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 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 12 Songs |
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
Different
To me, I find it alot different from their first album. Personally I enjoyed the edgyness (not a word?) of the lyrics and the instrumental. This album is very toned down in this sense and moves in a very different direction, one that personally i dont like too much. Its a good album but a few songs like Indy Kidz just seem random. I bet they have an underlying meaning but as a first impression im a little disappointed, but hey, you cant please everyone
New album
Personally, I like this album way better than their last. Just my opinion but this is more my thing. The last one I honestly found some of the songs a little annoying, Ain't No Rest For The Wicked for example, got on my nerves. This one I can listen to over and over.
Held up to their standard
In their debut self titled album "Cage the Elephant" Cage the Elephant set an extremely high bar for their later works. I knew this album was not going to reach that bar, but it came very close. I had my doubts about if it was going to stray too far from their first album when "Shake Me Down" was released, but it managed to give off the same vibe as the original and feel different at the same time.
Biography
Formed: Bowling Green, KY
Genre: Alternative
Years Active: '00s, '10s
Top Albums and Songs By Cage the Elephant
![Back Against the Wall [Digital 45], Cage the Elephant](http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/031/Music/2f/4f/1f/mzi.qxivnzxv.100x100-75.jpg)
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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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Always Something | Thank You Happy Birthday | 3:41 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Back Against the Wall | Back Against the Wall [Digital 45] | 3:48 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Soil to the Sun | Cage the Elephant | 3:17 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Back Stabbin' Betty | Cage the Elephant | 3:38 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
- $9.99
- Genres: Alternative, Music, Rock, Adult Alternative, Indie Rock
- Released: Jan 11, 2011
- ℗ 2011 DSP Entertainment Under Exclusive License to Universal Music Canada Inc
