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Happy Birthday War (Shock & Awe Mix)

from Medium Rarities Vol. 1 by Mitch Benn

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Just an experiment I did on my own time, really... I wrote Happy Birthday War on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq in 2007 and then released it as a single in 2008 on the fifth anniversary. I recorded many different demo versions of the song as I was putting the single together and at one point, just to see if it were possible, I stripped out everything except the lead vocal and built this around it. I came up with a completely new chord sequence, moving the song from G major to E minor. Some of the changes are genuinely quite interesting; I had to jump around a bit to keep in key with the melody and that led me to some unusual places. In the end I found the result to be a bit stark (the single version gets away with being lyrically bleak specifically because it's so cheerful melodically) and never did anything with it, but I thought you might find it interesting...

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from Medium Rarities Vol. 1, released November 27, 2013

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