Happy Bivouac

Happy Bivouac (officially Happy Bivouac on the Hillary Step) is an album released by Japanese band the pillows on December 2, 1999. It marks the band's first record with Jun Suzuki on bass. The album was produced by Zin Yoshida of Salon Music. As with its predecessor Runners High, several songs from the album were used for the anime series FLCL.

Happy Bivouac
Studio album by
the pillows
ReleasedDecember 2, 1999
Studio
  • Aobadai Studio, Tokyo
  • Freedom Studio, Tokyo
Genre
Length42:46
LabelKing KICS-758
ProducerZin Yoshida
The pillows chronology
Runners High
(1999)		 Happy Bivouac
(1999)		 Fool on the Planet
(2001)
Singles from Happy Bivouac
  1. "Carnival"
    Released: July 28, 1999
  2. "Rush"
    Released: October 27, 1999

Happy Bivouac contains several references to the American band Pixies. Track 8 is named after Pixies bassist Kim Deal and at the end of "Back Seat Dog", the pillows can be heard singing the chorus of "Here Comes Your Man" from the album Doolittle.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Sawao Yamanaka[1].

No.TitleLength
1."Happy Bivouac"3:28
2."Rush"3:39
3."Last Dinosaur"3:44
4."Carnival"3:49
5."Our Love and Peace"4:10
6."Crazy Sunshine"4:07
7."Back Seat Dog"3:59
8."Kim Deal"4:12
9."Funny Bunny"3:37
10."Beautiful Morning With You"5:43
11."Advice"2:14
Total length:42:46

Personnel

the pillows

Additional musicians

References
  1. "Release "Happy Bivouac on the Hillari Step" by the pillows". MusicBrainz. Retrieved 2021-10-13. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  • Happy Bivouac Cover Insert


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