"Det Elektriske Barometer fylder 24 (The Electric Barometer turns 24)". "More Indie Rockers Visit Yo Gabba Gabba!". ^ Lapatine, Scott (24 September 2008).^ "British single certifications – Altered Images – Happy Birthday"."The Official Top 50 best-selling songs of 1981". London, England: The British Phonographic Industry Ltd. "The Top 200 Singles: January–December 1981". ^ " – Altered Images – Happy Birthday" (in German).^ "Altered Images: Artist Chart History".^ "South African Rock Lists Website – SA Charts 1969 – 1989 Acts (A)".^ " The Irish Charts – – Happy Birthday".Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (Illustrated ed.). : CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) ^ Happy Birthday (UK 7-inch single sleeve). Itoy espesyal na araw na tumatak sa iyong ina nang ikay pinanganak.Accordingly, the band chose Rushent to produce their next album, Pinky Blue (1982), in its entirety.ħ-inch single A. "Happy Birthday" is the only song on the album that was produced by Martin Rushent, who had already scored major success that year producing for the Human League and would win the Producer of the Year award for 1981 at the BPI Awards. Vu uses hip hop and rap to articulate his experience growing up in Queensland as an Asian Australian. It was the 15th-best-selling single in the UK in 1981 and has been certified silver by the BPI for sales in excess of 250,000 copies. The song entered the UK charts in September 1981 and peaked at number two the following month, holding that position for three weeks. Until then the child the child will just use its energy running "round and round the house".Īnd here I was thinking it was just a bit silly for ages." Happy Birthday" is a song by Scottish band Altered Images, released as a single from their 1981 album of the same name. Sensuous and rampaging, the primal hormones are there but "immaculate" - the realisation of them won't happen for several more years. I didn't understand this one till I learnt "fufu" was Australian slang for a vagina. For the time being the sword is just "metal".Īnd the dog chair? Sexuality. Stevie Wonder’s Happy Birthday is the kind of funky track that could (and should) replace the traditional birthday tune. What role will he play? The clearly set out attitudes to evil and good are becoming blurred to the child, they are beginning to subconsciously question defined roles which will come to the forefront in several years time. A "ninja sword" would put him in the position of assassin, a "samurai sword" would make him an honourable hero. The child receives a sword, this is both violent and phallic imagery and so follows several contradictions in the child's head. It is very basic and goes as follows: Bonne fête à toi. This final version is sung to the traditional birthday tune and is actually the québécois (Quebec) French Happy Birthday song. Proud and happy of their innocent child who is yet to hit adolescence. French Birthday Song 4: Bonne fête à toi. One year on the child is getting closer to puberty - "in 5 years he'll be shaving", this is something that sounds like the child's parents would say. It is simplified because the narrator is taking the perspective of the child, the stimuli it is interested in is the same as an adult's would be but as they are a child they lack the terminology and knowledge to elaborate. Treating a mode of transport this way is something that is often associated with adult's who are interested in cars. It is the scale and colour that stimulates the child, it is no longer the bike its self which surprises the child and makes them happy. The child at first receives a bike which is objectified and simplified to being "big" and "red". Something that could be childhood competiveness, adolescent vandalism or adult machismo. The initial lines contrast the image of childhood "ice-cream and jelly" with violent imagery "a punch in the belly", it then comes together with "how much can we throw over the walls?".
And like most of what Nick Cave writes it has references to sex and violence. I think the song is about the time just before the onset of puberty. It went woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, He'll remember this day for the rest of his life. Just think in five years he'll be shaving.