Happiness in Magazines was produced by Stephen Street, accompanied by engineer Cenzo Townshend.

[1] Alongside Coxon, other musicians contributed to the recordings: organ and piano on "Bittersweet Bundle of Misery", "All Over Me", "Hopeless Friend", "Are You Ready?

", "Bottom Bunk", and "Ribbons and Leaves" by Louis Vause; backing vocals on "Bittersweet Bundle of Misery" and "Don't Be a Stranger", and marimba on "Don't Be a Stranger" by Angie Pollock; strings on "All Over Me", "Hopeless Friend", and "Are You Ready?"

by the Duke Street Quartet; French horns on "Ribbons and Leaves" by Marcus Bates, Pip Eastop, and Phillip Woods.

John Metcalf arranged the strings and horns parts that the Duke Street Quartet, Bates, Eastop, and Woods played.