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	Graham Coxon: Happiness In Magazines (2005): Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Happiness in Magazines is riddled with glorious pop songs, and in a sane world would yield several hit singles.
		Happiness in Magazines feels like Coxon's first true solo album -- it's the first to present a complex, robust portrait of him as an artist, and the first that holds its own next to what he accomplished in Blur.
		Happiness in Magazines is a huge stride forward for Coxon, who here seems to have jettisoned his scattershot aural experimentation in favor of meaty melodies that actually stick with you.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/coxongraham/happinessinmagazines (770 words)

	Ways to make our world happier
		Happiness clubs, support groups and training businesses are great ways to help us become happier, however, as extensive data begins to show conclusively that greater happiness results in proportionally greater economic profitability, major corporations will likely assume a role at the forefront of efforts to make our world much happier.
		Happiness camps would also be a great benefit to the parents of depressed or unhappy children because they would give them a week or two break from the trials that accompany raising their troubled children.
		Happiness camps, however would not only minimize or completely eliminate this guilt, they would likely inspire parents to be optimistic that their children can become much happier through happiness training.
	thehappinessshow.com /WaysToAHappierWorld.htm (3671 words)

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		Happiness in Magazines sounds like the knee-jerk reaction to Blur's sophisticated pop, as it squeals and feedsback like a British version of Guitar Wolf.
		Coxon plays and semi-sings as if he's intent on leading a new wave of jangly Dead Boys, leather jackets on their backs and fists ready to pound whiskeys and faces.
		Either way, Happiness in Magazines is more one-trick pony than it is 13.
	www.lollipop.com /article.php3?content=issue69/grahamcoxon.html (175 words)

	newburycomics.com - Graham Coxon : Happiness In Magazines
		HAPPINESS IN MAGAZINES is former Blur guitarist Graham Coxon's fifth solo outing.
		While in Blur, Coxon was largely responsible for hastening the band's evolution from cheeky Brit-pop to heady rock experimentalism, so it is somewhat ironic that this record boasts comparatively straightforward guitar pop songs with an emphasis on tight structures and catchy hooks.
		Except for a few guest musicians here and there, Coxon plays all the instruments himself, making HAPPINESS IN MAGAZINES a true solo effort, and possibly the artist's most accomplished and enjoyable disc to date.
	www.newburycomics.com /rel/v2_viewupc.php?storenr=103&upc=72435603872 (298 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Happiness in Magazines: Music: Graham Coxon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The good news about Happiness in Magazines, Coxon's fifth solo outing, is that now that his split from Blur appears permanent, he seems more relaxed about their legacy, which, after all, he helped build.
		'Happiness In Magazines' is Coxon's fifth studio album (after 2002's 'The Kiss Of Morning').
		Happiness In Magazines, Coxon's fifth release, is a bold step into the mainstream.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Happiness-Magazines-Graham-Coxon/dp/B0001KZM48 (1658 words)

	Graham Coxon: Happiness in Magazines - PopMatters Music Review
		Happiness in Magazines also contains a few of introspective ballads (with string accompaniment), and "All Over Me" is really quite nice, but this record is most enjoyable when Coxon's guitar playing is at the fore.
		Off the drink and now happier, he says, than he's been in years, Coxon's enthusiasm on this record is also winning and can be felt throughout its 13 tracks.
		The drastic stylistic range of Happiness in Magazines can be jarring and uneven at times, but what's most unfortunate is that this is yet another quality British import that will probably die a horrible death stateside.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/c/coxongraham-happiness.shtml (746 words)

	Happiness in Magazines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Happiness in Magazines is the fifth solo album by Graham Coxon.
		It was produced by Stephen Street who also produced Blur's first five albums and is Coxon's most commercially-successful album to date.
		Happiness in Magazines reached 19 in the UK Albums chart.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Happiness_in_Magazines (232 words)

	HMV.co.uk: albums: Happiness In Magazines (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		‘Happiness In Magazines’ is the best album associated with Blur since 'Parklife'.
		The highlights are numerous, not least on ‘No Good Time’ which takes the wayward structure of Pavement to a new level of brilliance, ‘People Of The Earth’, a spluttering blast of dirty rock and ‘Bottom Bunk’, which is total Blur (minus the other three).
		‘Happiness In Magazines’ is Coxon’s answer to all those who claim that he’ll rejoin his former band (listen up Damon) — a resounding, NO. On this evidence he doesn’t need the input of others to produce truly magical music.
	www.hmv.co.uk /hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=93;-1;-1;-1&sku=181199 (251 words)

	Graham Coxon - Happiness In Magazines : album review
		Happiness In Magazines is his latest effort in a prolific spell of songwriting stretching all the way back to 2000's The Sky Is Too High.
		As it turns out, the producer of Happiness In Magazines is no other than Stephen Street, who was responsible for Parklife and The Great Escape, arguably Blur's finest moments back in the day.
		Happiness In Magazines is all too happy to meander down familiar roads, which isn't necessarily a bad thing - it remains a friendly and entertaining prospect, easy to get into and immediately rewarding.
	www.musicomh.com /albums2/graham-coxon-2.htm (454 words)

	Happiness In Magazines - Graham Coxon - Pandora Internet Radio
		Blur continued down the willfully messy indie path with Think Tank, obscuring their songs with meandering arrangements, but Coxon's own contrarian instincts set in when he cut his fifth solo album in 2003: he turned back to guitar pop.
		He reunited with Stephen Street, who produced Blur's best albums, but retained much of the rough-hewn D.I.Y. feel of his solo projects for Happiness in Magazines, and the result is a wonderful fusion of ragged invention and sharp, tuneful songwriting.
		And that's why Happiness in Magazines feels like Coxon's first true solo album -- it's the first to present a complex, robust portrait of him as an artist, and the first that holds its own next to what he accomplished in Blur.
	www.pandora.com /music/album/4d6d62bee16712b5 (364 words)

	Amazon.com: Happiness in Magazines: Music: Graham Coxon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		It might be sad, it might not, but the best Blur album since 'Parklife' is probably Graham Coxon's new album 'Happiness in Magazines.' It's a guitar frenzy of 3 minute pop songs that make his contributions to Blur extraordinarily obvious--he wasn't just guitar riffs, he was also melody and movement.
		Happiness In Magazines is without question Graham Coxon's best album yet, and shows him writing songs that sound similar to the work he did while in Blur.
		Happiness In Magazines is one of the best albums i've heard in a long time, and I can't wait to hear what Coxon does next.
	www.amazon.com /Happiness-Magazines-Graham-Coxon/dp/B0001KZM48 (1473 words)

	Hour.ca - Music - Spin - Happiness in Magazines - Graham Coxon
		However, Happiness in Magazines - Coxon's fifth solo effort, with long-time Blur producer Stephen Street - sees him continuing to fly the flag of Blur's best, most mature later albums.
		Like Johnny Marr before him, what made Coxon so great was his willingness to take a backseat to his charismatic frontman.
		Coxon began making solo records long before he left Blur; Happiness in Magazines is his fifth.
	www.hour.ca /music/spin.aspx?iIDDisque=2301 (434 words)

	Happiness in magazines « Binky The Doormat
		Last month the feature interview was with Peaches, who has a bad name-dropping problem which I’m willing to forgive because sometimes she produces songs as good as “Kick It”.
		Q - Probably not the best music magazine around, but I can’t seem to stop myself from buying it, even if it does have a picture of Madonna at her most grotesque on the cover.
		I quite like Filter, when I can get a copy, it takes a bit of effort getting past the whole american-indie-hipster vibe, but a magazine with TV on The Radio as their cover stars has to be good.
	binkythedoormat.wordpress.com /2006/07/01/happiness-in-magazines (892 words)

	Cincinnati CityBeat : 01/19/2005 : Short Takes
		Listening to former Blur guitarist Graham Coxon's solo work is like listening to the first post-Beatles solo albums: You want to give them a chance on their own merit, but it takes some adjusting to completely forget their storied pasts.
		Happiness in Magazines shows just how vital the guitarist was in Blur's seminal BritPop sound, particularly on the band's self-titled "rebirth" album and the ones that followed.
		But a few more spins and it's clear that Coxon came out better in the end, as Happiness retains Blur's more fulfilling adventurousness mixed with a slanted but accessible melodic sensibility that is more often than not captivating.
	www.citybeat.com /2005-01-19/musicshorttakes.shtml (779 words)

	Happiness in Magazines - Graham Coxon - Music Records Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Happiness in Magazines - Graham Coxon : There Is Life After Blur
		During the mid to late 90’s Blur were one of the bands of the moment.
		Mehr bei dooyoo Deutschland: Happiness in Magazines - Graham Coxon © 2000-2006 dooyoo AG Register
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /music-records/happiness-in-magazines-graham-coxon (315 words)

	Y2K4: Graham Coxon - Happiness In Magazines @ Blogcritics.org
		And it shows: Happiness In Magazines is a quantum leap forward from his previous offering, Kiss Of The Morning.
		Happiness In Magazines is overflowing with the kind of punky gems Blur no longer seem capable of, or interested in, making.
		Blogcritics is an online magazine, a community of writers and readers from around the globe.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2004/12/06/161829.php (740 words)

	Graham Coxon: Happiness in Magazines Aversion.com Review
		But this time out, Happiness in Magazines sets Coxon free from all the ties to his former band that always overshadowed his solo career.
		Sure, his lyrics border on stupid (“Spectacular” adores a distant supermodel, while the lost-love misery of “Are You Happy” only works if you don’t pay attention to Coxon’s celebration of clichés), but Happiness in Magazines is more about the thrill of unbridled pop than college-kid song craft.
		Happiness in Magazines is what we might have been left with if punk’s noisy and fiercely independent aesthetic were allowed to bloom free of all the hype that surrounded its early years.
	www.aversion.com /bands/reviews.cfm?f_id=1944 (572 words)

	Graham Coxon - Happiness in Magazines - Review - Stylus Magazine
		It's fantastic, but you never notice it on the surface because, like Johnny Marr before him, what made Coxon so great was his willingness to take a backseat to his charismatic frontman.
		Happiness opens amiably enough, lead single "Spectacular" announcing itself via Coxon's immediately-recognisable jagged guitar chords, but the song itself is pretty forgettable.
		The rest of the record basically sounds like the filler cuts on a classic Blur album: good enough in context, but not really strong enough to stand on their own.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /reviews/graham-coxon/happiness-in-magazines.htm (821 words)

	Cokemachineglow.com - Graham Coxon: Happiness in Magazines
		It’s hard to call it a bad album, it’s just feels like such a throwaway from a guy who was central to some of the best Brit-pop albums of the '90s (though arguably Brit-pop in and of itself was never meant to be taken very seriously).
		Listening to it with out paying much attention it seems pretty harmless, but once you start listening in you start to notice the ancient melodies (“Bittersweet Bundle of Memories” being the most atrocious) and terrible lyrics (“All Over Me” seems to be about Coxon falling down in the shower).
		Still, it’s probably not meant to be listened to all that closely: at its heart Happiness in Magazines isn’t meant to be much more than a fun, feel-good pop record.
	www.cokemachineglow.com /reviews/coxen_magazine2004.html (383 words)

	Graham Coxon, Happiness In Magazines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		While his former group may have mastered the art of catchy guitar pop, their influence on Coxon is still clear.
		'Happiness in Magazines' however is a punk-tinged pop album for a specific audience.
		Graham Coxon's shoulder, 'Happiness in Magazines' is a catchy pop album.
	www.undercover.com.au /reviews/urgrahamcoxonhappinessinmagazines.html (282 words)

	Graham Coxon - Happiness In Magazines - Review - Uncut.co.uk
		After two wobbly efforts, Coxon's third and fourth solo albums saw him emerge as an unlikely heir to the Syd Barrett/Nick Drake lineage of fragile folk eccentrics.
		Happiness In Magazines has its poignant moments, but otherwise this is Coffee And TV: The Album—exactly the kind of perky, hook-heavy riff-fest Blur diehards always hoped he'd muster.
		Maybe I am justed pissed off that, as I live in Vancouver, Canada, I had to buy "Happiness in Magazines" at the local Virgin Megastore, which after taxes ended up costing $35.00.
	www.uncut.co.uk /music/graham_coxon/reviews/8014 (291 words)

	HAPPINESS IN MAGAZINES - COXON, GRAHAM - - Transcopic Records - -
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		‘Happiness…’ demonstrates Coxon’s 70s punk influences and there is much scope for the kind of axe-wielding that Damon Albarn would surely have clamped down upon in the past.
		Then again, this is not a Blur record, and that is not, it is fair to say, necessarily a bad thing.
	www.whisperinandhollerin.com /reviews/review.asp?id=1369 (338 words)

	Graham Coxon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The album proved to be his most accessible to date and was promoted with the single "Escape Song" which proved to be an interesting hybrid of Syd Barrett's "Octopus" and progressive rock trail-blazers The Nice.
		In 2004, Coxon released his fifth solo album Happiness in Magazines, produced by ex-Blur and The Smiths producer Stephen Street.
		This proved to be his most successful album to date, and he received the NME Award for 'Best Solo Artist' in 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Graham_Coxon (975 words)

	Splendid Magazine reviews Graham Coxon: Happiness In Magazines
		Coxon may as well have changed his last name to Parker for Happiness in Magazines -- it's a blinding sprint through an uncharacteristically joyous batch of new-wave pop songs, crammed with snarky one-liners and the kind of buzzbomb guitars that made Blur such a rousing success.
		Whether he's reveling in the string-soaked prettiness of "All Over Me" or going bonzo-pop mad on the aptly titled "Freakin' Out" and "Right to Pop!", Coxon's effortless cool comes to the fore, imbuing each song with a wiry, infectious energy.
		If Happiness in Magazines is anything to go on, look for droves of rock/pop stars to follow Coxon's suit, drying out like knickers on the wash line and praying that it brings them a second shot at the spotlight.
	www.splendidezine.com /review.html?reviewid=1107514414737639 (338 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| \| Graham Coxon
		However, the rampaging Freakin' Out single is not the only sign that the recovered Coxon is now matching anything he did in Blur.
		Coxon is here previewing May's Happiness in Magazines album (working title: No More Mr Lo-Fi), which casts his own tailspin against modern daily life.
		Albarn may wonder how his band managed to lose the creator of such sublime pop as Bittersweet Bundle of Misery, but Coxon seems happier tackling success on his terms.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /reviews/story/0,11712,1169267,00.html (338 words)

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