Happy Mondays - Squirrel And G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out)

Squirrel And G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out) is the debut studio album by British rock band Happy Mondays, originally released in April 1987 via Factory Records.

Drawing influence from funk, house, and psychedelia, Happy Mondays work bridged the Manchester independent rock music of the 1980s and the emerging UK rave scene.

Squirrel And G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out) features many characteristics that would be further developed on the band's second LP Bummed, such as Shaun Ryder's seemingly nonsensical lyrics combined with funk rhythms.

The album was originally released without the track ‘24 Hour Party People’. In its place was a track entitled ‘Desmond’, which borrowed heavily from ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’ by The Beatles. A few hundred copies of the album were released with the ‘Desmond’ track, but the usage was not cleared and Michael Jackson, then-owner of The Beatles' back catalogue, forced the removal of the track from future pressings, with ‘24 Hour Party People’ taking its place.

This limited LP record is on 180 gram heavyweight black vinyl with a printed inner sleeve and digital download code, reissued in January 2020 via London Records.