Video: Altered Images - Happy Birthday

Dexys Midnight Runners – There There My Dear Young Marble Giants – Final Day Altered Images – Happy Birthday The Specials – Ghost Town This is the first of a four-part series of Pitchfork 500 posts, as the next 16 tracks are all from Great Britain. This was thanks to an amazing outpouring of pop and rock from the British Isles in the early '80's - bands that had taken the call to arms of punk and post-punk, and used the attitude of experimentation to make some rather startling new music. Some, like [...]

• The Specials - Ghost Town
• Young Marble Giants - Final Day

UK sensations the Ting Tings covered Altered Images' "Happy Birthday" on Yo Gabba Gabba! yesterday on the show's second season premiere. Embedded video seems impossible to find for the moment, so go to Jezebel and watch a clip . The song is on the f orthcoming Yo Gabba Gabba full-length CD, which is out in mid-October and also features Tahiti 80, the Salteens, Aquabats and all of the lovably bizarre songs from the TV show. Here's Altered Images' original song and a couple of more after the jump, because [...]