So Happily Unsatisfied

So Happily Unsatisfied
Studio album by Nine Days
Released November 12, 2002
Genre Alternative
Length 50:09
Label Epic, 550
Producer

Ron Aniello

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Nine Days chronology

The Madding Crowd
(2000)		 So Happily Unsatisfied
(2002)		 Flying the Corporate Jet
(2003)

So Happily Unsatisfied is an album that was recorded by the band Nine Days. It was intended to be the follow-up to their successful major-label debut, The Madding Crowd from 2000. The release date of the album was repeatedly delayed by Epic Records's 550 Music until the band was ultimately dropped. In the interim, the album had leaked onto the internet. The band has also put the whole album on their official website for the public to download. The producer is Ron Aniello.[1][2]

The band retained the rights in early 2006 and released the album on iTunes and Amazon for mp3 download.

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Favorite Song"   4:33
2. "Good Friend"   4:09
3. "Emily"   3:37
4. "Marvelous"   3:48
5. "Still Here"   4:15
6. "The Joneses"   3:50
7. "Don't Look Back"   3:44
8. "I Feel Fine"   3:45
9. "Ocean"   5:51
10. "Beautiful"   4:17
11. "Everything"   4:27
12. "Great Divide"   4:12
Bonus tracks
No. Title Length
13. "Dirty Poet" (Available on Ninedaysmore.com) 3:29
14. "Leelee" (Available on Ninedaysmore.com) 3:27

Demo recordings

In 2013, during the relaunch of the band's website, the band released two sets of demos that were recorded during the recording sessions for the album. They made both sets available for purchase on their website.

SHU Demos 2001

So Happily Unsatisfied 2001 Demos
Demo album by Nine Days
Released 2013
Recorded 2001
Genre Alternative
Length 51 minutes

Lead singer of the band, John Hampson, wrote on the band's website of these recordings:

In many ways, these demos "beat" the album versions. "Beautiful", "Marvelous" and "Everything" were the first three songs we had for SHU that we all really loved, and we recorded these versions with Nick Didia (producer/The Madding Crowd) in Atlanta while on tour in early 2001. These versions are much closer to what the whole album should have been like.[...]There are also a bunch of songs that never made the final cut, but probably should have.

Tracklist

  1. Beautiful
  2. Marvelous
  3. Everything
  4. Ocean
  5. The Joneses
  6. Ugly
  7. Dirty Poet
  8. Great Divide
  9. Natalie Wood
  10. Leelee Sobieski
  11. Perfect
  12. Clouds of Grey

SHU Demos 2

So Happily Unsatisfied Demos 2
Demo album by Nine Days
Released 2013
Recorded 2001
Genre Alternative
Length 46 minutes

Also released was a second set of demos. Hampson wrote:

This is the second half of all the demos we did for SHU. Most of the songs were recorded in a 2 or 3 day session we did at a studio on Long Island, NY, but "Sunspots", "American Girl" and "Angel Under The Stars" were recorded live at a rehearsal. There is also an acoustic version of "Good Friend" with alternate lyrics in the verses.

Tracklist

  1. Good Friend (Acoustic/alternate lyrics demo)
  2. American Girl (Live Rehearsal Demo)
  3. Sunspots (Live Rehearsal Demo)
  4. Angels Under Stars (Live Rehearsal Demo)
  5. Still Here
  6. Favorite Song
  7. Emily
  8. I Feel Fine
  9. Good Friend
  10. Marvelous
  11. Beautiful

References

  1. ↑ "Big Gigs". Newsday.com. 2002-04-25. Retrieved 2015-04-23.
  2. ↑ "Bits: Nine Days, Oscar Peterson, Pere Ubu". Billboard.com. Retrieved 2015-04-23.