“Happy birthday, happy birthday...”
July 14, 2024 12:02 AM Subscribe
Happy Birthday, a 1981 song by Scottish band Altered Images, reached #2 in the UK singles chart. Altered Images also released "I could be happy", and "Don't talk to me about love", while lead singer Clare Grogan forged a career in film and TV, most notably in Gregory's Girl. Altered Images are still touring, playing in Worcestershire this summer alongside The Levellers, Holly Johnson, The Wurzels, David Essex, Bananarama and Jason Donovan.
Happy Birthday, a 1983 song by the Californian Weird Al Yankovic never reached the charts.
posted by not_on_display at 12:28 AM on July 14 [3 favorites]
posted by not_on_display at 12:28 AM on July 14 [3 favorites]
Great post as My birthday is this Tuesday, the 16th. Wish I was 16, but not - 56. Shout out to KROQ, 104.5 FM...how most in So. California were introduced to above band & song.in The 80s.!
posted by thomcatspike at 12:34 AM on July 14
posted by thomcatspike at 12:34 AM on July 14
This Is Just To Say
I have eaten
the cake
that was in
the freezer
and which
you were probably
saving
for MetaFilter's birthday
Forgive me
it was delicious
so sweet
and so cold
posted by chavenet at 12:58 AM on July 14 [10 favorites]
I have eaten
the cake
that was in
the freezer
and which
you were probably
saving
for MetaFilter's birthday
Forgive me
it was delicious
so sweet
and so cold
posted by chavenet at 12:58 AM on July 14 [10 favorites]
chavenet Your comment a poem or a haiku?As, You were fantastic in words here.
posted by thomcatspike at 2:12 AM on July 14 [2 favorites]
posted by thomcatspike at 2:12 AM on July 14 [2 favorites]
As long as we’re sharing birthday-themed 80s indie rock hits I feel honor-bound as an Icelander to share Ammæli, the Icelandic version of the Sugarcubes’ Birthday.
Til hamingju með 25 ára afmælið, MetaFilter!
posted by Kattullus at 2:36 AM on July 14 [4 favorites]
Til hamingju með 25 ára afmælið, MetaFilter!
posted by Kattullus at 2:36 AM on July 14 [4 favorites]
The fifteen year old me who had a wild schoolboy crush on Clare Grogan, would no doubt be delighted that his fifty something year old future self would not have changed his mind at all vis-a-vis 2024 Clare.
As with Clare, so with Metafilter. Happy Birthday indeed.
posted by rongorongo at 2:46 AM on July 14 [1 favorite]
As with Clare, so with Metafilter. Happy Birthday indeed.
posted by rongorongo at 2:46 AM on July 14 [1 favorite]
Thank You Kattullus to make the thread better. As shared another I-Conic band with the comments.
posted by thomcatspike at 2:47 AM on July 14 [2 favorites]
posted by thomcatspike at 2:47 AM on July 14 [2 favorites]
To MattHowie & Friends that placed a T1 server in a closet & thus began Us, MetaFilter...Happy Birthday to MetaFilter! TCS, Thank You All & take care.
posted by thomcatspike at 3:49 AM on July 14 [2 favorites]
posted by thomcatspike at 3:49 AM on July 14 [2 favorites]
I have a memory of this being the very first music video I ever saw, in (probably) January 1982, on HBO's Video Jukebox. It's not listed on this index of videos, but it must be one of the missing entries during that first month. (We subsequently got MTV as soon as it was available in suburban Illinois, undoubtedly due to my pleading.)
posted by mykescipark at 3:59 AM on July 14 [1 favorite]
posted by mykescipark at 3:59 AM on July 14 [1 favorite]
Ack, Old... All comments now share a link today. So also share Too!
posted by thomcatspike at 4:32 AM on July 14 [1 favorite]
posted by thomcatspike at 4:32 AM on July 14 [1 favorite]
Love this band! All three of these songs are on my current "taking the train to work" playlist.
posted by mydonkeybenjamin at 6:20 AM on July 14 [2 favorites]
posted by mydonkeybenjamin at 6:20 AM on July 14 [2 favorites]
Grogan was also the original Christine Kochanski in Red Dwarf (as C. P. Grogan) [slyt] (CW: it's 1980's era Red Dwarf, you do the math)
posted by zaixfeep at 9:04 AM on July 14 [2 favorites]
posted by zaixfeep at 9:04 AM on July 14 [2 favorites]
The late, great Laurie Lindeen also wrote a birthday song.
posted by whuppy at 9:30 AM on July 14 [1 favorite]
posted by whuppy at 9:30 AM on July 14 [1 favorite]
Happy Birthday is my favourite happy song. A fine band, and Gregory's Girl is the most perfect movie.
posted by scruss at 1:25 PM on July 14 [2 favorites]
posted by scruss at 1:25 PM on July 14 [2 favorites]
Altered Images’ Happy Birthday is usually in my bag when I go and DJ with records at a bar, in case someone’s bday it is and I can give them a thrill. Love them.
posted by wemayfreeze at 8:40 PM on July 14 [2 favorites]
posted by wemayfreeze at 8:40 PM on July 14 [2 favorites]
This always reminds me of Peep Show, where Mark visits Sophie's family for her birthday and they sing this instead of the Happy Birthday song.
posted by benoliver999 at 12:21 AM on July 15 [2 favorites]
posted by benoliver999 at 12:21 AM on July 15 [2 favorites]
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posted by terretu at 12:20 AM on July 14 [3 favorites]