# Happy Nowhere

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Happy Nowhere
| type       = [Album](/source/Album)
| artist     = [Dog's Eye View](/source/Dog's_Eye_View)
| cover      = Happy Nowhere.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = October 10, 1995
| recorded   =
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [Alternative rock](/source/Alternative_rock)
| length     = 58:31
| label      = [Columbia](/source/Columbia_Records)
| producer   = James Barton, [Peter Stuart](/source/Peter_Stuart)
| prev_title =
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| next_title = [Daisy](/source/Daisy_(Dog's_Eye_View_album))
| next_year  = 1997
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'''''Happy Nowhere''''' is the debut [studio album](/source/studio_album) by the American [rock](/source/rock_music) band [Dog's Eye View](/source/Dog's_Eye_View). The album is best known for its lead single, "[Everything Falls Apart](/source/Everything_Falls_Apart_(song))", which achieved considerable airplay and chart success in 1996.

The album was released at select retail locations in October 1995.<ref name=billboard2>{{cite news|first=Carrie|last=Borzillo|title=Things Fall Into Place For Columbia's Dog's Eye View (page 12)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iw0EAAAAMBAJ&q=%22peter+stuart%22+radio+airplay&pg=PA12 |work=[Billboard Magazine](/source/Billboard_Magazine) |date=April 20, 1996 |access-date=September 25, 2012}}</ref> ''Happy Nowhere'' received a nationwide release in the United States on January 30, 1996.<ref name=billboard2/>

==Critical reception==
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = [AllMusic](/source/AllMusic)
|rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r228471|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]</ref>
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The ''[Los Angeles Daily News](/source/Los_Angeles_Daily_News)'' wrote: "Packed with catchy, well-constructed acoustic-based songs with peppy up-to-date arrangements, ''Happy Nowhere'' ... reveals why Stuart was taken under the wing of both Counting Crows and Tori Amos on tour."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Shuster |first1=Fred |title=Pop |work=Los Angeles Daily News |date=16 Feb 1996 |page=L25}}</ref>

==Chart==
The album reached number one on the [Billboard Heatseekers](/source/Top_Heatseekers) and number seventy-seven on the [''Billboard'' 200](/source/Billboard_200).<ref name=allmusic>{{cite news|title= Dog's Eye View's Happy Nowhere Awards |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/happy-nowhere-mw0000645874/awards |work=[Allmusic](/source/Allmusic) |access-date=June 12, 2012}}</ref><ref name=billboard>{{cite news|title=Happy Nowhere – Dog's Eye View|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=dog's eye view|chart=all}} |work=[Billboard.com](/source/Billboard.com) |access-date=June 12, 2012}}</ref>

==Track listing==
All tracks written and composed by [Peter Stuart](/source/Peter_Stuart); except where indicated.

#"I Wish I Was Here" – 5:48
#"[Everything Falls Apart](/source/Everything_Falls_Apart_(song))" – 3:54
#"Small Wonders" – 4:02
#"The Prince's Favorite Son" – 4:06
#"Cottonmouth" – 4:24
#"Haywire" – 5:59
#"Would You Be Willing" – 3:02
#"Speed of Silence" – 4:17
#"Waterline" – 3:56
#"What I Know Now" – 3:23
#"Subject To Change" (Arch Alcantara and Peter Stuart) – 4:35
#"Bulletproof and Bleeding" – 4:25
#"Shine" – 6:40

==Personnel==
* John Abbey – double bass, electric bass, guitarrón, cello, guitar
* Alan Bezozi – drums, percussion 
* [Oren Bloedow](/source/Oren_Bloedow) – electric guitar, baritone guitar, lap steel guitar, classical guitar, resonator guitar
* [Marvin Etzioni](/source/Marvin_Etzioni) – mandolin, electric guitar 
* Danny Frankel – percussion 
* Brad Peterson – backing vocals 
* Peter Stuart – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar

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