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Happy Birthday by Altered Images (CD, Jan-1991, Portrait) 
Happy Birthday by Altered Images (CD, Jan-1991, Portrait)
Release Date: Jan 1991
Format: CD
Record Label: Portrait
Genre: New Wave, Rock & Pop
UPC: 074643773829
Product ID: EPID3070404
Description: Altered Images: Clare Grogan (vocals); Johnny McElhone, Jim McKniven (guitar); Tony McDaid (bass); Michael "Tich" Anderson (drums). Although the title track (which became a large UK hit single) was produced by Martin Rushent, the majorit...
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Track Listing
1. Intro Happy Birthday
2. Love and Kisses
3. Real Toys
4. Idols
5. Legionaire
6. Faithless
7. Beckoning Strings
8. Happy Birthday
9. Midnight
10. Days Wait, A
11. Leave Me Alone
12. Insects
13. Outro Happy Birthday

Details
Playing Time:38 min.
Distributor:Sony Music Distribution (
Recording Type:Studio
Recording Mode:Stereo
SPAR Code:AAD

Album Notes
Altered Images: Clare Grogan (vocals); Johnny McElhone, Jim McKniven (guitar); Tony McDaid (bass); Michael "Tich" Anderson (drums).
Although the title track (which became a large UK hit single) was produced by Martin Rushent, the majority of Altered Images' first album was produced by the Glasgow band's original mentor, Siouxsie and the Banshees bassist Steve Severin. The songs are an intriguingly odd lot somewhere between Joy Division and the Archies: rooted in post-punk, bass-driven jaggedness, while somehow managing to be light, perky and engaging. Severin, who also produced the band's debut single, "Dead Pop Stars" (unfortunately not included here), gives the young band a sound at times just a little too reminiscent of his own group. However, the unforgettable baby-talk voice of singer Claire Grogan keeps Altered Images from ever sounding anything less than unique.

Editorial Reviews
4 stars out of 5 - [S]cratchy, angular Joy Division-influenced gloom-rock enlivened by the squeaky vocals and effervescent presence of Clare Grogan...
Uncut (03/01/2004)

3 Stars - Good - ...HAPPY BIRTHDAY is wiry, sparse and still charming today. Grogan's voice is faintly daft but nice, sounding alternately like a stroppy and giggly teenager, while the songs...have the icy, studied cool of a band who'd spent their youth studying magazines about how to be hip on Top Of The Pops.
Q (08/01/1995)

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