Thank You Happy Birthday
Cage the Elephant
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Always Something | Cage the Elephant | 3:41 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Aberdeen | Cage the Elephant | 3:12 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Indy Kidz | Cage the Elephant | 5:02 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Shake Me Down | Cage the Elephant | 3:31 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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2024 | Cage the Elephant | 3:10 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Sell Yourself | Cage the Elephant | 2:11 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Rubber Ball | Cage the Elephant | 3:47 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Right Before My Eyes | Cage the Elephant | 3:14 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Around My Head | Cage the Elephant | 3:11 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Sabertooth Tiger | Cage the Elephant | 2:51 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Japanese Buffalo | Cage the Elephant | 3:03 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Flow | Cage the Elephant | 7:43 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
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iTunes Review
On their sophomore LP, Cage the Elephant snarl, flail and smash their way through a brace of heavy yet bouncy tracks before coming to an uneasy resting place at the album’s end. Like Kentucky-bred quintet’s debut offering, Thank You Happy Birthday owes an obvious debt to the Pixies; singer Matt Shultz’s fearsome yelps come directly from Black Francis’ manic playbook. Beyond this, the band stakes out its own territory thanks to a self-aware lyric sensibility, violent-to-delicate guitar riffage and a bipolar sense of dynamics. Schulz and his cohorts pull back from the brink of chaos by emphasizing hyper-catchy chorus hooks on tracks like “Around My Head,” “Aberdeen” and “Shake Me Down.” Dollops of speed-metal (“2024”), faux-mellow pop (“Rubber Ball”) and surf guitar-rock (”Indy Kidz”) keep the listener from getting comfortable, setting things up for the closing number “Flow,” a simmering tribal stoner jam. Shultz’s bratty, taunting vocal spews are as much directed at his own rock-star pretensions as the stupidities of the world around him.
Customer Reviews
OK.....
First of all im gonna say that this album is a blend of 2 genres. it is psychedelic rock album/ alternative album if that makes sense. here is what i would seperate this album into if they were 2 different albums.
alternative:
1:Aberdeen
2:Shake Me Down
3:2024
4:Rubber Ball
5:Right Before My Eyes
6:Japanese Buffalo
7:Flow
Psychedelic rock
1:Always something
2:Indy Kids
3:2024
4:Sell Yourself
5:Sabertooth Tiger
So if you guys like only hard rock you just might want to get those 5 songs... but if you guys just like alternative you might just want those 7 songs, but if you guys are like me you would buy the entire album!!!!!
A new standard for modern rock
Cage the Elephant's debut album was without a doubt one of the greatest entries in the rock genre in recent years. Their sound was unmistakable among all the other bands heard on the radio. CAGE THE ELEPHANT is still one of my favorite rock albums ever.
Now, how could the dudes from Kentucky possibly up the ante? Well the answer is THANK YOU HAPPY BIRTHDAY. At first, this album may be a little overwhelming, and you may think that you don’t like it. But you have to let it grow on you. Listen to this album. Really listen to it. Play it in the car, in the gym, on your lunch break, and all over your house. This record is unbelievably good. Every song carries the essence of the insanity of the first album in some way. Songs like “Sell Yourself” and “Sabertooth Tiger” are ideal examples of the bands tendency for intensity. One of my favorite characteristics of THANK YOU HAPPY BIRTHDAY is the epic variety. Songs like “2024,” “Shake Me Down,” and “Aberdeen” show us a new, different side of Cage the Elephant that is extremely good. The album’s slower songs (“Rubber Ball” and “Right Before My Eyes”) really showcase Matt’s vocal talent.
Overall this album is nearly perfect, and almost every song could be a great single. Cage the Elephant has even given a whole new meaning to “ooo’s” and “ahh’s.” I couldn’t be more satisfied with the lyrical and musical ability of these guys. THANK YOU HAPPY BIRTHDAY is not just the album to beat in 2011, but a new standard for modern rock.
Cage
The only good thing about iTunes is gettin the album 2 hours before its supposed to come out.
Biography
Formed: Bowling Green, KY
Genre: Alternative
Years Active: '00s, '10s
Top Albums and Songs By Cage the Elephant
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Ain't No Rest for the Wicked | Cage the Elephant | 2:55 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Shake Me Down | Thank You Happy Birthday | 3:31 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Back Against the Wall | Cage the Elephant | 3:48 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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In One Ear | Cage the Elephant | 4:01 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Aberdeen | Thank You Happy Birthday | 3:12 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Around My Head | Thank You Happy Birthday | 3:11 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Soil to the Sun | Cage the Elephant | 3:17 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Back Stabbin' Betty | Cage the Elephant | 3:39 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Back Against the Wall | Back Against the Wall - Single | 3:48 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Judas | Cage the Elephant | 3:26 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
- $9.99
- Genres: Alternative, Music, Rock, Adult Alternative, Indie Rock
- Released: Jan 11, 2011
- ℗ 2010 JIVE Records, a unit of Sony Music Entertaiment
