Matthew on 2/5/2006 at 12:27
Whatever quality their music is, Gnarls Barkley will remain in UK music history, as their single was the first to reach Number 1 by downloads alone.
Paz on 2/5/2006 at 13:39
I think they might have had a hand from constant airplay, horrible overexposure and the use of their tune in the BBC Radio One advert which played through almost every programme break on BBC1 during the month of March.
Oh yes, and the refusal to release on any format OTHER than a download to begin with.
Almost as if this moment of "history" was entirely engineered by clever marketing types, or something.
Still, the song wasn't bad the first couple of times.
Vernon on 2/5/2006 at 14:07
Radiohead
Lazarus411 on 2/5/2006 at 14:15
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Their single "Crazy" (see embedded video) got to #1 on the UK singles-chart. Of course, this is the same country that also had that Crazy frog shit at #1 so I guess that doesn't say much. Those crazy brits will probably vote for anything that has "crazy" in the title coz they can relate to it coz they're all CRAZY IN THE HEAD HAHAHAHAHAHA
Haha, yeah seriously Brits have some of
the worst taste in music ever. I mean....the spice girls....nuff said. You wouldn't believe some of the utter shiite that gets to no.1 in the charts in this country.
This song is quite good though, so I guess it deserves to be get to no. 1.
Vernon on 2/5/2006 at 15:36
Sorry but name a country that actually has 'good' chart music. In the states - hmm 'My Humps,' 'Mariah Carey,' American Idol mouth breathers and a pile of other bollocks shite.
I can't listen to the radio here - there is nothing decent in the Australian 'charts' at all - being a half-assed near-clone of the billboard anyway. And Triple J, the so-called 'youth station' is run by a bunch of institutionalised ABC goons who are now in their mid-30s. 'Yeah you were good 6 years ago
maybe, but move the fuck over and let some young blood in, we're bored shitless with your droning faux-shiny happy people act.' Pie.
England wouldn't be the first place I'd pick on for having the worst charts. Growing up there, I remember hearing some relatively ok stuff - OMC, Bjork (I think she only made number three though, with 'It's oh so quiet'), The Verve, some good one hit wonders (Whitetown and that band Norman Cook formed with the saxophonist Ashley Slater who sung turn on, tune in, cop out played in the Levi's ad you know the one with the taxi driver eyeing the girl in the back who turns out to be a *cough cough splutter* (
http://www2.commercialcloset.org/cgi-bin/iowa/quicktime.html?record=278) I found the ad on a website condemning it for vaguely homophobic themes. Freak Power they were called). Speaking of Levi's ads there was a time when the Levi's ad would come out one week, then hit number one the next.
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henke on 2/5/2006 at 17:56
Quote Posted by Vernon
Sorry but name a country that actually has 'good' chart music.
Heh, word.
Here in Finland they'll put just about any half-assed shit on the radio as long as it's domestic. Lovex*, Amorphis, 69 Eyes... bands that rightfully will never make it big outside our borders. The big stuff from US and UK are usually the
good half of what gets played on radio here... yeah, that includes Black Eyed Peas and Lindsay Lohan.
*actual lyrics from the Lovex smash-hit "Guardian Angel":
If you cry
I'll hold your head up high
I'll be there by your side
I will be your guardian angelthis is #2 on our charts right now I shit you not
Vernon on 2/5/2006 at 18:31
Not really 'pop' as such, but I know the Knife are huge in Sweden - they recently got an award for 'Heartbeats' being one of the top five best songs ever written. Has that popularity tipped over into Finland? Knife in the charts would be my idealistic concept of pop.
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If you cry
I'll hold your head up high
I'll be there by your side
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http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/6526/cornyhug7ex.gifhenke on 3/5/2006 at 04:43
Yeah, about a year and a half ago "Heartbeats"(and "You take my breath away") got played here. And, yeah, The Knife is good shit.
Rug Burn Junky on 3/5/2006 at 15:57
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It was an 80s television show. Hospital-drama with Ed Begley Jr and Howie Mandel, of all people.
Oh so much more than that... it's the snowglobe in which the entire world is contained.
Ulukai on 4/5/2006 at 23:42
I speculate that Crazy is at #1 in the UK charts because there is something insidious about the ostinato going on in the background; eventually though, this mashes your brain into pulp and you're forced to listen to the lyrics - at which point your brain disengages and wanders off elsewhere.
Anyone else got any thoughts on the album, other than insightful stuff like 'chart music is gay' and 'ololol crazy'?
