High on the Happy Side

High on the Happy Side
Studio album by
Wet Wet Wet
Released27 January 1992 (1992-01-27)[1]
Genre
Length45:19
LabelMercury
Producer
  • Wet Wet Wet
  • Albhy Galuten (co-producer)
  • Axel Kröll (co-producer)
Wet Wet Wet chronology
Wet Wet Wet: Live
(1990) 		High on the Happy Side
(1992) 		Wet Wet Wet: Live at the Royal Albert Hall
(1992)
Singles from High on the Happy Side
  1. "Make It Tonight"
    Released: 2 September 1991[6]
  2. "Put the Light On"
    Released: 21 October 1991[7]
  3. "Goodnight Girl"
    Released: 23 December 1991[8]
  4. "More Than Love"
    Released: 9 March 1992[9]
  5. "Lip Service"
    Released: 29 June 1992[10]
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[11]
NME1/10[12]

High on the Happy Side is the third studio album by Scottish quartet Wet Wet Wet. The album was released on 27 January 1992 and reached the top of the UK Albums Chart on 8 February. The release of the album was preceded by the singles "Make It Tonight", "Put the Light On" and "Goodnight Girl", and followed by two further singles, "More than Love" and "Lip Service".[13]

High on the Happy Side was released both a single album and as a double album with Cloak & Dagger, a covers album released under the pseudonym Maggie Pie & The Impostors. To accompany the album's release, a video compilation entitled The Story So Far, containing videos for singles from both High on the Happy Side and Holding Back the River, was made available on 24 March 1992.[14]

  1. ^ "New Releases: Albums". Music Week. 25 January 1992. p. 23.
  2. ^ "Wet Wet Wet: "We're all coming up to 50 now and no-one's died!"". Cambridge News. 31 July 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
  3. ^ "Wet Wet Wet tweet their thanks to Carlisle". ITV News. 5 August 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
  4. ^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2006). "Wet Wet Wet". Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-531373-4.
  5. ^ Mawer, Sharon. "Wet Wet Wet – Popped in Souled Out". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  6. ^ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. 31 August 1991. p. 19.
  7. ^ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. 19 October 1991. p. 19.
  8. ^ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. 21 December 1991. p. 25.
  9. ^ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. 7 March 1992. p. 17.
  10. ^ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. 27 June 1992. p. 21.
  11. ^ Allmusic review
  12. ^ Collins, Andrew (1 February 1992). "Long Play". New Musical Express. p. 29.
  13. ^ "Wet Wet Wet – High on the Happy Side". NZ Charts. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  14. ^ "Wet Wet Wet: High on the Happy Side - The Story So Far". Amazon. Retrieved 22 February 2019.