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So, Crazy frog is number one,

There's another one that has something to do with "Radio 1 DJ Wez", and a 12" single which looks like a reggae oe grime take on it...

Who knows what madness? Or is it a bandwagon about to crash?

Coldplay Chris is even adding "ding ding ding" bits to his songs, it seems...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 6 June 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

The Wes one must fail. And I'd imagine it probably will. There's another thing called 'Crazy Frog' by Loc, which is out either this week or next, which I don't care about. But Wes... Wes must fail.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 6 June 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

They're going to release Sweety The Chick next. If you haven't heard it yet, be afraid. Very afraid...

― Adam Park, Monday, 6 June 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

Well, Alice wants one. Whatever it is.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 6 June 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

I presume you've all seen this:

http://www.headstaggers.com/?shoe=flash&moo=show&id=22

I suspect it only makes me laugh because you can discern the scottish accent but what the hell.

― Neil Kulkarni, Monday, 6 June 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

Coldplay Chris is even adding "ding ding ding" bits to his songs, it seems...

As foretold by me and my crystal balls priot to Friday's Jonotton Ross.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 6 June 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

Adblock is great for blocking Crazy Frog and other adverts on websites that play the tune if you inadvertedly mouse over them. Go geddit.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 6 June 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

No! They can't release Sweety Showtime! God, NO! (Luckily it won't get issued here in the States, but still.)

― Ian Riese-Moraine. Sweeter than a lorry load of white Toblerones. (Eastern Mantr, Monday, 6 June 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Thats nothing.
Just wait til you hear "Brown Bear"

― Blueboy Bill, Monday, 6 June 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

is that headstaggers thing Baxendale?

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 6 June 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

Where can I hear Crazy Frog?

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, 6 June 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

They're going to release Sweety The Chick next. If you haven't heard it yet, be afraid. Very afraid...

Yes! Finally some good news...

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

i thought this was an update on the exploding toad crisis in germany. guess not.

here's an unrelated picture of some crazy PARROTness:

http://www.ravencruise.com/images/Raven

― latebloomer: Pain Don't Hurt (latebloomer), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

No, the farting monkeys thing is far worse than any of these.

(I laffed the first time Chris Martin did the Crazy Frog thing on Jonathan Ross, the third or fourth time I thought I'd rather listen to the real Crazy Frog)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 6 June 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

So, another crazy frog record in the charts. Wes Butters has not been stopped and makes number 10 or thereabouts with "ding ding ding"...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 June 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

Remember, you people wanted this.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 June 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

From James Masterton's chart rundown page...
I can scratch my head in bemusement but I sure as heck have to respect and acknowledge that. What I should never do of course is spend a chart countdown show rubbishing the track, hoping that it won't be Number One by the end and howling with frustration when I am forced to announce that my prayers have not been answered. Tweedledee and Tweedledum couldn't manage this of course and demonstrated just why their show has gone so badly wrong. Fun fact: the live chatroom that used to run alongside the show doesn't operate any more. Is this possibly because it was only ever filled with people telling them how useless they were?

Oh, and "Pondlife" and "ring ding ding" is number 11, apparently they had the original idea to do a song, about to license the crazy frog when the people behind the ringtone said "hang about, we could do this ourselves"...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 June 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

four weeks pass...

Just when you thought it was safe to turn on the TV or radio again, the Crazy Frog is back - with a new single AND a whole album.
The heavily-advertised amphibian spent four weeks at number one with his version of Axel F, fending off competition from U2 and Coldplay in the process, to become the year's second biggest selling single.
Now he has swapped his biker's outfit for headphones as he releases a version of Popcorn, written by Gershon Kingsley but made famous in 1972 by Hot Butter.
The Bass Bumpers, who mixed his Axel F single as well, have produced the new track which will be accompanied by another animated video and presumably another advertising blitz.
The track features on his debut album, Crazy Frog Presents Crazy Hits, which features mangled versions of the theme to Dallas, Felix’s Don’t You Want Me, Technotronic’s Pump Up The Jam and The Pink Panther theme.

The album is out on July 25 with the single following two weeks later.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)

Popcorn + Crazy Frog

good sweet god. it's like the neutron bomb of music. i am so excited!

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

If he goes on like this, he'll have Westlife's record...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

Not long to wait then.

― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

Hmm. Popcorn is sh*t: Crazy Frog has sold out to the man and gone commercial. He is no longer Crazy, he is just a Frog.

― alext (alext), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

Position Artist Title Date

1 Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers Swing The Mood Jul 1989

1 Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers That's What I Like Oct 1989

1 Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers Let's Party Dec 1989

4 Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers That Sounds Good Mar 1990

8 Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers Can Can You Party Aug 1990

19 Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers Let's Swing Again Nov 1990

13 Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers The Crazy Party Mixes 1990

28 Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers Over To You John Mar 1991

Over by Christmas (2006).

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

US RELEASE?

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Crazy Frog - New album and single on the way!

You asked for it -

http://www.noblepr.co.uk/Press_Releases/gut/crazy_frog_hits.htm

― Slim Roberts, Monday, 18 July 2005 10:51 (twenty years ago)

Blimey, Noble PR - the same "purist" music PR agency who last year were hectoring the Wire about not running a piece on Todd Rundgren. I wonder if they've written a similarly stiff letter to Mr Stubbs about not putting the Frog on their cover (which they should do really).

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 07:12 (twenty years ago)

So, the album's out. Watch out, blunt features!

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 07:33 (twenty years ago)

God, I had no idea about 'Popcorn'. I need to hear that!!

(btw isn't "hot butter" such a pleasing thing to say out loud? I kiss you, crazy frog old chum, for giving me reason to say "hot butter" one more time)

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 07:51 (twenty years ago)

Excellent review on Amazon:

**** A breath of fresh air, July 16, 2005

Reviewer: rich_browne from London, England

Does no-one actually see how great it is that a small amphibious ringtone-based song can keep international behemoths like Coldplay, U2 and the Foo Fighters off the top of the UK singles chart? He's the little guy sticking up two fingers to the big record companies that expect the same type of bland middle-of the-road music to be constantly topping the charts. Some might say that an album is a step too far for an essentially one-dimensional frog, whose only characterstic is his 'craziness,' but then again, Coldplay have managed a third album based almost solely around their unhappiness. This album contains a wide-ranging selection of uplifting dance hits given their own unique remix by the frog, which, to be honest, I find eternally more diverting than listening to the whinings of those poor hard-done-by millionaires that currently top the album charts. Obviously this kind of music may not be your particular taste, but if you're into slow depressing stuff then just leave off the frog, OK? If you don't like lively animated music then don't spend your time reading and writing reviews about it, go and listen to Keane or Coldplay in your bedroom and have a cry about how depressing life is. If you find the time to stop slagging this album off, though, maybe pick up a copy, have a laugh, and have a break from the dreary rubbish that currently dominates. Hopefully maybe some of you will even join me in having a good old chuckle when 'fix u' gets beaten to the number 1 spot by a crazy remix of 70's cheese classic 'popcorn'.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 07:54 (twenty years ago)

Album is only £7.97 in Sainsbury's.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

would anyone have the nerve to take it up to the till or the counter though, in full view of hundreds! thousands! of other shoppers?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

swat the int. is for.

I'm not, because, (lack of irony alert) I don't want one.

Take that, Gruff SFA person.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

i'm disapppointed they cheat a little sometimes by adding diff frog-like sounds to suit, half the fun of it is surely the challenge of razor-sharply editing up the original ur-text of froggy formalism

i can't believe todd edwards is missing this boat!

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

must admit i'd much rather buy the crazy frog album than anything by super furry animalsssszzzzzzz...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

they are pushing this in the US now.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

i nearly bought this in sainsbury's on sunday. i'm very glad (having heard 2 tracks) that i didn't.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

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