This sing along-friendly track is the lead single from American rock band Cage the Elephant's second album, Thank You, Happy Birthday. The song was made available to radio stations on November 17, 2010 and released on November 22, 2010.
The song features Cage The Elephant percussionist Jared Champion playing on a set of toy drums.
Thank You, Happy Birthday was recorded in spring 2009 at Nashville's Tragedy/Tragedy Studio with producer Jay Joyce, who was also the man behind the boards for Cage the Elephant's eponymous debut record. The songs were written by the band after they locked themselves away in a remote Kentucky cabin, listened to and discovered old albums from the Pixies, Mudhoney and Butthole Surfers, and studied interviews with songwriting greats like Bob Dylan and John Lennon. Cage the Elephant's Matt Shultz explained to Spinner: "We initially were living in England and came up with 80 song ideas, some complete, some not. We started working on the second record and basically scratched all those ideas. There were a lot of things happening at that time; personal growth and growth as a band. We ended up renting some cabins at a lake in Kentucky and isolated ourselves in the middle of winter. No cell phone reception - it kind of felt like Survivor."
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