
  2. "Going Without" – 4:41
  3. "Freeman" – 6:06*
  4. "Elected" – 2:54*
  5. "Mayfly" – 5:42*
  6. "Two Different Views" – 5:11
  7. "Ocean Blue" – 6:05
  8. "We Once Held Hands" – 7:48
  9. "Sweet Pandemonium" – 4:01*
  10. "Happy Landings" – 4:25

Personnel

Additional personnel

Production

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Fixx Sound File Archive . Sight N Sound .org . 1987-09-22 . 2012-02-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120229042935/http://www.sightnsound.org/fixxmp3.htm . 2012-02-29 .
  2. Web site: The Fixx . eNotes.com . 2012-02-20.
  3. Web site: The Fixx - Happy Landings . Rainmanrecords.com . 2010-10-05 . 2012-02-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120307180117/http://rainmanrecords.com/i-132999-the-fixx-happy-landings.html . 2012-03-07 . dead .
  4. Web site: Fixx Sound File Archive . Sight N Sound .org . 1987-09-22 . 2012-02-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120229042935/http://www.sightnsound.org/fixxmp3.htm . 2012-02-29 .

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