Birthday Boy

"Birthday Boy" is a song by The Residents, recorded in 1978 for the never-realised EP Buster & Glen, and first released on the album Duck Stab!/Buster & Glen by Ralph Records on November 30th 1978.
In 1982, the song was rehearsed by The Residents as part of the set list of their planned (but aborted) 10th Anniversary tour. Despite this, "Birthday Boy" would not be performed live again by The Residents until 2021, when they performed a new arrangement of the song live in the studio for the streaming TV special Duck Stab! Alive!; it was also performed during the Dog Stab! mini-tour of California in that year.
==Unfinished music video==
"Birthday Boy" was one of a number of songs from Duck Stab!/Buster & Glen which were planned to be accompanied by a music video by Ralph's in-house video director Graeme Whifler, possibly as part of a feature-length musical film inspired by the album.
Although ultimately only "Hello Skinny" was produced, the video for "Birthday Boy" was at least partially shot, and footage has been seen in the years since, most notably in the 2015 documentary film Theory of Obscurity: A Film About The Residents, and the special features of that film's DVD and Blu-ray releases.
==Lyrics==
 Bulging eyes abound about
 The birthday boy today;
 Screaming, "Creaming eyes!"
 Screamed he,
 His mother looked away.
 "Creaming eyes explode upon
 An apple pirate toad
 And if an injun ate a plate
 I'd laugh and live abode."
 Nervousness itself was shifting
 Guests against the door,
 "Forgive us dear, but, uh, baking beer
 Is what we should be near."
 "Bye," the bothered birthday boy said,
 "Bye," the bothered birthday boy said,
 "Bye or sell or bye."Ima Buddy, Ima Buddy's Totally Impartial Companion to Uncle Willie's Highly Opinionated BIG MAMAS, 1992
==List of releases==
*Duck Stab!/Buster & Glen (1978) Grove Street studio recording, March - August 1978 (2:42)
*Assorted Secrets (1984) Grove Street live studio rehearsal recording, April 1982 (3:41)
*Duck Stab!/Buster & Glen pREServed CD edition (2018) 
*Duck Stab! Alive! (2021) 25th Street Recording live studio recording, May 2021 (2:38)
*LS1 - Sketches For A Live Show (2022) Grove Street studio demo recording, 1982 (2:39)
*Duck Stab!/Buster & Glen pREServed vinyl edition (2023) 
===List of versions===
==See also==
*Duck Stab! (unproduced film concept)
==External links and references==
*Duck Stab!/Buster & Glen at The Residents Historical
*Duck Stab!/Buster & Glen at RZWeb (archived via archive.org)
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