{"id":421,"date":"2011-07-29T08:39:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T08:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/?p=421"},"modified":"2011-07-30T04:21:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T04:21:41","slug":"short-list-unhappy-birthday-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"Short List: Unhappy Birthday Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. The Ups and Downs – Ozma
\n“You came to my birthday party just to tell me I should grow up.”<\/em><\/p>\n

2. Hurt Feelings – Flight of the Conchords
\n“It’s my birthday, 2003. Waiting for a call from my family. … They forgot about me.”<\/em><\/p>\n

3. Mr. Curiosity – Jason Mraz
\n“It’s my birthday and I cannot find no cause for celebration.”<\/em><\/p>\n

4. Mad World – Gary Jules (cover)
\n“Children waiting for the day they feel good, happy birthday, happy birthday.”<\/em> (sad)<\/p>\n

5. Everyday Normal Guy 2- Jon LaJoie
\n“Go party like it’s your birthday. I wasn’t invited, but it’s okay.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. We Heart Our Hive – Q and not U
\n“Shut your windows, happy birthday.”\u00a0<\/em>(angry)<\/p>\n

7<\/em>. Love Ridden – Fiona Apple
\n“I’ve looked at you with the focus I gave to my birthday candles. I’ve wished on the lidded blue flames under your brow, and baby I wished for you.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

8. TIghtrope – Janelle Monae
\n(fades out repeating Happy Birthday)<\/em><\/p>\n

9. Older – They Might Be Giants<\/p>\n

10. Happy Happy Birthday Song – The Arrogant Worms<\/p>\n

11. A Very Unhappy Birthday to You – Oscar the Grouch<\/p>\n

12. Your 8th Birthday – Cloud Cult<\/p>\n

13. It’s My Party – Lesley Gore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. The Ups and Downs – Ozma “You came to my birthday party just to tell me I should grow up.” 2. Hurt Feelings – Flight of the Conchords “It’s my birthday, 2003. Waiting for a call from my family. … They forgot about me.” 3. Mr. Curiosity – Jason Mraz “It’s my birthday and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,90,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-playlist","category-short-list"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}