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{{Infobox album
| name       = Happiness... Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Our Lady Peace]]
| cover      = Happiness...IsNotAFishThatYouCanCatch.jpg
| alt        = An old man standing on a sandy beach wearing a black suit and bowler derby stands holding an orange-pink fish in both hands. He stares at the audience with a puzzled look on his face.
| released   = September 21, 1999
| recorded   = January–June 1999
| venue      =
| studio     = Arnyard ([[Toronto]])
| genre      = {{hlist|[[Alternative rock]]|[[art rock]]|{{nowrap|[[post-grunge]]}}}}
| length     = 43:23
| label      = [[Columbia Records|Columbia]]
| producer   = [[Arnold Lanni]]
| prev_title = [[Clumsy (Our Lady Peace album)|Clumsy]]
| prev_year  = 1997
| next_title = [[Spiritual Machines]]
| next_year  = 2000
| misc       = {{Singles
 | name        = Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = [[One Man Army (song)|One Man Army]]
 | single1date = July 30, 1999
 | single2     = [[Is Anybody Home?]]
 | single2date = January 10, 2000
 | single3     = [[Thief (Our Lady Peace song)|Thief]]
 | single3date = March 21, 2000
}}
}}

'''''Happiness... Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch''''' (written as simply '''''Happiness...''''' on the cover) is the third studio album by Canadian [[alternative rock]] band [[Our Lady Peace]]. It was released on September 21, 1999, by [[Columbia Records]]. The album was very successful in Canada, debuting at #1 on the [[Canadian Albums Chart]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.8436&type=1&interval=50&PHPSESSID=c6btf3r8hs459qqt5ln3o3dcv5|title=Top Albums/CDs - Volume 69, No. 24, October 04 1999|magazine=[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]]|access-date=October 11, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019172006/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.8436&type=1&interval=50&PHPSESSID=c6btf3r8hs459qqt5ln3o3dcv5|archive-date=October 19, 2012|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> The album was certified 3× Platinum in July 2001.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cria.ca/gold/0701_g.php |title=Gold & Platinum Certification - July 2001 |publisher=[[Canadian Recording Industry Association]] |access-date=October 11, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706174619/http://www.cria.ca/gold/0701_g.php |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Hit singles from the album include "[[One Man Army (song)|One Man Army]]", "[[Is Anybody Home?]]", and "[[Thief (Our Lady Peace song)|Thief]]". The final track on the CD, "Stealing Babies", features [[Elvin Jones]], a prominent [[post-bop]] jazz drummer. The photo shoot for this album took place around [[Staten Island]] in [[New York State]].

==Background==
In early 1998, while touring behind their sophomore album ''[[Clumsy (Our Lady Peace album)|Clumsy]]'', the members of Our Lady Peace were already eager to get back into the studio. "We're all starting to get that itch," bass player [[Duncan Coutts]] said in a March 1998 interview. "We're all writing collectively and individually. Everyone's hovered over their four-track machines, if we're not trying to work things out in sound checks."<ref>Anon. "{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20060116165104/http://www.ourladypeace.cc/articles/1998/Articles1998-March22-PauseandPlay.htm Our Lady Peace trips over the success of 'Clumsy']}}" ''Pause and Play'' March 22, 1998. Retrieved March 6, 2010</ref>

Mike Turner and Raine Maida said in interviews at the time that they wanted to make an album that didn't sound derivative, an accusation that had stung them in the past. [[Smashing Pumpkins]] leader [[Billy Corgan]] infamously accused them of ripping off his band's sound. They would try to counter the criticisms with their next album. "We've toured so much for the last five years throughout the U.S. and Canada and with all the bands we've played with . . . music became so diluted and so disposable we said: 'If we're going to make a record, let's put out something that maybe challenges people.'" <ref name=Powell>Powell, Betsy "Our Lady Peace angling for U.S. Breakthrough" - ''[[Toronto Star]]'' September 20, 1999. Retrieved November 30, 2009</ref>

According to Raine Maida, the overall idea of the album is human obsession, "A lot of this record came from obsessions: Definitely seeing those obsessions in the States, the guns, the Gap ads and how the media determines who you are these days.... During the recording of this record, we talked a lot about death, for whatever reason. There's definitely an obsession with death and a huge fear. But in knowing that, it makes you hate these other things more, because it's not what life's about. Buying Tommy Hilfinger (sic) because it's cool has nothing to do with any kind of emotional value or content, and music for me does. So when they hit each other, I get pretty emotional about it."<ref>Ross, Mike "{{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20120710034550/http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/O/Our_Lady_Peace/1999/09/20/748525.html Restless in Peace: Don't ask Raine Maida how he is. He'll tell you!]}}" - ''Canoe.ca'' 1999. Retrieved June 17, 2009</ref>

==Recording==
For their third studio album, Our Lady Peace chose again to work with producer [[Arnold Lanni]] in [[Toronto]]. The band began writing, jamming and recording demos for ''Happiness...'' in late November soon after their appearance at the 1998 [[Our Lady Peace#Summersault festivals|Summersault]] festival.<ref>Bliss, Karen "{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110706215952/http://www.ourladypeace.cc/articles/1998/Articles1998-Nov25-Canoe.htm Our Lady Peace writing next album]}}" - ''Chart'' November 25, 1998. Retrieved November 30, 2009</ref> Raine brought in many of the songs he had written in demo form already recorded and the rest of the band expanded upon those.<ref name="Canadian Musician"/> Unlike the previous two albums, Mike Turner took little part in the writing process. Recording began in mid-January 1999. The band isolated themselves in the studio with little outside contact. They spent one and a half months recording the bed tracks of vocals and guitar and a week and a half each for drum and bass parts. The album took four months to record in all.<ref name="Canadian Musician"/> For the first time, this album was recorded entirely on digital equipment using [[ProTools]] to edit. "It's the best thing for us because you don't have to wait between takes like if I'm doing a vocal take or Jeremy's doing drum stuff, if you want to do it again, you can do it instantaneously."<ref name="Canadian Musician"/> Other new effects the band used included filtering percussion through a distortion box and recording guitar parts through antique [[microphones]], including one used by [[Stevie Wonder]].<ref name="Canadian Musician"/>

Former drummer for [[John Coltrane]], [[Elvin Jones]] makes a guest appearance on the final track of the album "Stealing Babies". Jeremy Taggart was a big fan of Jones' and was able to meet him through his drum technician while at a show in [[Seattle]].<ref>Blain, Craig "{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110706215959/http://www.ourladypeace.cc/articles/2000/Articles-2000ModernDrummer.pdf Our lady Peace's Jeremy Taggart  on Drum Sounds and hangin' with Elvin]}}" - ''[[Modern Drummer]]'' Jul. 2000. Retrieved November 30, 2009</ref> He invited Jones' into the Toronto studio early into the recording sessions to record drums for the song, which were recorded in one take.<ref name="Canadian Musician"/>

Halfway through recording, the band realized that the music they were recording would be very hard to recreate live, especially for Mike Turner.<ref>Campbell, Greg "{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110706220006/http://www.ourladypeace.cc/articles/2000/Articles-2000WinterSpring-Extreme-Page1.pdf Our Lady Peace]}}" - ''Extreme (magazine)'' Winter - Spring 2000. Retrieved November 30, 2009</ref> They decided to hire [[Boston]] area multi-instrumentalist Jamie Edwards, who had formerly played with [[Blue Man Group]] and that Jeremy knew through a mutual friend, to augment their live shows. "The turning point was when we decided to take off the table our usual constraint, which is that if we can't pull it off as a three-piece instrumental then we shouldn't be doing it," said Mike Turner. "Now we're like, we'll get another guy, we'll do whatever we have to, let's just make a great record. So we indulged ourselves with a lot of textures, a lot of other sounds."<ref>Ostroff, Joshua "{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110706215943/http://www.ourladypeace.cc/articles/1999/Articles1999-Sept20-OttawaSun.htm Give Peace a Chance: Canuck Rockers' Third Album Reflects Today's Troubled Times]}}" - ''[[Ottawa Sun]]'' September 20, 1999. Retrieved November 30, 2009</ref> Jamie provided extra guitar as well as [[Keyboard instrument|Keyboards]] and other special effects and ended up recording for the album. The band was looking to make a sonic leap forward from their previous albums. "We took the things we thought were original from 'Clumsy' and 'Naveed' and tried to overdo them." said Raine Maida, "As well, our songwriting really improved."<ref>LeBlanc, Larry "{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110706215739/http://www.ourladypeace.cc/articles/1999/Articles-1999Sep-Billboard.pdf Happiness is Third Columbia Set from Canada's Our Lady Peace]}}" - ''[[Billboard Magazine]]'' September 11, 1999. Retrieved November 30, 2009</ref>

Raine Maida has stated that the album is so tight and so well executed because the band only recorded 12 songs during the Happiness sessions, instead of recording 20 or more like they did with their previous two albums.<ref name="Canadian Musician"/> They strove to achieve a much simpler method of songwriting than on the previous albums which included tightening up songs and forming more cohesive tracks.<ref name="Canadian Musician">Anon. "Our Lady Peace" - ''Canadian Musician'' Dec. - Nov. 1999. Retrieved November 30, 2009</ref> This allowed each song to have the utmost attention given to it while being written and it sometimes took one week or more to record one song.<ref name="Chat">"{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110706215939/http://www.ourladypeace.cc/articles/1999/Articles1999-Sept13-OLPcom.htm Ourladypeace.com chat transcription]}}" - OurLadyPeace.com September 13, 1999. Retrieved November 30, 2009</ref> "Annie" for example, took over two weeks of jam sessions to become a fully realized song.<ref name="Canadian Musician"/>

This was the first album of theirs to not be ''mixed'' by their producer [[Arnold Lanni]]. It was instead sent to [[Kevin Shirley]] at [[Avatar Studios]] in [[New York City]]. The mixing of the album was completed by late June 1999 when they played many of the songs for the first time for a large audience at [[Woodstock 1999]].<ref>Fischer, Blair R. "{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110706215742/http://www.ourladypeace.cc/articles/1999/Articles1999-May26-Rollingstone.htm Our Lady Peace Return with 'Happiness...Is Not a Fish You Can Catch']}}" - ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' May 26, 1999. Retrieved September 21, 2009.</ref>

==Release and reception==
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="Erlewine">{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r431352|pure_url=yes}}|title=Our Lady Peace — ''Happiness... Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch''|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|date=|work=[[AllMusic]]|accessdate=February 27, 2010}}</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
|rev2score = C+<ref name="EW">{{cite web |url=https://ew.com/article/1999/10/15/happinessis-not-fish-you-can-catch/ |title=''Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch'' - Our Lady Peace |last=Morgan |first=Laura |date=October 15, 1999 |work=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=March 6, 2010 |archive-date=June 9, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090609112448/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,271156,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|rev3 = ''[[Richmond Times-Dispatch]]''
|rev3Score = B−<ref name="blah">{{cite web|url=|title=Vocalist on 'Fish' Needs Reeling In|last=Fountain|first=Lee Buckley|date=October 21, 1999|work=Richmond Times-Dispatch}}</ref>
|rev4 = ''[[San Antonio Express-News]]''
|rev4score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref name="quick">{{cite web|url=|title=Quickspins|last=|first=|date=November 3, 1999|work=San Antonio Express-News}}</ref>
|rev5 = Sputnikmusic
|rev5score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="Stagno">{{cite web|url=http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?albumid=5357|title=Our Lady Peace — ''Happiness... Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch''|last=Stagno|first=Mike|date=June 1, 2007|work=Sputnikmusic|accessdate=February 27, 2010}}</ref>
}}
To promote the upcoming release of their album in September, Our Lady Peace performed a live in-studio concert and Q&A which was aired to 12 Canadian radio stations simultaneously utilizing satellite and [[ISDN]] technology. Listeners to any of the stations could call in and ask the band members questions. On September 13, 1999, a special listening party was held on a newly redesigned ourladypeace.com where fans could listen to the entire album via streamlink. The band also held an online chat with fans for a Q & A session.<ref>"Our Lady Peace celebrates several firsts on eve of third album release. " Canada NewsWire  September 21, 1999, ProQuest Newsstand, ProQuest. Web. Retrieved September 28, 2010.</ref>

''Happiness...'' was released in Canada on September 21, 1999. The album was very successful in its first week, selling 40,090 copies and debuting at #1 on the Canadian Albums Chart.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/O/Our_Lady_Peace/1999/09/30/748522.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120714095716/http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/O/Our_Lady_Peace/1999/09/30/748522.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=July 14, 2012|title=Our Lady Peace skyrocket up the Cdn. charts|magazine=[[Jam!]]|access-date=March 1, 2011}}</ref>
 
Upon its release, ''Happiness...'' was panned by many critics who cited it as being over-ambitious and too dour in subject manner. In the band's hometown, [[Ben Rayner]], the reviewer of ''[[The Toronto Star]]'' said, "...there's something curiously unmoving and dispassionate about it - it's canned angst ordered from some overstocked and increasingly disused alt-rock warehouse outside of Seattle, too studious and sterile to ever really hit you the way rock 'n' roll is supposed to."<ref>[[Ben Rayner|Rayner, Ben]] "Strange how many people give Peace a chance Pop Recordings :[1 Edition]. " ''[[Toronto Star]]''  Sep. 18, 1999, ProQuest Newsstand, ProQuest. Web. Retrieved September 28, 2010.</ref> Leigh Buckley Fountain of the ''[[Richmond Times-Dispatch]]'' gave the album a B− and positively noted that, "The same catchy melodies, same distracted off-kilter rhythms dominate this album that dominated 1998's ''Clumsy''. but went on to criticize Maida's vocal performance as being "too experimental". He also had to say about the lyrical content, "One problem with the album is its typically vague, tangential lyrics. Critics have called Maida a "philosopher," but I'm not so sure I'd go all that far. I like what he does, but snippets out of the blue like "Nazis breast feeding" don't do much for me."<ref>Fountain, Lee Buckley "Vocalist on 'Fish' needs reeling in :[City Edition]. " ''[[Richmond Times-Dispatch]]'' Oct. 21, 1999, ProQuest Newsstand, ProQuest. Web. Retrieved September 28, 2010.</ref>

David Gerard of the ''[[Boston Globe]]'' praised the guitar playing from the album, especially on the song "Blister" and also noted how the band had expanded its musical turf.<ref>David Gerard.  "Our Lady Peace Happiness. . . Columbia  :[City Edition]. " ''[[Boston Globe]]''  Sep. 30, 1999, ProQuest Newsstand, ProQuest. Web. Retrieved September 28, 2010.</ref> Melissa Maino of ''[[The Buffalo News]]'' also reviewed the album positively, citing "Thief" as a stand-out track and saying that, "Our Lady Peace's music may be a little predictable, but if it's not broke, don't fix it."<ref>Maino, Melissa.  "Latest effort from Our Lady Peace is a good catch :[CITY Edition]. " ''[[Buffalo News]]''  Oct. 12, 1999, ProQuest Newsstand, ProQuest. Web. Retrieved September 28, 2010.</ref> In a 2.5 star review, the ''[[San Antonio Express-News]]'' praised the album for its high energy and subtle textures but criticized the vocals, saying "Raine Maida's overexposed falsetto is grating enough to send borderline psychotics over the edge."<ref name="quick"/>

==Music and lyrics==
The songs on ''Happiness...'' focus on a lighter melody, often following vocalist [[Raine Maida]]'s extreme range of octaves sung in a [[falsetto]]-like manner. He could travel from one octave to another with ease and very smoothly. This created a very surreal effect to the songs, best shown on songs like "Happiness & the Fish", "Blister" and "Lying Awake", much like "Big Dumb Rocket" from ''[[Clumsy (Our Lady Peace album)|Clumsy]]''. The overall sound was quite a departure from their first album, ''[[Naveed (album)|Naveed]]'', featuring very toned-down guitars and the addition of synthesizers and other instruments, typical in most [[alternative rock]] albums.

Raine explained the album's overall concept in an early 2000 interview with ''[[Vue Weekly]]'':<ref>Johnston, Dave "Let it Raine: Our Lady Peace continues their pursuit of Happiness" ''[[Vue Weekly]]'' February 3–9, 2000. Retrieved January 22, 2010</ref>

{{cquote|There was definitely a lot of talk around the studio about death and mortality and spirituality and trying to figure out what happens after this. That’s the one question we can’t answer, and it’s interesting. It’s obvious that it’s something that haunts me on a personal level, as I try to fall asleep in some hotel room alone somewhere. I’d rather try to figure it out now than do the typical ‘Turn 65 and try to find God because I’m afraid of dying’ business. I don’t think life should be like that. There has to be some attention to detail and substance throughout your life. The whole Happiness... thing stems from that. It’s about trying to find something in a superficial world that isn’t superficial.}}

The lyrics on the album are mostly written in the first-person. The lyrics are usually about unusual themes—laziness, isolation, loneliness and happiness, most explained in a metaphorical manner. The track "Lying Awake" was said to be about [[Benny Hinn]], and how Raine Maida viewed him as a con-artist, trying to scam people into religion.{{Citation needed|date=December 2007}} "Annie" is said to be about a girl who is made an outcast, and ends up killing everybody in the end, similar to [[Pearl Jam]]'s song "[[Jeremy (song)|Jeremy]]" on their debut album ''[[Ten (Pearl Jam album)|Ten]]''.{{Citation needed|date=December 2007}}

===Stealing Babies===
In an online chat in March 2001, Mike Turner revealed the inspiration for this song. "The song was inspired by a [[PBS]] documentary about a little girl named Eve that was diagnosed with [[AIDS]] when she was 6 years old. She went around the world and visited other kids with AIDS. Raine was so inspired. The song features [[John Coltrane]]’s drummer, Elvin Jones, who played on the album ''[[A Love Supreme]]''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20010819043041/http://www.ourladypeace.com/ChatTranscript03_19_01.html Chat Transcript] on archived web pages for ourladypeace.com. Retrieved September 19, 2009</ref>

==Tour==
Before their show at Woodstock in June, Our Lady Peace played a set of secret gigs in Muskoka and Toronto under the pseudonym Belly Flop Communist, at Jamie Edwards' suggestion. T-shirts were even made up and sold at the shows.<ref>Bliss, Karen "{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20100827112504/http://www.ourladypeace.cc/articles/1999/Articles-1999July-Record.pdf OLP Debuts New Tracks as Belly Flop Communist]}}" ''The Record'' Jul. 2000. Retrieved January 22, 2010</ref> While the shows were secret, the band divulged their true identity over the radio causing the shows to soon sell out.<ref>Bliss, Karen "{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20060117220800/http://www.ourladypeace.cc/articles/1999/Articles1999-July19-Canoe.htm Our Lady Peace play pseudo-secret gigs]}}" [[Canoe.ca]] July 19, 1999. Retrieved January 22, 2010</ref> Here, the band played many of the songs from ''Happiness'' for the very first time live. They played at Woodstock on July 25, 1999, where they played a 12 song set including six songs from the new album.

Soon after the release of ''Happiness...'' in September 1999 the band set off on a tour across the [[United States]] opening with [[Oleander (band)|Oleander]] for [[Creed (band)|Creed]].<ref name=Powell/><ref>Tarlach, Gemma "Our Lady Peace, like Creed, does it their way" ''[[The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel]]'' October 15, 1999. Retrieved January 22, 2010</ref> They did a short tour in Europe opening for [[The Stereophonics]] in December as well as in February 2000 back in Canada.<ref>Jennings, Nicholas "{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20060117223023/http://www.ourladypeace.cc/articles/1999/Articles-1999Dec-MacLeans.PDF Dark Optimism: Our Lady Peace Captivates with Smart, Moody Rock]}}" ''Macleans'' Dec. 1999. Retrieved January 22, 2010</ref> The cross-America tour continued into January 2000 before the band began their cross-Canadian headline tour dubbed "The World's a Blister Tour". They returned to the United States in the Spring to participate in multiple music festivals such as [[Pointfest]] in [[St. Louis, Missouri]], and [[The Florida SpringFest|SpringFest]] in [[Pensacola, Florida]].

During August 2000, the members of OLP organized the second [[Our Lady Peace#Summersault festivals|Summersault]] tour, where them and other Canadian and American bands including [[The Smashing Pumpkins]] and [[Foo Fighters]] toured together across Canada. Touring effectively ended after Summersault as the band had announced work for a brand new studio album, ''[[Spiritual Machines]]'' which they had been working on since before the festival and which would be completed and released in Canada before the end of the year.

==Track listing==
{{track listing
| total_length    = 43:23
| all_writing     = [[Raine Maida]], [[Arnold Lanni]], [[Jeremy Taggart]], [[Mike Turner (musician)|Mike Turner]], [[Duncan Coutts]]
| extra_column = Notes
| title1  = [[One Man Army (song)|One Man Army]]
| extra1  =
| length1 = 3:22
| title2  = Happiness & The Fish
| extra2  =
| length2 = 3:34
| title3  = Potato Girl
| extra3  =
| length3 = 4:27
| title4  = Blister
| extra4  =
| length4 = 3:57
| title5  = [[Is Anybody Home?]]
| extra5  =
| length5 = 3:37
| title6  = Waited
| extra6  =
| length6 = 3:32
| title7  = [[Thief (Our Lady Peace song)|Thief]]
| extra7  =
| length7 = 4:01
| title8  = Lying Awake
| extra8  =
| length8 = 4:02
| title9  = [[Annie (song)|Annie]]
| extra9  =
| length9 = 4:02
| title10  = Consequence of Laughing
| extra10  =
| length10 = 3:16
| title11  = Stealing Babies
| extra11  = featuring [[Elvin Jones]]
| length11 = 5:30
}}

===Japan Bonus tracks===
{{track listing
| extra_column = Notes
| title12      = [[The Needle and the Damage Done]]
| extra12      = 1994 [[Neil Young]] cover
| length12     = 3:44
| title13      = [[Clumsy (Our Lady Peace song)|Clumsy]]
| extra13      =
| length13     = 4:29
}}

==Personnel==
===Our Lady Peace===
*[[Raine Maida]] - [[vocals]]; [[acoustic guitar]], [[piano]]
*[[Mike Turner (musician)|Mike Turner]] - [[electric guitar]]
*Duncan Coutts - [[bass guitar]]
*[[Jeremy Taggart]] - [[drums]], [[percussion]]

===Other personnel===
*Jamie Edwards - [[Keyboard instrument|keyboards]], [[electric guitar]]
*[[Elvin Jones]] - [[drumkit|drums]] on "Stealing Babies"

== Year-end charts ==
{|class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|-
!scope="col"|Chart (2000)
!scope="col"|Position
|-
! scope="row"|Canadian Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)<ref>{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040812032100/http://www.jamshowbiz.com/JamMusicCharts/2000_1.html|archivedate=August 12, 2004|url=http://www.jamshowbiz.com/JamMusicCharts/2000_1.html|title=Canada's Top 200 Albums of 2000|website=[[Jam!]]|accessdate=March 24, 2022}}</ref>
| 56
|}
{|class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
!scope="col"|Chart (2002)
!scope="col"|Position
|-
!scope="row"|Canadian Alternative Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)<ref>{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040902000408/http://www.jamshowbiz.com/JamMusicCharts/2002_alt2.html|archivedate=September 2, 2004|url=http://www.jamshowbiz.com/JamMusicCharts/2002_alt2.html|title=Canada's Top 200 Alternative albums of 2002|website=[[Jam!]]|accessdate=March 28, 2022}}</ref>
|align=center|171
|}

==Studio Outtakes==
# "Trapeze" - song taken from Clumsy sessions; live version available on internet
# "Ordinary/Ordinary Day" - Abandoned track from recording sessions for Happiness. The PPU Christmas 1998 video included clips of the band rehearsing this song; never released
# "Sleeping In" - Abandoned track from recording sessions for ''Clumsy''. The lyrics were published in the PPU Christmas 1998 newsletter; never released. A poor quality recording is available on [[YouTube]].

==Release history==
{|class="wikitable"
! Region
! Date
! Label
! Format
! Catalog
|-
|rowspan="1"| Canada
|rowspan="1"| September 21, 1999
|rowspan="3"| [[Columbia Records|Columbia]]
|rowspan="2"| CD/CS
|rowspan="2"| CK/T 63707
|-
|rowspan="2"| United States
|rowspan="2"| September 28, 1999
|-
|rowspan="1"| 2CD
|rowspan="1"| CK 63899
|-
|rowspan="1"| United Kingdom
|rowspan="1"| November 15, 1999
|rowspan="3"| [[Epic Records|Epic]]
|rowspan="3"| CD
|rowspan="2"| EPC 496098 2
|-
|Europe
|rowspan="2"| March 8, 2000
|-
|rowspan="1"| Japan
|rowspan="1"| ESCA 8108
|-
|rowspan="1"| Canada
|rowspan="2"| February 14, 2020
|rowspan="3"| Columbia
|rowspan="2"| LP
|rowspan="1"| 88985445601
|-
|}

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
*[http://www.rhapsody.com/our-lady-peace/happinessisnotafish ''Happiness... Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch'' lyrics]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} at [[Rhapsody (online music service)|Rhapsody]]

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