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With 365 days a year to choose from, we figured it’d be a cinch to compile a list of Top 10 Birthday Songs. But we found that songs specifically addressing this subject were surprisingly scarce in the classic rock canon. Still, if you’re feeling a little tired of hearing that same old birthday song (and dance), here are a few alternate choices you can ask your friends and family to memorize and perform, in your honor. It’s your special day, after all…
From: ‘Nadir’s Big Chance’ (1975)
We’ll kick off our list of the Top 10 Birthday Songs with this rather head-scratching solo offering from Van Der Graaf Generator frontman Peter Hammill, who waxes somewhat randomly about ice in the cauldron, parrots in the pantry and Hansel and Gretel, leaving us none too sure that we’d like to be on the receiving end of this ‘Birthday Special,’ whatever it is.