Album Reviews


These reviews are sorted by album. To get to a review, click graphic by The Downward Node. Reviews with have been acquired in the past two weeks. If you have or know of other published reviews, please tell us. You can get a credit and and link if we use them. For copyright info, see The Rules.

Much of what these reviewers went on about were the lyrics. And now, by very popular demand, WE HAVE THE LYRICS! Click on each of the album covers below, and you'll be taken to the lyrics for the respective album. (Thanks so much to James in Prince George for his help transcribing the first 4 albums.)

If you want to buy any of these albums...ha! good luck! No, we're kidding - sort of. Check first through Yahoo Shopping. For a more complete discography of albums and singles by The Pursuit of Happiness, check out the TPOH listing of The Canadian Pop Encyclopedia on Canoe.

Love Junk / One Sided Story / The Downward Road / Where's the Bone
The Wonderful World of the Pursuit of Happiness


Click here for lyrics to Love Junk

Get this review! by Chris Dafoe, Globe and Mail, November 24, 1988

Get this review! Canadian Composer, December 1988 (et traduction française)

Get this review! by Steve Simels, Stereo Review, February 1989

Get this review! by Andy Hurt, Sounds, April, 8, 1989


Get this review! by Kerry Doole, Sound & Vision (Toronto), June 1990

Get this review! by Mark Lepage, Montreal Gazette, June 2, 1990

Get this review! by Steve Simels, Stereo Review, October 1990

Get this review! by Gavin Martin, NME, August 14, 1999

Get this review!Sounds, June 2, 1990

click here for the bio and lyrics in the Japanese pressing of One Sided Story!

Click here for lyrics to One-Sided Story

Click here for lyrics to The Downward Road

Get this review! by Stephen Ostick, Winnipeg Free Press, March 13, 1993

Get this review! by Nicholas Jennings, Maclean's, April 12, 1993

Get this review! by Scott Isler, Rolling Stone, June 10, 1993


Get this review! by Mark Lepage, Montreal Gazette, August 26, 1995

Get this review! by Amos Carlen, Shift, September/October, 1995

Click here for lyrics to Where's the Bone

click here for lyrics to The Wonderful World of The Pursuit of Happiness

Get this review! by Lisa Trainor, RPM, October 21, 1996

Get this review! What! A Magazine, November-December 1996

Get this review! by Peter J. Cullen, The Brunswickan, January 10, 1997


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